Zavala County Sentinel (Crystal City, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, October 13, 1944 Page: 1 of 6
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OUR STEAKS
Best in Town
Jack's Shack
Zavala County Sentinel
WHERE
FOOD
and BEER
MEET
Jack's Shack
VOL. 33
CRYSTAL CITY, ZAVALA COUNT Y, TEXAS, OCTOBER 13, 1944
NO 25
County Agent’s
Column
JACK ADAMS
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Botulism in Turkeys
The following article was written
by W. A. Boney, Extension Poultry
Veterinarian for Texas which should
be of interest to many poultrymen
who have had experience with “lim-
berneck” and usually attributed the
trouble to the chicken’s eating screw-
worms.
Botulism is a condition which is
commonly referred to as ‘‘limber-
neck” or food poisoning. It is caused
by a toxin or poison produced by the
organism “Clostridium botulinus.’’
This organism is the same one that
is responsible for food poisoning in
man and other animals. This group
of organisms produce many different
toxins. Type A, B, and C toxins are
the ones most commonly found.
Types A and C are the ones that com-
monly are found in outbreaks of
botulism in poultry.
There are many good descriptions
of this disease affecting chickens, but
they are lacking in information re-
garding turkeys. The description as
applies to chickens does not fit the
situation found in turkeys affected
with botulism.
Turkeys of all ages are affected by
the toxin. This toxin is usually found
in decomposed food, especially in the
body of a dead turkey or any other
fowl or animal. The presence of fly
larvae (maggots) and odor are good
indicators of botulinus contamination.
The diesase can be produced by eat-
ing decomposed meat, or other food
such as mash that has been allowed
to become wet and decomposed.
The maggots, if picked up without
other material, also have been found
in many instances to contain the
toxin, thus producing the same symp-
toms.
This toxin may be present in the
droppings that have been allowed to
accumulate and not disturbed for
several weeks. The presence of fly
larvae in the droppings is a good in-
dicator that conditions are favorable
for the growth of the bacteria and
development of the toxin. This toxin
sometimes occurs in stagnant water
holes. This condition has been com-
monly mis-interpreted and has often
been referred to as protein poisoning.
Such a thing as protein poisoning is
not any longer being considered as a
possible cause of deaths in fowls or
other animals.
Botulism usually flares up and sev-
eral turkeys are found dead without
showing any previous symptoms of
disease being observed. On closer ob-
servation, if the birds are made to
move, usually several birds will re-
main sitting, or get up, walk a short
distance, exhibit a weak, wobbly
gait, and then sit down and refuse to
walk. Their legs seem to be paral-
yzed but they can still flutter their
wings and hold their heads up. Their
heads will usually look good and ex-
hibit a bright eye. Birds that receive
larger doses of toxin, resulting in
complete prostration, usually lay on
their sides, with head resting on side,
and head and neck characteristically
exhibiting a half moon cuve in nor
mal curving position, with beak some-
what pointing toward the feet or
body. The birds so affected are not
usually found with their necks
stretched straight out. The feathers
are not loose and do not fall out or
pull out as easily as they do on
chickens affected with botulism.
When the body of the turkey is
completely paralyzed it will appear
as being dead, and usually the mouth
is full of mucus, mixed with dirt, and
the eyes are found to be full of dirt,
sand or gravel. Although this bird
appears to be dead, quite often it will
be found to be alive, and sometimes
even then may recover. There may
be many bruises on the body of the
bird, due to the trampling and tread-
ing by other birds.
On autopsy> the mouth will be
found to be full of slimy mucus. The
crop may or may not contain food.
Food will usually be found in the
crop, provided that it is in easy ac-
cess of the affected bird, because the
affected bird will readily drink and
eat until completely paralysed. The
abdominal cavity is negative for
lesions except the severe, acute en-
teritis (inflammation of intestines)
with marked congestion found to
start at the gizzard and extend four-
teen to twenty inches down the small
15th. Dist. of American Legion Meets Here Robber Gets Two
Oct. 19; Chaplain Pearce Principal Speaker
The 15th district of the American
Legion will convene for a meeting
at 10 a. m. in the District Court room
of the County Court House, Thurs-
day, October 19th.
The district comprises all the Le-
gion Posts in the Rio Grande Valley
and Winter Garden area, and a good
showing of delegates and officials
are expected. The session will con-
tinue through the day, highlighted
by an address given by Lt. Col. J.
Stuart Pearce, Post Chaplain of Fort
Sam Houston. The hour set for the
address is 11 a. m. and the public is
cordially invited to hear Chaplain
Pearce. This address and all sessions
will be held in the District Court
Room.
Dinner will be served to the Le-
gionaires and their friends at the
Community Building. Flags and the
good will of the city and county will
greet the visitors.
COUNTY JUDGE
ADDRESSES B. A. CLUB
At its regular meeting on Friday,
October 6, the Business Administra-
tion Club received valuable informa-
tion on the Qualification of a Good
Secretary, from our County Judge
R. S. Crawford. Mr. Crawford out-
lined the major requirements of a
law office secretary.
First hand information of this type
is of great value to the students be-
cause they can learn exactly what
will be expected of them when they
go into the business world.
The speaker was introduced by
Frances Williams, program chairman.
Glen Bishop presided at the meet-
ing.
After the program, the Club ad-
journed to the Home Economics Lab-
oratory where they were served
cakes and O’Henry cookies by Flo-
rene Guillaudeu, social chairman
KATHRYN BIZZELL.
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War Chest Drive
Gets Under Way
The War Chest Drive started Wed-
nesday, following breakfast at ,h-i
Community Building. From this
breakfast teams went out to make
contact with individuals. Mrs. Jack
CAA Representative
Talks Airfield Plan
There were 31 present at the week-
ly meeting of the Chamber of Com-
merce Wednesday, including Wm.
Turner, representative of the Civil
Aeronautics Authority.
In answer to questions, Mr. Turner
gave detailed information about the
several classes of airfields now in use
and such as will be approved by
those who will likely use them.
Class A airfield consists of dirt
runways just long enough for the
lighter passenger planes. Classes
above that is simply enlarging the
field, broadening and lengthening
the runways and surfacing them to
take care of the traffic using theiti.
Also he said they may be revenue
bearing if properly handled. His
idea was that Crystal City is going
at the proposition in the most prac-
tical way—that is to acquire a field
in some way large enough to expand,
then expand as the traffic demands.
It was his idea, however, that we
should be in posistion to cooperate
with the companies that will want
to stopTiere or they may pass us up.
Mr. Turner was here to inspect
several proposed fields and advise
about them. After the field is ac-
quired his company will draw up
Adding Machines,
Soon Apprehended
Robbers entered the city hall, Za-
valla County Bank and Piggly Wig-
gly No. 2 last Thursday night by cut-
ting screens and prying windows
open. At the city hall and bank add-
ing machines were taken and at Pig-
gly Wiggly cigarettes and other
items. Both adding machines and
some of the other items were recov-
ered. The city hall machine was
found in the hedge near Popeye stat-
ue and the bank machine was found
in a culvert a few blocks away. Some
of the other items were found at the
home of the man arrested.
Apparent ly the robber had no plan
for disposing of the adding machines.
The sheriff’s department soon got
a lead that led to the arrest of Jose
Acension Gallegos, a Crystal City
man, who confessed to the crime and
led officers to the machines he had
thrown away.
A member of the FBI came out
from San Antonio to help apprehend
Mr. and Mrs. Fatherree Lose Two Children
This Week of Undetermined Malady
FIRST LT. EDWARD OF I.A , Ml and Mrs L,1°y Fatherree of
PRYOR HAS RECEIVED MANY c'0'.stal City have lost two small
HONORS IN EUROPEAN THEATER ®ons thls WtH’k fr,,,n a malady not
_ ; determined as we go to press Thurs-
First Lt. Britton T. Edwards visit-1 day afternoon,
ed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. T ' Alfred Ray, 21 months old, died
Edwards of La Pryor last week-end Monday after a brief illness and
A veteran of 50 combat missions in ! Jerry, age 7, died Wednesday night,
the European Theater of operations, having taken ill Sunday and before
Lt. Edwards holds the Air Medal, Alfred Ray was stricken. A little
with four Oak Leaf Clusters, the sister is ill and has been taken to San
Purple Heart, the distinguished Flyt t Antonio for observation,
ing Cross and the Presidential Group Upon the death of Jerry, the body
Citation. jwas taken to San Antonio for an au-
When his leave is over Lt. Edwards topsy. It was reported earlier in the
will report to Florida for reassign-! week that the children had diph-
ment, but at present he is enjoying thena and precaution to guard
visiting and meeting old friends. against the spread of the disease was
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1? C A Funeral services were held for Al-
F J\ ixCllVIt-Y Ifred Ray at the Baptist Church Wed-
_ * jnesday afternoon, conducted by the
The local FSA has a new Supervis- pastor, Rev. B. W Mantooth.
or, Mr. Henry T. Bass, of San Benito’ Mr and Mrs Fatherree have the
FSA office, who took over the work sympathy of the community in this
here on October 1, 1944. He will move j sorrow and anxiety.
his family here some time this month -WGD-
, . and will occupy the Ruth Webb resi- 1 T- A. PROGRAM
the robbers. Officers found thejnan dcnct on East Maverick Street THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19
Dist. Supervisor C. William Brod- ■
under suspicion had gone to Eagle
Pass early Friday morning and when
j The following program will be pre-
. '■any muay morning ana wnen nax j,. of Kingsville; C. B. Markam c . . . „ ", " . '
he did not return as the family said f Water Facility Division ind H F i 1 d b> U" r ar,,,'t-T < acher Asso-
ne would. Denote Snrriff Onrre.f atcr Facility DtviMon. and H. E.!ciation on Thursday. October 19. at
Chinn is supervising the work and!master plans for ultimate utilization
reports fine progress. No report as of the field.
to the amount subscribed has been
given us.
Quota for the county is $4,000 and
Chairman Beasley thinks the amount
will be subscribed.
intestines, all this being considered
secondary. Sometimes the whole in-
testine is so affected. Occasionally
the spleen will be darkened in color,
but this is not a diagnostic factor.
The proper method of diagnosis is
to find the source of the toxin. Usu-
Bob Pipes announced that the
Harkey field just north of town has
been approved by the sub-committee
J of the C.A.A. for use by private
planes.
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Uotulla Coming for
Ball Game Tonight
he would, Deputy Sneriff Garrett
Barnes and the FBI officer went to
Eagle Pass where Gallegas was ar-
rested. He was held in jail here for
a few days then laken to the Federal
prison at Del Rio. In addition to the
Federal charge, Gallegas will prob-
ably be indicted by the grand jury
on three counts in this county.
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Zavala County Over
Top in September
Bond Sales
Dubois, Chief of Audit Section of
FSA in Dallas, were visitors to local
FSA office first of last week. They
spent a couple of days looking over
the La Pryor Subdivision.
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F’SA Supervisor Bass visited the
Uvalde County FSA Committeemen
and borrowers on Monday.
he has a surplus. "Someting has to
County Chairman S. H. Fly reports happen,” he says, “or I will come
that bond sales credited to Zavala out in the lead." He is one of the
Thursday, October 19,
the Grammar School at 4:15 p m.
Assembly singing, “Keep Your
Eyes Upon the Objects."
Invocation, Rev. T R Elder.
Program, Seventh Grade.
Talk, “Home and School Team-
work," Supt S H. Fly.
Cornet Solo. Lawrence Volz.
Social Hour. Sophomore Mothers.
Roy W. McCarley on Unit No. L|XOWN AND FARM IN WARTIME
TP Subdivision, was in the local of- i _
ficc on Tuesday making a payment MEATS, FATS: Red stamps A8
on his farm and he reported a fine through Z8 and A5 through K5, good
acreage of bell peppers just about; indeflmtcly. No m;w ,tamps until
ready ^o gather. He has raised and (October 29
harvested a lot of good feed of which | PRqCESSED FOODS: Blue stamps
A8 through Z8 and A5 through R5,
good indefinitely.
good farmers on the Subdivision.
County for September amounted to
$9,184. Our quota was $8,700.
This record speaks well for Zavala
County when Texas as a whole got RR borrowers, was in and met his
to Crystal City tonight for a game of
football with the Javelins. Players on
ally decomposed material or manue the Cowboy team are heavy and ex-
may be found containing fly larvae
or maggots. Then if symptoms and
autopsy are as described, a conclu-
sion that botulism exists, can be
made.
Too much faith should not be
placed on treatment. Find and re-
No new stamps until November 1.
SUGAR: Sugar stamps 30, 31. 32,
.and 33, each good for five pounds in-
Ola Hibdon, one of FSA diy land j definitely. Sugar stamp 40, good for
only 87 percent of its quota and the s^s His 1 ^
re£°rd sh"ws 99 percent calves are coming along nicely and j GASOLINE: A-13 coupons in new
S, n K dn,M oa !, County has con- ;he SOcs no reason why he doesn't gct|..A» book good for fl)Ur gallons each
sisUntly met its quota not only in a good price for them. He plans to through December 21
e.0nf?,nH^nbeUninStUbSCrlbthg.ht00th' buy aboUt 20 m°r° yearlingS if hc I SHOES: Airplane stamps 1 and 2,
effmt d connectlon Wlth the war jgets the pasture land he has in view.jgood indefinitcly. New stamp good
The Sentinel desires to pay trib- | We are sorry to report the death of J
_ ute to the business firms of Crystal the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy
The Cotulla Cowboys are coming Citywho coopeaate in sponsoring ad-1 Fatherree on Monday evening of this
vertising to publicize the various week and the other son Jerry, on J
campaigns. We have never promot-.Wednesday night in Crystal Hospital. , . ... , , , „
cd this sort of advertising from the They have the sympathy of the en- 111 u css"a ’’ us ‘1W s
standpoint of profit to the paper, tire FSA group ‘ ' j fresh in their minds. American farm-
but wo have only to suggest to any 1 » jers during this war are using their
business firm the need for extra pub- j This week is fire prevention week; lancl much mor<1 today tban
licity and that firm gives his support we urge everybody to read the fol- they did m the last war, the Office
without question. This has been a vowing article released by U.S.D.A'.''Ut^WnK^I^Vmifrion reports on the
source of much satisfaction to pro- It says: basis of data from the Departments
Farm fires are costing the nation Iof Agriculture, Interior and War.
November 1.
OVERSEAS CHRISTMAS PACK-
AGE MAILING: October 15, last day.
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Dust Bowl Lesson Learned
perienced, but are said to be a little
slow. Players on the home team are
'Tghter and inexperienced, but are
full of pep. Those in position to know
say this should be a good game, and
a large crowd is expected.
The Crystal City squad have been
move the source or move the birds; asked during the week when they
to a known clean place, confine and : expect to play at La Pryor, adding
furnish with fresh feed and water, j that La Pryor played us last Friday
An antitoxin that is specific for types j night. And this is literally true. La
A and C toxin has been developed pryQr boys nearly won a ball game,
and is sometimes advocated. Results j s(,mo of the La Pryor fans said they
from the use of antitoxin are notjWoujd have won but for the referee,
clear. Usually by the time an anti- They didn’t like it when a player re-
ceived the ball on a kickoff and ran
for a touchdown only to be called
back. Strange to say, many Crystal
City fans felt bad about that also.
But the referee was only trying to
do a job according to rules.
Crystal City players went into the
game too sure of winning, and they
were nearly scared stiff at the half
when the La Pryor team had out-
played them. The Javelins finally
won by a score of 14 to 0, but they
had to really fight for it. Those La
Pryor boys are plenty tough.
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A SPLIT SECOND: The interval
between the flash of the green light
and the toot of the horn on the car
behind you.
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Weather Report
U. S. WEATHER BUREAU
E. M. HOLDSWORTH, Observer
toxin is secured a great amount of
damage has occurred and probably
would not produce muc|i results.
Doses of one to two teaspoonsful
of castor oil or Epsom salts given to
affected birds may be of some bene-
fit. If birds, when found are lying in
the sunshine, they should be imme-
diately placed in shade and given ac-
cess to cool water and feed. It may
be necessary to give the bird water
with a syringe equipped with a long
nozzle three to four inches long or
some other apparatus to prevent
getting it in the lungs.
The important thing to do is, find
source, make affected birds comfort-
able as possible, administer a light
laxative and provide plenty of clean
water and feed.
If suspicious that the whole flock
may become affected, (then adminis-
ter Epsom salts in the drinking wa-
ter for one-half day at the rate of one
pound to each five hundred pounds
of body weight, after finding and re-
moving source of toxin or after the
birds have been moved to clean area.
Soil’s Fourth Dimension—Fertility
In time to come, hay production
will probably be measured in terms
of nutrients instead of tons and bales,
Dr. William A. Albrecht, chairman
of the department of soils, University
(Continued on page 2)
Thur. Oct. 5, to Wed. Oct. 11, 1944
Pcpn.
Min.
Max.
Thursday
72.0
925
Friday
71.4
91.9
Saturday
72.8
925
Sunday
68.6
88.7
Monday
66.0
87.4
Tuesday
59.7
87.3
Wednes.
56.2
88.1
Average Temperature 78.2
motors of the many calls; and we ------ ----- „ - . , , . ,,
dare say the public generally, appre-1 more than a hundred million dollars Farmers plowed up 3( million acres
ciates it. I a year in addition to the loss of near-1 'and unsuitable fot rov -ci op t ul-
WriD_ ly four thousand lives, Henrv T. Bass, tivation during the last war. During
Farm Security Administration Su-ithis war the>’ haw Plowed UP loss
pervisor, said recently calling atten- fban 1.1 <0.000 acres of such land,, •?!)*
tion to the President’s proclamation imuc^ 'his das been put i'
The Cemetery Association will getting aside the week of October 8th guldens wheic it can be i 11£<J
CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
RUMMAGE SALE
well under control. Airfi.
caused one of the worst
erosion problems. Spinnu
ors caused miniature dir
hold a Rummage Sale on Saturday, I (0 14th as National Fire Prevention
October 28, in the old Pioneer build- Week.
ing, 523 West Zavala Street, which “Let's feed our food to fighters in-
will be vacant by that time. stead of to fires," Mr. Bass urged.
Anyone having clothes, hats, shoes, j Evidence that the fire menace is lesulting in damage to pl.-^
etc. to donate, please leave them at j becoming increasingly serious is ^ll men. Soil c
tlic homo of Mrs. W. O. Diiy, 419 Eust | found in fijgurcs just rulcuscd by the l*' und urmy enjjii /«
Kinney Street
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NEW FIXTURES INSTALLED
AT J. C. PENNEY STORE
O. L. Meeks, Construction Fore-
man for J. C. Penney Co., began this
week, the installation of new fixtures
at the J. C. Penney store which will
give the people of Crystal City and
trade territory a modern department
store.
This will be the newest type of
open display fixtures of which only
a few are in use in the Penney Com-
pany stores to date.
Mr. Meeks is being assisted by lo-
cal carpenters and painters.
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Card of Thanks
I wish to thank the many people of
Crystal City who were so thoughtful
of me while in the hospital. I also
wish to thank my Sunday School
class for the nice Sushine box given
me. May God bless each one of you.
MRS. EARL MORRIS.
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A detour is defined as the rough-
est distance between two points.
United States Department of Agricul-1CVCI ■ have worked out 1
turc which show that total fire losses Pr°ptccting the runways
in the United States in 1943 were 37 venting these miniature “du.
percent above the same period in ^rorn Setting started.
1943, This Is Fire Prevention
In addition to the loss of buildings ! This is fire prevention wet.,
and crops on farms, industrial pro-j proclamation of President Frank;
perty directly involving the process- ; D. Roosevelt. One out of every three
ing or storing of food supplies suf-
fered losses in excess of 90 million
dollars last year.
FSA families in Zavala county are
being asked to check their premises
for fire hazards and eliminate them.
Last year 21 million dollars worth of
farm barns burned down, fires
caused by faulty lightning rods, faul-
ty hay storage and faulty electrical
wiring. He emphasized the need for
having readily available a ladder
which will reach to the top of the
highest farm building, a water sup-
ply for fire fighting purposes, fire
breaks around hay stacks and farm
buildings; and a fire extinguisher in
the barn or house for emergency use.
We can speed victory by prevent-
ing fires. Lives and food supplies are
important to our nation at war.
persons who lost their lives as a re-
sult of fires in the United States last
year was a farm person, the Depart-
ment of Agriculture reports. Fire is
more hazardous on the farm than in
the city because few farms can call
on a trained fire department for as-
sistance, most farms are not equipped
with a ready water supply for fire-
fighting. farm builidngs usually are
not as fire resistant as city buildings
and farmers usually carry less fire
insurance than city people do. Farm
fire prevention suggestions have a
readily available ladder that will
reach to the top of the highest build-
ings, see that there is a water supply
for fire fighting in the farm yard, and
establish firebreaks around hay-
stacks, faxpa builidngs and maturing
farm crops of high fire hazard.
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