The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1937 Page: 4 of 10
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THE CASS COUNTY SUN
"HE CA88 COUNTY 8UN
J. E. A. Banger—W. L. Erwin
Editors and 'Proprietors .
Thursday, March 11, 1937
Rates of Subscription:
One Year - $1.00
Six Months .50
Out of State - - 1.50
The Cass-County Sun, published
every Thursday, is erttered at the
Linden postoffice as second class
matter.
Cards of thanks, resolutions of
respect and obituary notices will
be inserted at 5c per line.
Loans for Building
Canneries
Low-income farmers in the Rio
Grande Valley who recently saw
half their tomatoes rot in the field
are being helped to set up a $17,-
000 canning plant, according to re-
ports on a wide range of cooperative
activities in Texas and Oklahoma
received by local representatives of
the Resettlement Administration.
The cannery is being built at
Quemado, where loans of $50 each
have been recommended to 08 low-
income farmers with which to buy
stock in the plant. An association
formed last summer began the can-
nery, but lacked sufficient funds.
Resettlement Adminstration is en-
deavoring to obtain early approval
of the loans in order that the can-
nery may be completed in time to
handle cabbage, which is to be
marketed in a few weeks. Capaci-
ty will be 120 carloads annually.
A meat-packing cooperative is
being formed with Resettlement
help at Pharr, through which that
section may be helped to develop
hog-raising, the weather of the Val-
ley being too warm to permit slau-
ghter of hogs without refrigeration.
The proposed plant would provide
individual meat lockers for the par-
ticipating farmers within a refriger-
ted building.
A cotton-growing association is
being set up in Harrison county
Texas, with 2o2 members, its first
activity to Ik- participation in the
county's one-variety program. Gins
have agreed to arrange special fa-
cilities to keep this variety of cot-
ton separate.
A total of 202 loans have been
made for cooperative purposes to
low-income groups of Texas and
Oklahoma farmers by the Resertle-
ment Admiaistration during the
past ten months, for a total of
$153,466.
Low-income farmers of this coun-
ty who are interested in coopera-
tive enterprises are invited to get
in touch with the Resettlement
Administration County Supervisor.
MAD DOG
J. M. Morgan workman at the
Wesley Morse saw mill was bitten
by mad dog Saturday night. The
dog was very- vicious and bit the
man t hree time before he got firm
enough grip on it to hold it off un-
til it was killed. All dogs that do
not have tags showing that they
have been given the serum for rab-
bies should be killed, there are too
many dogs running loose over our
streets. Children should be warned
to keep away from all dogs. There
Is no telling how many dogs and
other things were bitten. We have
been told that the dog belonged to
a man in DouglassviJle.
Mrs. Highbrow — I hope you
liked these queer little Chinese
back-scratchers I sent you from the
Orient, dear.
Mrs. ChubbwitC—Is that, what
they are? Mercy! I've been mak-
ing my poor husband eat his salad
T'tli tVinm
Lodi Well Comes
in As Big Producer
Flowing 125 barrels of crude in-
to tanks in two hours after being
acidized, Arkansas Lousiana Gas
Co.'s No. 1 W. S. Ford in the Lodi
area of Marion county early Tues-
day night gave further indications
of being a producer and extending
the East Texas side of the Rodes-
sa field five miles southwest.
Definite outdome of the well,
however, is not expected to be
known until operators take gauge
Wednesday to determine amount
of live oil produced besides that
used with the acid. &
The wildcat was credited with
guaging 54 barrels the first hour
and 71 barrels the second hour
through one-half inch tubing choke.
Tubing pressure was 275 pounds
and there was no casing pressure. |
The well was opened about 4
o'clock after operators circulated
acid with oil in hole at 1 o'clock. Lt
was reported swabbing was not |
necessary and well kicked off im-
mediately, increasing the yield the
second hour.
The No. 1 Henderson, swabbing '
anil flowing by heads Monday, pro- ^
duced 154 barrels of oil in a 10}4 j
hour period. They suspended test- ;
ing pending development at Ford
No. 1. If acid benefits the Ford
well, they will also use acid.
Interest in the Cass county Ro- j
dessapool centered on testing oper-
ations at the United Production
Co.'s J. II. Bewley No. A-2 irt the '
H. Holbert survey, less than one-
quarter mile of the Marion bounda-
ry. Plugging back after the well
reverted from an oiler to a gasser,
operators were jamming the well
with gas at 5,995 feet.
The United Davis Unit No. 1 in 1
the Cass County School Land sur- '
vey was drilling at 5,090 feet.
Local Stories Most
Desirable
Every county supervisor has to
do his own job of publicity. The j
state and regional offices would like
to do it, but cannot. The editor
of your local paper wants local sto-
ries. He does not want stories
sent to him from Dallas or Okla-
homa City.
This is not guess work. Every
editor knows it, but a survey which
was recently completed by the Ex-
tension Service in Arkansas puts
the situation down in exact figures
which cannot be denied. The sur-
vey showed that 79 per cent of all
the editors of Arkansas newspaper
prefer local stories. They said
that they would give 41 per cent
more space to local storiest than
to stories which were sent them
from Extension Service state head-
quarters.
The day on which the story is
delivered,In the case of weakly pa-
pery, is also very important. Fif-
ty-two per cent of the editors pre-
ferred to receive their stories on
Monday, 27 per cent on Tuesday,
and less than five per cent like to
have them on any other day. This,
<if course, is because these papers
go to press around Thursday, ami
are always crowded with work af-
ter the middle of the week.
The length of the story should
be a fx Hit one typewritten page
double spaced, according, to the
preference of 74 per cent of the
editors.
1st Citizen—Did you swear to
your income tax papers?
2nd Citizen—I swore to them, at
them, through them, in them, over
them, under them, before them, be-
hind them, about them and all
around them, if that is what you
mean-
Program of Resettlement
Administraiion
Tenants constitute 56 per cent
of the farmers of Cass County, ac-
cording to D. C. Fausett, county
supervisor of the Resettlemeut Ad-
ministration. The Resettlement
Administration survey shows that
in many Texas counties more than
70 per'cent of the farmers are ten-
ants. The higft per cent of tenan-
cy is confined to no one part of the
State for in Terry County near
the New Mexico line 72 per cent of
all the farmers are tenants, while
at the opposite corner of the State
in San Augustine County the figure
runs to 65 per cent.
, In Haskell and Jones counties,
the heart of Central West Texas'
most fertile cotton area, 70 and 68
per cent, repcctively, are tenants.
In the famous black land belt
where more than a million bales of
cotton are normally raised within
' a 100-mile radius, Ellis County has
68 per cent tenancy, Navarro 72,
Hill 67, and Williamson 66.
The Resettlement Administra-
' tion is carrying out a three-point
program to improve the conditions
I of tenant farmers and help them
I toward eventual ownership of the
land. These activities are:
1. Rural rehabilitation, which
resulted last year in lending $9,-
010,871 to 29,553 Texas farm fami-
lies for the purchase of teams, tools
and equipment which they would
have been able to obtain in* no oth-
er way. The central feature of
this program is guidance in "live-
at-home" methods, such as have
kept certain sections of the state
low in tenaney and high in percent
of owner operators.
2. Debt adjustment committees,
organized by the Resettlement Ad-
ministration and working under its
supervision, are preventing hard-
pressed land owners from losing
their farms through foreclosure and
thereby swelling the ranks of ten-
ants still fart her.
3. Construction is now in pro-
gress or authorized on 183 farms in
Texas which have been bought for
sale to farm tenants on 40-years
time at not more than three per
cent interest. Eighty-five families
already living on those farms are
using the original buildings which
are to be remodeled or replaced by
new ones.
AH t hese activities being carried
out by the Resettlement Adminis-
tration are along lines suggested
for more intensive prosecution by
President Roosovelt in his recent
message to Congress in regard to
tenancy.
Marion County
Sheriff Killed
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Sheriff Alex Brown of Jefferson
was shot Tuesday night at mid-
night. According to reports re-
ceived here Sheriff Brown had gone
to his homo when some one shot
him through the window, using a
shot gun loaded with buckshot,
killing him instantly.
Sheriff Brown was elected sheriff
of Marion County at a special elcc-
jtion held last year to fill out the
' unexpired term of Sheriff Taylor,
resigned. None of the particulars
concerning the killing have been
learned here as we go to press.
NOTICE
We have been requested to re-
mind stock owners that the plant-
ing season is now here, and stock
must not be permitted to run at
large.
Mesdames T. G. Williams, W. C.
Blalock, Chas. Price and E. S.
Cochran attended the Sunday
School and B. T. S. Convention at
Pittsburg Tuesday.
DISTRICT COURT
The March term of the District
Court of Cass County convened
here Monday with Judge R. H.
Harvey presiding, and with District
Attorney, Elmer L. Lincoln, Dis-
trict Clerk, Eugene Stone, County
Attorney, Parks McMichael, and
Sheriff Q. T. Hardcgree in at ten-
dance. About seventy-five attor-
neys were pfese nt Monday.
Following the organization of the
grand fury and the Judges charge,
t he civil docket, which is said to be
unsually crowded this terra, was
called for orders.
Grand Jurors: Pinson Brabham,
Foreman, Pat Ard, J. D. Betts, J.
F. Skelton, (). A. Aycock, L. P.
Shrum, C. A. Stroman, A. It. Lof-
fer, R. P. Cameron, C. C. Itainey,
Genie Griffin, H. B. Johnson.
Door Bailiff: Ben Barbee.
Riding Bailiffs: M. A. Whatley,
It. E. Blalock. John Anthony.
U Theatre
LINDEN
Thursday—One Day Only
March 11
'The Bride Walks Out'
With Barbara Stanwich
and Gene Raymond.
Friday Nite & Saturday Mat-
inee March 12 and 13
"Ride 'Em Cowboy"
With Buck Jones
Also "Jesse James in person on
the htage Friday night.
Saturday Night Only, Mar. 13
"36 Hours to Kill"
With Brian Donlevy and
Gloria Stuart
Saturday Night, 10:45 p. m.,
Also Sunday and Monday
March 13, 14, and 15
"The Poor Litlie
Rich Girl"
With Shirley Temple, Alice
Faye and Michael Whaleu
Tuesday and Wednesday
Match 16 and 17
"Women or Trouble"
With Stuart Erwin and
Florence Rice
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E.G HENDERSON & CO.
We need 1000 pounds of
Good Fat Hens.
Would like to sell you
Dry Goods, Shoes
Groceries and Feed
E.C HENDERSON & CO.
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Kelly Planters, Shaker type Distrib-
utors, Shovels, Bull Tongues and
Plows of all kinds.
Maize, Ear Corn, Oats, Alfalfa and
Grass Hay.
Bennett & George
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
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Banger, J. E. A. & Erwin, W. L. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 11, 1937, newspaper, March 11, 1937; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth341043/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.