The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 97, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 1938 Page: 3 of 4
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Wednesday, August 31,1988
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Held On WPA
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Page Three
Forgery Charge State Entomol Lauds
Counties Of Panhandle For
Fight Against Grasshoppers
COLLEGE STATION —"The var- Guard, while additional help was
ious agencies of the Panhandle sec* secured from the Soil Conservation
tion have done an excellent piece gervice and the State Highway De- j
of work in grasshopper control in part,ment in hauling the mash.
• STORIES
IN STAMPS
the face oi various difficulties,” R.
R. Reppert, state grasshopper con-
trol leader, has commented.
Among the Instances cited by
New Deai politics wore mamea
by Senator Rush D. Holt
after an indictment was returned
accusing his brother Matthew
S Holt Jr., above of forging
^endorsements of two WPA
checks The youthful West Vir-
ginia Roosevelt critic charged at
Clarksburg W Va.. that his
enemies were trying to ‘shut me
up" Matthew Holt. Jr., was
from his WPA district en-
gineer )ob in February 1936.
She’s Newest
Cantor Protege
As far back as the first of June j
farmers of Lipscomb county realiz- j
ed that hand spreading would not I
be sufficient to combat the tnfesta- j
Reppert was that of Sherman coun- tlon, and 12 mechanical spreaders,
ty, where more than 3 milUon capable (d handling stripe 24 to 30 ,
pounds of poison bait has been mix- feet wide, were built. Three blow- j
ed and applied to 120,000 acres for type spreaders which cover a strip
the protecUon of 300,000 acres. The 100 feet wide were also built, and
campaign is estimated to have sav- many more spreaders have been
ed farmers approximately $700,000. added since that time.
ExceUent cooperation between all with the cooperation of the dlf-
agencies has been reported by J. E. jerent communities in Hutchinson
Crabtree, county agricultural agent county, a county-wide campaign
there. “The U. S. Bureau of Ento- was planned in May. The use of
mology and Plan Quarantine rout- 20 Sprea<jers there in the early part
ed governmental bran, sodium ar- 0j the campaign resulted in kills
senite, and part of the sawdust; the from 70 to 90 per cent and did
W. P. A. and the county contributed muCh to prevent the spread of the
the labor for mixing; the Texas hoppers Jx> other areas.
National Guard, the Texas Highway, ^ Nation in the four coun-
Department, and the U. S. Soil
Conservation Service distributed the
material; and the Texas A. & M.
College Extension Service directed
the campaign,” Crabtree said. “Lo-
cal cooperation, with Judge P. B.
Mullins as grasshopper control
chairman, more than did its part.”
Advance plans to combat the In-
ties In the northwestern part of the
Panhandle, where the migratory
hoppers were concentrated, was so
threatening that they were or-
ganized with Ted Houghton, Hart-
ley county ranchman and county
commissioner, as coordinator. The
progress of the campaign in these
counties, Hartley, Moore, Dallam,
vasion are credited by Reppert with t . . ’
much of the success of the control and Sherman’ 18 weU lllustrated by
program. As far back as May sev-
eral meetings had been held In Ro-
berts county by the county agri-
cultural agent, 10 mechanical
the example of Hartley county.
Not until about May 15, when the
hoppers began hatching In large
numbers, did the people begin to
realize that the prediction of a
;=vr=rsrrr s TS r,
spread the poison by airplane was ^ Repperti entomologist of the Tex-
as A, & M. College Extension Serv-
being considered.
At the end of June W. H. Dp-
church, county agricultural agent
ice was coming true.
I By that time two mixing plants
of Randall county, reported that 95 jjad peen set Up under the direction
per cent of the farmers there were Qj colmty agricultural agent J. S.
i taking part in the program. In the (j0]emani jr., who acted as county
! first 24 days of operation, one and grasshopper control leader. An ex-
St. Peter—Chosen
Rock of His Church
JTkTREMELY poor and un-
learned was Peter, the fisher-
man of Bethsaida in Galilee. But
Peter was alive with the zest of
living, keen to the problems of
his fellowmen, a good neighbor
and withal deeply religious. So
he was called from his nets one
day to become an apostle of the
Lord. Thereby was launched one
of the greatest careers of the
church.
For Peter became in time the
very center and the principle of
the church, the head and prince
of the apostles, the foremost
teacher of the Lord’s truth. He
filled the vacant apostolic throne,
admitted Jews by the thousands
into the fold, opened the church
to the gentiles in the person of
Jomelius, founded, and for a
time ruled the church at Antioch,
sent Mark to found a church at
Alexandria.
Ten years after his ascension,
St. Peter went to Rome, then cen-
ter of the great Roman empire.
There, amidst the grandeur of all
its temporal powers, > estab-
lished his Chair, and fo ruc-
ceeding 25 years labored 1 nceaS-
ingly with the help of St. Paul to
build up the vast Roman Church.
Peter was crucified at last, by
order of Nero, and buried on the
Vatican hill. But 260 years later
the open triumph of the church
climaxed his lifework. The first
Christian emperor laid aside his
robes of state to turn the soil for
the foundation of St. Peter’s
Church. Shown here is the he-
; roic statue of St.
• Peter from the
2 Basilica. This is
J one of the eight
. airmail values
j just released by
j the Vatican de-
__j picting symbols
-------. of the church.
(Copyright, 1938, NEA Service, Inc.)
OUT OUR WAY
By J R. WILLIAMS
’ a half million pounds of poison ma-
j terial was mixed at plants there.
I "Many ranchmen and fanners
ample of the early cooperation ac
corded in the fight was the spread-
ing of bait on right of ways by the
I have reported over 90 per cent kills highway department and the rail-
in the numerous migratory beds j way company.
and some say they had practically
| a clean sweep when the weather
! conditions were favorable,” Up-
i church stated. “A number have re-
! ported killing from 20 to 80 hoppers
j to the square foot in heavily infest-
Although many farmers complete-
ly eradicated the hoppers from their
holdings, it soon became apparent
that outside aid was needed to com-
bat the insects on the thousands of
acres of grass lands where they were
| ed areas. It would be Interesting to1 hatching out by the millions. The
! speculate on the amount of damage organization of the four counties
to crops and grass had these pests
.not been destroyed.”
followed.
On June 9 the Hartley
county
The nightmare of being forced
nto exile by the Nazis turned
nto a hopeful future for Jewish
Ruth Hilde Somer, above, 16-
year-old Vienna girl, when Ed-
Idle Cantor took her under his
business wing after hearing her
play the piano. Miss Somer
aught the Cantor ear with a
on board the liner Nor-
ndie while fleeing to America
itb her mother Her father if
former Austrian army captain.
The mixing plant in Potter coun- drive, with Coleman as supervisor,
| ty was opened May 23 and by the began in earnest. The federal gov-
j end of the month 45,000 pounds of emment, through the Bureau of
: mash was being turned out daily. Entomology and Plant Quarantine,
j At that time there were 30 machine furnished the bulk of the mash ma-
j spreaders In operation. terial The commissioners’ court,
Advance plans were also made in both as a unit and as individuals,
Ochiltree county, where 10 com- gave much time to the program. The
munity meetings were scheduled for State Highway Department loaned
May 30 and 31. Mixing plants there an asphalt mixer and the county
started operations on May 24. j purchased a smaller machine. To-
Business men of Moore county1 gether these two pieces of equip-
joined in the fight by taking their ment, had a capacity of 200,000
cars and locating the bands of mi- pounds of poison material a day
TEXAN ADS GET RESULTS!
gratory hoppers. A considerable
i amount of the poison material was
! sprayed by the Texas National
To Our Customers:
Effective Now We Have Discontinued
FREE AMBULANCE SERVICE
The cost of running an ambulance is too high to
permit us to continue to offer free service, and here-
after we will make the following charges, which we
believe are fair and reasonable:
Calls in City Limits........................$2.00
Outside City, Each 5 Miles................ $1.50 Additional
M. H. Clay M. M. Nix
Shamrock, Texas
Prom the National Guard came
20 trucks and drivers, the highway
department furnished 10 trucks and
drivers, the U. 13. Bureau of Agri-
cultural Economics 4 trucks with
drivers, the Soil Conservation 4
trucks, and many individuals came
forward with the offer of similar
equipment. The complete force was
organized into units of 8 trucks.
An excellent job was done In kill-
ing the hoppers. Not a single head
of livestock was poisoned in the
campaign.
A similar program was underway
In the neighboring counties. Dalhart
was the scene of the meeting at
which the plans for coordination
were drawn up.
In Armstrong county the commis-
sioners’ court made arrangements
with the county agent to lumish
poison free to farmers for the pur-
pose of poisoning the areas along
the county roads.
Reppert. with the help of county
agricultural agents, Is preparing a
resume of the grasshopper infesta-
tion, which affected 171 Texas
counties to a greater or less de-
gree, and will soon have figures on
the cost of the campaign and esti-
mates on the value of crops saved.
Preparations are already being
We Have Added New Equipment In
OUR SHOP
In addition to generally improving our shop, we have
added several new items of equipment in order to be able to
offer to the public a more complete and satisfactory repair
service. Included in our new equipment are: the latest thing
- .vn¥I? "LL i„ yalve grinding equipment, namely a wet grinding machine,
and other new machinery.
We are also in a position to take care of your fender,
body, and painting work. May we talk with you before you
have your repair work done.
SULLIVAN MOTOR CO.
Chrysler
E. W. POOLE, SERVICE MANAGER
International Trucks Plymouth
• BARBS
IT was a boring parade those
California postmen had at
their state convention — walking
all those miles with nothing to
read.
» * •
The Regent oj Hungary is now
back home from hit visit to
Hitler, and It becomes obvious
that though he is an elderly man
he is heilin’ Horthy.
• * *
An announcement arrives of a
forthcoming book on natural
American catastrophes of recent
years. We look forward to the
chapter on Tammany Hall.
* » »
Storks, it is reported, are
rapidly vanishing from Den-
mark. The chances are they’ve
been migrating to Italy.
* * *
The news that a concrete fort-
ress was built in Washington re-
cently in a day’s time leaves us
cold. Digging’s quicker, and still
not quick enough.
(Copyright, 1938, NEA Service, Inc.)
.LOCALS
J. A Brewer of Childress, district
superintendent for the West Texas
Utilities company, was in Shamrock
Tuesday afternoon on business con-
nected with the local office.
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Prof, and Mrs. Jesse Dyer and
daughter, Miss Margaret, of Joshua
arrived Tuesday to make their home
in the Twitty community. Prof.
Dyer will teach in the Twitty school
the coming term. Miss Margaret will
attend high school in Shamrock.
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Mrs. Ima Clay Gipson and daugh-
ter, Bemeice Hombeck, returned
Tuesday from an extended stay in
San Jose, Calif. Miss Hombeck will
leave Thursday for Drumright,
Okla., where she teaches school.
Austin Of Pampa—
(Continued from Page One)
flight, Red Watkins of Pampa de-
feated E. K. Bechtel of Shamrock,
1 up.
Second flight, Roy Ray of Pam-
pa defeated A1 Cook of Clarendon,
3-2.
Consolation championship, B, ¥.
Holmes of Shamrock defeated
James Douglas of Shamrock, 2 up;
consolation first flight, Edwin
Griffin, Shamrock, beat H, B. Hen-
dricks of Shamrock, 1 up; consola-
tion second flight, Brice O’Keefe
of Shamrock defeated Warren Phil-
lips of Pampa, 2 up.
-o-
A game management association,
recently organized in Borden coun-
ty inis 49 landowners and operator*
as members and involves 277,783
acres.
Marie Buzbee is visiting In Miami
with relatives.
| Ruth King of Dallas is visiting
I her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glenn
King.
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Mrs. R. A. Crawley of Wellington
visited with her cousin, Mrs. J. R.
Benson and family Tuesday.
-o-
Bob Lewis left last night for
Laudenville, Ohio, to bring back a
new super-coach which will be
placed in service on the Cap Rock
bus line.
-o--
Mayor and Mrs. Frank Exum re-
turned this morning from a few
days visit in Amarillo with rela-
tives.
YOU
WHO!
O. W. Sullivan was wearing a
coat this morning and he surely
looked uncomfortable . . . school
teachers no longer wear that happy
vacation expression, all business
now- . . . Clayton Heare said the
only sign he could see of an early
fall was the fact that all the leaves
on the trees down in Dallas were
shedding, fallen, we believe was the
expression he used we are in-
sulted, Mrs. Ima Clay Gipson, aft-
er taking the paper and reading it,
so she says, for many, many months,
asked this morning what day we got
our weekly out! . motorcycles
seem useless to us, however they
may be one of life’s necessities.
made for a survey of possible 1939
infestations.
A. M. Harrison of Paris arrived
Tuesday for a few days visit with
his brother, Bedford Harrison, and
family.
The American death rate from
tuberculosis is now 50 per 100,000
of population, as compared to 180
per 100,000 in 1900.
Hoping to produce something
brainier than the mule, a South
African farmer is figuring on breed-
ing “zebroids”—a cross between a
horse mare and zebra stallion.
Fall Dancing Classes
Will Open Sept. 5th
1 took complete dancing coarse this
summer at Lillian Cashing Studio
in Denver, Colorado. The coarse in-
cluded Classical, tap, ballroom, and
acrobatic dancing.
OTTIE DANIELS
805 N. Main Phone 204
i
A WORD OF APPRECIATION
To the Voters of Precinct 4
Words are inadequate to express the sincere
gratitude I feel for the vote and support I received
for commissioner in the second primary. It is my
fixed intention to live up to the letter of every
promise I made during the campaign, and to be a
commissioner for all the people, those who opposed
me as well as those who voted for me.
I want to say that my opponent in this race
showed himself a gentleman in every respect, and
I appreciate the dean type of race he ran.
Yours for service,
GLENN KING
OVER the hills and far a wag!
...on such a wee mite of Conoco
Bronz-z-z gasoline that gou
wonder whether gonr gas-gange
has got stuck at the "FULL"
mark. Don't change gears
either; change now to Your
Mileage Merchant for his gen*
nine Conoco Bronz-z-z gasoline
MORE THAN A COLOR
LONGER JUMPS
BETWEEN PUMPS
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Bones, Percy. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 97, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 31, 1938, newspaper, August 31, 1938; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth526300/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.