The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1974 Page: 2 of 6
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The Archer County News
Published at Archer City, Texes, 74351, weekly except the lest
week in December
Second class postage paid at Archer City, Texas, 76351
Subscription rates: 55.00 in county and adjoining counties
and $6.00 elsewhere. (Plus tax)
Any erroneous reflection on the character, reputation or
standing of any person, firm or corporation which may appear
in The News will be gladly corrected if brought to the atten-
tion of the publisher. jot x stults. editor a publisher
THURSDAY. JULY 4, 1974
STATE REP. CHARLES FINNEI1 of Holliday. introduces his
pastor Rev. John Dillard prior to the invocation convening the
Tuesday, June 27 session of the Texas Constitntlonal
Convention in Austin. Dillard's invocation was made a part of
the permanent record of the convention. Rev. Dillard, who
serves the Holliday-Dundee-Valley View United Methodist
Church, was the special guest of Rep. F1nneil, i member of the
Holliday congregation.
Wingo Family
Reunion Held In
Wichita Fails
The Wingo family reunion
was held Sunday. June 30, at
the Orchid Branch of the First
Savings and Loan of Burkbut-
nett hospitality room with 63
family members and friends at-
tending.
This was the first time since
1951 that all 10 children of the
T. H. Wingo. Sr., family had
been together and family
members arrived from Oregon.
California. Hugo. Okla.. Plain-
view. Littlefield, Dallas. Fort
Worth. New London, Laredo,
Houston. Abilene, Brownfield
and Gainesville.
Messrs, and Mmes. E. B.
Wingo. T. H. Wingo, Jr., and
Mrs. Della Horn all of Wichita
Falls were hosts to the
out-of-town visitors while here.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Wingo of
Archer City were hosts for a
cook-out with 45 attending
Saturday night.
nw TkyFIna
with Pflash.
Pflash
puts the Pfun
back in driving
In Arther City You Can Buy
Finn Products At.. .
Neely's Service
Station
HAIG00D & CAMPBELL
Butane - Propane
DAY PHONE 574-4622
NIGHT PHONE 574-4624
ARCHER CITY, TEXAS
New Service
For Hunters
Being Tried
It's never been tried in this
area, but W. R. (Bill) Long of
the Texas Parks & Wildlife De-
partment at Irving. 2728 W.
Irving Blvd. Irving 75061. tele-
phone (214) 251-3524 has long
been an advocate of the hunter
enjoying recreation and the
landowner harvesting dollars.
Hunters who have no place to
hunt doves (and season is near)
may call or write the office
leaving name and phone
number and what is desired in
the way of day hunting or
season lease.
Farmers and ranchers may
not charge for game in Texas,
but they can charge for the
right to trespass on their
property, with permission to
hunt game in season given
freely.
As calls and letters from
landowners and hunters come
into the office they will be
cross-indexed for quick answers
and response. Landowners who
will accept the hunter for a
reasonable fee are urged to
give full directions on how to
reach the property, how much
they will ask for each hunter, or
per dav-per gun. or for a season
lease.
Few hunters want season
leases for doves, but some will.
The preference is for a price
per day per gun. for one day. a
weekend or for the entire sea-
son. This will enable to card
index to get the two together
for mutual benefit.
PERSONAL
G. M. Strawn is recuperating
from recent surgery in a
Wichita Falls hospital. With
him were his two children. Mrs.
Monte (Sharon) Simpson of
Noble. Okla. and Maurice
Strawn of Tulsa. Okla.
A REPORT FROM
County Agent
MARVIN HENRY
Several producers this past
week have reported death
losses in beef cattle due to
prussic acid poisoning. This
problem occurs when enzymes
and acids of the stomach act on
a glycoside derivative formed in
the plant. Under normal
conditions these two do not
come in contact.
Poisoning usually occurs fol-
lowing plant damage or stress
such as drought, freezing,
wilting, cutting, crushing and
etc.
Grain sorghums, Johnson-
grass and sudangrass are the
prevalent plants normally caus-
ing the problem. All domestic
animals are susceptile but
entire herd in, just allow two or
three to graze and watch for
poisoning.
Third, have an antidote
available or a veterinarian close
by. Plants, young and tender,
during drought conditions are
more likely to cause these
problems so extreme caution
should be used at this time.
•••••
FEWER DAIRY COWS,
MORE MILK — Texas dairy-
men have culled their herds by
some 8,000 cows, but they
expect to produce about 30
million pounds more milk and
butterfat during 1974, reports
an economist for the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service
Golf Scramble
Set At Country
Club July 4
A golf scramble is scheduled
at the Archer City Country Club
for July 4 beginning at 1 p.m.
according to a spokesman for
the group.
Members and guests are
asked to register at the pro
shop by 5:30 p.m. Wednesday
afternoon. No meal is planned
following the scramble.
PERSONAL
Visiting in the home of Mr.
and Mrs Carl Peden have been
their daughter and family. Mr
and Mrs. John (Charlotte)
Gaumer and Julie. The
Gaumer's have been trans-
ferred from their job in
Highland. III., to Dallas. Julie
will be spending the next few
weeks with her grandparents.
Also visiting in the home have
been grandchildren, Neil and
Kim Wadell of Arlington, chil-
dren of Mr. and Mrs. Otis
(Carol) Wadell.
Harvesting and Planting ... Baling Going Well ...
Cattle Sales Drop ... Milk Production Up... Turkey
Hatches Down
HARVESTING and Planting of several crops in this
big State are going on at the same time. The first bale of
cotton of Texas' No. 1 crop was ginned June 10, while
cotton planting was going on on the Low and High Plains.
Crispin Gamez, who had the first bale in 1971 and 1972,
brought the first bale to Pharr, in the Rio Grande Valley.
Most of the 1974 conon crop has been planted but there is
some replanting of cotton hailed out on the Low and High
Plains. Sorghum crops are in about the same situation as
cotton, with harvesting underway in the Valley and South
Texas and some replanting going on on the Plains where
hail and sand damaged some crops. A lot of rice is heading
out, and combining may begin any day now. Most of the
peanut and soybean crops are planted over the State but
some planting remains to be done.
HAY BALING is underway over much of the State,
especially in East Texas where rains have been
accommodating. Prospects are good in some areas for third
and fourth cuttings. Baling wire and twine shortages and/or
prices have been a handicap, running costs of baling higher
than they have been in years. Prices on baling wire and
twine are about double what they were last year. Ranges,
for the most part, are in good condition, except on areas of
the Trans-Pecos, Southern High Plains and Edwards Plateau
where rain has not been adequate. Highest temperature
reported in the State so far was 106 degrees in Wichita Falls
June 16.
SALE OF CATTLE and calves at auction rings
showed a sharp drop during the month of May, according
to the Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Service. There
were 362,000 head of cattle and calves sold, which was 51
per cent below a year ago and 18 per cent below April sales.
The 40.000 hogs sold in May was two per cent below a year
ago and seven per cent below the previous month. Sheep
sales at auction rings numbered 145,000 head, 17 percent
below a year ago but 19 per cent more than a month
earlier. During May, 297,337 head of cattle and calves were
shipped out of Texas to other States, and 102,202 were
shipped into Texas, according to health certificate
tabulations. A year ago, 417,786 head were shipped out of
Texas and 188,508 head were shipped into Texas. Sheep
and lambs shipped to other States totaled 120,045 head, a
drop of 37 per cent from a year ago.
MILK PRODUCTION in Texas was up slightly during
May, reaching an estimated 301 million pounds. That's one
per cent above May, 1973 and a little more than in April.
Production per cow was 860 pounds during May, which is
20 pounds more than in May, 1S73. All wholesale milk sold
for an estimated $8.90 per hundred pounds ... Texes egg
production was down during May, dropping 12 per cent
from the same time last year, to 200 million eggs. That is
one per cent more than for April, 1974. There were 10.4
million layers on hand in May, 10 per cent below May,
1973.
TURKEY POULTS hatched in Texas during the week
ending June IS totaled 217,000, which was 34 per cent
below a year ago and nine per cent below the previous
week. And there were 31,000 eggs set for heavy turkey
breed production, a drop of 25 par cant from last year.
Taxes does not raise needy as many light breed turkeys.
There were 15,000 light weights hatched in the week
ending June 15, compared with 3,000 a year ago and
19,000 the previous week.
cattle are the most likely to and Texas Agricultural Experi-
come down with this poisoning, ment Station. With continued
Prussic acid poisoning is a good prices, total income from
fast acting poison with signs of dairying should increase from
illness starting within five 5261 million last year to about
minutes after cattle begin 5300 million in 1974. But feed
grazing. Death can occur within costs have increased 47 percent
15 minutes but can be while the prices received by the
prolonged several hours. Sali- dairymen have increased only
vation and labored breathing 30 percent. That’s a net loss of
are the first signs followed by 17 percent. Due to the
muscle tremors, incoordination, increasing costs of milk and
bloating, convulsions and death dairy products, consumption
due to respiratory failure. has dropped some during the
Soduim thiosulfate is a spec- past year,
iftc antidote given intraven- ••••*
ously. Most veterinarians carry 4-H’ERS ON CITIZENSHIP
this at all times. Methylene TOUR — One hundred
blue may be given in the vein twenty-two Texas 4-H’ers and
as another antidote. 10 adult leaders will participate
If grazing must be done there in the 1974 National 4-H
are several recommendations Citizenship Short Course and
that can be followed: One is to Heritage Tour June 25-July 9,
turn in early before the plants They will be a part of more than
have wilted an stay with the 6,000 young people from 42
cattle for a couple of hours to states who will attend the
watch for poisoning symptoms, annual affair at the 4-H Center
Second, rather than turn the in Washington, D.C. Historical
sites will be visited enroute to
Washington, in Washington,
and on the return trip. Among
these will be Arlington National
Cemetery, the Capitol and
Library of Congress, memorials
to great Americans, Mount
Vernon, Williamsburg, Monti-'
cello, the Museum of Atomic
Energy, and the Patton
Museum at Fort Knox, Ken.
•••••
GREENHOUSE TOMATO
GROWERS TO MEET - More
than 200 greenhouse tomato
growers are expected to
participate in the Uth Annual
Greenhouse Tomato Conference
at Texas A&M University, July
8-9. Special emphasis will be on
“soilless culture” of green-
house tomatoes.
*••••
LOW VOLUME SPRAYING
FOR MESQUITE — Low
volume aerial application of
herbicides can cut costs and
still be as effective as standard
dosages in controlling mes-
quite, according to a brush
control scientist for the Texas
Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion. Low volume spraying can
reduce the use of diesel oil by
six pints per acre and water by
18 pints per acre compared to
conventional four gallon vol-
umes.
A Weekly Report Of Agri Business News
arm-facts
Compiled From Sources
Of The Texas Department of Agriculture
John C. White. Commissioner
Split Dove
Seasons Prove
Fruitless
Two years of experimental
split mourning dove seasons
have been analyzed by Texas
Parks and Wildlife Department
biologists with the conclusion
that no additional recreation
was afforded tq dove hunters.
Split seasons in the fall and
winter of 1972-73 and 1973-74
were designed to evaluate if
such breaks in hunting would
provide additional recreation, a
more equitable overall mourn-
ing dove harvest in Texas, and
to determine the origins of
winter dove populations in the
state.
Hunters were surveyed with
a mail questionnaire to
determine dove harvest, activ-
ity and hunting pressure.
Bag and possession limits
were not altered and there was
a total of 60 half-days of
hunting during each of the two
split-season years as there had
been in prior years.
According to Fielding Har-
well, the department's mourn-
ing dove biologist, there was a
17 percent decrease in the
number of doves killed during
the two experimental years as
opposed to the previous two.
"The combined harvest of
mourning doves for the years
1970 and 1971 was 16.4 million
birds," said Harwell. “During
the following two years of the
experiment the harvest dropped
to a total of 13.6 million doves,
6.2 of which were killed last
season.
Harwell's information also
shows that some three percent
fewer hunters were in the field
the last two years.
The chronology of the harvest
remained much the same in
the years of split seasons as it
did in the traditional fall
season. Almost half of all doves
taken during the season were
killed the opening week.
“Only seven percent of the
harvest occurred during the
winter portion of the 1972-73
season,’’ he said. “The
following year the figure
dropped to six percent.”
Distribution of the harvest
remained the same with more
than 70 percent of all doves
bagged in the north zone.
Analysis of data pertaining to
the origin of doves harvested
during the winter segments is
incomplete as of June, 1974.
Computer analysis of all
banding data should be
available to the biologists by
this September.
Texas Parks and Wildlife
Commissioners meet July 2 to
set this year's dove season. In
light of Harwell's findings, an
uninterrupted season will be
recommended for both North
and South Zones.
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wright
visited recently with son,
Ronnie and family, in Eloy,
Ariz. Accompanying them on
their trip was their daughter,
Connie Nowell of Corpus
Christi. Their grandson, Ste-
ven, returned home with them
for a visit.
Students Have Choice
College, Career, Chaos
Goint to college because par
ents want it isn’t a good enough
reason, one authority says.
She’s Dorthy Taylor, family
life education specialist, Texas
Agricultural Extension Service,
The Texas A&M University
System.
“Self-knowledge is an impor-
tant factor in deciding whether
to go to college or begin work
right after high school," the
specialist said.
A youth needs to consider his
strengths and limitations, what
kind of surroundings make him
work best, and what he wants
to do the next fifty years of his
life, she noted.
“The sooner a student
decides on a career, the sooner
he can begin preparing for it.
The first step is doing well in
high school courses relating to
that career,” Miss Taylor said.
Sharing ideas with the
family, the school counselor or
someone actually working in
the chosen career is also
helpful, she added.
Another part of career
planning is considering the
financial aspects—can the
student afford training costs,
borrow the money, get a
scholarship, work part-time—or
can he afford to miss college or
training for his career?
“A student who rushes into
career selection without careful
consideration may soon become
Hoffland Dairy
Production
Is Reported
Milk and butterfat production
levels established by Regis-
tered Holstein cows in this area
have been reported by Hol-
stein-Friesian Association of
America. All cows are from
herds enrolled in the Dairy
Herd Improvement Registry
(DH1R) official testing program.
Cows recognized for their
exceptional food producing
ability in this area and their
owner are:
Cows, days milk, pounds of
milk and pounds of fat are as
follows:
Glassie Sovereign R Foretel-
ler. 305; 20.890; 817; Neider-
johns Sensation Dora, 336,
18,650; 815; and Keg-Stein
Ward Hope Virgie, 318; 21,080;
807; 305; 20,510; 780.
Niederjohns Sensation Dora,
305; 17,720; 760; Elm-Creek
Dell Amanda, 305; 20,770; 759;
Hoffland Hanra Royal Master,
357; 21.710; 688; Green Valley
Var Beauty. 305; 18,480; 661; R
Acres Dinah Duke, 338; 19,240;
654; Hoffland Burke Una. 305;
17,430; 640; and R Acres Dinah
Duke, 305; 18,530; 627.
Bradley-View Burke Rosie-
Twin, 305; 19,200; 615; Hoff-
land Hanna Royal Master. 305;
19,800; 611; Elm-Creek Dee
Ann Dew, 305; 15,800; 592;
Hoffland He-Man Rag Apple
Lass. 340; 19,240; 581; 305;
18,250; 540; and Hoffland Royal
Sandy, 305; 16,300; 536.
disillusioned with his choice
and blame others for pushing
him into a program where he
really didn’t belong," the
specialist said.
Parents can help by discuss-
ing career possibilities, oppor-
tunities and financial expecta-
tions with the student.
If parents are not familiar
with a field of study or technical
training that has been tenta-
tively selected, they can learn
with the youth, she suggested.
“Sharing experiences and
enthusiasm makes parents and
children more understanding
and receptive to changes due to
lack of abilities, interests, fi-
nances or reward," she
explained.
"Whatever the career and
training choices, a young
person should feel that a
vocational selection is his
own—based on his own goals
and abilities,’’ she concluded.
Highway Department
Releases New State
Historical Film
A new motion picture just re-
leased by the Texas Highway
Department proves again that
factual history can be as fasci-
nating as fiction.
Titled “The Missions of Tex-
as," the film focuses on the
epic era of state history, and
explores 10 of the ancient
Spanish missions where Texans
can walk in the past today.
Settings for the colorful
chronicle range from shadowy
pine forests to the blazing West
Texas desert. Filmed on loca-
tions at Weches, Goliad. El
Paso and San Antonio, the film
invites viewers to visit sites that
were old before the United
States existed.
“The Missions of Texas" in-
troduces proud Spanish con-
quistadores and humble pa-
dres. It traces the legends of
Indians and Texas frontiers-
men. Most of all. the new film
is a reminder of Texas' rich
mission heritage.
Ricardo Montalban. who
combines his acting talents with
an abiding interest in the
cultural history of the New
World, narrates the 15-minute
film which was made especially
for television. It joins other
Texas travelogues circulating
for TV broadcast and currently
being seen by more than nine
million viewers throughout the
nation each year.
The film is the first in a
series of quarter-hour movies
being planned by the Highway
Department. Each will focus on
a special aspect of Texas
scenery, history, or recreation.
A professional treatment in
16 mm sound and color, "The
Missions of Texas" is available
for free showings to schools,
civic clubs, and historical
organizations, as well as for
television broadcast. Prints may
be borrowed from the Texas
Highway Department, Travel
and Information Division, Box
5064, Austin. 78763.
We don’t intend to leave the
next generation with a generation gap.
In the years ahead, these youngsters will need
enough electricity for their homes, jobs, schools
and hospitals — and to take care of the environ-
ment.
At the same time, the availability of the basic
fuels used to run our generating plants — natural
gas and oil — will continue to decline.
That's why at Texas Electric we're starling to
use other fuels, to decrease our dependence on
natural gas and oil.
Were already adding lignite coal plants to our
system. And were planning a nuclear plant near
Glen Rose for the 1980 s
These new plants will cost a lot more than
gas-fired plants. But the advantage of using lignite ,
and nuclear fuels is that neither is being used exten-
clcctricityany PUrpOSC °,hCr ,han ,hc Scncra,i°n of
And even though it will cost more to provide
electricity in the future, the cost will be less with
lignite and nuclear fuels than with natural gas and
0,1 We could 8ct thc ncw suPPlics we
would need.
Were continuing the orderly development of
our power system, because we don't intend to leave
the next generation with a generation gap.
TtXAS-
ELECTRIC
H O. AL8UP, Manaqw. Phone 574-4801
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Stults, Joe K. The Archer County News (Archer City, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1974, newspaper, July 4, 1974; Archer City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth708593/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Archer Public Library.