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Page 4—THE ODEM-EDROY TIMES—Odem, Tex., Thurs., Aug. 13, 1959
$12 Per Acre
Sef As Price
Far Crop Reserve
COLLEGE STATION — Texas
farmers will receive a basic rate
of $12 an acre under announced
plans for the Conservation Reserve
of the Soil Bank for the 1960 crop
season by the U. S. Department
of Agriculture. A tentative goal of
452,000 additional acres was also
announced for the State.
Principal changes listed for the
1960 Conservation Reserve in the
USDA announcement include re-
gulations relating to publicly own-
ed land, tenure of ownership, me-
thod of setting payment rates and
the determination of priorities when
more applications are received
than can be accepted.
Land owned by a state, county,
town or local government will be
ineligible for the program. This
rule is already in effect on federal-
ly owned land. Land which has
changed ownership (except through
inheritance) since December 31,
1956 is ineligible to enter the pro-
gram in 1960.
If land under a 1960 Conserva-
tion Reserve contract is sold, the
contract generally may be assum-
ed by the purchaser only after it
has been in effect for three years.
The priority system of accepting
applications has been modified to
assure first consideration to farm-
ers who were unable to participate
in the 1959 program because of
lack of funds.
Detailed information as to the
application of these and other
changes to individual farm situa-
tions will not be available in coun-
ty ASC offices until mid-August,
stated the USDA announcement.
This will be the fifth year of the
Conservation Reserve program. If
farmers contract for the expect-
ed 5 million additional acres in-
1960, the total acreage in the pro-
gram next year will be approximate
ly 28 million.
“What’s The Hurry”
Safety Chief
Asks Motorists
AUSTIN — “Honestly now, what’s
your hurry?”
This question was put to Texas
motorists today by J. O. Musick,
general manager of the Texas Safe-
ty Association, as he sought public
support for TSA’s current Slow
Down and Live campaign.
Musick reminded drivers that
229 persons were killed in Texas
traffic accidents during August of
last year.
“Each Texan can give the Slow
Down and Live campaign a boost
by simply becoming safety con-
scious. Most of us are familiar
with the laws, rules and courtesies
of the road, but all too often there
is a tendency to forget them. At
this point we are most vulnerable
to an accident,” Musick said.
He reminded motorists that traf-
fic officials are doing all they can
to protect drivers and pedestrians
by maintaining a firm enforcement
policy, but that the final respon-
sibility rests with the individual.
“Surely it is a matter of deep
concern to all of us that the traffic
accident toll is on the increase
in Texas (the Texas Department
of Public Safety reports an increase
of approximately nine percent for
the first six and a half months
of this year), thus we owe it to
ourselves to our family, friends
and neighbors to accept the moral
responsibility of practicing safe
driving habits.
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Burning Bales, Trailers At Gin
—Pecot Photo
Saturday Fire At Gin Levels
Cotton Trailer Yard, Bales
RENEW
Your
SUBSCRIPTION
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Fence climbers present a con-
tinual problem in the protection
of wildlife.
When Sheldon Reservoir, near
Houston, was opened for the 1959
summer season of fishing, fence
climbing was one of the big pro-
blems confronting the wardens and
biologists.
Sheldon Reservoir is a state own-
ed wildlife management project.
During the winter months it is a
waterfowl refuge, closed to fishing.
During the summer it is thrown
open to fishermen.
Fishing piers and launching
ramps have been constructed
by the Game and Fish Commis-
sion. The entire 1800 acres was
fenced, except for two entrance
gates. Even ample parking space
was allotted.
Multiflora roses were planted
along the fence to provide cover
for birdlife and to help hold the
soil of the impoundment together.
Signs were posted advising fish-
erman to go to .'the gates. Never-
theless, on opening day, scores of
fishermen climbed the fences and
beat down the expensive protective
undergrowth.
Date in the afternoon a group
of the biologists and wardens were
drinking coffee and talking about
the problem. It had been pretty
costly the first day.
One biologist said he thought
every man caught climbing the
fence should be given a ticket.
Another ventured the suggestion
that a sign be erected saying, “It
Will Cost You $42 to Climb This
Fence.”
“Yes, we could give them tic-
kets,” one of ithe wardens said.
“Then they’d have to go to court
and pay a stiff fine. They’d cuss
the game department and the war-
dens. I try to keep from giving
a ticket any time I can and still
achieve the same purpose. Most
of the fellows who fish.out here
are just like me. They work on
salaries and perhaps not enough.
If I gave one a ticket it would be
just like' reaching in his pocket
and taking out a half-week’s sal-
ary.”
“That's all true, said the bio-
logist. “On the other hand, think
of the hundreds of thousands of
persons who pay $2.15 for a fishing
license who dont climb a fence
and destroy the property they are
paying for. They have some rights
too. We can use all the science
we know in trying to make hunt-
ing and fishing better. Then some
thoughtless or perhaps just plain
troublesome person comes along
i and climbs the fence and we’ve
lost a thousand dollars of sports-
men’s money.”
The argument continued, as argu-
ments do, where game and fish
are involved. It is especially true
about Uhe offense of trespassing.
Somehow there is a resentment to
fences. It is nothing new. Back in
the early days of Texas we had
wars over barbed wire.
We look beyond a fence and see
a pretty stream, or perhaps a good
place to shoot, and we feel we
should be able to cross over to
the place. Fortunately, however, yard. Almost instantly, witnesses
Although the smoke has cleared
away the insurance adjusters had-
n’t following Saturday afternoon’s
fire at the Mathis Gin Co. There
was no official estimate of the dol-
lar loss from the fire, Glenn Dor-
ris, gin manager said Wednesday
morning. Early estimates had plac-
ed the figure in excess of $45,000.
Lost to the flames were 40 trail-
ers loaded with unginned cotton,
26 full bales, 84 small bales, and
seven bales of bagging. The un-
ginned cotton on the trailers would
have made about 160 bales.
The gin was back in the cotton-
baling business by Sunday after-
noon. New trailers arrived and
they were being assembled Mon-
day morning. A bulldozer cleared
away the rubble to accomodate the
waiting trailers.
The fire came at 5:15 p.m. on
a hot August afternoon- when a
sudden, strong wind shift occured
at the gin five miles east o fMa-
this. It caught the sparks from"
burning cotton burrs in a pit and
scattered them over the trailer
most persons recognize the rights
of a property owner.
There are a great number of
malicious fence climbers. Usually
when they are arrested they have
a gun. Some even carry a head-
light and are bent on killing game,
in season or not.
Thus in protecting the rights of
landowners, the officers also give
protection to wildlife.
As our population increases, the
wildlife problems also grow. We
have more wildlife today than we’ve
had in years. This has been made
possible in most instances through
landowner cooperation with con-
servation officials.
Many of our landowners today
recognize wildlife as a crop and
permit it to be harvested at a
profit to them. They are entitled
to that profit. They feed the game
and watch after it.
Then we have another situation
that isn’t too good. We have hun-
dreds of sections of land behind
fences where the owners do not
permit hunting. They are in the
cattle business and they just don’t
want any hunters around.
As a result the die-off of wild-
life i? tremendous. If some of
these ranchers could be sold on
the idea of permitting selective
hunting, it would help rather than
harm the wildlife program.
We have another asset today, too.
The Game Commission, with some
license money and other monies
that come from the federal excise
tax, has been able to buy up some
land. This land is thrown open to
controlled public hunting.
In many of our states there is
considerable government land that
provides free hunting. In Texas we
have bought approximately 100,000
acres in West Texas for wildlife
management. We have some more
tracts scattered around.
Surplus game is harvested from
this land for free. Unfortunately
not enough people get these hunts,
but there is enough spread to make
it interesting.
Another thing that would cut
down poaching would be to pro-
vide more access. We have many
fine lakes in Texas. Our engineers
were smart enough to build them,
but not smart enough to foresee
the human demand for recreation.
As a result too many of them
have been built without sufficient
access.
Not even our highway depart-
ment will recognize the rights of
sportsmen when it builds new fa-
cilities crossing waterways.
Boat owners pay a lot of money
into the highway fund each year
in motor fuel taxes. They should
be considered when the highway
department builds a new facility
across a waterway. This would help
to reduce fence climbing on pri-
vate property.
said, several trailer loads were
seen to burst into flame.
The wind itself caused property
damage when it knocked one trail-
er into the left side of a 1959
Chevrolet sedan. Another trailer
was pushed by the wind onto the
highway.
The gin and the office, west of
the trailer yard, were never en-
dangered by the fire, although
some of the records in the office
were hastily transferred into clos-
ed cars for safe-keeping.
The Mathis Volunteer Firemen
were joined by units from Anna-
ville, Sinton, Beeville and Odem.
The Orange Grove fire truck turn-
ed over enroute to the fire on
Highway 359 in front of Pullin’s
Gulf Service Station, hospitalizing
four. Most seriously injured was
Ed Steck with head lacerations,
but his condition was improving
by mid-week although he was still
confined to the hospital. Fellow-
firemen who received medical at-
tention were Franklin Koening,
Raymond Bartosch and Raymond
Nelsoney. The Orange Grove truck
spilled when it was in collison with
a car driven by John Lockman,
also of Orange Grove. He was not
treated at the hospital, but was
slightly injured.
The fire fighting at the gin last-
ed about five hours. There were
still smouldering piles of rubble
by Sunday morning. The bales were
eventually extinguished when the
Sinton department mixed a foam
concoction with water and suffocat-
ed the individual blazing bales.
Exploding rubber tires on the
trailers popped during the height
of the fire’s heat. Thick, acid smoke
blinded the firefighters, irritating
their throats and causing the weeps.
Some of the firemen had masks to
use.
Out on the highway, which pas-
ses close to the burning trailer
yard, gasoline tank trucks lined
up out of the smoke’s way, fearful
of passing through with their loads.
The traffic was heavy at the
scene as the normally-crowded
highway was filled with curiosity
seekers, attracted by the sirens
and dense smoke.
The freak wind shift kept blow-
ing from the north-east for two
or three hours, keeping the smoke
from heavily-populated areas.
Dorris and Red Gorbet of the
gin thanked the various fire de-
partments for their assistance in
the fire combat.
The same afternoon another fire
broke out at the Hartzendorf Gin
in the middle of the county where
a storage building burned.
There was also a blaze at the
Erly Fat plant west of Mathis,
caused by the same wind shift.
That afternoon there had develop-
ed a “fire bale” of burrs at Erly
Fat. Workers had carried it out
of harm’s way to let it burn out,
but the wind caught the sparks
and ignited a pit of loose burrs.
Bennie Curtis, assistant manayer
of Mathis Grain & Elevator, said
there was no dollar loss as the
burrs were last year’s. He com-
mended the firemen, who sent one
truck to the scene, for preventing
the fire’s spread. They took a
truck to the scene and doused the
blaze before it spread to the fa-
cilities of the yard.
There were no physical damages
to any of the firefighters, other
than weepy eyes.
First Scouter
Meeting Set
For Aug. 20
The regular monthly meeting of
all adult scouters in the Mustang
District will be held at 7:30 p.m.
on Thursday, August 20, at the
Sinton High School, it was an-
nounced today by George Rigotti,
Odem Deputy
Relieved - No
Reason Given
D. S. Ridgway, who had served
as a full-time deputy in the Odem-
Edroy area since April 1 of this
year, was relieved of his duties in
Odem with Sheriff S. F. Hunt com-
ing to Odem for the purpose of
relieving the deputy of his duties.
Sheriff Hunt said in connection
with the situation: “I relieved Mr.
Ridgway of his duties as deputy
sheriff in Odem at 2:12 p.m. Fri-
day and had him deliver the coun-
ty equipment on his car in Sinton
that same afternoon”. When ask_
ed if he had any statement as
to why he had relieved the deputy
of his duties the sheriff replied,
“I have absolutely no comment
to make”.
Sheriff Hunt says that Ridgway
will be replaced by another deputy
as soon as a man for the place
can be found.
Ridgway came to the Odem-Ed-
roy area as a full-time deputy af-
ter a number of persons in Odem
had requested such a full-time de-
puty when a rash of burglary of
business firms broke out in Odem
and Edroy in mid-January and con_
tinned until the full time deputy
had assumed his duties here. Some
of the firms had been broken into
as many as nine times and one
service station had an expensive
plate glass window broken on two
occasions.
The vandalism and burglary eas-
ed off immediately after the of-
ficer began his work, with little
repetition of the crime of burglary
after the first month he was on
the job.
Ridgway could not be reached
for a statement at press time.
eland
Taft, Texas
TUES.-WED.
AUG. 11-12
By John C. Whit*. Commissioner
What’s new in the animal king-
dom? Animal air conditioning,
that’s what!
Researchers have taken one of
mankind’s greatests boons to com-
fort and have begun cooling plants
and animals for greater profit.
It has been a known fact for
many years that the hot Texas
summers slow growth and produc-
tion rates of farm animals. But
the difference in just a few de-
grees of temperature will mean a
more rapid growth rate which in-
creases farm income.
According to preliminary re-
search studies, hens kept in cool
chicken houses not only lay larger,
tougher eggs but they also produce
up to twice as many. In addition,
a “heat struck” hen may consum-
er up to 4 pounds of feed in her
efforts to produce a dozen eggs.
But when kept cool and comfort-
able, the hen needs only about
2.66 pounds of feed per dozen.
The air conditioned chicken house
also increases flock production.
Chick mortality falls and the house
itself can accomodate 15 per cent
more chickens comfortably, re-
ports show.
Pigs and cattle respond equally
well to cooler quarters in the sum-
mertime. If pigs are kept at 70
degrees, they reach a marketable
weight in one-fourth the time need-
ed at 90 degrees. And they con-
sume a total of only one-third as
much food.
When cattle are kept cool, they
gain up to half-pound more per day
and give more milk, according to
research tests.
Air conditioning trials in green-
houses reveal that plants respond
equally well. Plants need light,
air, water and heat for growth—
but in correct proportion. The blaz-
ing Texas heat often retards plants
in the hottest months.
Cooling green houses thus can
double the growing rates of mar-
ketable flowers and vegetables, re-
searchers claim.
The experiments have been con-
ducted by the American Society of
Heating and Air Conditioning En-
gineers. The organization is deve-
loping systems for cooling farm
buildings for an operating costs
of under $5 per month which would
require inventalents of under $500.
"Paratroop
Command”
Second Feature
"Submarine
Seahawk"
CROP To Launch
Sample Drive
On August 29
Thursday, August 29 has been
set as CROP sample day in Odem.
The emphasis this year is on
the collection of cotton for ship-
ment overseas to distressed people
of the world. As an example of
the use made of CROP cotton to
relieve suffering abroad, one ship-
ment to the city of Hong Kong was
used to make quilts. Although Hong
Kong is well within the tropics
its winters are piercingly cold be-
cause of high humidity and the
exposed position on the China coast.
Half-starved, ill-clad, homeless re-
fugees without a roof or any shel-
ter from icy winds die of cold
and exposure. The cotton quilt pro-
ject was conceived for such miser-
ably cold, needy people.
In San Patricio County many
gins are cooperating by accepting
cotton donated by farmers for
CROP. A gin or trailer will be
available at the gins to receive any
seed cotton a farmer may wish
to donate. Any amount from a
few pounds up will be appreciat-
ed.
Gins which have signified then-
willingness to help in the CROP
campaign are: Taft, Rosson Gin
and Baldwin Gin, 7 miles NE of
Taft; Odem, The Farmers Gin and
The Smith Gin; Edroy, The Edroy
Co_op Gin; Mathis, The F. H. Vahl-
sing Gin, The Farmers Gin and
The Mathis Gin; West Sinton, The
Hertzendorf Gin at West Sinton
and the Hertzendorf Gin seven
miles north of West Sinton.
Other community CROP work-
ers are Dryan Keeton, Odem; John
Brough, Edroy; Hilmer Person and
Gordon Cabiness, Mathis; J. B.
Hansen, West Sinton and Tom Ken-
ney and A. M. Johnson, Sinton.
James Williams of Odem is the
county co-ordinator.
CLASSIFIED
FOR SALE: 50 M Farmall, pro-
pane cultivator. No. 7 bedder. Doy-
le Smith, Odem. 2tcA13
THURS.-FRI.
it
AUG. 13-14
tt
Green Mansions
Audrey Hepburn - Anthony Perkins
Lee J. Cobb
SAT. ONLY
AUG. 15
"The Legend of
Tom' Dooley"
Plus
"Tarzan's Fight
For Life"
SUN.-MON. AUG. 16-17
"Face Of A
Fugitive"
FRED MacMURRAY
TUES.-WED. AUG. 18-19
Double Horror Show!
"The Viking
Women vs. The
Sea Serpent"
Second Feature
The Astounding
She Monster"
SINTON
Drive-In Theatre
Show Starts At 7:40
SINTON, TEXAS
district commissioner. Rigotti em- >,
phasized that this is probably the
most important meeting of the year.
It is at this meeting that all
events for the coming year are
scheduled as well as new program
literature being distributed.
Other events which will be dis-
cussed will be the c’elebration of
the 50th Anniversary of the Scout-
ing, the annual fall round up for
new members and the annual dis-
trict dinner.
Leading the roundtable for Cub-
bers will be Ken Edwards of Sin-
ton. All Den Mothers, Cubmasters
and assistants and pack commit-
teemen ai-e urged to attend. Joe •,
Benson of Sinton and W. J. Mott
of Aransas Pass will direct the
scoutmasters, the assistants and
troop committeemen in their pro-
gram. Roy McCammon of Sinton
will direct the Explorer round-
tables which will have in- attend-
ance all Explorer Advisors, their
assistants and post committee
members. Rigotti urged all scout
workers to attend this important
meeting and help get the new
scout year off to a good start.
RIALTO
THEATRE
SINTON, TEXAS
Box Office Opens Daily 1 p.m.
(Phone EM4t2398)
THURS.-FRI.
M-G-Vn
presents
AUG. 13-14
guardians of
king SOLOMON’S MINES! '
Cartoon, Tea for 200
FRIDAY AUG. 14
MIDNITE SHOW - Double Feature
SHm
1
THURS.-FRI. AUG. 13-14
MARLON BRANDO in
“Viva Zapata”
Second Feature
MIGUEL ACEVES MEJIA in
“Sabras Que Te Quiero”
SATURDAY AUG. 15
GREGORY PECK in
“The Bravados”
Color
Second Feature
RICHARD TODD in
“Intent To Kill”
Third Feature
SILVIA PINAL in
“Prestame Tu Cuerpo”
SUN.-MON. AUG. 16-17
Yul Brynner - Joane Woodward in
‘The Sound and The Fury’
Color
Second Feature
PEDRO ARMINDARIZ in
“The Little Savage”
THE SPIDER starring EDWARD KEMMER
JUNE KENNY • GENE PERSSON
AN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
THE BRAIN EATERS starring EDWIN NELSON
JOANNA LEE•ALAN FROST
AN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL PICTURE
SATURDAY
AUG. 15
i
Cartoon, Feast & Furious
SUN.-MON.
AUG. 16-17
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><, DOROTHY DOLORES
» MALONE • MICHELS
WARLOCK*
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^HujTby DELUXE • STEREOPHONIC SOUND I
Cartoon, Brother Magee's Ledge
TUES.-WED.
AUG. 18-19
VtAA/VWWWSA(WNA^V^^/WVVWW\
TUES.-WED. AUG. 18-19
50c PER CAR
“Unknown Terror”
Second Feature
“Back From The Dead”
§>M M-G-M presents |Hf
It AUDREY HEPBURN H
ANTHONY PERKINS
GREEN MANSIONS
... the forbidden forests
beyond the Amazon! ^
13 co-starring LEE J. COBB M
In METROCOLOR and Cln*iiroSco|»« iSi*
Cartoon, Speaking of Ghosts
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