The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1945 Page: 2 of 12
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THE OOLDTHWA1TE EAGLE—FRIDAY, MAT 11, INS
NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN UN-
DER WAY TO CHECK AU-
TOMOBILE BRAKES
An Automobile Brake CJieck
Program, sponsored by the In-
ternational Association of Chiefs
ot Police in cooperation with
Government agencies, started
April 15 and will end June 1.
Purpose of the program is to
save passenger cars from the
•crap heap, to maintain ad-
equate transportation for war
workers, and to reduce traffic
accidents in 1944, it is estimat-
ed, some 250,000 cars were scarp-
ped after they were damaged be-
yond repair .in accidents. To de-
termine whether your brakes
Bre adequate to stop your car in
time, a simple brake check is re-
commended. The check is made
by placing an object one inch
thick at the base of the brake
pedal, and pushing down the
brake pedal. If It strikes the ob-
ject before the brakes begin to
take hold, they are inadequate
and may be In dangerous condi-
tion. Between April 15 and June
1 traffic officers will check pas-
senger cars involved (1) In ac-
cidents, (2) in traffic violence
in which cars are moving, and
13 P cars operated in manner in-
dicating faulty brakes.
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Fleas can be trained to dance,
draw chariots and throw objects
many times their own weight.
You can’t change the nature
of your faults by blaming them
on your nature.
It looks now as if the biggest
golf handicap of 1945 will be get-
ting enough gas to drive to the
links.
Remember when we used to
get a premium with everything
we bought—and another when
we paid the bill? Nowadays the
only premiums we seem to hear
about are the insurance ones.
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YOUR WAR ROND
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THIS TIME ITS O.K.
TO JUMP THE GUN!
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The 7th War Loan starts In May.
It’s the greatest yet- Uncle Sam needs
7 billion dollars of our money—almost
AS much in one chunk as was raised by
tills time last year in two!
\ The way to fulfill your obligation to
the men who fight is to jump the guil-
ty gtart now saving for your share of
this gigantic loan.
26,000,000 smart Americans who belong
to the Payroll Savings Plan have already
started to save-spreading their War
Bond purchase allotments over more
pay checks.
Be ready for »he 7th. You can do your
full share if you think ahead and start
now putting that dough aside for your
country.
Start Saving now for the might/ 7i
THE GOLDTHWAITE EAGLE
Wool Growers
DO YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR WOOL NOW OR
WAIT FOR AN APPRAISAL?
We Can Buy Clips Up to 3,ON Pounds—
See Us Before You Sell
Let Us Furnish Your V/OOL BAGS, FLEECE TWINE,
BRANDING PAINT, SALT
See Us Before You Buy
J. A. H ester
Bonded Warehouse Inc.
-- BUY BONDS -
Our
WASHIN ;ton
Letter
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O. C FISHER
TURKISH MOIIAIR SELLS
Right now the big question
bothering Texas goatmen Is
what effect In dollars and cents
the sale of the Turkish mohair
will have on our own domestic
market.
The long expected sale of the
7-mllllon pound stockpile of
Turkish hair was completed last
week and went to five buyers. It
brought 35 cents a pound. This
may well mean that the mills
will use just that much less of
home production. So the effect
on our own prices will depend
largely on the ability of the
market to absorb this additional
amount. Fred Earwood and
Prank Montague Inspected the
Turkish clip, and I believe they
considered It of such quality as
may be competitive with our
Texas fiber.
This Turkish mohair was
bought nearly two years ago by
this government and Britian
from Turkey in- order to keep
Germany from getting It. Ben
Reese of the Foreign Economic
Administration tells me Ger-
many bid so high for the clip
that our agents had to pay a
dollar a pound to keep the Nazis
from getting It.
Texas producers have insisted
all along that it is unfair to our
own growers to sell this import-
ed hp.tr in a way that will reduce
the' price at home. The Turkish
clip having been bought and
brought here purely as a war
measure, why shouldn't the en-
tire nation share equally in the
damage its sale will do,..Jo the
market? As it is. I iear our own
domestic growers will absorb
most of the blow, whatever it
amounts to.
We have repeatedly urged that
every effort be made to sell this
imported lot to some of the for-
eign countries, and thereby keep
it off the American market
where it is> noj, needed. Reese
has reported to me that during
the past three months his de-
partment has tried to sell to
France, Spain, Mexico, Russia
and other countries, but to no
avail.
The FEA official explains that
the proceeding year Britian
handled all the Turkish fleece,
and by agreement the U. S. had
agreed to dispose of the batch
brought her last year.
MOHAIR FUTURE
This.brings up the question of
how imports, tarriffs, synthetics,
and the like^ may affect the
American producer in the future.
Will the use of Turkish mohair
cause private importers to seek
more of the cheaper fiber In the
future, now that the mills will
have a good sample of how It can
be used and marketed?
Moreover, what about the pro-
posed authorization for a 50
percent reduction In tariff on
mohair, wool, etc, now pending
in Congress? The authorization
itself might not mean a reduc-
tion. but it would be a threat.
Normally, American Angora
growers, of whom 85 percent are
in Texas, produce about all the
mohair our domestic market will
I consume. That fact, coupled
with flu- fact our quality is the
highest, lias resulted In but lit-
tle occasion for competitive im-
ports.
In 1937, 894 thousand pounds
were imported, 90 percent com
ing from South Africa. The fol-
lowing year only 106 thousand
pounds came In. In 1940 the fig-
ure was 252 thousand pounds
with 106.000 of that coming from
the Cape Town country. Of the
1900 thousand pounds In 1942,
I practically all came from the
jsame place The following year
that figure was stepped up to
one and a third million pounds.
There Is a aprlnkllng that
comes in from Mexico and Ar-
gentina each year.
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HOME PRODUCTION
ADEQUATE
From these figures It la appar-
ent that our own growers who
URGE STOCKS OF TEX
GRAINS IN STORAGE
College Station, May 2—A re-
cent survey Indicated an esti-
mated 45,000,000 bushels or more
of the Texas 1944 wheat and
grain sorghum crops remained
In farm storage And country and
terminal elevators in the north-
western part of the state on
April 1. According to D. A. Adams
farm labor field assistant In
charge of the Texas cooperative
combine program for the A. and
M. College Extension Service,
who conducted the survey, more
than two thirds Of-the 23,678,985
bushels of wheat represented in
the total Is In the Panhandle
area.
Adam said that approximately
100.000 cars would be needed to
clear the stored grain before the
next harvest which is only about
60 days ahead. Otherwise, he
added farmers will have to plan
for construction of more farm
storage if the 1945 small grain
crops are not to go on the ground.
The state USDA Wlir Board has
made an effort to obtain 250 car-
loads of lumber to be distributed
for that purpose, but the survey
showed that this amount would
meet less than half of the need.
The probable large acreage of
small grains to be harvested in
Texas this ye?4 emphasizes the
acuteness of the situation,
Adams said. Reports of county
planning committees working
with the cooperative combine
program through the Flainview
office indicate that harvesting
of about 5,000,000 acres of wheat,
1.500.000 acres of oats, antt.500,-
000 acres of barley In northwest,
north, and central Texas will
commence within the next two
months.
A survey to determine the
equipment and manpower need-*
ed to gather these crops indicat-
ed that the Texas cooperative
combine program would require
928 large, 1.115 medium, and 465
small combines in addition to
those available "for services In
the counties, Adam said. This
equipment would comprise a
flexible force which could be as-
signed wherever the need was
greatest. F'ut.her details of the
survey received at the Plain-
view office showed that 2,486
trucks and 605 pickups would be
required to gether with 1,816
combine operators, 2165 truck
drivers, and 8,145 scOopcrs and
other unskilled labor.
He suggested that farmers
planning to do custom Xvork with
machinery should contact
county combine officers headed
by county agricultural agents at
once, or the Texas Coop Office
at Plainview.
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To rid a lawn of ants drill sev-
eral holes In each ant hill with a
stick; pour into each hole two
ounces of carbon bisulphide; and
cover the whole nest with can-
vas The fumes will kill the ants.
There are 23,000 stones in the
Washington Monument.
The amount of sway at the top
of the Washington Monument is
less than one Inch.
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WAR BONDS
produce better than 20 million
pounds a year just about fill the
nbeds of our domestic markets.
After having spent a lot of
time and money improving the
quality and building up a stable
market, the growers are entitled
to continued reasonable protec
tion by the government against
outside competition which would
tend to drive prices down and
upset the high standard that has
been achieved.
Sound" International trade
should be confined, for the most
part, to ex-change of goods
that arc non-compctitlve. If every
country could sell everything it
produces abroad and butaeyqty-
thing it uses abroad, where
would the gain be? Obviously,
there would- be a net loss In
shipping and handling costs a/
applied to goods available on the
spot. In the final analysis Amer-
ican prosperity depends on our
great domestic market.
The future of the Texas mo-
hair grower U bright. It must be
kept that way.
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Wilson, Ernest E. The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 35, Ed. 1 Friday, May 11, 1945, newspaper, May 11, 1945; Goldthwaite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1090208/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.