The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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FARM AND HOME DEPARTMENT
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Damage Likely
To Big Bales
At Compress
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Texas fanners who try to get too
much cotton into their bales may at
least partly responsible for damage
that shows up later when the bales
go through the compress, F. E.
Lichte, cotton gin specialist of the
Texas A. and M. Extension service,
points out.
“When cotton is under extreme
pressure, as is the case at the, com-
press, fibers in the oversized bales
are likely to be torn and cut in such
a manner that their value to the
spinner is reduced,” Lichte said.
Tests conducted by the U. S. De-
partment of agriculture show a lar-
ger percentage of air-cut damage
in oversized bales than in normal
bales.
Though the farmer does not suf-
fer directly, except in the few cases
where he is the owner of the bale
at the time it is compressed, he
he does suffer through the lower
prices brokers and mills must pay
for other purchases to offset these
losses.
The way to reduce this damage is
to deliver only enough seed cotton
to the gin to produce a bale of gin-
ned lint weighing 500 pounds or
thereabouts.
“If the tendency towards over-
weight does not stop, it is probable
that we will see the trade put on &
penalty for bales over 550 pounds
just as light weight bales arc not [
penalized,” Lichte said. The trade
is beginning to reserve the right to
reject bales in excess of 600 pounds.
The present penalties are $1.00 for
bales under 450 pounds- $2.00 for
those under 400 pounds; and those
under 350 pounds not acceptable.
Household, Hints
You will do a better job icing
your cake if you ice the sides first
then the top. This also permits you
to use any extra frosting on top.
A lemon heated before squeezing
will produce a lot more juice than
when it is squeezed cold.
. To make fuffy omelet more fluf-
fy, use fresh eggs at room tempera-
ture.
If you have been eating onions,
swallow a cup of strong coffee.
Add a pinch of baking powder
when you are mashing potatoes. It
will make them lighter and fluffier.
When you scorch a .pan, try
sprinkling dry baking soda over
the scorch letting it stand for a
while. You will be surprised at how
much more easily it can be remov-
ed.
Wash your new silk stocking;, in
cold water before wearing them and
wash again each time you take them
off. This will make them wear lon-
ger.
A good way to keep silver bright
is to keep it in a drawer lined with
dark outing flannel.
Farmers Eligible
For Cotton Loans
On 1940 Crop
All Texas farmers cooperating
with the AAA will be eligible to
obtain Commodity Credit Corpora-
tion loans at the full loan rates of
their 1940 crops.
No definite time has yet been set
when all the necessary forms and
instructions will be available so that
loan applications can be accepted,
George Slaughter, chairman of the
state AAA committee, said but the
material is now being printed and
will be shipped to the loan agencies
as soon as possible.
The loan rate will be based on
15-19 inch middling cotton, net
weight basis, with differentials for
grade, staple, and location instead
of on 7-8 inch middling as was the
case last year, the chairman point-
ed out. The rate in Texas for 15-19
inch middling, net weight basis,
will range from 9.16 cents in West
Texas to 9.80 cents at all Gulf ports.
As in 1939, the net weight loan rate
is placed 40 points above that for
the gross weight bale to compen-
sate for the smaller number of
pounds on which the loan is extend-
ed.
The full loan rate will be available
only to cooperating cotton produc'd s
who have not on nay farm knowing-
ly planted or permitted the planting
of cotton in 1940 in excess of the
cotton acreage allotment established
for the farm for the 1940-41 mar-
keting year. As required by law,
non-cooperators will be eligible to
receive a loan at 60 per cent of the
rate applicable to cooperating pro-
ducers, and only on that part of
their production in excess of their]
farm Marketing quotas. Non-cooper-1
ators must have their loan docu-
ments approved by the AAA county'
committee.
Loans will be made directly by the |
Commodity Credit Corporation and j
by banks and other lefcal lending
agencies under arrangements simi-
lar to those pertaining t«v previous
cotton loans. The loans ‘Vwfll "bear
three per cent interest and will be
callable on demand with the maturi-
ty date fixed for July 31, 1941.
Loans will be available until May
1, 1941. All cotton to be eligible for
the loan must be classed by Board
of Cotton Examiners of the Agri-
cultural Marketing Service of the
Department of Agriculture.
Few loans were made in Texas in
1939, Slaughter pointed out, be-
cause the loan was not announced
until most of Texas cotton had been
sold.
Fatalities from farm accidents
still number about 4,400 a year.
The country’s total cash loss from
accidents, including death, injury,
loss of time, etc., has been estimated
at 2 1-2 billion dollars annually,
with from 27 per cent to 35 per cent
of this loss on farms.
RESPECT THE FLAG
By ALVIN M. OWSLEY
When you see the Stars and Stripes displayed, son, stand up
and take off your hat.
Somebody may titter. It is in the blood of some to deride
all expression of noble sentiment. You may blaspheme in :he street
and stagger drunken in public places, and the bystanders will not
pay much attention to you; but if you should get down on your
knees and pray to Almighty God or if you should stand bareheaded
while a company of old soldiers marches by with flags to the
breeze, some people will think you are showing off. But don’t you
mind. When Old Glory comes along, salute, and let them think
what they please. When you hear the band play “The Star Spangled
Banner” while you are in a restaurant or hotel dining room, get up
even if you rise alone; stand there and don’t be ashamed of it,
either!
For of all the signs and symbols since the world began there
is none other so full of meaning as the flag of this country. That
piece of red, white and blue bunting means five thousand years of
struggle upward. It is the full-grown flower of ages of fighting for
liberty. It is the century plant of human hope in bloom.
Your flag stands for humanity, for equal opportunity to all
the sons of men. Of course we haven’t arrived yet at the goal;
there are many injustices yet among us, many. senseless and cruel
customs of the past still clinging to us, but the only hope of right-
ing the wrongs of men lies in the feeling produced in our bosoms
by the sight of that flag.
Other flags mean a glorious past, this flag a glorious future.
It is not so much the flag of our fathers as it is the flag of our
children, and of our children’s children yet unborn. It is the flag
of tomorrow. It is the signal for the “Good Time Coming.” It is
not the flag of your King—it is the flag of yourself and of all
your neighbors.
Don’t be ashamed when your throat chokes and the tears
come, as you see it fly from the masts of our ships on all the seas
or floating from every flagstaff of the Republic. You will never
have a worthier emotion. Reverence it as you would reverence tho
signature of the Deity.
Listen, son! The band is playing the national anthem—“The
Star Spangled Banner!” They have let loose Old Glory yonder.
Stand up—and others yrill stand with you.
This tribute to the flag is offered to the country in appeal to
all men and women of all races, colors and tongues, that they come
to understand that our flag’is the symbol of liberty, and learn to
love it.
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The Country Weekly
The following tribute to “The
Country Weekly” was written by R.
E. Prescott, publisher of Alcona
County Herald, at Lincoln, Mich. We
pass it on to our old readers:
The Country Weekly
Reams of copy have been written
on the little country sheets, pub-
lished ’way out back of nowhere or
in rural county seats. Ridiculed by
city cousins for the news that they
contain—unimportant little item3
making up the tangled skein of lives
of common people—Tom, Dick, Har-
ry, and their wives, neighborhood
milestones in their lives.
Everyday events are printed.
Meetings of the Ladies’ Aid, friend-
ly visits and box socials form the
weekly cavalcade. But life’s made of
little items ... or, at least, ’twould
seem that way . . . and the little
country weekly covers them from
day to day. No black headlines, no
sensations do its weekly columns
fill. But it pulses human heart-
throbs as no daily ever will.
what the common people do; telling
how the crops are faring, what the
farmer’s paid for cream, and tlie
spots the fish are biting by the old
dam on the stream, with perhaps
a comment column and some syndi-
cate reviews. But the copy that’s
important is the hometown local
news.
Though its makeup may lack pol-
ish and its style be far from smart
it pre-empts a spot unchallenged in
the hometown-reader’s heart. There
one reads of social doings and of
actions neighborly; how when
neighbor meets misfortune friends
will gather at a “bee,” doing work
that none may suffer; sickness
comes or loved ones die; of the
acts of human kindness untold
wealth could ever buy.
Journalists in famous papers nar-
rate tales of wars and kings, but the
little country weekly plays hu-
manity’s heartstrings. Though it
oftentimes makes fodder for the
big-time writers’ jokes, no great
jouinal and approach it in appeal to
common folks—those of whom Abe
State Soil Conservation Board
of Texas—-Notice of Election
of Supervisors to be held for
the Freestone-Leon Soil Con-
servation District.
To all persons holding legal or
equitable title to land within the
Freestone-Leon Soil Conservation
District, who are otherwise quali-
fied voters under the general elec-
tion laws of the State, and who re-
side within the Freestone-Loon Soil
Conservation District.
Notice is hereby given that on the
31st day of August, 1940, between
the hours of 7 a. m. and 7 p. m. an
election will be held for the election
of three supervisors of the Free-
stone-Leon Soil Conservation Dis-
trict in the State of Texas.
All persons who hold legal or
equitable title to lands lying within
the boundaries of the said district,
who live within the district, and
are otherwise qualified voters, un-
der the general election laws of the
State, are eligible to vote; only such
persons are eligible to vote.
Eligible voters who will be ab-
sent from their voting precinct on
the day of the election may apply
in person or in writing to the State
Soil Conservation Board, 613-22 Pro-
fessional Building, Temple, Texas,
for absentee ballots. Each absentee
voter shall state his name, residence,
location, and acreage of land to
which he holds legal or equitable ti-
tle, and such other information as
is required under the general elec-
tion laws of this State.
Eligible voters residing within the
district shall cast their ballot at the
designated voting box within pre-
cinct or territory as below described
in which they reside.
Voting divisions and polling
places for the election are as fol-
lows :
LEON COUNTY—Voting Box No.
1—Bank Building, Marquez. Quali-
fied voters residing in the general
election voting precinct of Marquez:
Nathan Martin, Presiding Judge; O.
K. Pruitt, Clerk; J. B. Jones, Clerk.
Voting Box No, 2 — Barron’s
Store, Jewett. Qualified voters re-
siding in the general election voting
precincts of Jewett (except that
part South and East of Keechi and
Brushy Creeks and highway No. 79
connecting two creeks) and Friend-
ship: C. E. DuBois, Presiding Judge;
C. G. Pettigrew, Clerk; E. F. Price,
Clerk.
Voting Bax No. 3 — Springfield
Store, Buffalo. Qualified voters re-
siding in the general election pre-
cincts of Buffalo, Hunt’s Store,
Keechi, and that part of Centerville
north of Keechi Creek: B. J. Caden-
head, Presiding Judge; J. D. Hol-
land, Clerk; W. H. McDaniel, Clerk.
Voting Box No. 4—Oukwood Gin
Company Office, Oakwood. Quali-
fied voters residing in the general
election voting precinct of Oak-
wood: J. A. Moore, Presiding Judge;
W. H. Gill, Clerk; Geo. C. Harding,
Clerk.
Voting Box No. 5 _ bli
Store, Flo. Qualified voters n.sllj
in the general electing voting
cincts of Flo and Russell: Wilijf,
Barnett, Presiding Judge; w
Sims, Clerk; W. A. Timmons, clerk
FREESTONE COUNTY— Votir,
Box No. 9—Court House, Fairfi'u
Qualified voters residing in jUstj.
Precincts 1 and 4: C. B. StewsH
Presiding Judge; W. E. Riley, Qer,
Roy Kelley, Clerk.
Voting Box No. 7—Schoolhou*
Liberty. Qualified voters residing
the Justice Precinct No. 3; j w
Anders, Presiding Judge; E. y'l
Crawford, Clerk; W. S. Hale, Clerk!
Voting Box No. 8—Lambert’i
Gin, Dew. Qualified voters residing
in Justice Precinct No. 8: J. E. Lam.
bert, Presiding Judge; P. L. John!
son, Clerk; John Nash, Clerk.
Voting Box No. 9—School Build,
ing, Donie. Qualified voters reaid-
ing in the general election voting
precincts of Donie and Luna: R. ?
Kerr, Presiding Judge; R. s. Gil!
liam, Clerk; J. W. Howell, Clerk.
Voting Box No. 10—National
Bank Building, Teague. Qualified
voters residing in Commissioner's
Precinct No. 2: R. L. Seely, Presid-
ing Judge; R. A. Tacker, Clerk, J.
C. Meriott, Clerk.
Voting Box No. 11—Post Office
Building, Kirven. Qualified voters
residing in Commissioner’s Precinct
No. 4 south of Tehuacana Creek:
Fred Carter, Presiding Judge; J. T.
Hughes, Clerk; L. C. Coleman!
Clerk.
By direction of the State Soil Con-
servation Board.
V. C. MARSHALL,
15a2t Administrator.
J. E. (Son) LOTT
CANDIDATE FOR
Your Insurance
Subject To Your Next Expiration
MY PLATFORM:
If elected to serve you a3
your Insurance Agent, the fol-
lowing will not be allowed to
disturb you: '>
MR. FIRE—We pay all his
damages.
MR. CYCLONE—We won’t let
him trouble you.
MR. HAIL—We replace every-
thing he tears up.
MR. AUTOMOBILE—We will
always have a car at your
front door for you to ride in.
MR. SICK OR ACCIDENT—
We will see that the boss
keeps your salary going.
MR. DEATH—We will look
after your wife and educate
your children.
When the strain of day is over, Lincoln’s quoted saying God must
with its worries and its care, and j surely love or he wouldn’t take tha
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*l4tiUUu Qomfuatuf,
you loll in relaxation in your well-
worn easy chair with your feet in
roomy slippers and your trusty pipe
alight as the cheery glow of wood
fire puts the evening’s chill to
flight; from its depths bright flam-
ing arrows scintillate in twilight’s
gloam and you feel a deep content-
ment in the atmosphere of home,
where you find a welcome haven
from vicissitudes of life and forget
its tribulations and its troubles and
its strife.
You luxuriate in comfort and re-
lax in indolence as you scan daily
headlines that record the day’s
events; matters of supreme impor-
tance, but you lay the daily down as
your glance observes the weekly
from the old home town.
Just an unpretentious weekly—
nothing big and nothing grand.
Hometown news told in a manner
common people understand. No fine
diction garbs it stories, no sonorous
narrative. No salaaming to the
mighty. It gets down to where folks
live.
Uncontrolled by clique or party,
and its simple policy . . . shootin’
square with everybody . . . needs to,
board of strategy. It contains no
fancy writing and no bunk or bally-
hoo, but relates in simple language
trouble to make quite so many of.
From Atlantic to Pacific, in the
city’s crush and noise, and the quiet
of the farmlands, spread the home-
town girls and boys. Where the hand
of fate has put them or where men
their fortunes seek goes the little
country paper that is printed once
a week. Whether fate bestows its
blessings or the gods of fortune
frown, eager eyes await the paper
from the Old Home Town.
Agriculture Notes
Ice cream cones were first serv-
ed at the World’s Fair in 1904. That
was the beginning of the commercial
ice cream industry.
On January 1, 1940, there were
32,245,000 persons living on farms
in the United States, acording to
to the Bureau of Agricultural Eco-
nomics.
A 22-foot four-section tractor
harrow now on the market is so
built that it will go through a farm
gate 11 feet wide. The two outside
sections may be folded in on top of
the two center sections.
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YOU WILL FIND COMPLETE AND
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Fairfield State Bank
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1940, newspaper, August 22, 1940; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1109450/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.