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THE WORTHAM JOURNAL
Volume 45
WORTHAM, FREESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY JUNE 18, 1943
Number 7
Dr. Leonard J. Grinned
WORTHAM, TEXAS
ANNOUNCES,
HIS RETURN TO PRACTICE
Following Two Week* Postgraduate Study
Of Disease* of the Rectum
Variocse Veins and Skin
At The Norwood Clinic in
Mineral Wells
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WORTHAM. TEXAS
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Have You Met John Doe?
You should know John Doe. He’s a very fine
fellow who lives right in your neighbor-
hood. He probably goes to your church, his
children go to school with your children.
Mrs. Doe is active in the P.-T.A. and other
civic groups, little Johnnie is a Boy Scout
and sister Sue is "twice as cute as Shirley
Temple."
All in all the Doe family is typically
American — nice folks to know. And the
Does are typical, too, of hundreds whose
efforts combine to render the public serv-
ices offered by the Southwestern Public
Service Company.
John is a composite linesman, engineer,
electrician, trouble-shooter, executive or
lighting expert. But whatever his particular
job he has only one main purpose—that
is to give you the finest, most dependable
electrical service money can buy at the
lowest possible cost. His hours are not long,
but he is ready to serve you 24 hours a day
if necessary, so that even in emergencies
you may take for granted the miracle of
convenience that is electricity.
Southwestern
PUBLIC SERVICE
Comp any
For Homefolks Writing
To Service Men *
What to Tell Them
The Office of War Information of-
fers these pointers for homefolks
writing: to soldiers, sailors, and ma-
rines—baaed on suggestions gather-
ed in a survey among servicemen at
home and overseas, in cooperation
with the Special Service Division of
the Army Service Forces:
Tell Him:
How the family is doing everything
possible to help win the war.
How anxious the family is for the
boys to return.
How well and busy the family ia.
Give them details. ^
How the family is getting along
financially.
What’s doing in the community;
news about girls (single) he knows,
doings of friends, who’s marrying
whom, exploits of the home team and
other sport events, social doings, ef-
fects of the war on the home town.
Reminisce a little about past events
and places the boy used to visit. En-
close clippings from the home town
newspaper.
Don’t Tell Him:
Your troubles. He has troubles of
his own.
Your complaints. He can’t do any-
thing about them.
About things you are deprived of.
He can’t supply them.
Doleful predictions about the fu-
ture. He’s fighting for that future—
now.
Unnecessary details about financial
Homemaking Girls in
Second Group Meeting
Held Tuesday June 15
The homemaking girls taking sum-
mer projects held their second group
meeting of the summer Tuesday June
15 in the homemaking department.
At the morning meeting Preservation
of Foods by Dehydration was discuss-
ed and the girls dehydrated some
beans, peas, squash and greens for
the laboratory.
During the noon hour the girls en-
joyed a delicious picnic lunch of fried
chicken, fruit, and ice tea. Plans
were made for a picnic and swim
Wednesday June 23.
During the afternoon meeting the
subjects for discussion were Storing
of Foods, and Fall Gardens. The
girls labeled and stored the foods
canned last week.
At the first group meeting held
June 1, the various methods of can-
ning were studied. Beans, peas,
berries and peaches were canned at
that time. The new method of can-
ning was used—that is packing food
cold, steaming, refilling, sealing and
processing. They also make kraut
from turnips and cabbage.
Last Wednesday afternoon Mrs.
Nan J. Mangold, the Hoihe Demon-
stration Agent from Groesbeck, gave
a canning demonstration at the home
of Billie Jane Bays. The vegetables
used in the demonstration were gath
ered from Billie Jane’s Victory gar-
den, raised as her project in the
spring.
All of the projects are progressing
the situation, tell him.
string it out.
But don’t
troubles. If there are things he should j nicely. Home visits show the follow-
know about family finances, and he ing results at the end of the first two
is in a position to do something about! weeks:
Foods canned—green snap beans,
156 quarts; shelled beans, 62 quarts;
beets, 21 qaarts; potatoes, 64 quarts;
English peas and carrots, 3 quarts;
carrots, 7 pints; peaches, 4 quarts;
berries, 190 quarts; pineapple, 6
pints; jelly, 22 pints; marmalade, 33
pints; chicken, 50 quarts; pickles, 16
quarts.
Garments constructed:
Dresses, 2; blouse, 1; slip, 1.
Meals prepared, 16.
Girls taking summer projects are,
Melva, Jackie and Billie Harvey, Peg-
Freestone County
Farmers Save By
Cooperative guying
By James tl. Terrill
Sec. Freestone County A.C.A.
In an effort to meet their quota of
livestock production Freestone Coun-
ty farmers have found it necessary
to purchase feed cooperatively due
to the scarcity of feed1 and its high
price. Due to the factthat the mar-
ket has steadily declined on livestock,
feed price has continued to advance
making a very narrow margin on
their feeding operations. By order-
ing cooperatively 10 car loads of
feed wheat, these feeders have saved
approximately $400.00 per car.. In
addition feed dealers have received
12 car loads, a portion of which was
distributed to farmers direct from
the car, thus effecting a considerable
saving to their customers.
The placing of orders and secur-
ing delivery of this wheat has been
handled through the Freestone Coun-
ty A. C. A. office as an aid to in-
crease our food supply and was han-
dled entirely without cost to any pro-
ducer receiving this service.
A summary of plan sheets execut-
ed for Freestone County farms indi-
cate that they will produce 32,440
head of cattle, 131,865 hens and pul-
lets and 25,582 head of hogs during
1943. From these figures it is ap-
parent that arrangements must be
made to increase the available feed
supply as this increase tends to un-
balance the supply of feed with live-
stock to be fed. Unless this is care-
fully considered by livestock produc-
ers in the future grave danger lies
ahead.
KIRVEN NEWS
Mrs. Bessie Mayo spent the week-
end in Dallas.
Singleton Hayes spent Saturday
night in Streetman.
Jake Richardson was a Fairfield
visitor Monday morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Milligan of
Teague viaited here this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Teer and children gy Carter, Billie Jane Bays, Bobhie
of Houston spent the week-end hdfe:
Mrs. Billie Hughes of Dallas spent
the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Hughes.
Mr. and Mrs. Durwood Lynch are
entertaining a new baby girl named
Geraldine.
Edward Compton and J. S. Comp-
ton of Streetman visited their aunt,
Mrs. Rufus Hogan.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Vandeerloor and
Angeline of Corsicana were here for
the Carter funeral Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Browning Sessions of
Huntsville were here Sunday for the
funeral of Mrs. A. P. Carter.
R. A. Jones, Sr., of Corsicana and
Edwin Lewis of Streetman are guests
of Mr. and Mrs. .Hogan Tisdale.
Ruby Calame, Joe and Rufus Ho-
gan, who are employed at Crockett
spent a few days with homefolks.
Some Wortham people attended
the futfferal of Mrs. A. P. Carter Sun-
day were Mr. and Mrs. John Bounds,
Mrs. Pink Harris and Jeff Murphy.
Mrs. Ross McCowan of Teague
spent Monday night and Tuesday of
last week with Mr. and Mrs. G. F.
Barnhill. *
Some of those from Streetman at-
tending the Mrs. A. P. Carter funeral
here Sunday were Mr. and Mrs. J. H.
Kuykendall, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Haw-
thorn, Mr. and Mrs. Cap Coleman,
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Teer and Bluford
Nettle.
Spake*,* BlWe- Jean
White, Duane Tyner, Carolyn Weav-
er, Jo Anita Craig and .Jessie Lee
Magness.
Mrs. A. P. Carted Died
At Home Near Kirven
Mrs, A. P. Carter died at her
home near Kirven last Saturday and
interment was in the Woodland cem-
etery Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Car-
ter was a pioneer of Freestone Coun-
ty and lived a long and useful life.
She was 89 years old at the time of
her death. She is survived by her
husband, A. P. Carter, who has been
a prominent citizen of Freestone all
his life having been born in the
house of his present home where he
has lived his entire life. He is a for-
mer Tax Assessor of Freestone Coun-
ty. Mrs. Carter is also survived by
two sons and one daughter, Fred
Carter, Jim Gus Carter and Mrs. Cliff
Coleman, all residents of the Kirven
community.
Among the Wortham people at-
tending the funeral were Mr. and
Mrs. John Bounds, Mr. and Mrs. M.
S. Bounds, Mr. and Mrs. J.V. Bounds,
Mrs. Bettie Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Joe/
Bates, A. N. Weaver, M. C. Strange,
Ernest Strange, and Jeff Murphy.
Mr. and Mrs. Zuber
Have Home Coming
Mr. and Mrs. Zuber gave a home
coming dinner, honoring their son,
Pfc. Clifford R. Zuber of Camp At-
terberry, Indiana, who was home on
furlough, alao his wife who reside»J-in War' Bonds7 you are helping to
in Wortham waa an honoree.
Those enjoying the hospitality
were Mr. and Mrs. Fred Moore and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Harley Park
and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jene
Zubar of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Zuber and family of Kemp, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Cates and family and
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Zuber all of Houa-
ton, Mr. and Mrs. William Driver and
children of Tehuacana, Mr. and! Mra.
Henry Zuber and children, Mr. and
Mrs. Atho Zuber and baby, Miss
Olive Webb all of Wortham, Francaa
Dolores Tarry of Dallas, Mr. and
Mrs. Dee Otwell, Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Driver and son, Sneed, Gwendolyn
and Lannal Terry of Wortham.
A Friend.
Sensible Planning
For After the War
There’s a lot of talk these days
about planning for after the war.
Each farm family is making its own
plans for after the war. First on the
list that you will want for your fami-
ly after the war are health and hap-
piness. To enable you to have both
of these, you will need money to pay
for the things you’ll need after the
war. By investing as much as possi-
ble of your higher wartime incomes
finance the war and at the same time
building financial reserves for your-
self. These War Bonds will help you
replace your present farm and house-
hold equipment, which is wearing out.
Bonds will also provide reserves to
pay for the education of your chil-
dren, hospital and doctor bills, and
for old-age security. So, now is the
time for you to do your planning by
investing all you can in War Bonda
COTTON GIN CEMETERY
Annual Memorial Services will be
held at Cotton Gin Cemetery Thurs-
day June 24. All interested in same
are urged to be present. Dinner pro-
vided. — Mrs. Bob Keys, Secretary
and Treasurer.
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On The Farm Front
In Freestone County
By R. M. KNOX, County Agent.
The boll weevil is perhaps the best
known insect which the Freestone
County farmer has to combat. It
follows close on the heels of the flea
hopper and often these two insects
are found in the field together.
The cotton boll weevil spends the
winter in the woods, weed, and grass Mi*S Winifred Horn
the cotton fteW and as the L * M V 1
cotton begins to make squares the I O I e&Cll in “CW Y Ork
squares
boll weevil leaves its winter quarters
to feed on the cotton.
Like other insects, the effective
control of the boll weevil, depends
on several conditions of which the
tirfie of application of poison and the
thourghness with which it is applied
are perhaps the most important. The
following suggestions given below, a
more effective control of this insect
may be expected;
(1) Begin inspection for boll wee-
vils after the plants ar squaring free-
ly or have produced as many as three
squars at least 1-3 grown, per plant.
Weevils begin to deposit eggs in
squares which are one week old or
nearly 1-3 grown.
(2) Locate as many as five points
in different part; of each field.
Points should be located in such a
manner as to obtain a comparable
average for the,field.
(3) Use the following method for
taking boll weevil infestation counts:
(а) Pick 100 squares from consec-
utive plants at each point. Careful-
ly examine these squares for punc-
tures. ' W
(4) If as many as 10 per cent of
the squares of 10 examined are
found punctured the infestation is
sufficiently high to warrant making
the first application of calcium ar-
senate.
(б) Examinations and dust appli-
cations should be made at an inter-
val of five days using from 4 to 6
pounds of calcium arsenate until the
weevils are under control. After
the third application regular exam-
innantions should be made for punc-
tured squares, if 15 per cent are
found punctured, calcium arsenate
dust should be applied as needed.
(6) If weevils are found in inju-
rious numbers late in the season af
ter the crop is set, an application of
calcium arsenate should be made to
protect the bolls.
(7) If infestation shows that the
flea hopper and boll weevil are pres-
ent in the field in damaging numbers,
a mixture of one quart calcium ar-
senate and two parts sulphur should
be applied at the rate of 12 to 15
pounds per acre per application.
Know what you are doing before
you poison. This will save you labor
and money and give you a more ef-
fective control of the insect.
Freestone County Hens-
Have Big Job to Help
In Victory Program
1 Freestone County poultrymen are
asked by the government to produce
approximately 677,000 dozen eggs
this year, 12 per cent more than in
1942, as their share in the Food for
Victory Program, the National Poul-
try Defense Committee estimated.
This county goal which is based on
the per centage increase suggested
for Texas by the U. S. Department of
Agriculture, can be reached if ade-
quate supplies of labor and feed are
available, declared Committee Chair-
man Hobert Creighton.
“Poultry farmers are now work-
ing harder than ever in all-out war
production,” Creighton said1, “contin-
uing the fine job they did in this
county last year by producing ap-
proximately 605,000 dozen eggs to
help supply civilian, military and
lend-lease needs. Also, two develop-
ments during last year have resulted
in larger laying flocks on most farms
today:
“First, egg prices as shown by pur-
chases of one of the largest buyers
which paid $800,900 in Texas last
year for '2,522,040 dozen, were so
favorable that farmers saved an an-
nually large porportion of potential
layers. Second, conditions in 1942
were good for raising pullets, as fall
weather was generally mild and the
average hatching date was early.
“Those factors point to increased
egg production,” Creighton explain-
ed, “if an improvement can be made
in the farm skilled labor situation
and if farmers can get enough pro-
tein feeds. There are critical short-
ages of protein ingredients because
imports have been cut so drastically.
Even soybeen oil is not being pro-
cessed fast enough to meet demand.
These are major problems facing the
industry.”
Texas poultrymen, who produced
a total of 233,916,000 dozen eggs in
1942, are asked for 262,671,000
dozen this year as their share of the
national egg goal of 4,780,000,000
dozen.
Dr. and Mrs. Fred W. Horn, Miss
Frances Winifred Horn and Mrs. A.
H. Edwards were in Wortham Sun-
day visKing friends. Dr. and Mrs.
Horn and Miss Horn were six o’clock
dinner guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Strange, and Mrs. Ed-
wards visited Mrs. Ed Satterwhite.
Miss Horn is a recent graduate of
Stephens Collie, Columbia, Missou-
ri. She is a Graduate of the Worth-
am Higlh School and attended South-
ern Methodist University at Dallas.
She is visiting her parents at Grand
Prairie a few days before leaving for
New York City, where she will be
Head Assistant at the Columbia Uni-
versity Kindergarten for the summer.
Miss Horn was one of 700 graduates
of Stephens College where she receiv-
ed her Associate in Arts Degree. Dr.
and Mrs. Horn attended her gradua-
tion June 2.
Men’s Bible Class
The Men’s Bible Class will meet
Sunday after noon at 3:00 o’clock at
the Methodist Church. Rev. Robert
Hankins will be the speaker and he
is scheduled to bring an entertaining
message. All members are urged to
attend and visitors are invited.
Mrs. J. H. Steadman visited
Waco Monday.
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C. B. Dunagan who visited in Wor-
tham a few days, returned Wednes-
day to his home in Midland.
County Board Meeting
There will be a meeting of the
County Board of Education of Free-
stone County at the Courthouse
Tuesday morning June 22 at 10:00
o’clock. Everyone having business
with this board are invited to be pres-
ent at this time.
SHELMA CARLILE,
County Superintendent
Freestone County.
Ration Reminder
Sugar—Stamp No. 13 good for 6
pounds through August 15. Coupons
No. 15 and 16 are good for 5 pounds
each for home hoiqe canning purpose.
Housewives may apply to their local
boards for additional rations if ne-
cessary.
Coffee—Stamp No. 24 is good' for
one pound through June 80.
Red Stamps—J K L good through
June 30.
Blue Stamp—K L M continues to
be good through July 7.
Gasoline—“A” book coupons No. 6
good for 4 gallons each.
Shoes—No 17 stamp in ration book
one good for one pair through June
16. Stamp No. 18 good for one pair
bsoomss valad June 10.
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Satterwhite, Ed. The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1943, newspaper, June 18, 1943; Wortham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1111597/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.