The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1949 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 61
WORTHAM, FREESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1949
NUMBER ft
FARM TRIP SCHEDULED FOR JUNE 7th
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Farmers to Exhibit Their]
Conservation Practices
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International Late Commission Meets at U.N.
L. B. T. SIKES APPOINTED CHAIRMAN
OF WORTHAM GROUP FOR TOURS
Pecan Trees Should
Be Sprayed Now For
I Nut Casebearer
District Supervisors of the Navarro-Hill Soil Conserva- H’s not too late to save
.. „ . , next fall’s pecan crop if you
t:cn Seivico have appointed committees in the different ^ *0 riKht away That
Work Units to sponsor a tour in their areas. Mr. L. B. T. means sprying the trees for
Sikes was appointed Chairman of the Wortham group and 1 *lc‘ I’ccan nut casebearer. He
, ... . • ,, , , , , .s a small gray worm also
to servo with him are Mac Strange, Bill Eckhardt, Logan j.;n,,wn as t|u, pecan worm or
pecan borer worm. And
wherever pecans grow, you
¥
Crews and John Richardson.
The committee ny^t la t
Thursday and set June 7th as
the day for Wortham’s tour
The time will ho 2:00 P. M
gathering place at the school
Tiouse. The tour will last a-
l*out 2 hours. Thi. tour will
go from farm to farm ex-
plaining the conservation
practices done on each farm
end showing how the farm
cr has benefited by putting
these practices into opera-
tion. There will be terraces,
ten ace outlets, waterways,
: nd pasture improvements
’ metiers shown. You can sec
Iirst haftd what can be acc-
; mplished by following soil
conservation practices.
Stops will be made at sev-
eral different farms includ-
ing Ebb Bobnds, H. C. Boya,
W. A. Collier. Ruth Holton.
Wade Odom, Dewey Willard
(joint project) G. L. Luca?,
Preston Frost, Frank Bounds
Bill Eckhardt, J. G. Long-
botham, Gussie Weaver, E.A.
Strange and J. T. Bounds.
The Coca Cola sound truck
will furnish a loud speaker
for the tour so every one will
he able to hear each project
explained and the truck will
also sell ice cold Coca Co’.a
to those who get thirsty.
Everyone is invited to join
this tour and if you don’t
have a car for this trip see
Mr. Sikes or Crews; plentv
of transportation will be a-
vailahle.
Trng. Union Revival
Being Held At First
Baptist Church
There is a Training Union
Revival being held at the
First Baptist Church this
week. The teachers are Miss
Hariet hi Gatlin and Miss
Thurma Dean Miiler of Dal
las and Bro. Tommy Madden
of Mexia. Miss Miller is teach
ing a rhythm band for those
under the junior age and Mrs
M. L. Richards is teaching
the Junior Book.
W. F. Eckhardt Forms
Seed Cleaning Co. In
Wortham
W. F. Eckhardt has form
td a seed cleaning company
for the convenience of the
farmers in this locality in se-
peratlng and cleaning all
types of seed. Orders have
been placed for the equip-
ment and should be installed
in ample time for all of the
vet$Tb seed growers to have
their vetch and small grain
seperated and cleaned in
plenty of time for.the fall
seeding. They will also be
equipped to handle cleaning
of most any type of seed. A
limited amount of storage
space is available forstorage
of seed. This company will
also help customers prepare
samplta to be sent in for seed
analysis to comply with the
PMA requirements.
Mrs. W. W. LaRue of Sin-
ton returned to her home this
week after a visit with her
sister, Mr. and Mrs. W. T.
Meador.
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I will find him.
Alter *h»:.v hatch out, these
little worms move down the
| twig to the nut cluster and
I begin feeding on the second
; third bud below the nuts.
A11 r a four or five day meal
g the buds, the casebearer
I ics a hole in the pecan
and goes inside to destroy
the kernel.
Allen ('. Gunter, associate
< xtension entomologist of
Texas A & M College, says
| the only time to spray the
trees effectively is the TO or
Charged with the fundamental job of developing and codifying the
international law which is to govern the conduct of nations, the
International Law Commission of the United Nations is now holding
its first session at Lake Success, N. Y. Members of the Commission
shown here at U.N. Headquarters are: Left to right, Dr. Vladimir
Koretsky, of the USSR; Chairman Judge Manley Hudson of the
United States, Sir Bengal Rau, of India; and Dr. A. Amado of Brazil.
Tehuacana HD Club
Meet In Home of
Mrs. J. L. Livingston
Mrs. .). L. Livingston was
hostess to the Tehuacana
'■"alley Homo Demonctration
Club on May 27. The presi-
Crop Dusting a Must
For Cotton Farmer
Wendell Collier To
Enter U. of Houston
This Fall
Wendell Collier left for
Houston Saturday where he
has accepted a position with
a sporting goods store. He
will work there during the
summer months and enroll
in the University of Houston
this fall.
Collier graduated this year
from WHS with high scholas-
tic honors. He has lettered
every year in football and
other athletic events. He will
long he remembered as the
sparkplug for the second
place Bulldog winners this
year. He plans to play foot-
ball for the University there.
Wendell was accompanied
to Houston byhis parents Mr.
and Mrs. W. A. Collier.
Miss Virginia Tucker
Honoree At Dinner In
V. H. Stubbs Home
Mis. Karl Kumke and Mrs
W. I1’. Dodge were hostesses I ,
: < a dinner Friday evening! Jester Will Call For
< r : ing Miss V lrgmia Tuck-1 ,
< r. whose marriage to John Special Session On
Seymour Billings of St. Louis, cr.
■Mo. will take place at thei Mate Buildings
home of Miss Tucker’s sister, If The present session
12 day period from the time!'*: nl, Mrs. L. A. Strunk,
the eggs are laid until the: called the meeting to order,
worms enter the pecans. But Then the ‘ ( lub Prayer was
once they have gone inside .repeated by the members.
the nuts, spraying is useless. Mrs. A. M. Henderson had Mrs. Van Hook Stubbs, Sat- the Legislature fails to pro
So you’ve got to catch chrge of the opening exercise urday afternoon. \ ide needed buildings for the
of
„ ... _ .. . them at the right time, and During the business session
Paul V. Puerifoy, above, i vou’ve t0 j,, a thorough it was voted to pay the Co.
who graduated as valedictor- j(>|) 0f wetting each limb! Council $2 and also to send
lan of his class at Mainland. ,.om , t() bott(,,n with the j $2.50 to the Fort
Florida in 1945. is keeping | A power spray that j Flood Relief,
up his record as an b<>no- j puts out 20 to 35 gallons peri The ('lub collected mag?
iX*U», nt a ^0U.iTn I minute at a'pressure of 200 zines and sent about 125 to crystal
College where he was in th<}|.| prnm,js js lecommend- the State Hospital at Mexia.
first row of honor students () for tho job snvs Gvmter. 1 We wish to thank Mrs. Wai-
tor the colleges scholarship AnH ,b(i snrnv ii; thrpp !t),. u,r Moore for being so kind
Arrangements of gladiolius -slate mental hospitals and
and other spring flowers eleemosynary institu-
formed the decoration for t!ons. Governor Jester said
Worth the affair, while the individ- last week that he will call a
uai tables were laid with ma- special session for that pur-
deria and centered with tinv Pf>se. He placed he need for
holders containing expanded buildings at state
miniature flower arrange-1 institutions high among the
recognition program. He lack
And the spray is three lb’
of 50'-' wettable DDT pow-: a.-
term. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. P. 1,. Puerifoy of
Daytona Beach. Florida.
Farmers Cooperating
-ully W:th AAA To |
Conserve Soil
ments.
At the close of dinner
many lovely gifts were pre-
sented to the honoree.
Mrs. W. F. Styles of Tea
, , , , . ,,, ■ ncunwi,: wl ...... ,to take them.
ed but two points of making (U>r and six t() ejRht lbs of j Mir.. J. C. LeFevre had
a straight A average for the wcUab|e su]phur for everylchargeoftheprogram,“Ar-
i 00 gallons of wj-tor. ranging sewing equipment guc was an out-of-town guest
Pecan orchards with DDT tor convenience”. First she f,.,r the occasion.
will be safer for livestock told of the care of the sewing---
grazing purposes than one machine, then to have a box
treated with lead arsenate,; for patterns and how to ar-
Guntcr said. range them, then to have e
Pecan trees sprayed later place for scissors, needles,
than the next few days will pins and thread, also tape
hvc an ineffective control of measure and rule
NORMAN H. LAMBERT
Secy, Freestone County ACA
I
More than 800 farmers of
’roestone County partiepat-
d in the 1918 Agricultural
'observation Program by
omplcteing si.il and water
observation and improve-]
nent practices on their farm.
the pecan nut casebearer.
Circle No. 1, WSCS
Meets In Home Of
Mrs. T. A. Bounds.
Circle No. 1 of the WSCS
met Monday night in the
how to get a coat or skirt
length level with skirt mark-
er or yard stick
Montgomery Attends
NTSC Regents Meet
Bob Montgomery, Worth-
She told am, owner of the Piggly Wig-
gly Store in Mexia. will at-
tend a meeting of the North
Texs State College board of
The next meeting will he. regents. June 4, at Denton.
June 10 at ;’> p. m. * , This is the first meeting of
—---- jthe newly appointed board
of regents, of which he is a
These cooperating farmers ] home of Mrs. T. A. Bounds.
constructed 162,650 linear ft.
of standard terraces and
built 16.211 cubic yards of
'aversion terraces, which will
rive protection to approxi-
nately 820 acres of good pas-
ure and crop land. Some 67,
)29 cubic yards of dirt was
neved in the construction of
<0 tanks for better distribu
ion of livestock water.
Adapted pasture legumes
were seeded on 3,729 acres,
pen manure cover crops
verc grown on .4.851 acres
uid 2,920,300 pounds of su-
perphosphate was used to
iromote more vigorous grow-
th of legumes and grasses.
These Freestone farmers
can look back and be proud
of a good job of soil and wa-
ter conservation work that
vVas accomplished through
their cooperation with the
AAA program last year. The
AAA is offering assistance
to help farmers increase the
yield in their farms. Why
don’t you join the 800 proud
farmers and lok back,in 1950
and be proud of what you
accomplished in 1949?
Dr. W. R. Sneed left last
Thursday for Atlantic City,
N. J. to attend the American
Medical Association Annual
Meeting. He was accompan-
ied by Mrs. Sneed and their
daughter, Ann. Enroute back
home they will viBit in Phila-
delphia, New York, Wash-
ingtea and Wait Virgin!*. t
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An interesting program on
Spiritual Life was presented
by Mrs. Gid J. Bryan.
Mrs. W. F. Eckhardt, co-
chairman, presided over the
business meeting.
Delicious refreshments were
served to 8 members and or.e
visitor. The next meeting will
be held June 6 in the home of
Mrs. W. F. Eckhardt with
Mrs. L. J. Courtney as leader.
Circle No. 2, WSCS
To Meet Monday
Circle No. 2 of the WSCS,
will meet in the home of Mrs
Raymond Wilson on Monday
June 6th.
Members are urged to att-
end. The time of meeting is
3:30.
Wortham Local News
Mrs. George Bridges visit-
ed in Corsicana Tuesday at
the I’ & S Hospital where her
brother, Allen Sterling, un-
derwent ail operation lately.
Dr. Joe B. Williams was by
tin- Journal office Wednes-
day. He has been ill for the
past few days. He is feeling
better now.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Reed
of Fairfield were visitors in
the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Luther Reed last Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Shelton
and daughters of Port Arthur
and Mrs. Claude Baker from
Tyler visited Mr. and Mrs.
Bily lButler and Mr. and Mrs
Roy Butler.
member.
Wortham Local News
Mr. Donnie Mackey of
Stephenville visited Mr. and
Mrs. ,J. R. Mackey this last
weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Hamil-
ton were visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. Eugene Richardson last
Sunday. Emma Grace Rich-
ardson returned home with
them for a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Pueri-
and Jamesson, of A &M, Mr.
and Mrs. Grady Puerifoy of
Longview and Dany of State
Univ spent the weekend with
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Puerifoy.
Crop dusting is a must for
farmers this year, with the
greatest infestation of grass-
hoppers and other insects
coming on ever forecast be-
fore. Farmers are now able
to see this forecast coming
true. Millions of grasshop-
pers can be found on every
turning.
With the machine age al-
so came new improvements
in dusting equipment and a
farmer can now dust his
crop himself or have it done
economically.
Most farmers believe air-
plane dusting too expensive
but figureing the time saved
and other factors it is very
reasonable. Some believe too
much poison drifts away, but
technicians say this drifting
dust is not the poisop, but
a finer powder that is used
for a base in poison.
“Too late with too little”
has been the experience of
some farmers dusting. Ento-
mologists did advise that you
should wait until you have a
good crop of bugs before
dusting. They have found
this a bad practice and How
advise to start early and hit
hard.
Poison sells for around
$15.50 per hundred, ami a-
bout 8 pounds per acre for
first application is advisable.
This would cost you $124 per
100 acres of cotton. Three
applications would run $372
for the 100 acres of cotton.
The farmer increases hiB
yield say 5-10-15 or 20 dollar
per acre; figure it out for
yourself whether dusting is
profitable!
LIONS SPEAKER
essential needs of the state.
Tho Governor went on t(>i
outline his ideas about a plan
for other state buildings to
house state departments. He
would like to have the stall
buy a strip of land two blocks
wide, extending north from
the capitol building a distan-
ce of six blocks.
The cost of starting the es-
sential eleemosynary and
office building program Gov.
Jester estimated would cost
about $33 million in the be-
ginning, but will eventually
call foran expenditure of $70
million.
Asked how he thought the
Legislature should provide
money to pay for these im-
piovements, in the face of a
decline in present state rev-
enues, the Governor said he
was not “wedded to any one
plan”. He mentioned two tax
plans he considered. These
included either an increase
in tho present omnibus tax
rates or a request to the voter John Ben Shepperd, Gladc-
that they reinstate a limited water attorney and former
building purposes only. To president of the United Sta-
state ad valorem tax for tes Junior Chamber of Corn-
help pay for proposed state merce, will be the principal
office buildings, he also pro- speaker at the District 2-X
posed that the state sell some Lions Convention in Sherman
of its unused property in Aus- on June 6, it was announced
tin and that present rents be- by W. E. Cox, program chair-
ing paid for privately owned man. Shepperd has just re-
property be allocated to re- turned from a trip to Europe
tire the cost of the new build and will report on conditions
ings. as he saw them.
Wortham Local New*
Mr. and Mrs. George Lu-
cas have .as guests in their
home Mrs. Lucas’ brother of
Pampa and sister, Mrs. G. V.
Sexton from Birmingham.
George Lucas Jr. left Wed.
for Baylor for summer school
Mr. Nelson Calame and
Mrs. Jimmy McChard and
son, Dwight and Mrs. Char-
les McLeod are visiting in
Chicago and other cities in
Illinois.
Mr. Edward Magouirk of
Dallas visited Mr. and Mrs.
#• K. last w««k»di
Borden Will Buy Milk In
Fall Bi-Stone Dairys Told
Borden and Company’!
Houston dairy market will bo
open to “alert people” this
fall—meaning dairymen of
the Bi-Stone area—John W.
Lucker, Borden’s Houston
manager announced in Mex-
ia Monday night.
Lucker spoke at a gather-
ing of 50 interested business
men, farmers, and dairymen
at the Mexia Chamber of
We have all the milk we $6.80 a hundred pounds to These two areas, he said.
Gsmmaris sfflssa,
I
can use at present,’’ Lucker
said, but added that between
Sept. 1 and Nov. 1 dairymen
of this area can expect to sell
in the Houston market.
Monday night’s discussion
is another step over various
hurdles in the path of Bi-
Stone people who seek to de-
velope the dairy industry in
this region.
Lucker warned dairymen
hereabouts not to expect the
fiivnvii pfiic fi
’ a
hold up. This is one of the soon will be supplying most
highest prices in the nation,; of the milk for the Texas
he said and will soon drop. i Gulf Coast. Milk production--
Powqr of the American in the coastal area haa not
housewife to control milk kept up with growth in popil*
prices was explained by lation, he reported. m
Lucker in this connection.; Borden’s is the company jj
Current economic trends] with which dairymen
would indicate a drop in the j businessmen of And*
price paid in Houston he said County have worked i
A ______I _ r_________- -___a a__-
A word of encouragement
to dairymen of Central and
East Texas was dropped by
fatltlMfc
■n:
\
fully in the past two
to dcvelope a
dairying ig^ustpn
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Richardson, John. The Wortham Journal (Wortham, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 1949, newspaper, June 3, 1949; Wortham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1112049/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fairfield Library.