The Texas Mohair Weekly (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1943 Page: 4 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 21 x 16 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
PAGE FOUR
71m Texas Mohair Weakly and The Rockaprinca Record
FRIDAY DECEMBER 10th, 1943
THE TEXAS MOHAIR WEEKLY
AND THE ROCKSPRINGS RECORD
THRONEBERRY TO FIGHT
REMOVAL
MR. MILLER THANKS CITIZENS
AND CO-WORKERS
INDORSED BY—American Angora Goat Breeders' Association and Texaa
Angora Goat Raisers’ Association
Entered as second class matter November 18, 1927, at the post office at
Rocksprings, Texas, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879.
Subscription Price—In Advance, per year______$1-50
Published every Friday at Rocksprings, Texas
HUTT & SON__________Owners and Publishers
WARREN HUTT_________MANAGER
J. W. HUTT_____________EDITOR
Display Advertising Rates___________30c per col. inch
Reader Advertisement, including Legal Notices, 2 cents per word, first inter-
tion and 1 cent a word for each subsequent insertion. Cash must accompany
order and all reader advertisements, or they will not be published.
Agency Commission 15 and 2 per cent
MORE HOPE FOR FEED
While there still isn’t *any promise
whatever that there will be enough
protein feed for livestock, dairy, and
poultry needs during the coming win-
ter months, it does seem probable
that better distribution will be forth-
coming on the fee dthat is available.
Six great new airdromes for the
United States Air Force were dedicat-
ed Tuesday in England by Lt. Gen.
Jacob L. Devers, who declared “Ger-
many must surrender unconditionally
or be annihilated.”
Last week-end I attended a War
Food Administration hearing at which
the shape of things to come seemed
fairly clear. At the end of the session
these developments were indicated:
1. Everyone, including processers
and mixed feed operators through
whose hands the cottonseed and soy-
beans have been moving, agreed that
distribution of protein feeds has been
faulty.
2. J. B. Hutson, president of the
Commodity Credit Corporation and
high in other food production circles,
announced an-order to all protein feed
processors setting aside 20 per cent
of their January production for distri-
bution under government direction.
3. While no such set-aside order ap-
plies to December production, volun-
tary special distribution of protein
feeds to areas of greatest need was
suggested of the processors, and—so
I was told today—some of the con-
centrates which had been held back al-
ready are moving out.
4. Walter C. Berger of Iowa was
designated by Mr. Hutson to take
charge of the entire program as head
of the Feed and Livestock Branch of
the Food Production Administration.
5. Local Agricultural Conservation
Administration committees are to have
some of the responsibility f,or determ-
ing need for feed and for its equitable
distribution.
6. Ftfed mixers are to be limited to
110 per cent of the protein feed con-
centrates they used last year—from
what some of them said at the hear-
ing, they had been ‘going all-out for
mixed feeds even though many farmers
prefer to mix their own, and only a
protein concentrate is needed on the
well-stocked range.
Last winter, the CCC set aside only
three per cent of the oilseed feeds
for allocation to drouth and urgent
need areas, but considerable good was
done. Still, even if 20 per cent is set
aside this winter, the shortage still
may be severe.
AHEAD WITH PEANUTS
Soma sections of West Texas have
had excellent success with peanuts as
a war crop.
The CCC is buying the entire 1943
United States crop. W. T. Parker,
chief of the Peanut Section of CCC,
informs me that the CCC to date has
allocated 617,400 tons to shellers and
270,700 tons to crushers. He expects
340,000 tons to be crushed, from
which would be derived 153,000 tons
of rotein feeds.
That 40,000 to 50,000 train carloads
of protein feed is no small contribu-
tion at a time when protein feed is so
short.
SYNTHETICS ON THE MARCH
We’ve been hearing about rayon,
nylon and other synthetic fibres for
many years, but few of us realize how
big the synthetics industry is today.
The other day I obtained some strik-
ing figures:
In 1920, only 8,700,000 pounds of ra-
yon were consumed in the United
States. In 1942, this country consum-
ed 620,600,000 pounds of rayon—as
against 610,000,000 pounds of wool.
Cotton still was the main fibre, 82
per cent of the grand total. But in
1920, cotton was 88.9 per cent of the
total.
NO DYE NEEDED
In Russia, farmers co-operating in
scientific demonstrations today are
picking colored cotton. The cotton in
the bolls is auburn, dark brown, blue,
dark green, emerald or khaki-colored.
Some already processed reportedly
holds its color better than that artifi-
cially dyed.
--—o-o-
—We have a new line of ladies and
children’s underwear.—Divide Grocery.
Brunettes are popular nowadays,
and redheads are the great vogue in
Hollywood, but no matter which a
man may marry, a blonde will always
be a banana peel on his path.
—Clothes for the entire family at Di-
vide Grocery.
WACO.—“I’ll lie down and die be-
fore I’ll go back to Colorado,’ ’O. B.
Throneberry Texas desperado, said
Saturday after Assistant United States
Attorney Gilbert Shar announced the
criminal would be released to Colo-
rado for prosecution on a murder
charge.
Announcing he would fight extradi-
tion on the complaint which names
him and his brother Randell for the
murder of a sheepherder at Hayden,
Colo., Thronberry said the murder
charge was unjustified and that feeling
was so high in Colorado he couldn’t
get a fair trial.
He admitted he and his brother
Randell, still at large, robbed the
sheepherder of $56 and tied his hands
and feet, but contended he didn’t see
how the vetim strangled to death.
P. T. A. MEETING
The Rocksprings Parent Teacher
Association meets the first Wednes-
day of each month at 3:15 p. m. in the
school auditorium. Every school pat-
ron is urged to attend. Its success
depends upon each of you. Those not
patrons of our school are cordially in-
vited.
--o-o-
The only way that our government
has to keep prices from advancing
an unheard-of degree is by the route
of providing a subsidy, so that the
man making only a small salary, the
woman working for nearly . nothing
and the boy not accepted by the draft
board might secure enough necessary
food to keep body and soul together.
The widow with a few small children
will suffer most by turning the matter
over to the pork-barrel politicians and
the many avenues of graft that will
open throughout the nation to inflate
these necessary articles by reason of
their hoggish greed for additional
wealth. Congressmen should have
brains enough to see just where this
will lead the common people of America
It will lead them to absolute poverty
and dispair.
—RADIO repairing, all work guar-
anteed, Warren Hutt.
Sheriff R. R. Corder filled his
“county boarding house”, (jail) full of
Mexicans Saturday night, making a
raid on the booze joints in the Mexi-
can part of town, where they were
“whooping ’em up” to their sorrow.
More of this will in all probability
stop some of the weekly goin’ on in
little Mexico, and Mr. Corder is keep-
ing a sharp look-out in that section of
town.
—Both rationed and unrationed shoes
in all sizes for ladies and children at
B. & M. Store-
Ranchmen living in some bitter-
weed infested sections were complain-
ing Saturday on receiving the heavy
rainfall at this time of year, when they
expected stock to keep in good con-
dition on matured grass over the
range. They fear that the weed will
now be rather attractive to sheep in
many sections.
—All sizes of UNRATIONED shoes
now on display and for sale at the B.
& M. Store.
I would like to take this opporuni-
ty to express my thanks and appre-
ciation to the citizens, the office
clerks, and members of the Tire and
Gas Boards for their loyal support in
helping to carry out the Rationing
Program.
There were time that we could not
meet the demands for tires, but with
your unselfish, splendid cooperation
we have been able to keep the most
essential vehicles rolling.
Since so much of my time is taken
with other Government Agencies, and
my own work, it becomes necessary
that I be relieved of some of my re-
sponsibilities.
It has been a pleasure and a privi-
lege to serve each loyal and patriotic
citizens, and I appreciate your sup-
port and kindly consideration in every
instance. Instead - of taking a critical
attitude, you have been generous and
considerate. I appreciate this and
thank you sincerely.
With my very best wishes to you
and with kindest personal regards, I
am,
Sincerely,
J. A. MILLER.
-o-o-----------------
—FRANCIS PHARMACY — Pres-
cription Druggists, Day-Night Service.
Mrs. Crawford Mitchell of Fort Bliss
who has been here for a few days
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. W.
Snearly and her husband's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Loyd Mitchell, has re-
turned to Ft. Bliss. Her husband, Pvt.
Mitchell will be home on a furlough
soon, and Mrs. Mitchell will return
with him.
—PERMANENT WAVE, 59c! Do
your own Permanent with Charm-
Kurl Kit. Complete equipment, delud-
ing 40 curlers and shampoo. Easy to
do, absolutely harmless. Praised by
thousands including Fay McKenzie,
glamorous movie star. Money refund-
ed is qot satisfied.—HOUGH DRUG
STORE. 1-21-4
A total of .59 of an inch precipta-
tion was recorded by the government
gauge here last Saturday and Sun-
day, and from accounts reaching us ov-
er the county the rainfall was general
throughout the stockraising sections of
this and adjoining couftties. The rain-
fal was much heavier in the extreme
northwestern* part of the county late
Saturday afternoon, where it was held
that upwards of one inch of rain fell.
r—The Man’s Shop has full line of
Shoes for both men and boys.
Fish & Ricks have opened the Chev-
rolet Filling Station in the Western
part of the city, and tell us that they
expect to have a mechanic in the gar-
age section before many days have
past.
____ \
—FRANCIS PHARMACY — Pres-
cription Druggists, Day-Night Service.
Long admired by the American pub-
lic for her high ideals and fighting
spirit, Madame Chiang-Kai-Shek, the
first lady of China, was ranked highest
by stundents of North Texas State
Teachers College in a recent poll to
select the woman of the year.
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Hutt, J. W. The Texas Mohair Weekly (Rocksprings, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, December 10, 1943, newspaper, December 10, 1943; Rocksprings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1129516/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .