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VOLUME 55
NUMBER 27
CELESTE, HUNT COUNTY, TEXAS, Friday, March 27, 1953.
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COTTON QUIZ
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Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that
this people may know that Tnou
art the Lord God, and that Thou
has turned their heart back again.
—(I. Kings XX, 37.)
All over our land today there are
voices being raised both in injunc-
tion and prayer, to bring to all of
us an awareness of God as our only
hope of salvation as individuals
and as a nation. Those voices must
not be stilled by indifference; we
must all hear them, and take part
in making them heard, for of what
shield to save us will be our mate-
rial strength if we refuse to go
“Back To God” T
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Mr
Mrs. E. E. Sumrow daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Doad Davis is
a patient in Baylor Hospital at
Dallas.
Tune Ini Mon. thru Fri., WBAP
570 on your dial, I2:I5tI2:30 for
Ted Gouldy's market news, real
sales, real names, prices.
Castor Bean
Planting In
Hunt County
Hunt County again has been
selected as one of the eighteen
Texas Counties in which the Cas-
tor Bean program will be con-
ducted during 1953.
I Nearly 700 acres of Castor
Beans were planted in the
County last lear, according to
O. B. Marshall, Secretary of the
Hunt County PMA. The drought
greatly cut the production, but
many farmers were well pleas- '
ed with the results, both in the
price they received and the
number of pounds harvested.
The Commodity Credit Corpo-
ration is again guaranteeing a
support price of not less than
nine cents per pound. Around
7,000 pounds of beans have been
alloted to Hunt County and the
local PMA Office will issue seed
to old growers March 30th and
31st which will give them two
days preference. Beginning
April 1st new growers may se-
cure seed as long as the supply
lasts.
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Sign of the Times
We notice Herman Compton
driving a new Ford. Of course,
these merchants never make
any money.
Mrs. Roscoe Connatser and'
Jolene and Dudley Patterson of
Dallas visited relatives here
Saturday.
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STURPY COTTON THREAP
V4OL.PS THE HORS&-HIO&
COYER. ON BASEBALLS.
lev. Gilbert To
Preach Here
Sunday
Brother E. E. Gilbert of Ca-
yuga, Texas, will preach at the
Celeste Baptist Church at both
services Sunday.
Everyone has a cordial invi-
tation to attend and hear Rev.
Gilbert.
Buller Subsidy
From an editorial in a recent
issue of The Paris (Texas) News
■ , Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Benson has said he would, as
• prvoided by law, continue sup-
port price of butter at 90 per
t cent of parity. It is understood
; that he does that while he and
the butter producers are study-
ing ways to reduce production
without injuring or destroying
some butter makers.
The butter people will not
want to admit, but they would
have priced themselves out of
business, except for the support
of the government which is buy-
ing their product. The govern-
ment is buying about a million
pounds a day, because the price
is so high consumers will not
buy it. Near a hundred mill-
ion pounds is in government
storage. Most of it will be a
total loss unless it is given away.
And the production is running
above that of last year.
Because of support prices the
butter makers made no reduc-
tion in the volume of produc-
tion. Why should they? If con-
sumers did not buy, the govern-
ment would. They were offer-
ed the support, with no limita-
tion on production, and they ac-
cepted it. They can not be
fairly criticised for doing that.
But they can be criticised foj?
not realizing that the demand
for butter was lessening because
of the high price and the com-
petition of oleomargarine. In
the face of that they made no
attempt to make the change in
their business that would have
allowed them to produce at less
cost, or to use their milk for
other purposes than butter mak-
ing.
Unless the butter makers re-
duce t he volume of their pro-
duct and relieve the govern-
ment of buying it, the support
should be withdrawn, for the
,tax payers should not be re-
quired to buy butter that they
do not get in order to maintain
an industry that is unwilling to
do something to help itself.
Midway H-D Club
The Midway Home Demon-
stration Club met Wednesday af-
ternoon for a called meeting in
the home of Mrs. George Me- ■
Gee.
The opening songs, “Smiles”
and “Let Us Have Your Friend-
ship” were sung by the group.
The group then repeated the
Lords’ Prayer.
Mrs. Glenn Compton gave a
demonstration on Interfacing
and tailored buttonholes. She
stated that interfacing used in
collars and dress fronts give
them the crispness to help keep
their shape.
Mrs. George McGee gave some
point on working over hats. She
STATE FAIR SPONSORING
JOHN W. CARPENTER
ESSAY CONTEST
The State Fair of Texas is
■sponsoring the John W. Carpen-
,ter Essay Contest this year. The
contest is open to 4-H club boys
■and F. F. A. boys of Texas. An
■award of $100.00 will be made
to the 4-H or F. F. A. boy writ-
ing the best essay letter on the
subject, “Why I Like to Live on
the Farm or Ranch.” All let-
ters or essays are to be sent to
iMr. Aston, Chairman Youth Ac-
tivities Committee, State Fair
of Texas, Dallas 10, Texas.
Submitted by the Hunt County
Chapter, American Red Crossf
Life seemed barely worth liv-
ing to the blind wife of a Flori-
da inductee when the Ameri-
can Red Cross came to her res-
cue. Entirely dependent up-
on her husband since she had
lost her sight three years ear-
lier, without relatives, and fear-
ful that someone might steal her
few possessions, the despondent
wife was unable to care for her-
self.
The door was bolted when the
Red Cross chapters Home Ser-
vice worker called at the re-
quest of a Red Cross field di-
rector to whom the serviceman
had appealed for help at his
base. Afraid to leave the house,
the blind woman also was afraid
match and therefore
cook her meals,
had augmented her
supply of food and
paid her rent.
Red Cross action came fast.
To meet immediate needs a sup-
ply of canned food was provid-
ed, .since that did not require
cooking. Later^ arrangements
were made through the Light-
house for the Blind for church
and Elks Auxiliary members to
bring hot meals into her home
several times a week.
Meanwhile, the serviceman
applied for a dependency dis-
charge that was granted after a
Red Cross report on home con-
ditions had been supplied.
In another example of Red
Cross assistance, the Akron
(Ohio) chapter spent more than
a year ferreting out evidence of
a Spanish--American War vete-
ran’s 1920 marriage, to enable
his widow to qualify for a pen-
sion. The couple had moved
several times, and the aging wo-
man had fogotten so many de-
tails of her married life that it
took many months of effort to
collect the necessary evidence
to establish her right to a pen-
sion and a $732 check for back
payments from the date of her
husband’s death.
These are but two of hundreds
of thousands of instances in
which Red Cross chapters and
national Field staff helped make
life easier for servicemen, vet-
erans and members of their fam-
ilies last year.
Included were such services
as consultation on, and assist-
ance with, family problems; ver-
ification of the need for dis-
charges which are granted sole-
ly by military authorities; finan-
cial assistance and assistance in
filing claims for governmental
benefits.
Here are some important
changes afecting-4-H and F. F.
A. exhibitors at the State Fair
of Texas:
The dates for Junior Steer and
Commercial Steer Show and the
•Junior Sheep show at the State
Fair are October 19 through 24.
Each exhibitor will be permit-
ted to enter only one steer in
the Junior Steer Show; each
•exhibitor will be permitted to
enter only one steer in the Jn-
ior Commercial Show,
minimum weight of steers will
be eight hundred pounds,
an exhibitor enters a steer in
the Junior Commercial Show,
he will not be permitted to en-
ter a steer in the Junior Steer
Show. 1
Each exhibitor will be permit-
ted to enter only two lambs in
the Junior Sheep Show. The
group of fifteen lamb classes
are being omitted.
Exhibitors in the Junior Mar-
ket Turkey Show will be per-
mitted to enter only three
Young Toms and thirty-six
hens.
The Junior Market
Show will remain the same
in 1952.
City Election
Tues., Apr. 71h
The Mayor and City Council |*^
of Celeste have announced the
election for city officials on
Tuesday, April 7. Two council-
men, mayor and the City Sec-
retary are to be elected.
The ballot will list the follow-
ing candidates for
fices:
For Mayor—Bob
Haskell Biggs.
For Councilmen
—Leon Cardwell, Grafton Barn-
-ett, Ed Morton, Jack Bolton and
J. W. Godman.
For City Secretary—Mrs.
W. McMichael.
All citizens are urged to exer-
cise their American and Demo-
cratic privilege by going to the
polls on that date.
Rigsby Rites
Held Monday
Funeral services were conduct-
ed at 2 o’clock Monday after-
noon for Mrs. Ruth Grisham
Rigsby, 54, who passed away at
a Bonham hospital Saturday
March 21. Rites were held at
the Hickory Creek Baptist
Church with D. Eugene Moore,
pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Commerce officiat-
ing. Interment was made in
the Mount Carmel Cemetery.
Nephews served as pallbearers.
Mrs. Rigsby was born August
6, 1899 at Hickory Creek, the
daughter of Richard R. Grish-
am of Mississippi and Phoebe
Welch Grisham of Tennessee.
Survivors include her hus-
band, Prentice Rigsby mother,
Mrs. R. R. Grisham; two daugh-
ters, Mrs. Evelyn McDonald and
Mrs. Tom Mackey; four sisters,
Mrs. O. S. Nelson, Mrs. Clay
Pack, Mrs. Aron White and Mrs.
Max Cobb and four brothers,
Abb Gisham, Marvin Grisham,
Ray Grisham and Ted Grisham.
College Station.—That many
farmers could profitably take
another look at their hybrid
seed corn buying habits, is the
opinion of Lee C. Coffey, asso-
ciate agronomist for the Texas
Agriculture Extension Service.
He says the demand for the
“large flat” kernel of hybrid
seed corn could and probably
jvill result in a shortage of this
type of seed for late planters.
He points out that research and
field planting trials show no spe-
cial advantage for these seed
over the other shapes and sizes
of quality planting seed. In fact,
he says, that under equal condi-
tions, the plants, stands and the
yield and quality of hybrid corn
produced from large round or
medium sized flat or round seed
is just as good as from the large
flat panting seed. And he adds,
the larger seed cost more money.
The lower cost results from a
simple fact. There are just more
Of the smaller seed in a bushel
of seed corn and will thus plant
more row of corn. A bushel of
uniformly graded medium flat
grain Texas hybrid seed corn
will average planting about 40
per cent more land than will a
bushel of large flat grains.
Changing from one size and
shape of seed to another does
bring on a problem, points out
Coffey. A different planter plate
must be used to get the desired
stand.
Farmers who plant large or
medium hybrid corn seed
whetnbr round or flat—may find
it necessary to order plates to
fit the size and shape of the
TEXAS CORN ACREAGE
IS SLIGHTLY LESS
Washington. — The Agricul-
ture Department has reported
as of March 19, Texas farm
plantings indicate a total
2,102,000 acres of corn will
planted to corn this year. Tex-
as farmers planted 2,232,000
acres of corn last year.
The indicated Texas planting
was reported in the Agriculture
Department estimates for major
1953 crops. The department
said the indicated corn planting
nationally is 81,764,000 acres,
lion bushels
A possible national wheat
crop of 921 million bushels was
forecast.
The government survey indi-
cated today that farmers plan
to plant large enough acreages
to food, livestock, feed, fiber
and other crops to produce a re-
cord volume this year if weath-
er conditions are favorable.
Because of large reserves of
some commodities accumulated
from past years and a declining
volume of exports, farm offi-
cials have appealed for a some-
what smaller crop acreage to
help stabilize declining prices.
Last year’s crop volume was
the second largest on record.
In an annual spring planting
intentions report, the Agricul-
ture Department said it appear-
ed that farmers planned as of
March 1 to plant a quota of 271
million acres to sixteen spring
crops covered by the srvey. This
compared to 266,700,000 planted
to the same crops last year.
Current plans, which the de-
partment pointed out are sub-
ject to change before planting
time, indicate large acreage in-
creases for all sorghums—used
mainly for livestock feed—oats
and flaxseed and small increases
for spring wheat, rice, potatoes,
sweet potatoes, soybeans, hay,
sugar beets, dry beans and peas.
Decreases in acreages were
indicated for durum wheat, all
tobacco, barley and peanuts.
■ I
-
■
sent plates before planting
time rolls around.
Coffey suggests that pur-
chases of planting seed be made
as soon as possible and that the
tag on the sack be studied so
plates can be made ready for
the planting job in accordance
with the size and shape seed.
And finally, he says, don’t plant
an unadapted hybrid just be-
cause the large flat grain seed
of the desired hybrid is not
seed or redrill or plug the pre- available.
to $1 higher prices,
lambs topped at $23.50,
Spring lambs topped at
while shorn fat lambs topped at
$21. Some shorn feeders drew
$17 to $19.50, to share the ad-
vance. Old ewese drew $8 to
$10. Mixed yearlings and two’s
sold for $14 to $18.
Stocker cows were reported
from $12 to $18, and some
around 600 lb. kind drew $22.
-L^Stocker calves of the good sort
sold around $18 to $23, and
stocker yearlings sold from
$22.50 down. Stocker heifers
sold at $22.50.
Fat cows drew $14 to $16, and
canners and cutters sold for
$10 to $14. Bulls cashed at $12
to $18. Good and choice fat
calves drew $19 to $23, and com-
mon, plain and medium butch-
er kinds drew $13 to $19. Culls
sold from $10 to $13.
Good and choice fed steers
and yearlings sold for $18.50 to
$23, the top of $23 paid for some
commercially fed steers as well
as a load of experimental cattle
from the Spur Experiment Sta-
tion. Common and plain to
medium butcher sold from $13
to $18.
Hogs topped at $20.75 to $21.25,
and sows drew $16 to $18.50.
Pigs ranged from $14 to $17.
showed how to steam the hat,
veil, and ribbon to give them
new life. She also showed two
hats that she has redone and
they were lovely.
The next meeting will be in
the home of Mrs. W. W. Harrell
on March 25.
Those attending were, Mrs.
Bob Manley, Mrs. Nolan ones,
Mrs. H. H. Furr, Mrs. Harold
Franka, Mrs. S. W. Myers, Mrs.
Edwin Blakemore and Mrs.
Glenn Compton.
—Reported
UPPER SABINE SQIL
CONSERVATION DISTRICT
NEWS COLUMN
Prepared by Charles Hilde-
brande, Work Unit Conserva-
tionist, Commerce
“I conceive that the land
belongs to a vast family, of
which many are dead, few
are living, and countless
numbers are still unborn”.
The Creed of a Nigerian
Chieftain.
Thursday Club
March 19 was the date for
Federation Day program of the
Thursday Club, which was held
in the home of Mrs. S. R. Gran-
berry as hostess.
Roll call was responded
with Federation Highlights.
Mrs. J. L. Jones brought
meditation.
Guest speaker for the occasion
was Mrs. Henry Pharr of
Greenville. She spoke enthus-
iastically as a delegate at the
recent Federation meeting held
in Kilgore.
In behalf of the club’s appe-
ciation, Mrs. Pharr, was pre-
sented a gift by Mrs. H. S.
Byers.
Piano selections were
by Misses Aileen Biggs
Nancy Slayden.
The hostess served a dessert
course to nine members and the
following guests, Mrs. Homer
Titus, Mrs. J. E. Cannin, Mrs. O.
R. Marshall, Mrs.' A. H. Arm-
strong, Mrs. G A Phaffle, Mrs.
Pleny Kelly and the speaker,
Mrs. Henry Pharr, all of Green-
ville.
BILL PROPOSED TO
EXTEND U. S. INSURANCE
PLANS
Washington — Legislation to
extend federal old-age insurance
to about 10,000,000 farmers, doc-
tors, lawyers and others now
outside the program was pro-
posed in Congress recently.
. Rep. Robert W. Kean (R),
N. J., sponsor of the bill, said
his measure would “fulfill the
promise President Eisenhower
made during his campaign to
broaden social security cover-
age”.
The influential member of
the House Ways and Means Com-
mittee which handles social se-
curity measures said his bill
would also increase from $75 to
$100 a month the amount that
an insurance beneficiary can
earn and still draw his retire-
ment pay.
However, despite Kean’s urg-
ing and President Eisenhower’s
recommendations, the bill’s
chances of passing this session
of Congress looked dim. High-
ranking Republicans have said
they need more time to study
the subject.
A GOOD SALESMAN
IS YOUR
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WE LIKE
fort worth
Youth Injured
By "Unloaded"
Gun Sunday
James Burns, 13-year-old
of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Burns of Route 2, Celeste,
accidentally shot in the stomach
about 3 o’clock Sunday after-
noon as he and a playmate play-
ed with a .22 rif^e they thought
was not loaded.
The youth was taken to the
Brown Hospital and Clinic at
Wolfe City where he underwent
surgery for the removal of the
bullet
His injuries were not thought
to be of a critical nature. The
bullet pierced the lower part of
the stomach and lodged in the
back of his body.
Fort Worth.—In
a young man’s fancy turns to the
fair sex, or so the poet says. In
the Spring the Stockman’s fancy
turns to replacements for his
herds and flocks, and the green-
er hue of the pastures and mead-
ows pushes memories of winter,
drouth, and other troubles far
back into the limbo of things
to forget.
At Ft. Worth Monday this
turn of mind became quite evi-
dent a stocker and feeder trade
perked up and got into high
gear for the first time in over
a month.
Sharing the spotlight with the
better stocker trade, was the
Easter lamb market. Some
10,000 sheep and lambs greet-
ed the buyers, and better than
5,000 of them were genuine
Spring lambs. The trade was
very slow getting underway as
buyers bid strong prices, but
salesmen pressed for sharply
higher prices.
In the end the old crop lambs
sold strong to 50 cents higher
and Spring lambs drew strong
Wooled
and
$24,
The rains were the main topic
of conversation here in the Up-
per Sabine Soil Conservation
District last week.
Some farmers are still wish-
ing for more moisture but a vast
majority seem to think we now
have a good season for this
year’s crops and cant haidly
wait until it gets dry enough to
get back into the fields.
District Cooperators Clark
James, Jim Clark, Gene Bick-
ley, Jack Duncan, Henry Dunn
and others are hoping for a few
days sunshine so they can trans-
fer their clover seed from the
barn to the fields. These men
realize the soil building value
of the different clovers as well
as hay, grazing and seed values.
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