Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 9, 1957 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME ONE
WEDNESDAY JAN. 9, 195 7
NUMBER TWENTY-ONE
C OF C HEAD MEETS WITH
PRESIDENT OF ASHLEY FIRM
An unfounded rumor which
to
Deputy Constable
Rumor Squelched
Box
Holder
Large Extension To
Valley Being Planned
Contract Awarded
For New Farm Shop
of final
the close
of the
consider such
necessary
were”
Foreman Taken To
El Paso Hospital
des-
will
Tell it to ydtir local paper.
Examinations End
First School Term
SHAVINGS
from the
WHITTLERS’ BENCH
DELL VALLEY REVIEW
Dell City, Texas—The Center of 35,000 Irrigated Acres
It was re]
Foreman Sunday that he
resting more easily and
minor corrective surgery
have to be performed.
Special Vote On
Water Plan Slated
FINAL HURDLE NOW CLEARED;
PHONES SEEN BY MID-SUMMER
the stoockholders of the
pany.
Too Many Absences,
Says Sup’t Martin
Help Reeded For
1957 School Census
ac-
ma-
•T A.
Drive Safely — Promote
safety and prevent sorrow.
10 eligible to vote.
DRIVE SAFELY-Start soon
er, drive slower, live longer, be
Students of the Dell City
schools will start tomorrow on
a two-day session of final ex-
aminations marking
of the first semester
1956-57 school year.
Papers will be graded
promptly and the results should
be available in a few days, ac-
cording to Principal Thomas
Pearson.
The completion of Dell
City School’s farm shop build-
ing, the floor for which was
poured a few weeks ago, will
I be within the next 30 days, ac-
I cording to Foy Stogner, head
' of the Vocational Agriculture
Department.
Contract for the work haS
been awarded to the H and Y
Construction company, who
are also working on the com-
pletion of the S. W. Magee re-
sidence.
ap-
application
loan from
was returned
that,
bonafide
Somebody hais come up with
the profound observation that
man has been supplied by his
Creator with two ends . . . one
with which to think . . . and the
other on which to sit . . . and
the sum of his accomplishments
will be reckoned by which end
he uses the most.
Well, The Old Whittier has
a hunch that, possibly, both
ends can be profitably used at
the same time . . . and here he
sits on the Bench,, with one
end doing its accustomed duty
and the other end striving hard
to justify its existance.
The upper end of the Old
Whittier has been mulling over
a current question in regard to
the proposed establishment of
an underground water conser-
vation district. (See story in(
another column), ,g r
Now, this proposal is bound,
by its very nature, to be a con-
troversial one . < < locally, that
IS 4 , , but as every sheet of pa-
per has two sides, it might be
well to consider all things con-
cerned. Water is a fundamental
and precious commodity that
many are prone to deprecate.
It is, patently, to agriculture,
the very essence of its being.
(Continued on page 5)
Superintendent of Schools
i D. R. Martin needs assistance
in taking the annual school
census that must be completed
this month so that the basis o'f
state school! aid can be deter-
mined.
He says he needs two per
sons and that it would be ad-
vantageous if one of them was
a bi-Imgual.
Anyone interested is asked
to consult Mr; Martin.
Definite interest - in Dell
Valley as a source of supply
for products needed by his or-
ganization was evidenced by
•the head of Ashley’s Incorpo-
rated, of El Paso, in a confe-
rence last week between Dave
•Mitchell, president of the Dell
City Chamber of Commerce
and George N. Ashley, Sr.,
president of the El Paso com-
pany. **
He indicated that as soon as
he has compiled an accurate
estimate of his 195 7 needs, es-
pecially as to tomatoes, he will
probably offer to Dell City
farmers bonafide contracts
with specified prices. These
contracts, he feels, could be
used by the farmers as a
means of financing their crops.
Mr. Ashley told Mr. Mitchell plans by J. B. Howell, present
that he was highly pleased,
with the quality bf tomatoes
that were grown here! in 1956
and that they were superior in
color and texture to those he
has been using from other
..areas where salt encroach-
ment in irrigation wells has be-
come a menace.
He said that, by about'
March 1, after he has had con-
ferences with the heads of se-
veral large food chain stores
as to their requirements, he
will be in position to make de-
finite plans for this area’s pro-
duction.
Bud O. Foreman was taken
to Providence Hospital in El
Paso last Saturday to undergo
treatment of a long standing
ailment that became acute.
ported by Mrs.
was
that
may
Superintendent of schools D.
R. Martin has begun cracking
down on the matter of grant-
ing leaves of students from
classes for various reasons.
Noting that absenteeism
the class rooms
dications are good on
son ranch, according
liminary surveys.
in
has been in-
creasing, Martin has asked his
teachers to decline leaves for
unimportant reaisons such as
“Johnny needs a hair cut” or
“Janie wants a permanent”.
The superintendent says he
realizes that there can be legi-
timate reasons for absense but
he feels that many times mat-
ters could be taken care of af-
ter class hours.
owner of the familiar Wasson,
Ranch' located about seven
miles west of Dell City.
Bennett, who has offices in
the Bassett Tower in El Paso,
will subdivide land offer for
sale about 6,000 acres of level
land on the east side of his
holdings. ?
He announces that be will
make contracts for sale of par-
cels on the basis of 29 % down
and balances to be paid in ten
to twenty years. There would
be no down payment until the
prospective purchaser has dril-
led a well and found sufficient
irrigation water.
It is understood that explo-
ratory wells will be stairted
soon. In the general vicinity of
the ranch, good wells have
been drilled and geological in-
the Was-
pre-
The final hurdle in the mat-
ter of telephones for Dell City
was cleared last week and bids
for the construction of the sys-
tem are expected to be award-
ed soon, according to what is
believed to be reliable infor-
mation.
A last minute obstacle
peared when the
for the necessary
the government
on the grounds that, while
some of the bonafide subs-
cribers had paid in the, sum of
$50 each, others had only paid
in $ 10. The government ask-
ed for the equivalent of the
$50 for all of the over 1 50 pa-
trons who have singed applica.-
tions for phone service,
The situation 'was remedied
when Western Cotton Oil com-
pany advanced the differential
amounting to approximately
$2600.
According to George Mc-
Connell, local director of the
Rio Grande Electric Coopera-
five, it is expected that cons-
truction bids will be advertis-
ed ifor thirty days, and the
successful bidder will have an
additional thirty days in which
to begin work on the lines and
installations.
It is believed that, unless
something undorseen turns up,
Dell City should be in com-
munications with the outside
world’ by mid-summer.
Directors of the Farmers
and Fertilizer and Supply Com-
pany were expected to meet
Tuesday evening, for a re-
gularly scheduled session,
cording to Stark Royal,
nager.
The meeting was called to
discuss the financial affairs of
the organization and to decide
upon the date and meeting
place of the annual meeting of home for the holidays,
the stoockholders of the com- ______________
Possible addition of a con-
siderable farming area on the
west side of Dell Valley may
be forthcoming, according to
had widespread circulation in ly 200,000 acres
Dell City last week to the effect j cribed in the application
that former Deputy Sheriff
Hearst Laws had been appoint-
ed deputy constable in this
precinct was promptly squelsh-
ed my Constable O. C. San-
ders.
Asked about the truth of the
called it utter-
rumor, Sanders
ly unfounded.
He made the comment that
he did not consider such an
appointment necessary and
added that “if it were” who
would want ai job that carried
with it no visible renumeration.
He added that, in any law
enforcement emergency, he
was empowered to deputize
any responsible citizen on a
temporary basis.
Application for the esta-
blishment of the so-called
Hudspeth County Under-
ground Water District No.
One, acted upon by a special
session of the Coilftty Com-
missioners’ Court held in Dell
City on the last day of 1956.
The court proceeded to di-
vide the proposed district into
five preceincts for adminis-
trative purposes and named a
temporary director for each
precinct.
Those appointed are George
McConnell, James Lynch, Ro-
bert Travis, Gene Lutrick and
J. B. Bean.
The directors are to meet
Thursday to perfect their or-
ganization and set up the ma-
chinery for a special election
to be held on Saturday, Fe-
bruary 16,
All landholders in the near-
had widespread circulation in ly 200,000 acres of land
!bi
Directors Of Local
Company In Meeting
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