Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1951 Page: 3 of 10
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THE MOUNT VERNON OPTIC-HERALD
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER I. 1M1
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M. F. Fleming
Bolin’s Service Station
Ramsay Gulf Station
G. W. Rutherford
R. T. Wilkinson
W. L Nelson
Clint Cowan<
Howison’s Dairy
T. & T. Cleaners
L. Knight, Produce
Hogan & Campbell
Hill’s Grocery & Market
Otto’s Grocery and Market
Jake’s Barber Shop
Dr. David L Stinson
Harris St. Clair
Parchman & Meredith
Joy Theatre
Homer’s Grocery' and
Ma urine’s Tailor Shop
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NOVEMBER 9
NOVEMBER 16
Plenn Chmrv has siren>ly bemin
seedbed orepamtion for seven
acres of Crimson clover as a cover
cron, soil improvement and winter
pasture.
District Supervisors of the Hop-
klns-Ralns-Wood and Sulnhur-
Cypr&s Soil Conservation District
are recommending a winter cover
crop on upland Sutures In order
to Increase fertility, add nttroyen
and for addint? organic matter so
that over a period of three or
JWir years these fields will be lm-
< proved. They also recommend a
cover crap of Singletary neas.
Vetch, or Abruzzi rye on at leost
one-third of your cultivated acres.
This ad Sponsored by the above in the Interest of the
ger Football Team Of 1951 Season
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Mt. Vernon Insurance Agency
F. C. Brown Grocery & Market
Bolger-Cranford Ready-to-Wear
Lewis Dry Goods Co.
Teague and Son Chevrolet Co.
Caudle’s Texaco Station
J. W. Carter, Gulf Pump Station
Lowry’s Hardware & Furniture
Elliott & Waldron Abstract Co
Home Town Food Store
M. L. Edwards & Co.
Moore’s Furniture Store
J. R. Hill, Insurance
Miller’s Cafe
U. S. Lee Motor Company
PigglyWiggly
C. B. (Doc) Williams
Murray Irons
Norman Dupree
Ross Auto Supply
The First National Bank*
Crescent Drug Store
Charlie Brown
Mt. Vernon Floral Co.
Grocery Supply Co.
Hightower Barber Shop
Alton Shurtleff'
Browning’s Grocery
The Lady’s Shop
Reeves Cafe
T. A. Knox, Insurance
Moore Motors, Fords
Holder’s Cleaners
Zachary’s Service Station
Tom Scott Lumber Yard
The Tittle Grocery
Moore Service Station
Landon Ramsay .
Ridings Grocery
Dr. Henry Stanford
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ON WIFE’S RFAniNO
DALLAS—A fudge here hlnks Its
all rlffh for a wife to read as
' tynv comic bks a dav as she wanss
• * He reftwed a husband’s plea
tha Ms wife bt permitted to read
not more han one of the books a
dav. The wfe said her husband
bea her because of her reading
habits- The ludee forbid the hus-
band flvimr her anv more beatings
but cantoned the wife not to let
hold choree.
M. T. Garrett of Houston plant-
ed fifteen acres of Sericea lespe-
deza as a part of his conservation
plan last spring following exactly
the recommendations of th'e Soil
Conservation Service technicians
as to the seedbed preparation,
kind and amount of fertilizer,
seeding rate and date. As a result,
he has an excellent stand and
growth about knee high.
Garrett is renovating about fifty
acres of bottom land by break-
ing It. ferilizing and preparing foe
the seeding of Singletary peas In
late September or early October.
A. C. Caldwell of the Greenwood
group has an excellent compar-
son of summer grazing between
Bermuda — . Kobe pasture. Sweet
Sudan and Sericea. Caldwell points
out that his deep-rooted peren-
nial Sericea has not only with-
stood this prolonged summer
drought the best, but has also
caused his milk cows to produce
more pounds of milk. He Is plan-
ning to plant more acres of his
permanent pasture to Sericea
lespedeza. Twenty acres of his
permanent Bermuda - Kobe pas-
ture will be planted to Singletary
peas for winter grazing, erosion
control and soil Improvement.
District News
Henry Kimbro of the Midway
group has a five year stand of
Kudzu that he Is using for sum-
mer temporary grazing. This five
acres of Kudzu has geen grazed
about three hours per day for the
past sixty days by fifteen cows
and their calves. Kimbro reports
that by grazing his Kudzu he has
Increased his milk production even
during the period of dry. hot
weather. He says he doesn’t know
what he would have done had he
not had' the Kudzu as his per-
manent pastures have dried up.
Kudzu has long been recom-
mended for erosion control, soil
improvement, and the best in sum-
mer temporary grazing.
Recently the Wood County P.
M. A. County Committee. Frank
• Childress, Terrell Kitchens and
Edmlnistratiwe Officer Roy E.
Barnett observed a Kudzu plant-
ing on the J. M. Morris farm as
good pasture In deep sand Mr.
Frank Childress remarked
there were hundreds of
throughout Wood County
needed to be put to Kudzu.
$2 Billion Saving
In War Plants Seen
Washington
Senator Joseph C. O’Ma-
honey (Dt of Wyoming said
' War II government plants
here that retention of World
and factories may have sav-
ed taxpayers more than $2,-
000,000,000.
Senator
Technicians pf the Soil Conser-
vation Service of the Winnsboro
Work Unit staked farm ponds the
A past week for the following: Pren-
“ tice Watson (2). A. C. Moore. O. M.
Mitchell, Ollie Allen, J. W. Gandy,
Jack Stone. T. M. Moore. W. A.
Lunceford. J. A. McWright <2>,
L. E. Swan, E. A. Green. M. E.
Corbitt, Rube Turpentine, C. W.
Richey and T. J. Earhart.
Farm ponds have been complet-
ed the past week for the follow-
ing: Miller Fleming. J. A. Drum-
mond, Jack Stone. L. B. Rhoades.
J. W. Friday. C. S. Calvert, L. E.
Swan. B. L. Ragsdale. W.
Lunceford, C. W. Richey, O.
Mitchell and Cecil King.
O’Mahoney
chairman of the Senate Ap-
subcommittee
holding hearings on a $60,-
000,000,00ft military appropri-
ations frill lor operating the
defense establishment during
fiscal “1952.
The sen;.tor said "some 40
per cent of peak capacity
for production of ordnance
and chemical supplies for the
World Way 11. The plants,
Army” was retained after
he added, originally cost
<2,400,000,0(10.
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* writes Etl .isey, from
Roanoke. “Tint ““which you so .
often say heals fell wounds, may [
'solve this for me, but meanwhile |
I would be glad of your opinion. I
“Would you ever advise a woman !
to divorce her husband for no par- j
1 ticular reason, and marry another j
man? I don't think you wor ld. But
let me explain the rather unusual [
circumstances. My social and club
. circle is large, but I can’t consult
anyone here. .
“I am 29. Ten years ago I mar-
ried a man 12 years my senior. I
I liked Hart. I loved my new name j
I and my house, ant' we really had (
some good times. Then my two .
children were bom, and tilings j
quieted down. Hart had a small 1
salary; my father died and that |
source of hospitality ended, and I
began to feel-that life was a pretty I
steady drudge. Hart began to travel 1
a good deal three years ago, and
then my days were duller than
ever, even though there was more
money. *
World Upside Down
“Then I met Roger. Just a quiet
fine man at a card party, at first.
Then—fireworks. Neither one of us
had ever really been in love before
and it turned the whole world up-
side down. During Hart’s absences,
when my mother was with the chil-
dren, I was free to come and go,
and in the first radiant happiness
of our finding each other we were
", . . affair with Roger "
both deeply, truly heart-satisfietj.
Roger and his wife had mefint
nothing to each other for years!
his only daughter was away at
school. No one was hurt, and every-
one at home happier for the change
in me, for I seemed suddenly alive
after so' many years of flipping
deeper and deeper into a rut.
"But six weeks ago Roger’s wife
died. It was only two days after ,
her funeral that in a talk with him
I realized that he expects me to
divorce Hart and marry him. He
takes the situation for granted and
wants to talk to Hart about it.
"Now the absolute truth is that
I never stopped loving my hus-
band, and I adore my children. My
affair with Roger may have been
foolish, but I cannot see that It was
wrong. Nobody was hurt by it, for
no hint of it ever reached Hart,
his mother, my mother, or the chil-
dren. It. would be simply impos-
sible. no matter how much I want-
ed to do so, to tear my life apart
now, and go wUJHRoger to another
town, for ne^fas just changed his
job. Hart and I have been doing
over my father’s old home, ar-
ranging rooms for the children and
changing things about, and all our
friends are locking forward to a
housewarming 1 tere. It would com-
pletely disrupt tive lives, not count-
ing my own, to have me agree to
Roger’s proposals.
He Is Insistent
“At the same time, he is insistent,
he takes it all as settled, he feels,
as he says, that it will ‘justify’ our
love affair. I am worried, almost
distracted, by It. In fact, I can’t
eat or sleep for nervousness. Roger
wants my Immediate consent, and
talks as If our love were still In the
stage it was two years ago. I don’t
mean it isn’t, exactly, but these
things do grow less, and one does
not see them in the beginning as
one does later on. I have argued
that my love for my children, my
home responsibilities, and my posi-
tion In the community are all
against my making any such
change, but Roger regards all this
as only one more evidence of my
unselfishness and perfection, and
sweeps it away as nonsense.
"I am quite confident that there
will be no real trouble about this,”
Ethel's letter concludes, "but I
would be glad of your opinion.”
If Ethel is really confident that
there is no real trouble! here I can
only marvel at her obtuseness. If
ever there was teal trouble in store
for a woman who quite obviously
wants to hold on to .home arid hus-
band and children, this is it.. Be-
tween the lines I can read a certain
uneasiness; Ethel may begin dim-
ly to suspect that home, husband,
children, position, and vary like-
ly material comfort have all been
jeopardized by her sin. ,
Sin. Yes, that's what it was, tha
sin of adultery. Ethel will probably
read that word with incredulous
horror. In our San Francisco jails
today there is a woman who is
reading the word “murder," In
connection with herself, with the
same horrified unbelief.
"My children—” she stammers.
"And Joe—why, I never hated {oe.
It can’t be that I did it. It’s a bad
dream.”
Ethel may find herself in a di-
' vorce court one of these days, stam-
mering the same words. She didal
mean to hurt anybody.
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Laney, J. E. Mt. Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1951, newspaper, September 6, 1951; Mount Vernon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1268164/m1/3/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Franklin County Library.