New Era-Herald (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 30, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1948 Page: 2 of 8
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helping to keep this nation strong
—bolstering the forces of democ-
racy that guard our freedom.
And in their way of life, too,
they are champions of freedom.
Temperate folk who enjoy a mod-
erate glass of beer—but never
quarrel with those who prefer
cider. Tolerant people who fight to
the bitter end against oppression
and intolerance. From where I sit,
a credit to America I.
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but may also cause an accident in ' lessness and disregard
case the sign was one of the warn- safety oif
ing category. In any case the des- I - - r
This gives you an idea of the
room for improvement there is
on Texas soils. '
j The report is one of the tools
55 bushels—77 bushels; early to-
matoes, 75 bushels—77 bushels;
watermelons, 175 melons—236
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• GLEAMING CRYSTAL
By Fostoria
• ROSEVILLE POTTERY
• COCKTAIL SHAKERS
• COCKTAIL BARS
• COFFEE MAKERS
• SILVERWARE
• TOASTERS
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HUGE HEAVY-DUTY
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Mrs. H. B. Lyon
AT LYON HOTEL
VirgM Minear, Publisher
Mrs. Leo Strauss, Editor
Loe Brier, Ass’t Editor
Entered as second class mail
natter at the poet office in Hal*
lettarlDe, Texas, under the act of
Coagreas oa Marsh i. lOTfi.
Keep a permanent record
of those visitors and other
happenings of the holidays.
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Behind In Production
Of Crops Per Acre
placement of the sign. In several |
instances a motorist will drive off . - ......
the pavement onto the shoulder !how mucl
of the road and deliberately des- j
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Lighters
Overnight Kits *
| After ten days in the city, Dutch
i. Is hack in uniform. I don’t mean
Army khaki or Navy blue—but a
dMfrrent uniform, that’s every bit
as patriotic and American.
Blue jeans and a denim shirt,
fpr work around the yards and
bams; stout boots for tramping
I through the fields; and a straw
feat when the sun gets high—a
maiform you see from Maine to
Texas, Iowa to Alabama.
It’s the uniform of an army—
the great army of American farm-
ers who, by their productivity, are
A Complete line including
Fire Crackers, Sparklers,
Aerial Bombs, Sky Rock-
ets, Etc. - ■ .
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SUPER DE iUXS
ill REFRIGERATOR
Wheat, 17 bushels—18.4; bar-
ley, 17.5 bushels—25.5; silage, 3.8
tons—5.1; forage, 1.1 tons—1.5;
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to the occupant
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New Era-Herald
Established 1872
111 X Main St Phone 12
Hallettsville. Texas
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'e holiday cheer for all the year! This
nous freezer of 15.8 cu.-ft. capacity means
>«» food . . . leisure time . . . real con*
"S* <?ve,vf m°nth» a year! Quality con*
ted with all the marvelous features of the
4 and 11.1 cu.-ft. freezers plus exclusive
••Arre' ’ over-tize fast-freezing area . . .
interior light and “Zero-I.arm”
•Stic alarm if temperature rise*. See it
“*lt 11 make every day a holiday at hornet
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The ideal gift for the man'
of the family.
lo have a
Any emneoua reflection upon
the fharuttsr, atandlng or repu-
tation of any firm. corporation or
tadivMnal published in these
ootaMM will bo eboerfuUy cor-
reotad upon Ma belnf brought to
fee attantton of few pfeblfefeer.
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are using in their membership
drive In Texas to call attention
, to the dire need for conservation
j farming. t
i They’ll point out that the soil
| conservation way of farming Is
I one of the best-two-birds-with-
[ one-stone-killers, since it ups
production and at the same time
builds up soils.
Now “Friends of the Land” has
a good idea that most farmers are
already pretty well onto this
fact. They are interested, though,
in getting it across to city folks,
especially the businessmen who
depend to a very great degree on
the farmers’ prosperity.
By way of converting them, I
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Add that extra something to
your Christmas Gifts this year
... No matter what they may be
. . . Have them hand engraved.
Bring your rings, diamonds, sil-
ver and otfier gifts off jewelry
and have it done before Christ-
mas. Bring it to—
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Department constructs, erects,
and maintains countless thou-
sands of signs and markers In an
I effort to assist the motorist in
j reaching his obective in the
( minimum of time and without In-
cident or accident. It is only
quite natural that these signs
and markers cost many thousands
of dollars annually and you, Mr.
Motorist, pay the bill for them
through the gasolene and license
plate tax. Were it not for these
we would have just that much
more money to expend in the
development and maintenance of
the highway system. But, the
more we expend in the mainten-
ance of these signs and markers
means that we have just that
much less for construction and
FREEZIlpV
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FOR EXTRA ROOM AND
EXTRA KITCHEN-CONVENIENCE!
j This snowy 8 cubic-foot beauty will really make
I her Christmas! Built for extra storage space, for
I safe food preservation, for greater kitchen effi-
ciency and long, dependable service! With special
1H Super De Luxe features. Beautiful IH Standard
and De Luxe models also available.
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gh • white background with
■B letters and numerals and
nfiMter square or rectangular
^Elttpe. The only deviation from
p shape are the Federal Route
Ifikera which bear the shape of
pMM and on which is indicated
• highway number and “Tex-
R All State Route Markers are
lyrv and bear only the number
few highway.
Jb* the second grouping is found
• warning markers. This mark
tea a yellow, or orange back-
ound, with black numerals or
Mr*. All such markers are
Egonal in shape with the ex.
ption of the railroad crossing,
pk which is round. The con-
ruction, erection, and maln-
aance of such markers serves
■0 farotker acfMHaa • ba prepared for all uBerpoMles
Wllaiarb of Harvacter
CERTIFICATE AND BOOK' /
if (that in the future you will exer-,
1 else every care and caution in as- 1
sisting in the preservation of the that ^he "“FriendV’of the ^lind”
signs and markers which are
placed for your guidance as you
drive over the 30,000 miles
not consider the first cost of the highway in our great state,
sign, painting, and erection as I o-----------
this would be necessary In any
case. We will take a marker, 24’’
x 24”, to illustrate our point. The
cost for the removal and replac-
ing of one such marker after
being damaged is $1.0Q. However,
the cost in our sign shop of re-
novating a damaged sign of this
size is $1.85. It can then be read- i
ily seen that by the firing of only
one shell from a .22 caliber rifle
into one of these markers, you
immediately pay out $2.85 for
your pleasure. And in addition
you may cost a piotorist many ad-
ditional dollars in property
damage and the possibility of
serious injury or loss of life. In
view of this don’t you think it
would be to your advantage, as
well as the advantage of thou-
sands of motorists, for you to
tack a small bit of paper to a
tree and use this as a target for
your rifle shooting? The sum of
$2.85 is not a large sum but
when this is multiplied many
thousands of times each year, it
grows into a rather huge amount
of money.
marker pulls out another itlon and see where a portion of
from the fund y°ur highway tax is expended.
that you will melons.
leave visibly impressed with the
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I <pBVE her AN INTERNATIONAL HA^”ESTER (,
i REFRIGERATOR
By Leon Hale, Houston Post
Farm and Ranch Editor)
A report has been placed In my
hands that makes some of these
Te^as brags about agricultural
production look pretty sick.
It has to do with the 1947 crop
yields in this states as compared
with the average yields of the
same crops in the United States
as a whole.
It takes in 38 crops and leaves
this state sadly lacking in all but
seven of them.
Here are a few examples:
Texas’ average corn yield was
16.5 bushel per acre. The United
States Average is 28.6 bushels.
Oats production in this state was
21 bushels. The nations’s average
is 31.5. And it’s about the same
on hay. The yield Was .85 per
ton an acre for Texas and 1.25
tons for the whole nation.
Now these are just average
" yields. Nothing extra. And it has ■
been figured that if Texas were
to up her production to equal the
nation's average, it would mean
Texas farm income would be
about 26 per cent higher and rep-
resent an extra $338,585,000 in
farmers' pockets. '
And it is not impossible for j
(this to happen, either. Texas is
doing first rate on several crops.
Leading the nation, in fact, on
grand sorghum, cowpeas, rice,
beets, egg plants, peppers and
onion production.
It is those cash crops, It seems
which most of the state's farm-
ers depend on for most of their
income that are down in the -red
column. 1
Cotton, for instance. Using
some later figures, Texas' has a
1948 cotton crop averaging
around 171 pounds of lint per )
acre. The United States average is j
312 pounds. .
Dairying is even a sadder story, |
on a state wide basis. Our aver- j
age cow produces about $72 a !
year. Up in Wisconsin the cow of I
the same standing turns out $206. i
If Texas cows were turning I
loose as much milk as Wisconsin
co\vs, dairy farmers would pocket
Appreciate Your '
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'ort and expense la. second is the national average.
■ wom ««u ueuuei aiciy ues- . exerted in the preparation of a
troy many markers in one eve- or marker, it would algo
tn tht tu at ui llinc ot whal he thlnks 18 a smart prove very interesting to note
n ns ess ou | gjon to route I ttoning'because of the utter care- J®-5 bushels 9.9, potatoes, 108 bu-
f0r the shels—149; spring corp beans, 63
’ our motorists. We ex- bushels—73 bushels; cantaloupes,
tend a cordial invitation to one crates—95 crates; cucumbers,
truction. or mutilation, of a high- and aH to make such an inspec-
dollar, or more, from the fund your highway tax is expended
which might otherwise be spent We feel certain
, in additional construction or some
, type of maintenance betterment work which is being done and
to better serve the motorists oi
our great state.
As an illustration let us con-
sider the cost only of replacing a
sign of average, or possible slight-
ly below average, size. We will
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Strauss, Mrs. Leo. New Era-Herald (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 30, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 21, 1948, newspaper, December 21, 1948; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1268638/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.