The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1954 Page: 5 of 12
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FOR MAKING OUR
GRAND OPENING
ANDERSON'S BARBER SHOP
Claud Reqd
Ben Hamblen
J. C. Anderson
A SUCCESS LAST SATURDAY
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Farmers will be
EUBANK BROS.
CHRISTMAS TREE DEALER
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sugar ht 1.....89%
TOP QUALITY MEATS
....25c
...39c
...39c
...29c
43c
...49c
..35c
29c
CALF LIA ER. 1b
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Gro. & Mkt
TEEL LAUNDRY & CIEANERS
Canton, Texas
ALBERT HARGROVE, Manager
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Decker’s Tail Korn
BACON. lb.
windbreaks
purchase
As we approach the season that symbolkes
peace and good will, we recall with gratitude
the friendships we have made in the years that have passed
May this greeting serve to carry the wish that your Christmas
be joyous and the New Year hold all that you desire
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subjects which
' terest to him.
civilians recorded in Texas July
1, 1953. as compared with 7,265,-
000 three years previous This
Niblet Whole Kernel
CORN. 12-oz can. 2 for.
Monday, January 3, we will be in the building
where the Reliance Gas Co. is now located. We are
having to move because the building we now oc-
cupy has been sold.
Welborn
have an-
640-acre
T
We will be in our new location temporarily, as
we hope to move to our permanent location at the
corner of Tyler and Athens Streets around the 15th
of February or the 1st of March. A new building is
being built at this location for our business. We wil
be working under handicaps til we are permanent-
ly located. We will do our best to give you good
service on dry cleaning and laundry.
We will be closed Saturday, January 1,1955.
construc-
of struc-
facilities
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fertilizers can be purchased and Texans say they plan to make
stored. They’ll -be on hand when this oil and uranium-rich western
needed and there’ll be no questions j Colorado city the "energy capi-
Wendell H Oliver
County Superintendent
Octavia E. Mitchell
Assistant
Large 4 to 6-Ib. Average
HENS. 1b.......
a* aK
Foreman said financing is be-
ing provided by “a syndicate of
Texas oil men" and there would
be no stock sales
Homemade Pur Pork
SAUSAGE lb.....
post an acre. An application of I
200 pounds of 16-20-0 fertilizer
was recommended at planting time ;
and side dressing of nitrate later)
but the corn grew so fast by side
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Swift’s Fully Cooked
PICNICHAMS. lb.....
Oay this ‘Holiday season
be well remembered for the
joy and happiness it bangs to
you, your family and friends.
Home Killed
SIRLOIN or T-BONE, lb........49c
a very sensible one, is that mar-
) keting facilities do not increase
Aunt Jemima Pillowcase Sack
HOUR: ii- $1.89
kustmo)
May the joyous spirit of Christmas core to dwell in
your home during this glorious season and remain
to brighten your life throughout the New Year..
Ew everything you need for an
ference Friday, December 10, in
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He who • - prejudiced is usually
II down on something he s not up o.)
The Monroe Doctrine was pub-
| lished in 1833
White Swan
CRANBERRY SAUCE 1-lb. can 19c
American Beauty
WHITE CORN MEAL 10-lbs . 69c
Na 303 Can White Swan
LUNCHEON PE AS, 2 for......35c
notified by letter when the meet-
ings are to be held in their lo-
cal communities and we will
also give it newspaper and radio
publicity.
We have just received Prog-
Chicago—A man who sells 8 -1
000 of them every years says it s
just silly to put the butt of your
Christmas tree in water on the i
theory that will keep it fresher, i
“And water with sugar added
tables and getting them to the
i consumer.
The annual series of farmers'
meetings over the county will get
underway January 17 and con-
", three years previous, a boost of
IJ more than 13 per cent.
I Texas had a population of 1-
I 915 000 in this category in 1963.,
In 1950 there were 1.706.000 of
11 this age group, a rise of 15 per
f P
VapondChab Pound • 996
will be available for planning
next years cropping program.
Local county agricultural agents
can supply information and the
than 456,000 since the 1950 cen-
sus was taken, the U. S Depart-
ment of Commerce announced
Monday. There were 8,081,000
nounced plans for a
We would like to thank the peopl of Canton and sr-
rounding areas for the wonderful reception given us at
the opening of our new 3-story building it was wonder-
ful and we appreciate it very much.
I had the opportunity to at-
tond a vegetable marketing con-
STATE
FARMING
By TODD BERRY
County Agricultural Agent
and JAMES NORMAN
Assistant Agricultural Agent
the eon-
We Are Moving
He says farmers interested n
the ruling can obtain further n-
prodluction. We must have the
production before we have facili-
ties John McHaney, extension
cultural workers and farmers of T CL • •
th- counts and are designed to OXdS OWS Jdin
bring the farmer a discussion of """"
will be of in- Washington — Texas' civilian
population has increased more
; economist, gave the agricultural j -. - .. ।
and vegetable outlook for 1955 drepsing timeit was too tall to
Mr McHaney reports that 55make the application
will be another year in which If soil samples are submitted
prices will remain about the J now ahead of the spring rush,
same as in 1954 or they may be Thornton says the recommended
less than they were in ’54. It is
, a year for the farmers to practice
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business development which they
estimate will cost $7,225,000.
Included in the center, they
say. are.
A six-story $2,225,000 office
building to be mounted on a cir-
cular base which will pivot 9
degrees with the movement of
the sun.
A building for offices of mine
and oil equipment manufacturers
and related mining ventures
An area to be set aside for use
of research foundations engaged
in atomic or oil studies,
A swank hotel and apartment
building.
A housing development with
Texans Plan To
Build ’’Emergency''
Colorado Capital
Grand Junction, Colo Two
He cites the outstanding corn
Jacksonville. There were several j yields made this year by farmers
officiate from A&M College and I Whofollowed soil treatment rec-
the Washington office of the ex-ommendations as examples, of the
tension service present. Since this value 0 soil testing The top
was a vegetable marketing con- i ield in-the state was made by
ference we were fortunate in hav- ' h; potuqern0Lamb county more than 25 per cent of gross
I mg E, N. Jones from the federal "0 , an atime record
extension service give his sugges- AKe it " bushel scornan carried forward may go without
’sons and opinions about markets Afgtwa.gonoonland Which limit until used up. Bateserplains formation from the nearest f-
on a national scale. One of Mr I war suongstested, 4:ganicma tter The specialist points to the of the Internal Revenue Serv-
Jones observations, and I think bettn“plicatinnphraseinthecode"on land usedice.________________
homes ranging in price from $10 • <
000 up.
A restaurant and cocktail
lounge, a community shopping
center, a park nd swimming
pool, and a nine-hole golf course
and country club.
enc is Texas 15 W Asgmw W1W. -
1 Texas 17W Texas 30 is pre-
ferred because of its superior re- f
, sistence to insects and diseases;
i which are some times prevalent
) in this area. Number 30, however,
did give a slightly lower yield
than 28 or
FREE Chemists Urge Soil Conservation
.11 Soil Analysis Expense is Now
M1u8 Tax Deductable
eti j that means a slacken- 7 *
ng of farm activities But it is -ollege Station Cash outlays , -
not too early, says M K Thorn- 0 ",!l nd water conservation ment , movir t , ti
0 • extension agricultural chem- n 1 charged as farm expense leveling gradir and
ist, to begin planning for next rather than farm capital -un- and contour farminp
years operations. de recent changes in the Inter-struction control and pic.
A first, according to Thornton, n Revenue Code making them and
Is to take and submit soil sam- e -a deducpie age ditches, earthen dam water.
the Thursay Dec 23, 1954 THE CANTON HERALD—5
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IT aP%Aae,
ress Report No. 1732 on .the Tex-
as Corn Performance Test for j represents a rise of 6.5 per cent.
1954 This Progress Report is The total population of the
put out by the Experiment Sta- county showed a rise of 4 3 per
tion. We had three places where cent. There were 156.000.900
corn performance tests were car-civilians listed in the United
ried out in our area. They were States s of July, 1953, more than A, ULA_L
Nacogdoches, Tyler, and Sulphur a 6.000 000 increase over July, SCOFFs Ar WATER THEORY
Springs. Com yields were very 1950.
low at all three of these places The 1953 Census Bureau esti-
because of severe drought. How- mates are based on age data
ever. there was enough evidence from the 1950 census. Public
for the Experiment Station to rec- Health Service statistics, and in-
ommend varieties for planting information provided by the Immi-
, this and other East Texas coun- gration and Naturalization Sery-
ties. Recommended hybrids of ice the Department of Defense
yellow corn, given in order ofand the National Office of Vital
their performance for this area. Statistics. )
are: Texas 30, 28. and 26; and Population statistics were brok-
’ white corn in order of prefer- en down into four broad age
... —_______—--groups as follows: Under 5 years
, ■ . old (pre-school), 5 to 17 years!
sets in uly were a . 0 old (school age), 18 to 64 years
m a year ear- adults of working age), and over
, . 65 ears. Of the four groups, the
The average pricereceived ' 5 to 17-year-old category showed,
U S farmers for all milk Wi the largest increase n a nation-j
be about $4 per hundredweightal scale There were 34,535.000
in 1951 compared wi th 13- i people of this group recorded in
1953 and 4.85 in 1952, a decreas the United States in July. 1953 ;
each year___________________ as compared with the 30.696,000
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about getting the kinds and tai" of the nation,
amounts "needed, he adds Lucien Cullen and
During the month of January,,
! Sam Martin, farm advisor with <
the Texas Power & Light Co., i
will give a demonstration at all I
the 4-H meetings on bow to make;
electric chicken and pig brooders.
and also extension cords. Mr. j
Martin will first give the demon- i
stration and then the boys will
be divided into small groups (
। where they will be given an op-1
portunity to actually make these
brooders themselves. Each boy ।
will be given a test of the ma-;
terials and their cost for making
1 these brooders They will also be)
shown how much money can be
saved by making their own
brooders
James Adams, a members of'
the Wills Point 4-H Club, is to
be commended on the fine work)
he has done Ln the Sears pig pro-1
gram. We weighed his Utter of
Duroc Jersey pigs, which were
56 days old, Saturday Decem-
ber 11 There were nine pigs in
the litter and they weighed a
total of 427 pounds which gave1
an average weight of 474 pounds:
per pig. This is well above the
average Utter weight for wean-'
mg pigs, the average being j
around 35 to 40 pounds James j
will be competing in the Sears
Tyler Store area fall heavy litter
contest With a record Utter like
this, we know James wall give
some 4-H member a close race for
first place.
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the most efficient methods of pro-
duction and marketing that they
Know Mr. Jones says that it is
not so much the price of commodi- Doing the job now is insurance j Foreman of Houston
; ties that is hurting the farmer as against not doing it when the
t is the cost of marketing vege- rush ol farm work begins with
spring operations and too. results
Shortening JK can.. 69? Coffee
pies for analysis. Knowing what A host ol land and water im- courses, outlets and ponds the
the soil needs in the way ofprovements are included in the eradication of brush and the
i plant food and organic matter is change, says C. H Bates, exten- planting of
an important part of any soil Sion farm management specialist,
building program, says the spe- who urges farmers to check
cialist, and a sure answer to "sick further into the new ruling tures appliances or
soil is a complete analysis. —osts of soil and water-improve- however, which are subject to
not deductiblein ex- regular depre at or mas - c l-
scessof 25 percent of the gross taken as ordinary expense
( , farm income during the taxable „
' year. Farmers may se this "deduct
The remaining cost may be system in their f l returns (or
.taken from the income in sue- n ne fi ’ xable year n wi
ceeding years at the rate of no such work IS doe} without spe-
t----- ~ - i cial permission
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tinue until February 7. Seven the soil testing laboratory with
meetings are tentatively sched- . ____. 5
uled in Wills Point, Edgewood, ample._______
Grand Saline, Van, Ben Wheeler, m . .
Phalb and Canton. These meet- PAritinn n
ings are planned by the agri-- -FMIuIIVII 111
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\ Ia the true spirit of the (19
Yuletide season, we wish you
• rich ahundance of health, \
happineu and coatentment. I
THANKS....
Cost-Price Squeeze
mA.
To Continue On ,y.
Dairy Farmers dshen 3 "ua m nEd
• 121 " 0) pound in prospect -dcteas
College Station The cost-pricethis year
squecze on Texas dairy farm- McHaney says the high ora,
ers will continue and may tight- tion ol the p > it two years ha
en in 190 > been produced on very poor pa .
John G. McHaney, extension tures in many areas With revived
agricultural economist, says prices I grasslnnds, he says, next year’s
for milk in relation to the cost of milk flow could exceed this years,
feed probably will be lower than The pure outlook is not t
this year. Prices for dairy prod-) favorable from a supply stand,
ucts on the whole may stay about point Stocks of all dairy prod.
VEGETABLES
4 Dozen Size
LETTUCE. 2 for..........
Cello Hearts
CELERY, stalk...........
WINESAP APPLES. 2-lbs. .
Cello Bag
ORANGES. 5-hs..........
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The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1954, newspaper, December 23, 1954; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1516589/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.