The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 137, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 31, 1943 Page: 18 of 38
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THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Sunday Morning, October 31,1943
Sunday Mot
lative of County Leads
Development of Jerseys
(EDITOR S NOTE There has
been a tremendous development
of the purebred Jersey industry
in this locality during the past
few years. Hundreds of fine
cattle have been imported and
an organization formed. The
man benind this move i» youth-
ful Ira E. Duck Jr., native Tay-
lor countian who did dairy wors
at Texas A. & M. college and
with the American Jersey Cat-
tie club. In the following ar-
ticle, Duck, president of the
newly-organized West Texas
Jersey Cattle club, gives his
views on the Jerseys.)
By IRA B. DUCK JK.
The purpose of all Jersey organi-
zations is to improve the breeding
of Jerseys. This is being done by
progressive steps in this sector, ag-
ricultural workers and breeders in
the surrounding counties having
demonstrated the fact that the Jer-
sey cow is the most efficient ani-
mal to convert non-edible vegeta-
tion into edible human foods
The Jersey cow produces
more human food per acre af
crops than any other animal,
which is the primary reason
there are more Jerseys in the
rollon than other dairy breeds.
Realizing that it would take
organized effort tn adequately
promote the interest of Jerseys,
Jones, Taylor and Fisher coun-
ties organized local clubs and
began planning events to keep
Jerseys before the public and
act as a means of acquainting
breeders with what Is most de-
ONE OF THE HIGHEST-PRICED Jersey bulls ever brought
into the Abilene territory is Tejas Basileus, pictured above,
purchased jointly by W. Willis Cox and E. P. Hurd of Abi-
lene for $2,500. Bred by B. H. Bull & Son of Brampton, Ont.,
Canada. Tejas Basileus is a son of Brampton Basileus, whose
sister, Brampton Lady Basilua. has two Silver Medal and two
Medal of Merit records, and is just finishing a record of
more than 1,000 pounds.
sired in highest quality Jerseys.
Because there was a desire to im-
prove the quality of Jerseys, better
I bred cattle were continually brought
I in and poorer cattle were culled
■ out to improve the average. The
greatest improvement made will be
from real breeding bulls.
It has been noted after the sec-
ond official classification that the
TEXANS IN WASHINGTON
Dismal Day for Texas Girl When Army Lists Dog 4-F
By TEX EASLEY
WASHINGTON, Oct 30—It was
a dismal day for Marion Huff of
Eagle Lake, Tex., when the Army
turned down her dog and classified
him as 4-F.
She had hoped to get him in the
K-9 corps. Named Shep, the big 2-
year-old animal Is half German
Shepherd and half Doberman Pin-
scher He looks like a perfect
specimen, exactly what the army
would want. But it was his teeth.
When the Army issued a call for
dog volunteers, Mrs. Huff and Shep
spent little time in deliberating
what course they should take. She
left her desk in Senstor Tom Con-
DAIRY BOSS—W. H. Rat-. . .
cliff, assistant farm demon-Four Are Killed
stration agent of Taylor coun- In Dallas Crash
ty, will be assistant superin-
tendent of the dairy show at DALLAS. Oct. SO; (—Four per-
xL sons were killed and 16 others were
the West Texas Livestock injured in a triple collision involv-
show opening here Wednes- ing two busses and an automobile
day. . I on the Houston street viaduct last
night. *
Three of the dead were identified
as Henry Lewis, route two, Mineola.
Tex., and Douglas Edwards and
John Leonard Williams, both of
Dallas.
The fourth was unidentified.
Crash Kills Civilian,
Two Army Officers
TEMPLE, Oct. 30. (PP)—An auto
collision eight and a half miles
east of Gatesville, Tex., on Highway
84 last night took the lives of three
persons, including two Army of-
ficers, and injured four other per-
sons.
The dead: Major Gideon H. Bing-
ham. 37, of North Camp Hood; First
Lieut. David Wardlow, 28, also of
North Camp Hood, and Vannoy
Powell. 45. of Gatesville.
Fines Assessed Two
On Speeding Charges
Fine* and costs amounting to $34
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average score of herds increased,
mean an improvement in the Jer-
sey type.
Interest in owning better Jerseys
was stimulated by the addition of
I new breeders who had as their goal
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r GArs AFTER SWINE Fines and coeta amounting to $34
I A antis each were assessed against Matthew
Bill L. Coalson, vocational Delaney, negro, and Maurice Carter
agriculture instructor at Wy on speeding charges before Peace
lie, Taylor county, is superin- Justice w. J. Cunningham Friday,
tendent of the swine show ofDelaney was, filed on Saturday
for violation of the liquor law, in
the West Texas Livestock county court. He was making an
Show opening here Wednes- effort to out drive liquor board
investigators when the arrest was
_____________________—----------made for speeding, it was charged.
Jap Suicide Pilots
Becoming Scarce
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 30. (P)—Col.
Don P. Hall, leader of the bombing
raid on Wewak, says "we don't hear
of any Jap 'suicide pilots' anymore."
The “aggressive boys" have just
about disappeared, the Corpus
Christi, Tex., flier told North Amer-
ican aviation workers yesterday.
•They're getting weary of our boys
and more than once our pilots have
turned a pursuing Jap pilot back
by simply flicking the red lights in
the tail cone to make the Jap think |
is was machine-gun fire.'’
the breeding and development of
nationally recognized herds. So
great was the outside interest in
what the Abilene area was doing. 1
it was visited by the head of the
Dairy department of Texas A. & M.
college, then director of the Ameri- |
can Jersey Cattle club, and the Ex-
tension Director of the National
club.
During the visit of these men, the
West Texas Jersey Cattle club,
which it la hoped will eventually
include 25 counties, was organized
and official classification dates set.
Then farther emphasis was put on
official testing and Dairy Herd Im-
provement association testing,
which are the most Important
measurements of the quality of Jer-
| seys as to their most important
function—production of the highest
i quality food—milk.
• • •
A great factor in educating us to
appreciate quality bred and devel-
oped Jerseys was the passing on to
us of the learnings of 50 years of
experience of breeding Jerseys in
this nation and on the Island of
Dimout Along Gulf
Coast Not Relaxed
HOUSTON, oct. 30—(UP) -
There will be no relaxation of dim-
out regulations on the Gulf coast
despite War department announce-
ment lifting the ban on lighting,
Maj. Wilson Williams Jr. provost
marshal of the Gulf coast area, an-
nounced today.
Indications were that lights would
go on again Monday on both the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts, but not
along the Gulf of Mexico.
less of the change of our diet and
our desires, milk will remain the
most complete food and dairy cows
will play an important part.
The desire to breed and develop
the best Jerseys for profit and for
love of winning is being greatly
stimulated by the West Texas Live-
stock show and other shows that
will come. By securing a nationally
recognized judge and making it pos-
sible for juniors to compete there
will be as results a tremendous edu-
cational value th this Jersey event
that wUTbe noted in Improved Jer-
seys over a period of years
the demand from other sections and 1 As fairs and shows have always
been a place for, the exchange of
knowledge and of breeding stock
this aspect is of importance now as
less travel will be necessary to ap-
praise the quality of several herds
when many will be represented at
Jersey by an internationally known
breeder whoae frequent visits to
and efforts toward making Abilene
the center of Jersey activity are
bearing fruit.
With thia development will come
Latin American countries for our
Jerseys in large lots which can only
be met by organized effort to sup-
ply such demands with considera-
tion to what every breeder can con-
tribute.
In the post-war period, regard-
one place.
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Graham—ABILENE—Big Spring
nally’s Foreign Relations Commit-
tee room one afternoon, hurried
home for Shep and soon had him
at the recruiting station.
"The officers there were as dis-
appointed as I when they decided
they'd have to put him in 4-F,"
she complains. He s a beauty, but
his teeth weren't so good. It seems
he had had distemper when he. was
a few weeks old, before I got him.
and that caused his teeth to be dark
and apparently weak, although I
had never noticed it."
Major Burris Jackson, Hillsboro’s
energetic postmaster-on-leave and
prominent Texas cotton man, al-
ways headquarters around Senator
Connally's residence or office when
he comes to town. At least he did
until going into the service. He's
stationed now at nearby Fort Wash-
ington, Md., but maintains an
apartment In the capital.
In appreciation of Mrs. Connal-
ly's kindnesses to him and his high
regard for the senator's wife.
Major Jackson gave a Sunday
breakfast in her honor at a down-
town hotel. Members of the Texas
congressional delegation and their
wives, and other prominent Texans
here in the district were guests.
Judge Joe Montague of Fort
Worth, counsel for the Texas and
Southwestern Cattle Raisers As-
sociation, tells this one on his friend
and fellow Texan. Assistant Secre-
tary of Agriculture Grover B. Hill;
It seems that big, good natured
Grover B. went down into the
Carolinas to talk to peanut grow-
ers. He extolled the virtues of pea-
nuts and asserted that the food
value of peanuts was something re-
markable and comparable with that
of beef.
Now Hill himself halls from the
Panhandle and had handled a lot of
cattle. When he got back to Wash-
ington Judge Montague called him
up and asked him to have dinner
with some friends at the Mayflow-
er hotel.
It was just a small group, and
when they sat down Judge Monta-
gue signaled the waiter to bring in
the food he had ordered. A mom-
ent later a big tray, ladened with
steaming plates, was rolled up to
their able. Big, thick juicy steaks
were served around — until they got
to Hill. The waiter, with a flourish,
placed before the Agriculture offi-
cial a plate like that of the others.
removed the covering and disclosed
a lonely little peanut staring up in
stark nakedness, 59 to speak.
Here and there about the capital:
Bid adois to Robert Nesbitt, Wash-
ington representative of the Galves-
ton Chamber of Commerce, and
former Galveston and Paris news-
paperman, as he pulled out for Tex-
as to take the final physical at an
induction center down there. He
previously tried in vain here to get
into service, but had been turn-
ed down because of his eyes. His
wife is remaining here to work.
William Davis and William L.
Goble. Waco-cotton oil men have
been here trying to get the govern-
ment to hurry up its shipment of
soybeans to Texas so they can pro-
cess them into protein feed. e
The Owl. commenting on the Tex-P
as quayule harvest, says it's not so
large, but “is of extrema Import-
ance because of the need for nat-
ural rubber to blend with synthetic
rubbers." Shipment of the same
shrub from the Big Bend countryd
where it grows wild, to Salinas, Calif,
for processing, already has started.
Mynatt Smith, managing editor
of the McAllen Evening Monitor, has
this to say in a letter in which he
comments on the "mahogany desk
farmers" at the OPA, FDA, WFAD
and USDA (all handling the food
problem).
“They usually phrase the orders
in such Churchillian language the
farmer wears out his last shovel
digging into the thing to find oute
what It means to hir...”
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