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ORIGINAL ELMWOOD WEST: Love,
ly 3 bedroom, 2 bath home. Owner
transferred see and make offer Val-
toy View School Area- Exceptional 3
bedroom home, sacrificing at $6,000 -
00 to settle estate. 2-3516, 4-6708, 4
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A HOME
that’ll put you ahead of the Joneses.
Beautiful 3-bedroom and 2 bath
home in comparable neighborhood.
We would appreciate the opportunity
to show you this good buy.
* * *
ELMWOOD WEST
Over ins tert of nvability in this
almost new 2-bedroom, den, 3 bath,
the size rooms you are looking for-
BIG.
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Did you know that you can buy this
3-bedroom and den now under con-
struction in a restricted neighbor-
hood with no down payment? Call
CLAUD McADEN
Pioneer Agency
Ins. - Real Estate - Loans
4-5209 Hit* 3-1424
MEMBER MULTIULE LISTINGS
* ** *
CHOICE EXCLUSIVES
DAVIS DRIVE: Lovely 6 Rm home,
nearly new. in a beautiful Elmwood
location. First time on the market.
BARGAIN BRICKS: We have 3 ex-
cellent 3 bedroom homes with sepa-
rate dining rms. So. 7th St.—Also
Belmont. $11,500 Up.
GRAND & COLLEGE STREET
Near McMurry College you’ll find 2
of Abilene’s finest 3 bedroom homes.
They bare everything. , Carpeting,
fireplace, dishwasher, disposal, cen-
tral heat, 2 car gar., 2 baths, etc.
OFFICE AND HOME: Ideal for doc-
tor, insurance, beauty parlor. One at
3041 8o 7th, the other at 13th A
Butternut
SMALL DN. PYMT: A little honey in
a 2 bedrm. It has ducted air-condi-
tioning, central heat. 2201 Amarilla.
TWO STORY: Only S years old this
choice 4 bedroom. 2 bath, dbl. gar.
home on nice So. Side corner lot is
a ‘steal” at $15,000.
SUB-URBAN FARM’ 30 acres, won-
derfully improved, all utilities, good
water, pecan trees. $16,500
NEAR NEW HIGHSCHOOL You
wouldn't believe in the Size, Quality,
and Originality of these fine 3 bed-
room homes unless you saw them.
They have anything in Abilene beat
for the money. $9,850 to $13,000. Bur-
ger Street, No. 3rd to No 6th. FHA.
or 100% OX Loans.
Drought Areas Get
Winter Rain Break
HOUSTON, Feb. 12 (—Texas
rainfall for four months has favor-
ed drought areas in the northwest
and frowned on costal areas where
rain normally is more plentiful.
REAL ESTATE
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Soft water, electricity. Deep sandy
soll. $2500. 4-9468.
FARM a RANCHES
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FARM AND RANCH loans. Long
terms attractive pre-payment privi-
leges Cassie & Cassie 155 Cedar
FOR SALE 162 acres Shackelford
County, 10 miles from Albany. 5
room house, 54 acres cultivation.
Good land. Webb & Webb, Albany,
Texas.
TRADE DAIRY term for house that
is clear Acreage near Clyde. Other
farms, ranches, city property. Hom-
er Sumrall. Phone 3-2474._____________
IMPROVED 1250 ACRE ranch near
Durant, Oklahoma, lot# of grass and
water. Only $30 per acre. Would take
some trade in or near Abilene. Phone
4-6173, 765 E.N. 14th. J. L. Atte-
berry.
FOR SALE: 1026 Acre blackland
Grade A Dairy Farm. Fully equip-
ped Now in operation. All modern
improvements. Health forces sale.
Phone 918 W2 or write O. T Guth-
re. Route 1, Bonham, Texas.
5 ROOM HOME, 7 acres, with all
conveniences. Paved hiway, 7 miles
from city. Mrs. J A. Mingus, 618
Hickory. 2-3758.
FOR LEASE 320 acres land. 117
acres in grass 200 acres in cultiva-
tion. Call 4-4854._______________________
FARM FOR BALE: Ito acres 1a
cultivation. •• in pasture. Black land.
Good stock tank. 1 mile of produce
Ing oil wells. % minerals. $75 per
acre. 15 mites east of Stamford,
12 miles north of Lueders. Write
Carter J. Moore, Box 964, Snyder.
Texas._____________________________
FOR SALE Abilene Rental proper-
ty Will trade for good diversified
farm and ranch land. 2-6321.
3 ACRES IMPROVED. For sale or
trade on large farm. 4042 Grape. G.
A. Simonizh, phone 4-4758.
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3041 So. Th Res. 2-8245 2-8765
FOR SALE, 4% room, bath. Hard-
wood floors, carport. Priced $5000.
10% down, balance like rent. Be* at
3509 Hickory. Phone 3-2862. G. T.
Pounds.
MUST SELL immediately. Leaving
town. Equity in 3 bedroom home
Balance of loan. $6807.45. $57 month-
ly payments. $400 for equity. Call
+9400. 926 Crockett.________________
• BETTER HOMES
1 For G. I.’s
• Nothing Down
♦ 25 to 30 Yeor
_ Loans'
■ LIMITED NUMBER
H 2 Ml. Closer to Town
■ FHA CONSTRUCTION
w Away From Air Planes
Burger St. N. 6th to 3rd
Larger Homes, Featuring 3
• bedrooms. Dual heating.
Masonry Guaranteed roofs.
B a minutes to heart or city.
■ Near new high school, trad-
A ing center, hi-way
w Monarch Co.
P 2-2842 4-9635
Res. 2-8245 - 2-1266 — 28765
ELMWOOD WEST
a new 3-bedroom home constructed
for maximum comfort. Central heat-
ing a refrigerated air-conditioning
wall w wall carpeting. Dishwasher a
Disposal. Oodles of closet space.
This home is not too large, but in
every room, it has the most usable
space you ever saw. We’ll take •
trade-in or side note as part of down
payment. What financial plan so you
need to own a well-constructed, com-
fortable home? Ask us, we may have
a plan for you. Call 4-6526.
100% o. 1. sr FHA
New 3-bedroom homes located North-
side near elementary, Junior High
and High School. Quality construc-
tion. These homes have solid con-
crete slab foundations, insulation,
central heating, tiled baths, and
loads of closet space. All closets have
sliding doors. They are priced to sell
If you choose your home before con-
struction i« completed, you may se-
loot your own colors. Call 46526.
100% G. 1. SOUTHSIDE
Newly decorated inside and out
quirt neighborhood. No traffic
street now being paved. 1 block to
bus. Full grown trees and beautiful
landscaping This is a 2-bedroom
home that offers peaceful living For
inspection cell 46826
( NORTHSIDE
Near schools Comfortable. Attach-
ed garage. Take a good 4% loan with
payments of $46.25 per month and
no closing costs. We would accept a
side note as part or down payment.
Investigate this good buy Call 46526.
ELMWOOD WEST
Spacious 3-bedroom, stone trimmed
on 3 sides. Carpeted a central heat-
ing. Ceramic tile kitchen * bath. Lot
90x140 fully fenced. Less than 1 year
old Beautiful natural wood finish
throughout Owner moving out in 30
days We’ll take large side note as
part of down payment. We can sell
this house on a plan *• suit your
pocketbook. For details call +6536
Day 4-6526
Nite
Jerry Mark 45396
Adrian Allen 2-5467
LEASES AND MINERALS wanted in
Fisher, Nolan, Jones, Runnels and
Coke Counties, also other counties.
Box 66 B. Reporter News
165 ACRES FOR lease. 1% miles
north Tuscola. See Russell Atwood.
Tuscola.
City 41, Mo._____________________
130 ACRES FOR team. 4 mites south,
west Anson. Write E. L Key, Box 44,
Tarzan, Texas._________
REAL ESTATE WANTED M7
CASH for your Equity in Small
Down Payment homes J P Woods,
Real Estate Ph 3-2392_________
WILL PAY cash for cheaper homes.
Call 2-3465, 48486.___________________
“SPOT CASH" for your equity.
List with W Willis Cox Real Estate.
4-7267__
We have almost sold out of up-to-
date 2 and 3 bedroom homes. II
yours is for sale. PLEASE PHONE
3-3671: KINCAID 1441 CEDAR
HAVE BUYER for 1000 acre roach
within 50 miles of Abilene. Improve-
ment* not necessary. Perry-Hunter-
Hall, Ph. 44368._________________
WILL BUY 1st Vendor’s lien notes
on Abilene property. Phone 2-3434.
EQUITs IN 2 bedroom and 2 bed.
room with den in Midland, to trade
for equity in house, duplex or farm
in Abilene. Write P. O 2181, Abilene
or telephone 4-6004
UP to $1200 down for 3 bedroom
home. On large lot, preferably with
double garage. Phone 4-6604.
Classified
■ A report today from the Weather
Bureau showed October-January
rain above normal for 13 of 13
northwest Texas stations.
I Below normal reports were in-
I eluded for 17 of 23 stations in South
1 Texas and coastal areas.
No statewide averages were in-
cluded. Of the 80-stations only 13
I were above normal in January but
37 were above normal for the four-
month period.
Abilene and Dalhart were the
only northwest stations above nor-
mal in January. Big Spring was
3.82-inches above normal for Oc-
tober-January, with Dalhart follow-
ing at 3 30 inches. Others running
ahead were Amarillo and Crosby-
ton. 2 23; Memphis, 2.17; Quanah,
1.83; Haskel, 1.53; Wichita Falls
and Ballinger, 0.91; Clarendon.
0.81; Miami, 0.37; Lubbock, 0.25,
and Spur, 0.16.
Abilene Under
The below normal northwest
points ranged from Lamesa, at 2.33
inches, to Mulesone, at 0.64. Others
were Childress, down 1.47; Plain-
view, 1.47; Snyder, 0.91, and Abi-
lene, 0.71.
None of the 29 South Texas and
coastal stations were above normal
in January and only Alice, Carizzo
Springs, Dilley, Austin, Brenham
and San Marcos were ahead for
October-January.
Victoria, however, was running
4.40 inches behind, galveston 4.02
inches. Others below included Port
Arthur, 2.13; San Antonio, 1.88, and
Corpus Christi, 0.16.
Angelo Ahead
All 10 of the section's extreme
west and west-central stations were
below normal in January but Kerr-
ville, at 1.07 inches, and San An-
gelo, at 0.19, were ahead for
October-January. Del Rio ran 1.63*
inches behind. El Paso, 0.98.
The wettest stations were in
northeast and north central areas
where 11 out of 28 were ahead in
January and 17 were above normal
for the four months.
Leaders among the above normal
group were Henrietta at 6.12 inches
and Taylor, 5.75. Others included
Sherman, 3.74; Greenville, 3.18;
Corsicana, 2.65; Temple, 2.55; Paris
2.22; Dallas, 0.52, and Longview,
0.25.
Undale trailed by 4.09 inches,
followed by Bronson, 2.98, and
Waco, 1.62.
GETS HONORARY MEMBERSHIP — Floyd Wood, left,
president of the Baird High School FFA Chapter pins a
membership pin to the- lapel of Sup* Keith Rowland's coat,
after the chapter voted to confer an honorary FFA member-
ship to the popular school head. The ceremony was part of
the annual father-son banquet of the chapter Thursday
night in the Baird Cafetorium. (Staff Photo)
AT A GLANCE
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Information
DAYS
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COST PER WORD
.........6c
.........12c
.........15c
........FREE
.........17c
.........19c
........FREE
........$9.75
Rail, Aircraft
Boost Market
NEW YORK, Feb 12. un - New
York Central and aircrafts boosted
the stock market today.
New York Central dominated
trading with a gain of 2% at 25%.
More than 300.000 shares have
changed hands to two days since
Robert Young declared a proxy
war on Central's management in
an effort to gain a foothold in the
road. Its price has gone up 3%
points.
A handful of stocks had gains be-
tween 1 and 3 points including
Montgomery Ward up 2%, Repub-
Uc Aviation up 1%. Boeing up 1%,
United Aircraft up 2. General Elec-
tric 1%, Celanese up 1% and U. S.
Gypsum up 2%.
NEW YORK (—Markets st s glance:
Stocks—Higher: selective strength
Bonds-Steady; rails and utilities firm.
Cotton—Steady; short covering and trade
Hogs About 25 cents higher; top $26.75.
scisule all classes "tend to strong: top
• NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (P)—The eight
active stocks today:
NY Central _____196,900 25%
RKO Pictures............53,400 5%.
Chrysler Corp............53,100 61%
Martin G.L...............42.100 19%
Montgon
Cons Vu
Livestock
FORT WORTH
FORT WORTH W—Cattle 200: commer-
cial and good slaughter yearling steers
and helfers 14.00.19.50; beef cows lisp-
isos canners and cutters 7.00-11.00; bulls
and stockers were scarce: good and choice
slaughter calves 16.50-19.50; utility and
commercial 12.00-16.00.
Hogs 100; choice 190-250 Ib butchers
26.50-75; sows 23.00 down. .
Sheep 400 good and choice « lb tall
shorn lambs 19.50.
KANSAS CITY
KANSAS CITY —Cattle 450; not enough
for test of market.
Hogs 800; choice 200-250 lbs 26.75-85; few
250-270 lb butchers is 25-75; sows scarce
22.50-23.50.
SEP receipts too small for test of
CHICAGO un. Hogs 8.000: choice 180-240
lb butchers 26.00-26.75: most 250-280 lb
to 25-26.00: sows 21.50-23.75.,
Catle 900; commercial to tow choice
lades 17.00-22.50; few utility steers 16.00
own; rood to tow choice heifers 18.50-
1.50; utility to tow food grades 12.50-18.00:
ility and commercial cows 11.00.13.501
inners and cutters 9.50-11 25; utility and
immercial bulls 13.00-16.50; good bulls
ith weight 11.00-12.00: commercial to
f
Financial
NEW YORK STOC
By The Associated P
76 AT&T .........160%
13 Am Woolen .
27 Beth Steel.....
531 Chrysler .....
28 DuPont .......
101 Gen Elec ..
to Gen Motors ..
34 Gulf Oil
Int Harv .....
• Mo Kan-Tex
208 Montgom W
3 Panhandle P&R
10 Penney
21 Phillips Pe ....
T Pure on .......
84 RCA......
6 Sears R .....
27 Sinclair ou
Bocony Vacuum
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tments
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room home. Loan down to $5,700,
payment $49.00 per month. Insurance
taxes, etes. Paved streets, large lot.
Phone 26070 after 5 p.m._____
BY OWNER 1 room. den, 2 baths,
3 bedrooms, completely carpeted.
Central cooling and heating Leaving
on expedition to Africa March 1st
No down payment to right, party
Drive by home on corner of Leggett
and Potomac. Must see inside toAP
prectate. Call 2 6185 for appointment
Do not ask for details over phone
Fon SALE or trade; beautiful a bed-
room, a bath home. 3-1584.________
LOTS FOR SALE
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BY OWNER: 14 1180. Northside.
EFTECSW
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away pries. Call own.
OWNER a a ex rinds 4 saaae lais to
Fimwood Memorial Park Cemetery
as leaving town. Phonem.
Tars sie LOTS for sale, me
cnoice LOT from owner hi Tm-
wood Memorial Park cometary. Be.
ectient pries for value. Phone 2-0378.
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Chrysler was another strong fea- AMT,
tune up %. Directors had declared slaughter lami
the usual dividend of $1.50. Illinois choice and prin
Central was a prominent loser, off
2 5-8, after directors declared the SANANTON
usual dividend
The Associated Press average
advanced 40 cents to a new recov-
ery high of $114.90, only $1.40 un-
der the 1953-54 peak established in
early January of last year. Vol-
tune was 1,730,000.
Woman Arrested
For Smuggling Is
Twin of Namesake
NEW YORK, Feb. 12 Ln—Au-
thorities today investigated a re-
port that a woman arrested here
yesterday on a charge of smug-
gling $125,000 in diamonds was not
Mrs. Esther Kats of Israel, as she
claimed, but rather Mrs. Kats'
twin sister.
A press report from Tel Aviv
quoted police there as saying Mrs.
Kats still was in that city, where
her husband to an airline store-
keeper.
They said the woman arrested
at Idlewild Airport with the dia-
monds hidden under her clothing
traveled on Mrs. Katz’ passport
and airline pan but really was
the "look alike" twin, Ruth Haco-
ben
They said Mrs Kats had the
free service ticket as the wife of
an airline employe and that the
sister apparently used the pan
and the passport so she could travel
free.
The press report was the first
intimation to officials in New York
that th, arrested woman might
have traveled under an assumed
name.
rime wooled
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tered canner and cutter CowA a
10.50; nothing offered otherwise. .
Hogs: Choice 180-275 lb barrows and gilts
26.00: choice light sows to 24.00.
a. S ESS SharS
Stock Averages
Compiled by Tei.2212buf2t..x
Not change a • a 3 • 1 a 4
Friday ..........152.2h 86.0 MJ J 114.9
Prev day ........151.4 85.7 57.4 114.5
Week ago .........152.1 86.7 57.3 114.7
Month ago.........147.7 81.0 56.1 110.9
Tear ago 145 4 80.6 55.0 112.8
New York Curb
tand on
Texas Ca
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State Dairy
Groups Open
Price Battle
DALLAS UR — A milk-pricing
battle was under wsy today be-
tween the North Texas Producers
Assn, and Cabell’s, Inc., of Dallas,
which began a new "rotation" plan
in purchasing milk from its pro-
ducers.
The “rotation” plan which took
effect today means that each haul-
er of milk from producer to
Cabell's will have one day a week
in which he must deliver the milk
to another buyer.
Coboil’s Lower Price
Cabell's has offered to buy the
milk on this day at its McKinney
plant—but at a price about 40
cents lese than the producers
would receive if the milk were ac-
cepted at the Dallas plant which
operates under the federal order.
J. O. Woodman, manager of the
North Texas Producers Assn., a
co-operative enterprise with of-
ficers in Arlington, challenged
Cabell’s plan and requested its
members not to sell their milk
to the McKinney plant.
As an alternative the association
advised its producers to send their
milk to the cooperative's plant at
Muenster. Today the Muenster
plant bought 20,000 pounds of
milk—which amounted to two
truckloads and the entire surplus
from Cabell's.
The association said the Muen-
ster plant, located in Cooke Coun-
ty, was paying full “blend” price.
Price on Scale
Under the federal order, a
"blend" price is achieved by strik-
ing a balance between the Class I,
or Grade A, price and that paid
for Class II, or milk used in ice
cream and cheese manufacture.
The dairy which buys the milk
pays a price according to the per-
centage used for fluid milk and
that used for manufacturing by-
products such as ice cream.
The blend price for January was
$5.49 per hundredweight.
Earle Cabell, president of the
Dallas dairy firm, said he could
not continue to buy all the milk
from his producers at a price 40
cents more than a non-regulated
manufacturing plant can buy it
He said he has been paying about
83.70 per hundredweight for milk
used at Cabell's McKinney plant
for the manufacture of ice cream,
cheese and other milk by-producta.
The price paid by non-regulated
manufacturing plants has been
about 83.30, he said.
22 BY ASC OFFICE
Shirley Northcutt,
= Bill Forbus Named
By The Associated From
19 El Bond&Sh 20% 20% 20%
7 Humble OU . 61% 61% 61’
New York Bonds
By The Associated Prem
AT & SF 4s 95 .......-... 120
Sou Pac 4%s to .............104%
Tex Corp 38 65 ..........104
Cotton
NEW YOU FUTURES
NEW YORK, Feb. 12 un—Cotton futures
closed 25 to 65 cents a bale higher today
in slow trading. Middling spot was up 20
a 35.25
Buppor came through short covering,
along with some mill demand and buying
by shippers against sales of cotton to
formoss.
Transferring from nearby March to later
months was active.
Hedging in futures was light with under-
lying strength stemming from the heavy
cotton laaa movement which is tightening
up the spot markets.
Futures closed 25 to 65 cents a bale
higher than the previous close,
HIGH LOW CLOSE
S7h.,.......-
July ..................34.31 34.21 34.30-32
Ocober ............33.58 13.50 12.58
December ...........33.52 33.46 13.50
March...........33.68 13 61 33.67-68
’ an a# SA
. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. * un—Cotton fu-
mine,cosed 1 cents to to cents a bale
H-SU Beauty, Beast
Shirley Northcutt of Fort Worth
and Bill Forbus of Hereford were
presented as the Beauty and the
Beast, respectively, of Hardin-Sim-
mons University at Friday night
ceremonies in the student center.
The Beauty and Beast were nam-
ed to a student election.
Miss Northcutt to a freshman and
Forbus a senior this year at H-SU.
A home economics major, Mlas
Northcutt attended Paschal High
School at Fort Worth where she
was sophomore class favorite, soph-
omore class reporter and.s udent
council representative As I Junior
she was ROTC cadet sponsor,
all - city ROTC queen, secre-
tary of junior clans and run-
ner - up far class favorite. As
a senior in high school she was
a cheerleader, homecoming queen
and a member of the little council.
Forbus to president of the senior
clam at H-SU, head cheerleader,
and secretary and song leader for
the Circle K, as well as a member
of the Cowbey Band, Inter-dub
council, rodeo club, art league, and
science club.
Forbus to a pre-medical student
is dentistry.
24
H LOW CLOSE
45 34.35 34.44
49 34.39 34.49
THE ABILENK REPORTER-NEWS 7 D
Abilene, Texas, Saturday, February 13, 1954 4-5
THE WAGGIN' TONGUE
By BOB COOKE
Callahan Show Postponed to Feb. 27;
Sears Swine Program Receives Praise
The first annual Callahan Coun-
ty Junior Livestock Show has been
reset for Saturday, Feb. 27. The
event was originally scheduled for
Saturday, Feb. 20. but for various
reasons has been postponed anoth-
er week.
County Agent Glen W. Green, the
county's vocational agriculture
teachers, E. L. Reese at Baird,
Claude Rock of Eula and E. H.
Barron at Clyde, and the agricul-
ture and livestock leaders of the
county are working closely to
make the initial county-wide show
an outstanding event.
Ag teachers said they were get-
ting good response from the boys
who are anxious to compete with
fellow FFA members to the other
schools, and with County Agent
Green's 4-H Club boys and girls.
The county agent and VA teach-
ers believe that the annual show
will contribute materially to an
improvement to the quality of
livestock that to produced on Cal-
lahan County Farms.
The top animals in the Callahan
show will be entered in the dis-
trict show at Abilene. Heretofore,
Callahan’s entries at Abilene were
largely confined to swine.
Fat Stock Show, plus all the other
beautiful little horses which are
making the Norman name famous
among breeders of miniature hors-
es. It s free.
Wylie's annual Community Live-
stock Show is to be staged Satur-
day at the Wylie High School.
Vocational agriculture students
and their teacher, Bill Scott, have
been working weeks on the show
and expect it to be one of the big-
gest community show's in the area.
A beef barbecue, open to any-
one with 31 for each plate, will
be served from about 11:30 until
1:45. Money earned from the bar-
becue goes to the FFA chapter to
further ita community program.
Probably the strongest compe-
tition at Baird will be in the dairy
and swine divisions, since the coun-
ty has had pretty strong programs
in these two projects for several
years.
The quality of swine will prob-
ably excell that of other livestock
in the show.
This is generally true through-
out most of the West Central Tex-
as area.
County agents and vocational
agriculture teachers throughout the
area are quick to give credit to the
Sears Foundation swine program
as the contributing factor to the
improvement of swine in West Tex-
County Agent Bryan W. Swaim
of Breckenridge said the Sears
swine program was definitely re-
sponsible for the general improve-
ment in the quality of hogs pro-
duced in Stephens County.
Mozelle Show
Sel March 16
COLEMAN, Feb. 12. (RNS) —
Their largest program in yearn
of a new type of livestock feeding
competition has been mapped by
Mozelle school livestock feeders in
the fourth annual Moselle commer-
cial feeding program that will end
with a show an March 16.
Doc Rhumann, farm editor of ra-
dio station WBAP at Fort Worth,
will be featured on a day-long pro-
gram that will include announce-
ment of the feeding competition
results, a school pageant, free bar-
becue and a boys' rodeo. The Mo-
zelle schools will take a holiday.
Large numbers of people from
ever Coleman County and West
Texas are expected for the event,
that last year drew an attendance
of around 1.000.
Coleman County
Cotton Acreage
Being Revised
COLEMAN, Feb. 12 (RNS) — A
revision of 1954 cotton allotments
for Coleman County farmers now
to progress to expected to add per-
haps 10,000 cotton acres to the
county's cotton acreage, after fit-
ting it into state quotas, the Agri-
cultural Stabilization and Conser-
vation office said here
Colder Forecast
For West Texas
EAST AND CENTRAL, TEXAS:
Temperatures will average two to
six degrees above normal The
normal minimum is 34-44 degrees
in the interior and 45-55 degrees
near the roast. Warmer Saturday.
Colder in the east and north por-
tions Monday. Warmer Tuesday.
WEST TEXAS: Temperatures
will average three to six degrees
above normal. The normal mini-
mum la 24-36 degrees in the north
and 36-48 degrees in the south The
normal maximum is 55-70 degrees.
Mild through Sunday Colder la
the northeast portions Monday
Colder to the Panhandle. South
Plains and El Paso area Wednes-
day Precipitation light to none in
scattered showers about Monday.
March .34
May ..................M
2-2/2 0
December .... 33.
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Wool
. NEW YORK, Feb. 11 un—wool tops f-
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Mah mew) 198.8: May 17.7; Juij
Certificated spot wool tops 102.00.
LOCAL MARKETS
Orate Sorghums
Wheat .
Barley .........
GRAINS
Per (ME are
POULrnt
Hens. 4 lbs. and up.........
Hens under 4° lbs. ........
Stags and Roosters ......
Broilers
EGGS
Current Receipts in Grocery
BUTTERFAT
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House Okays Bill
On Mexican Labor
WASHINGTON unThe House
Agriculture Committee today ap-
proved legislation authorising the
United States te hire Mexican na-
tionals for farm labor regardless
of whether Mexico Itself consents
to their employment.
The measure was drafted after
negotiators representing both the
United States and Mexico failed
to agree on terms for continuation
of the Mexican Labor Import
Agreement which has been to ef-
feet since 1948
Approval of the measure had
been urged by representatives of
American agriculture organizations
on the ground there isn’t enough
labor for the cultivation and har-
vesting of crops te the United
States.
Spokesmen for labor unions had
opposed the measure, declaring
that thousands of unemployed
could fill the jobs and that there
is no need for bringing to workers
from Mexico.
The smallest pipe organ has
about 370 pipes, and the largest
had more than 40,000 pipes.
The increases will be made un-
der provision of a recent Congres-
sional action that gave the nation’s
cotton producers an additional 4
millton acres. Texas growers will
get about 1.5 minton of the in-
crease, ft to estimated:
The Incresses will start with the
individual grower, by application
of a new formula for determining
11954 quotas. The Indlvidusl In-
creases will be consolidated on a
county baato and again for a Tex-
as total, that to not to exceed the
approximately 1.3 million acres in-
crease given the state.
The formula to be applied for
the new allotments was outlined by
Joe K. Taylor, county administra-
tive officer for the ASC office This
will give a grower either 65 per-
cent of his 3-year average plant-
tags (for 1351-32-331 or 4# percent
of his high year for this period,
whichever is largest. The total,
however, is not to exceed 47 per-
cent of his cultivated acreage.
This to an enlargement of a
formula that was applied last fall
that gave county growers a total
of 36,000 cotton acres for 1954.
When the new individual acreage
quotas are figured under the in-
creased program, they will be for-
warded to state ASC office. Taylor
said Reports from all counties will
be totalled there and any adjust-
ments made if the total increase
exceeds the 1.5 millton acres al-
lowed.
The quotas then will be sent
back to the counties and new acre-
age amounts will be given to the
individual growers, Taylor said
This probably will take about
two weeks, he estimated, and
county cotton raisers probably will
receive their new quotas late in
February
"We know, of course, that our
county raisers will get more acres,
and we should know in a few days
exactly how much per farmer,” he
added.
Officials of the Sweetwater Area
Livestock Show, Feb. 22-24, report-
ed this week that 908 entries have
already been received. Last year
the total was around 400.
To date there have been 428
lambs, 54 calves, 113 swine, and
10 dairy animals entered in the
show.
Final plans for the show were to
be formulated this week.
J. B. (Jake) Payne, Stephenville,
FFA Area IV supervisor, said
Thursday night that his assistance
had been solicited in nominating a
likely candidate for the 83.000 Ho-
blitzelle caah award to the Indi-
vidual who has contributed most
to rural progress in the last few
years in Texas.
Big business of the day will be
the adding up of how well 38 Mo-
selle FFA and 4-H Club stock rais-
ers have done with 110 head of
lambs and eight calves, in a com-
petition where the winner to the
feeder with the best profit-and-loss
record.
A school pageant on the "Story
of Trade", by the fifth and sixth
grades, will open the day. Charlie
Rae will direct the large commu-
nity-sponsored free barbecue at
noon and Bud Wilson will direct
the boys' rodeo, an afternoon at-
traction.
But the finish of the practical
feeding program will be the center
of Interest
In it Clint Shirley, of the Shirley
Livestock Commission in Fort
Worth, will appraise each animal
at market value. Three or more
sheep or two or more calves make
a feeding project The value of the
lambs and calves will be fixed by
Shirley s appraisal, and compared
with the initial value and the cost
of feeding te arrive at a profit
figure. ,' .
Payne said he was not able at
the present to nominate such aa
individual, but was convinced that.
as a group, the Coleman County
Breeders-Feeders Association could
qualify.
Jake has suggested that some-
one familiar with the organization
should nominate the individual
who has done the most in estab-
lishing the program and policy of
the association.
Anyone who has had contact with
the work of the association and
baa enjoyed the warm hospitality
and experienced the enthusiasm of
its members for Coleman County
and everything relating to Coleman
willingly second Payne’s nomina-
tion.
John Norman, Winters breeder
of miniature horses, namely Shet-
lands, has extended an Invitation
to visit the Lazy N Stables Satur-
day.
John will have on exhibit the
ponies that won the championship
of the Fort Worth Exposition and
East Texas Due
Good Feed Supply
Banks, State Offices
Clos* far Lincoln
Lincoln’s birthday went by Fri-
day, marked only by the closing of
the city's three banks and some
state offices
County Republicans held no ob-
servances Friday. Dr. V. H.
Shoultz, county chairman said.
Offices closed were the Texas
Railroad Commission, State Comp-
troller of Public Accounts, and the
State Highway Department. Other
state offices remained open as well
an all federal offices.
All local businesses were open
Friday since Lincoln’s birthday to
not one of the regular holidays tak-
en by firms in the city, the Abilene
Chamber of Commerce reported.
AUSTIN U—Cured range and
pasture feed is nearly gone over
most of the state but a luxuriant
supply of green feed to in early
prospect over the entire eastern
area, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture reported today.
Over the western two-thirds of
the state moisture to needed to
bring along additional wheel and
oat pasture and to start native
grass.
Most western ranges were prac-
tically bare af dry graas and small
grain pastures nave been eaten
close. Green winter feed eased
what would otherwise have been
“a disastrous situation.”
la the east, moisture was ade-
quate. Rescue grass, clovers and
small gratae were coming along
faat the first few days in Febru-
ary.
Condition of all range feed was
placed at 67 per cent, 4 points
above conditions a year ago but 7
points below average.
Cattle were coming through the
winter in favor to good condition.
2 Building Permits
Total $8,500 Here
Two building permits were 1-
sued Friday by the City Engineer-
ing Department. They were to:
Johnny D. Rutledge to erect one-
family residence with attached ga-
rage at 866 Green St., at an esti-
mated $8,000 caeL
Hubert Krempin, add to one-fam-
ily residence, 1710 Sewell St., $500.
Brahman Breeden
Bed Officials
HOUSTON Qi-Herman Tayter
Jr., Natchitoches. La., has been
elected to the board of directors
of the American Brahman Breed-
ers Assn.
Taylor succeeds his father who
died last year.
All other officers and directors
were reelected at the association’s
annual meeting, held in conjune-
tion with the Houston Fat Stock
Edgar Hudgins, Hungerford, was
reelected president.
Mule’s Head Intact
JONESBORO. Ark. * - Passers-
by gaped curiously at what ap-
peared te be a mule’s head on the
ground. The mule had fatten into
a 12-foot cistern A wrecker hoist
sent the animal trotting away, un-
hurt.
I
Wool Tariff Hike Would Hurl
Domestic Industry, Ike Told
WASHINGTON (—The Agricul-
ture Department told President
Eisenhower today that proposals
to increase tariff rates on foreign
wools would weaken the ability of
domestic wool to compete with
synthetic fibres.
It also said in a special report
to the White House that a signifi-
cant Increase te the tariff would
retard foreign trade and might en-
courage retaliation by wool expert-
teg countries.
Advocates of higher tariffs in-
clude organized wool producers.
The findings were given out aa
leaders ef the National Wool Grow-
ers A««n and affiliated state or-
ganizations met here to consider
Eisenhower's proposal for Incent-
ive payments te growers as an
aid measure
The report was prepared by the
department to compliance with a
request the President made last
July to connection with petitions
for a boost to Import duties. 0
The department sold past ef-
forts to encourage sheep and wool
production have been unsuccessful
because returns te producers have
been relatively unattractive com-
pared with alternative farm and
ranch enterprises.
The department said there to
need for greater effort to increase
said me Unied sinter win
porting about five times as much
apparel wool as it did before the
World War II because of a sharp
decline in domestic production.
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