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10-B THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
M ! Abilene, Texas, Wednesday Morning, April 15, 1959
The Waggin'
Sore Muscles, Aching Backs Stock Market Has
Best Rally Since
Sure Sign Spring Is Here
WII
POS
Tongue
April 3 Business
By BOB COOKE
Stonewall County Rancher Named
To State FHA Advisory Committee
Jay B. Pumphrey of Old Glory This price is subject to loca-
I has been appointed to serve on tion and butterfat differentials.
1 the Farmers Home Administra- For milk which is received at
tion’s five-member state advisory Mid and, the producers of such
committee, says Walter T. Mc-milk will receive a price 15 cents
Kay, FHA state director. higher, while those delivering
Pumphrey owns and operates milk to plants located at Brown-
registered Hereford breeding wood and Mineral Wells will re-
ranches in Stonewall and Tarrant ceive prices 20 and 25 cents lower,
. % counties and is the producer of respectively.
the $15,000 reserve champion Here-h For each point that the average
ford bull at the 1959 Denver and butterfat content of producer
Fort Worth shows. He is a mem- milk varies from the four per
ber and past officer of the Stone- cent, a butterfat differential of
wall County Farm Bureau, an ex- 6.9 applies.
ecutive committee member of the The per cent of producer milk
Texas Hereford Assn., past presi-classified as Class 1 was 86.5 per
dent of the West Texas Hereford cent during March, 1959 compared
Assn. and a member of the Texas to 89.5 during February, 1959 and
and Southwestern Cattle Raisers 86.8 during March a year earlier.
Assn. However, producer receipts as a
McKay says Pumphrey’s experi- per cent of total receipts was 88.9
ence and background will aid the per cent during March, 1959 com-
agency greatly in fitting its pro- pared to 87.1 during the same
gram to the needs of Texas farm- month a year earlier.
ers and ranchers. During March, 1959 there were
---521 producers delivering milk on
The Albany Riding Club is plan- the Central West Texas market
ning to attend the national riding who delivered an average of 486,-
club meeting at the spring round- 694 pounds of milk per day. The |
up at Roby April 24-26. average value of daily producer
The club has been active and deliveries per producer was $50.45 .
has scheduled ropings each Sun- during March, 1959 compared to
day afternoon at 3 p.m. in its $42.97 a year earlier.
- arena. Daily Class 1 utilization by Cen-
---tral West Texas handlers during
Munday’s potato crop may have March 1959 was 3.01 per cent less
been cut back several days, but than during February 1959.
the frost did not kill any of the T . -—— .. . .u. do ...
plants, says J. W. Smith, cashier producer milk was 3.857 per cent. Future Farmers of America, be
of the First National Bank there. 1 -
He says he does not think the be- _______
low freezing temperatures Sunday damp weather Friday night failed
SUMMER? WINTER? — Mrs. K. B. Clevelland of 1125 Merchant looks sadly at
some of her frostbitten tomato plants. Over 80 per cent were frozen. The 28-de-
gree temperature Sunday night did similar damage in many Abilene gardens,
especially to young bean plants. (Staff Photo)
By OVID A. MARTIN biggest mistake. Dr. Boswell says
| Asocialed Press Farm Writer it is overcrowding. Trying to grow
| WASHINGTON (AP)—The sea-too much on the limited space.3- — -—------
son has arrived for America’s No. Here are a few “dont’s” sug- Tuesday its best rally since April
1 hobby - home gardening. As gested by the garden expert: 8.
many as 40 million American Don’t try to grow a garden on An estimated $1,400,000,000 was
homes are believed to have gar- a lot that is too poor to make a added to the quoted value of
dens. good growth of weeds or grass: stocks listed on the New York
Millions of hopeful people are that is shaded by large trees Stock Exchange, based on the rise
beginning to troop into garden more than a few hours a day: in The Associated Press average,
shops to buy fertilizer, seed, new that is likely to be flooded often: Selected chemicals, electronics,
tools, bug and plant disease sprays that is contaminated with coal. rails and utilities bolstered the list
and dusts, hose and many other chemical or oil products wastes ‘ in an irregular advance. Oils and
items. Don’t spade plow or cultivate aircrafts showed a lower trend.
Many a man in the suburbs has soil that is too wet . * Gains by coppers, airlines, build-
been eyeing the small four-wheel Don’t apply too much fertilizer ing materials and mail orders al- 5
garden tractors now making a big Don’t plant seeds, roots or so helped the bullish trend,
appearance. tubers too deeply. ‘ The market was unevenly high-
In fact, some of these hobbyists Don’t sow seeds too thickly and er from the start. Drugs were the
already have reported to work don’t fail to thin out plants to the early stars but their continued
Monday morning with aching proper distance. 9. .rise on reports of new products
backs and muscles, evidence of Don’t let the weeds get too big foundered on profit taking.
too much early enthusiasm. before you try to destroy them 5 A flurry of active dealings near
Vegetable gardening seems to Don’t apply water in numerous the close was a curious combina-
have somewhat fewer enthusiasts light sprinklings but water tion of profit taking, investment
now than during the war. But flow-thoroughly about once a week if buying and switching.
er and ornamental gardening ap- there isn’t enough rain The AP 60 stock average rose
pears on the increase. This re--------------$1.10 to $223.80 with the industrials
flects a general retreat to the ... up $1.10, the rails up $1.80 and the
suburbs in many areas, and short- A 8 utilities up 30 cents.
er work weeks. LOIIEMOTTT The Dow Jones industrial aver-
It’s An Art 9-nRt"CE age moved up 1.77 to 609.53.
The Agriculture Department .... Of 1,236 issues traded, 599 rose
looks upon the home garden not and 407 fell. There were 96 new
as a commercial enterprise but as ITICTATIHAA highs for the year and 20 new
an art. It urges the amateur 011wHgi9WC lows.
gardner to look upon it as such, . _... Volume was 3,320,000 shares
in its latest bulletin on the sub. , The week S market at the Abi- compared with 3.140,000 Monday
lene Livestock Auction Commis- Eleven of the 15 most active
sion opened steady with last week stocks rose, 2 fell and 2 were un-
as an estimated 1,000 head of changed 0 .
cattle and 150 head of hogs were Corporate bonds improved.
Te Top non price Tuesday was Us government DondS Arlted
1200 n ens a poumarged from Bond sales totaled $6,200,000 per
Drylot steers of good and choice-----:_____-________________________
NEW YORK (AP) - Scattered
strength gave the stock market
ject.
| "So much has been wrtiten in
the past few years about ‘scientif-
ic farming’ and ‘scientific garden-
. . _. ing’ that there is danger of the
Merkel FFA Chapter Honored Burglary Suspect mo d IHEP LErimiInNE *d@ Zaideait,
* - " E sreprul TUsUC Jailed at Roby are sciences. They are essentially
For Community-Wide Service = ========- -
" Tuesday morning and by 10 a.m. perience are the best teachers Fat steer yearlings sold for 25
------— — MERKEL — When does a high Collinsworth says a chapter is a suspect was in custody, charged The Question arises does home to 27 cents for the top grades and
The average butterfat test of school organization, such as the only as good as its individual with the crime. gardening cut very deeply into 23 to 25 cents for common and
-members mis 6 Oscar Sims, 29, Roby Negro, farmers’markets?" 0 medium. Heifers were around a
-— come a service organization for a memb • His ys held a show was charged with burglary. Fish- Dr Victor R Boswell the de. $1 cheaper. Good and choice stock-
BUFFALO GAP (RNS) - Cold, community? in the nearly completed barn in er County Sheriff Bus Rollans re- partmentf the de er steer yearlings sold for 28 to
. ... . ------, -—----The chapter becomes a service January: the first in some 15 ported Sims said he took the says it does not He believes the 3 cante and cor------------
night hurt the 700 acre potato to keep the Gap Riders’ first rop- organization to the school and the years. Their efforts are paying off, machine Monday after breaking a total
crop. ing event of the season from be- young men who make up its auseaur-4 1
. Some irrigated cotton just com- . a success as 15 ropers paid bership as soon as it is establish- recognize it.
ing up may have been nipped off,
but he says most of it was just
put in so the damage if any will
be slight. The frost resistant onion --------------
crop was not hurt. times of 11.9 on his first calf, 11.4 Recently the Chamber of Com-
Some 175 acres of cucumbers seconds on his second for an over- merce at Merkel awarded the Mer-
have been contracted and will be of 23.3 seconds gave him kel High School FFA Chapter a
planted after the cotton crop is first, second and go-round money. plaque for being the outstanding
laid in, he says. He was followed in the averages service organization of 1958.
If it warms up planting set by Jess Everett, Big Spring, who At the annual C. of C. banquet
underway in the irrigated fields had 26.1 on two calves: Rex Beck last week Billy Bob Toombs, chap-
but the dry land still needs mois. Valera- 27.1 for two calves; ter prexv. accented the plaque
$11 each to take part in the two- ed. It does not take much longer
calf jackpot contest. before the community receives
Taking the lion’s share of honors services from such an organiza-
was Jack Newton of Abilene. His tion.
Oul of the Rain
And Info the Lake
Two Abilene Community Theater
actors may be a little less enthusi-
CAS
to s
Airi
oval
him
Ch
30 cents and common and medium astic about appearing in a produc-
quantity produced be the from 24 to 27.50, with stocker heif- tion of "The Rainmaker" which
qardene-Pseal PMathe ers about $1 lower, opens Monday, after spending
compared with the total tonnare Commercial cows ranged from about 30 minutes in Phantom Lake
grown by commercial eroennase 18 to 20 cents and canner kinds Tuesday.
6 says brought 14 to 16. Sam Pendergrast of 1931 State
grown by people who because T Good pairs of cows and calves St. and Gene Laurent, 1241 Ambler
low income or for other reasons sold from $185 up to $275 for the Ave., were dumped into the water
would not buy much way better kinds. from Laurent’s 18-foot sailboat by
" %. Helps way. Good slaughter calves moved a sudden gust of wind about 4:30
He thinks the home garden may at 26 to 28 cents, common and p.m. They clung to the boat until
well have helped develop today’s medium from 22 to 24. help arrived.
big market demand for fresh vege. Top quality lightweight stocker Walter O’Dell of Rt. 1, his son,
AT A Cn A uIFE RUE spur* tables. The person who grows a steer calves brought 28 to 32 cents Alvin, 11, and Junior Ross, 12, a
AT A GLANCE IN THE SPOTLIGHT small garden during the summer and common kinds from 24 to 27. neighbor, fished the pair out of the
-------" "- P V* season tends to develop an , Heavy butcher bulls ranged water and took them to the lake
o tite for fresh vegetables out of from 22 to 24 cents, lightweight caretaker. They dried out their
ks: season, stocker bulls brought 23 to 26 clothes before returning to Abi-
1 Many home gardens are fail-cents. llene.
4% ures from the financial standpoint.
% Often the cost of materials and
, plowing, when translated in terms
—of the vegetables produced, is
more than the grocery store price.
But, says Dr Boswell one ._____1-----_
doesen’t engage in a hoboby tor % ** P r oMmt..PmLE Lajune manes
24 profit. Donell. Basbers. Gilbert Deron Bay-
Yet a well handled home gar- vs. Ro Kreb. "U.‘ALM!" WIMIST SALT
w den in a suitable place should "Katherine Tux vs. Charles Tuxo, suit adute ominollisslie, removal of dis
yield produce worth much more Jesse slagss vs. M. A. Stages Sr.. KP master Feed Mills. et al. vs. Dosie
Ti than the cost. In any event, some “ISA Jr. ... Jocetom Marie Kwiie coton ve Jack Clinton. **
€ meonn the ”==x.mm *.m =
n° vegetables and the outdoor exer. roPoneiniy Mims vs Robert L. Mims, suit 3. TE —Potement Co. V
tis cise. Betty E. Carter vs. C. Loyd Carter sul Or CREKII V. S. C. DeResil.
214. What is the home gardener’s "Lone 2" Jaynes vs. David D. Jaynes. bar. Pillops vs. Napolean Phipps, suit
ir most popular vegetable? R is the Awarr. sehlumberser wen CHIN webb vs. Bul scott, wan on
75: tomato. Survarina Care = — 4---- -
a What is the home gardener’s suf
mem- and the businessmen of Merkel window and entering the build- home
4, ling. Bond has not been set.
/007
At the annual C. of C. banquet
but the dry land still needs mois- 27.1 for two calves: ter prexy, accepted the plaque ----------------
ture before it will be ready. An and R. E. Josey of Post, with 27.3 from Isadore Mellinger, retiring NEW YORK- Markets at a glance:
inch rain last week and the cool for the two go-rounds. C-C president. Toombs presented Bond, - Mixed, trading “eds
weather has helped the small grain Guy Weeks, Abilene’s leading the award to Chester Collinsworth, ingotton - Lower, commission house sell-
crop. professional rodeo cowboy, was chapter advisor. CHICAGO: .
Smith says there will not be a one of the ropers but he failed Last year the award went to the liquidation ____________
bumper small grain crop, but
looks like reasonable yields can
be expected if everything holds
out.
inch rain last week and the cod for the two go-rounds. C-C president. Toombs presented Bond,
Guy Weeks, Abilene’s leading the award to Chester Collinsworth, incotton -
professional rodeo cowboy, was chapter advisor. CHICAGO:
one of the ropers but he failed Last year the award went to the liquidation.
s to finish among the top per- Quarterback Club. o - Lower selling.
1 formers. The award is based on what an unayoneavy.Mnmeri new crop months
The second jackpot roping of the organization does for the commu- „Hots - Steady to 25 cents higher; top
season will be held in the arena nity and the public relations it ex- Cattle - slaughter steers steady to so
of the Gap Riders Club next Fri- tends. cents higher: top $37.
NEW YORK (AP)
change of the eight r
Budd Co 52.400
Gen Motors 39.300
16%
52
itd Oil NJ 32,000 52
Alleghany CP 31.600 1244
Tidewater 011 30,400 29‘s
Radio Corp 29,700 sas.
Financial
PUBLIC RECORDS
NEW YORK STOCK
. By The Associated Pre
-39 Am Air lines 3314
tai “Motors
------- a css SECTBIA ---------- - --- . .- FOR T W( JRTH 208 A m2 Tel & Tel 250
was back in her office Monday public is invited to watch the top always stand ready to assist peo- „ERTAAWORTEL AP 2 Hoss 1.300; E An Task 1
after attending the seeretaric. area ropers in action.—Jack Ham- ple in need of technical advice on sheep $.700; spring lambs strong to 107 Chrysler Corp 634
training course at wacolase oeies monds Jr. agriculture. They know where to 1.2.h.othe.ehm are 2.092235: # sea P.n. TE:
.K. _ find it, and are willing to do so stock spring lambs 17.00-19.00: good to 50 Dow „ Chem .... 864,
.She says the four-day course ALBANY (RNS) - The Albany In small towns lying outside the 2ommeia crop limbs 18.00 30.06: * a. Ped" Wior *N
much E5 , was very FFA dairy products team placed county seat district many farmers Euhetri ATEC sitter, P.a ,
and insurance represe tacretaries first in the Area IV FFA judg- and ranchers can get assistance: anene :**: 2500 %. 5330 ‘: Staalessh
tended ° epresentatives at- ing contest at Tarleton State Col- from the chapter when govern- downs lower grades 19.00.26.00: fat sows $ Cuehound, %
lege in Stephenville last week ment farm agencies are not handy. 31.00: "efade, 19.2800: w ine nv : w
Area Byron Maxwell Jr., was high Tasks, such as culling a laying 36:8 the 27.0d-35.005 stocker vearlinas : int 1055 1
Area farmers and ranchmen individual in the contest and flock, may be done for a farmer " SAN ANTONIO 28 Lone Star Gas 4*1
are invited to the range conserva- awarded a scholarship to trarie by the chapter for the practice it w.S#MNT2N022K2 22 7 sat “ fute
R the Judge Marcus ton. Charles Barrett was fourth gives the students. snool-LERamO E SANS a = ‘:". Ward
23 at 3:0m at Mason, April high individual. Roy Hogan was. It serves the young man who is 2rdux-io
" :30 p.m. the other member of the team its member. He not only gets prac- stock steers 25.50-25.00: common 22 es Phill
Root plowing and range seeding The poultry team, composed of tical classroom experience in ag- #1.52 22302 mEnum and caacc.CE: 5
brush land will be demonstrat- Bill Hogan, James Cauble and riculture, but becomes a member 19.77.222 common 1.72: mrl 3% Repur
Robert Cauble placed third in the of an active organization. 235.00. Calves 300 strong: standard and 64 Sears
Speakers will include B ob area contest * Placed third in the Build Show Barn t.-A/a/S/TOunoo-nilM N
Rauch. WUC at Mason, and Jack Robert Cauble was second high When the Merkel boys decided 51003.52.° #t:ls
- letcher, range specialist of Holt. in the poultry contest they needed a show barn they did toxemoice Thefgocaives 31.00-35.00;
—— | The land judging team placed something about it. They tore HOEs" steady: ton 16.50.
, The minimum uniform price seventh. Members of the team down an old abandoned school spring lame 19.50:416 170*
to be paid for 4 per cent milk re- were Charles Ray Thompson Rob- building and built them a practical : An * -— A- *-
eeived by Central West Texas ert Hudman, Douglas Mewhirt barn at less than half cost. They er lambs 18.06 78so; medium is. oo.
handlers from producers during and James Boling. have invested approximately $1,- 12:10 10503 Spanish and shorn
March will be $5.40 per cwt. says The poultry and dairy products 800 in the 40 by 80 foot structure KANSAS CM APCIT Cattle $.000: Comnl TINE,
Exford W. Bain, market adminis- team qualified for the state con- It has 14 stalls, hay loft, and 3.86. "WA *es sees: Set Thane I €
---------—— -------------------——set Agriculture instructors use dif- T st * tsrous.dar
a _ ferent methods in their teaching 28.501 Cows 19.00 23.50: vealers 32.00-15.00: Month ago ---.--".-AVA
Former Tarn Dyuar operation *, 2,2, *22211112120 m2 AL YenxanicaN“FEC
T OT II Id A OCnT P rOVes Collinsworth believ es that the me. “"No: Ittia? CO 2s lower: top
* best instruction comes in the form 1 37716 N NEW YORK BONDS
m _ . of actual project work. Therefore sheer steady: good old crop wooled lamps so Pac 69
the Merkel group spends most***22127 : Te Con S ,
MHO PTOdDIC LOW Tree their time learning how to feed fraoumme 25:5."m0Z Ws Cotton
" **% and care for their projects. He down. ___
Mrs V. L. Cements, Taylor
County Farm Bureau secretary
day night.
No admission is charged
Community-Hide Service
cents higher: lap $37.
The
An FFA chapter and its advisor
Livestock
Gamble
Sinclair Oil
Socony Mobil .
Sou Pac
Stand Oil Cal
tand Oil NJ
exas Gulf Prod
lambs 19.50: utility and good 17.50: so Texas Gulf Sul
id choice shorn lambs 17.75; shorn 14 Texas Pac C&O
* AM-=**-= € e
Two-Day Tractor
School Opens
“ * BI, 2 mru: #. se
vs Frederick . Delbert Webb vs Bill Scott. defendant
Harris, suit for aivoree.rederick Mason Ken Meek garnishee. writ of garnish,
dam a.Sham **. Stanley Booker, suit for Dale B. Duncan vs. Mary Ellen Dun-
. Megs Marren va Bimie Harrell. 3 #*=-*** raw waton
George Edward Kolodziej vs. Mary suit for divorce. •
Edna Kolodziej. suit for divorce.
J. H. Campbell vs. Carrie O. Campbell,
John Allen, et al. vs. City Transporta-
tion Co., suit for damage
. Jess Sartain vs Don Hanks, suit for
damage
Christine Harris vs. Reuben E. Harris,
, 44 #: BALLINGER — A two day 4-H
st 66 : Club tractor school for adult su. ..__
54% 54% leaders 0 " adult Louise wiilis French vs. Gofgan H
51‘s 52 leaders and county agriculture French, suit for divorce
: #: agents of District 7 got underway nd -curse James H Grit
2344 23% here Tuesday to train leadere Ex Parte Ronald William Woody, re-
31 31 0 % Tin leaders to moval of disabilities of minority.
27% 295 conduct similar schools in their Ima Jean Covey vs. Connie Lee Covey.
132% 134‘e home quintalsuit for divorce
89% 90 home counties The Gates Rubber Co., et al. vs.
55% 55% The instructions j,,],A, tor. Kountz Carter Supply Co., suit on debt
D SITCDODS include safety, Odessa Hatfield vs. Dewey E Hatfield,
operation, preventative mainten- "Wal, L’Thor ve. Eueule Betts 7.
ance, fuels, oils and greases igni- dor, suit for divorce
tion and cooling systems, e a itcer.ldoCcr .A.
This is a care and not repair Eige smith vs. Esphiallia Smith, suit
program sponsored by the Humble
4 * Oil and Refining Co., the Na-
8 tional Committee on 4-H Boys and
#: Girls Work Inc., and the Extension
96 Service, says Roy L. Huckabee
of San Angelo, district extension
Press
60 881
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un’e
arpley Douglas vs. Troy Ray
it for divorce
m Mays vs. Ronald L. Mays,
t, et ux, vs. National Van
amage
stock vs. Nancy Maude
for divorce.
arsey vs. Ben Carsey Jr..
Keep Carpet
Problems Small
Today’s small spot or spill
on your new carpet, if neglect-
ed. becomes hard to remove
soil tomorrow.
Clean spots at once with
Blue Lustre. Keep your carpet
cleaning job small. Have Blue
Lustre on hand for frequent
use to eliminate over all clean-
ing jobs. Carpets stay beauti-
full with Blue Lustre care. Use
in any make applicator or with
long handle brush.
The cattle feeding operation at
Lubbock of Durward Lewter, for-
merly of Big Spring, is attracting
wide attention among cattle feed-
ers and meat packers
Lewter won national attention
while he was Howard County
farm agent Before he resigned
to go into the feedlot business at
Lubbock his Howard County 4-H
Club boys and girls won the steer
championship in practically every
major show in the nation
While he was serving as How-
ard County farm agent he came
to be known as one who knew
how to finish beef cattle And
since he has headed the Lubbock
__to — NEW YORK FUTURES agent.
believes that many of the contest CHICAGO o Thebutcher hos mar closed Cents A , Representatives from five coun-
"T hISTer Tuesday Only distant July showed ties are attending the meeting.
e trade for the offerings of 9.500 * The market was under but per —
The advance was on weights over sistent pressure of liquidation with cur- "
- * MA -ARE -__- -. HALeEnaonths hearing the brunt
-1 in nearby July in part reflected
ews that July as the last of the
crop trading months will graduall
adjust downward toward the lower level
of new crop futures
. Other quarters still feel that the large
loan impoundings which are currently im-
parting urmness to prices at the primary
spot markets, will continue to bolster
had aireaproven to himself fields such as public speaking, ra as: -
lacks vitamin A which corn 6: . About 200 head of 200-215 in mostly No. of the si
n ,tual farming operation. That is 1 grade brought a $17.00 top for the Selling
contains, but this found, could why he trained fourth consecutive trading day while a trade vis
be replaced with cod liver "DY ne trained only a, livestock few other lots of mostly No. 1 grade sold 1958
P replaced with liver team for competition this at$16.75 and up
Milo, Lewter found, contains 89 Knowledge of livestock is essen: 2.73:enenE E
per cent dry matter, while corn t ial in select ion of 20 range and $16 25-16 65 for 190-250
N a selection of breeding and ib mixed 1-3 grades. Heavier weights sold
contains per cent; milo con- feeder stock upward: from $15.00 and sows at $12.50-spot markets, 1
tains 8.5 per cent protein as com- Feeding Livestock to 25 cents Mien "Fours,
pared to 6.7 per cent for corn; and Merkel’s 36 FFA’ers have 12 Mo-7.722E to 1 higher
paid since the $317.75 top on April 9 last May
year.. July
Heifers were steady to 50 cents higher, October
La 44 — EA lower and vealers December
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establishment it has gained na-
tion-wide attention. In the current
, . _ ---Merkel’s 36 FFA’ers have 13
total digestible nutrients of milo steers on feed, and expect to put
are only 1 per cent less than for 60 to 65 lambs on later Some of
corn. , . . _ the boys have good brood sows, so steads.” choice
The Lubbock feeder starts his the chapter should have about 15
cattle on a ration of a third of- barrows for next year’s show sea- 21.50 for utility and-**
milo, 10 per cent cottonseed meal son. Capon feeders have their to enoice woolen sau
and the remainder cottonseed chicks started mark" 2Z "m. tee
hulls. +.-----------9.00 for cull to choice arad
Grains
70 cents a bale lower
High Low Close
32.68 32.59 32.59-61
32.51 32.45 32.45-48
ORLEANS FT TURES
EANS N Cotton unchanged
- 7nde wood
) REAL PIT BARBECUE
SPECIAL
BAR-B-Q CHICKEN!
tion-wide attention. In the current He said if the cattle didn’t make . .
issue of Armour & Company’s an average gain of 2.5 pounds a Nuclear Airplane
house organ, "Meat Analysis," and the remainder cottonseed Engine S-hedul
Lewter’s feeding lots are listed day, he lost money. Last year he Engine scheduled
among the major beef cattle plants said he obtained 2.75 pounds a day STRATFORD, Conn (AP )-A
in the state. ... gain on 50 per cent of the cattle United Aircraft Corp. official
Even before he left the Exten-he fed out over a 116-day period. Tuesday hinted the company was
son Service. Lewter had urged Some gained as much as 3 pounds close to success in developing a
livestock farmers and ranchers to a day, with milo the basic grain nuclear-powered plane engine,
utilize their grain crops in fatting in the ration. “I am personally quite optimis-
out, their own cattle, rather, than Most West Texas farmers, he tie that it will not be long before
selling them to Corn Belt feeders said, have facilities for feeding events will prove the wisdom of
.hetoured the Corn Belta area livestock, including the water sup- our entering the field of nuclear
apecame even more convine- ply, an abundance of milo, that propulsion,” said UAC vice presi-
ed that West Texas cattle produc-costs less than corn, and no shelter dent and chief scientist Perry w
e could feed their own cattle requirements either in summer or Pratt.
more economically than the Corn winter.Pratt said, however, that it was
. e : Due to the high altitude at ‘too early to make a firm assess.
He felt that West Texas feeders Lubbock, Lewter said he gets bet- ment of the future potentialities of
deiminate rummer and win- ter gain on his cattle in the sum-this project.” He spoke at the an-
its which increased the mer, although he has no shade nual stockholders meeting * the
eerbend in the Corn Belt. Hel sor hie stock. UAC. Sikorsky Division here.
*% RE Mr:
October
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March
FORT WORTH CASH May
‘ FORT WORTH (AP)Wheat 1 hard
2.3414461: corn 2 white 1.52 56; cats 2
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Net change Middling Sale
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white 8312-8512:. 2 yellow milo 2.44.49
CHICAGO CASH Dallas
CHICAGO W — No wheat or soybeans. Galveston
Corn, No. 1 yellow 1.32: No. 2 yellow 1.3112- Houston:
No. 3 yellow 1.29-31 sample grade New Orleans
Fellow 1.23%: No. 3 yellow CCC 1.31%4; New York
No. 5 Fellow CCC 1.27*4-28%. Oats No. 4
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Soybean oil 9%b. __TEXAS POULTRY
.Barley malting choice 1.20-1.35; feed AUSTIN (AP) — Poultry: East
90-108, steady, 29-34 ib 15-16. South Texas
Wool “ 1 CHICAGO
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 309, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 15, 1959, newspaper, April 15, 1959; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1659502/m1/24/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Abilene Public Library.