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13, 1961
17-BTHE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
Abilene, Texas, Thursday Morning, July 13, 1961
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Acreage Up
4 Per Cent
Farmers finally got most of
their alloted cotton acreage
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
NEW YORK (AP) Sales, close and
net change of the eight most active
planted, according to the Texas Mar
Crop Reporting Service, Austin Brw
The total is estimated at 7,100,000 Cen
acres, an increase of 4 per cent A
over 1960. san oigo lmp
However, planted acreage is
still 18 per cent below the 1951-59
average, the TCRS reports. Larg
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Livestock
FORT WORTH
WORTH (AP) - C
Rains Could Cause Labor Problem;
Haskell Native New Coleman Agent
. The scarcity of farm laborers tar of Abilene. He also worked
in the area may become real as a herdsman with the cattle
serious if rainfall continues the herd at Texas Tech
present pattern. . . Mr. and Mrs. Sims have two
Cotton and grain sorghum fields children, a boy and a girl |
are getting a little "hairy" in He succeeds Jim Williams,
some sections where the ground who resigned as Coleman County .
has stayed too wet to permit extension agent May 31 to go into
cultivation. business 1
There is no real problem in the Travis Herring is assistant
royment commission reports Am agent at Coleman. EXECUTIVE PERSONNEL — Dick Wesson, left, and
lene could use a number of Huckabee :C. M. McCain inspect a loan application in Wesson's
general farm and ranch hands not expersenda ahis district has office in the new Eastland office building of the Ste-
and tractor drivers damage of crops to his know phenville Production Credit Assn. Wesson is manager 1947, according to the Crop Re-
The Sweetwater office of TEC edge. COBS 1 A5 Know of the Eastland office and McCain, an Eastland Coun- port Service.
could use 30 cotton choppers, but However the azent po nted out ty rancher-farmer, is a director of the association,
the real need for cotton choppers that cool cloudy weather is ideal
in the Brownfield and Lamesa for insects. v weather is ideal Cauls, DPA n
Farmers in the latter area Though there has been no gen LOSmlend PLA OTICA
uld use, 350 choppers Brown-eral outbreak, he said some areas 1GIS T i 1Uls VIRTU
1.80 A
est increase in acreage has oc- 103 A
curred on the Plains, where farm-
ers received a proportionate 1
field could do with 200
Meanwhile, in the Rio Grande hone experienced some infesta-
Valley area cotton harvest is well
under way, with 8,489 bales gin- Increasing numbers and damage
ned in Cameron County, 8,678 in of and damage
Hidalgo and 5,731 in Willacy. Theleahoppers have
Plans Open House Sunday
1,000 51‛s
1,700 23
000 44‛s
1,600 1942
100 62'6
Financial
es.
share of the state's increased al-
lotment over last year and real-
locations from the eastern part of
the state.
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A — Cattle 900,
AT A GLANCE
NEW YORK on -
5- chid# "ttE,Mm=EL
Cotton Hig her; quiet trading.
WheatSlightly higher; broad ad.
ances trimmed
Oats — Mixed; late selling
Soybeans Lower; profit taking and
I quia tion
Steady to 25 cents higher: top
Cattle . Slaughter steers steady to 25
ente higher, top $23.50.
Grain
FORT WORTH CASH
FORT WORTH (AP) Wheat No. 1
ar' 2.23-2.31
Corn No 2 yellow 1.409-1.4214: No. 2
Texas’ wheat farmers have3
| completed harvesting of a 90,-
475,000 bushel crop, which is 15
per cent greater than last year
and the second largest crop of
record, exceeded only by that in
0 Gu
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55 Inter
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14 , one
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I goats 50: to
N trends.
KANSAS CIT
CITY (AP) -
e No. 2 yellow milo 2.25-2 30 per ewt.
CHIC AGO
S CHI AGO I No wheat, oats or soy-
bean sales. Corn No I yellow 1 1012.
ell 107ab-11 00a
malting choice 1 10-1 20m; feed
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CHICAGO TABLE
CHICAGO (AP) —
Wheat Avg. 25 Bushels
| Good subsoil moisture reserve
and cool nights boosted the aver-
are yield to 25 bushels to the
acre on an estimated 3,619,000
Si
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( Corporation
harvested acreages. 40
Oat production for the state, 101
which averaged 27 5 bushe's to 5
CHIC
is 14.00-15.00; Food and Wheat
! 1 00-25 00; medium and
id feeder steers 19 75 Jul
arrows and gilts 200-255 Sep
75-18.35; 2-3 16.25-17 54 Dec
17.00-50: 1-3 270-400 ih ,
Mar
slaughter lambs slow; May
choice mo mostly prime May
lambs 18.00-75. good ( orn
€ HICAGO Jul
Prev.
High Low Close close
1.91% 1.90% 1.9044 1,9012
1.95 1.934 1.934 1.9342
2 0144 2 00% 2 00% 2.00'*
2.07‛s 2.05% 2.06 2.05%
2.09 2.074 2.07 2 2.074
1.16 2 1.15‛s 1.15‛s 1.1512
1.20% 9.94 1.194 1.19 /
1.24 2 1.22% 1.22 2 1.22% .
as muchCD
boosted
Wednes
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grades May
.temen Oats
and the Tut
ades at Jul
ts were Sep
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the ad- M r
High
25578 May
brought liye
21.73-23 Jul
e grade Sep
on gD0d/,
3 25 for Dec
• and at
od and Mar
utility May
the acre, totaled 26 675,000 bush- 2
els, an increase of 9 per cent 1
over last year. Barley and rye #
ceremonies and production on 420,000 acres total- 41
.' been report- EASTLAND—A new field office Assisting Wesson in planning
ed in Coleman, Knox and Runnels building of - the Stephenville the dedication
counties, according to John G production Credit will the dedication
Thomas, area extension entomoio- officially dedicated here in a open house is Mrs. Johnnie Math- ed 10,259.000 bushels, barley av- 22U
gist of College Station, and W. L. ceremony to be held at 2 30 p.m Views, secretary-clerk.
Owen Jr.: associate entomologist. | Sunday Mrs. Mathiews and several for- ,
Thrips have caused some dam- |, l Under the feed grain program,
age to late planted Runnels cot. An open house for the general mer women employes of the East, the Texas Crop Report shows
of moisture Sunday which has ton - public to inspect the new facil- land office will serve as hostesses farmers reduced corn acreage 25
brought his total for the year to Knox County reports indicate ities of the agricultural credit for the open house. per cent below last ye: r. for a to-
1190 inches h e . boll weevil damage and egg lay-lo ganization will be held following The attractive 1,400 square foot tal of 938.000 acres. Average es. et €
He said cotton had started to ing has increased considerably, the dedication. Dick Wesson, man- tan brick building will provide timated yield is placed at .27
Frowcatter b slowed dommia Conditions in some Runnels fields ager off the office, announced. expanded and improved facilities knkae •—- - - "
few teeeksraE Neunsei sonithiy are about the same. The brick and masonry struc- for its stockholders, Wesson ex-
W temperature. said he had Concerning boll weevils the ture is in the 100 block of N. La-
replant some of the cotton in entomolorist, . ratonimar St. It is Eastland County
s andy land because the soil was counts Aholli Si Xadl nfestiatior headquarters for the Stephenville " "
too cold and the seed rotted. counts should be made regular PCA which serves a 10-county area,
ly to determine the extent of dam- PCA " Nch AS 3 large meeting room. Adequate
age and control begun as soon a pa of North n ald aNaSation parking area is also provided at
as 15 to 25 per cent of the squares Participating in the dedication the rear of the building,
have been punctured. Are he Wectan
TEC reports 10.600 laborers need
ed in the three counties.
T. C Wilson of Mitchell County,
who lives a half mile southeast
eraging 25 bushels to the acre
and rye 14 5 bushels
are
of Loraine, recorded a half inch
Pro
1 28
1.31
1.2644 1.26% 1.2744
1.29% 1.29% 1.304 -
KICAN STOCK EACHANG
nd & S 3474 354
NEW YORK BONDS
4'25 2022k
.74
.76
.73 2
80
.80
.7314 .7344
.74 2
7
.74'2
. 77
.79
.79%
bushels, surpassed only by the Month A
28 bushel average in 1959. Total Year ano
- a cproduction is placed at 25,326,000 - Cotton
plained. Facilities include a wait-is***
ing room and lobby, central office bushels, 8 per cent less than last NEW I3W*k TREK ZAN
two private offices and al Sorghum Acreage Down
Grain sorghum acreage planted
Albert Thane, half mile north- a-OLREN an 500 Participating in the dedication parking area is also provided at for all purposes is set at 6.013,000 C
east of Paint Creek School in Has-have been puniciantet the squares ceremonies will be Wesson, East- the rear of the building. acres, according to the report. Now
kell County, recorded 3.68 inches " P ___9 land Mayor Cyrus Frost and C. The Stephenville association This is 22 per cent below the 7,-Fu
Saturday and Sunday, giving him R C Burwell 7 Staphenuane M. McCain of Eastland County, serves Eastland, Comanche, 716 000 acres planted last year bi
total for July of 4.31 inches Extandionpistei1 a director of the association. Erath, Hamilton, Somervell, Hood. Peanut acreage planted for all July
He has recorded a total of 17.74 there are deotiat e El Sunday has been proclaimed by Johnson, Parker, Tarrant and purposes of 297,000 acres equals December
hes for the year, w ith 6 37 there treadequate moisture condi: Mayor Frost as "Production Cred. Wise counties. Offices are located that of last year. M. n
nches coming in June. His rain- Peaches and other fruit are it Association Day" in Eastland, in Stephenville. Eastland, Com- Total production of 2.196,000 July NT
ll for June and July has amount- moving to market and watermel. in tribute to the contributions anche. Fort Worth, Cleburne and tons for all hay is expected from NEW 9
ed to 10.68 inches, ons will soon be ready made by the association to the Decatur.
. . He said pastures are improving agricultural economy of the area. The Eastland office has been
George Condron eight miles with rain A few serewworm and in honor of the new Eastland operated since 1942. Wesson has
s ouithe at of Throckmorton, cases have been reported but in- County headquarters. been manager since 1950.
Roscoe Man's Horse Wins
• County were blocked Sunday morn- are among those his district
nelbc ama other properey Blciain Travis Herring. Coleman coun Cutting Contest at OInev
ed flood damage, he said. ty asst extension agent s aid C
some milo is ripening fast and
1,840,000 acres, an increase of 1 higher
per cent in production and 2 per July
cent in acreage over last year
Pasture condition at 84 per
October
Dec
March
cent compares with 71 per cent Jury
last month and 68 per cent on
July 1 a year ago.
Texas peach production is
placed at 650,000 bushels, 13 per
cent below the 750,000 bushels last
year. Pear production is forecast
at 135,000 bushels, a drop of 7
Dallas.-
Houston
New Orleans
New York
K AVERAGES
Indus. Iatls L til 60 Stee
dll d 1.1 d.4 d 1.0
338.1 120.5 128.2 245.9
59.2 121.6 128.6 266 ,
39.1 122.4 127.7 240.6
342 7 122.2 128.0 2 8.2
324.3 118.4 105 2 219.4
With spring slaughter lambs we
• cents lower, the choice and
offerings went at 519-20, the good
choice at $17.50 18 50
aged to 25
e previous
Low (
Produce
TEXAS POULTRY
AUSTIN (API Poultry:
South Market steady Sup
' te f. slow to fair dem
1 the farm broilersiryers 3
i 5th it 'I th for
78 No sale he
, 55 Exchange, (
one
fully
is
n-
fully
High
SPOT COTT
12.75
32 5
1.35
1.37
1.39
1 30%.1 30%4
1.32 1.3212 1.38
.734 F
.74 2 2
.76%
7947
% #
And.
1.36
1.3544 1.3512 1.39 3
1.42 1.38‛s 1.384 1.43 :
Soybeans
%p
Nov
Jan
Mar
May
est Poultry
ES CHICAGO
futures CHICAGO (AP) Butter unchanged: 93
a bale sore AA 60.466: 92 A 60.466: 90 B 58.466-
Erg unchanged to 2 higher: 60 per
cent or better grade A whites 316 36%:
medium extras 33% 34: standards 32 3212.
Wool
NEW YORK (AP) Wool tops futures
closed 8 of a cent to 2.0 cents higher
Detcher 161.8 December 162.5, March
62.0, May 161 0. October 160,5
Certificated spot wool tops 160.6.
1.41 1.37 1.3742 1.411 *
2.6712 2.6014 2.6212 2.6644 ..
2.5512 2.534 2.54 2.55%
-2 4912 2 47%. 2 48‛s 2 50%
2.53‛E 2.524 2.52% 2.55
2.57% 2 56% 2.56% 2.59'4
2.6012 2 5912 2 597, 2.624
COME'N GET IT
feArriving daily beou
tiful New Spring Crea-
tion in Ladies West-
ern Pants and Shirts
to match Men's West-
Tay em Wear BOOTS in
every size. Kind and
FA. Style . : The
fit is most im por-
tont in boots.
LEDDY BOOT SHOP
450 Pine Abilene
G A Reese Scranton farmer will be ready to combine in the Junior Command, owned and
recorded 3 40 inches Saturday and near future. . , . .
Sunday for 25.10 inches this year. He said cotton in the county coe. took top honors in the open
He farms 2.5 miles southwest of ranges in size from last week's cutting first and final go-rounds
Scranton plantings to some in fruiting at the West Central Texas Cut-
Buddy Burnett, 2.5 miles west stages. ting Horse Assn. contest at Olney
of Hobbs School, Fisher County, Herring said conditions are ex-SAL: . .
recorded 70 of an inch Saturday cellent in the extensive range Sig Faircloth and Frank Daws
and Sunday. His total to date is areas of the county Some old- judged 13 horses in the division.
17.76 time stockmen have told him that Following are results of the
conditions are as good as they the contest furnished by Boley Rocky.
Directors of the Taylor County have seen._______________Cotten of Woodson, WCTCHA sec-
1----------------------------retary.
Sheep and Goat Raisers Assn.
have been asked to meet at 2 p.m.
Thursday at the County Ag Build-
ing, according to County. Agent
H. C. Stanley, who is secretary of
the organization.
Purpose of the meeting is to
plan the annual field day and
picnic.
Nationwide
Crop Acreage
Drops Sharply
WASHINGTON (AP) 1 The Ag-
ridden by Buster Welch of Ros-
Whorter: Kino Rocky, owned b
A. L. Inman of Wichita Falls and
ridden by Don Alexander, and
Wanda Bailey, owned by Port-
wood Quarter Horse Ranch of
Bomarton and ridden by Bill Iler.
Open, finals — 1. Junior Com.
mand 2. King's Michelle: 3. Tur-
ner's Redwine. owned and ridden
by L. H. Turner, and 4. King
per cent under 1960.
Orange production is estimated
at 3,500,000 boxes, which is 500,000
boxes more than 1960. Grapefruit
production is placed at 6,500,000
boxes compared with 6,700,000 box-
es last year.
if you're the thrifty
AA-novice, 10 horses judged by
Leo Huff and Shorty Freeman-
Open, first go-round - 1. Jun- 1. Choctaw, owned and ridden
for Command 2. “Turners Red- bv Harold Copeland of Olney: 2.
wine, owned and ridden by L. H. Snooky Mac, owned by Harry
Turner of Gordon 3. three-way McDaniels of Petersburg and rid-
tie) King's Michelle, owned by den by Delbert LeFevre: 3 Pret-
Dr. and Mrs. E. F. Meredith of tv Baby owned by Corl Me-
Olney and ridden by Glenn Mc-field of Bellevue and ridden by
| . Ceorve Evans: and 4. if'e)
Charlie Red, owned by Fields
Ranch of Saint Jo and ridden by
Doc Welch, and King Rocky.
Novice, any rider division, 19
horses judged by Foster Rich-
mord and Glenn Compton - 1.
King Baccus, owned by Edger
ent less than last year It ""!"" “" vre ""'" Brown, Ft. Pierce. F la. and rid-
Sims. a native of Stamford, is predicted that the acreage for By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Mac: Rod ned Tol:
Heaviest supply of tomatoes this Brooks of Sweetwater and ridden
season hit most Texas food mar- bv Louis Brooks Jr and 4 (tie)
kets this week as many local pro- Penny Taylor, owned by A. R.
during areas made a comeback Knight of Breckenridge and rid-
after recent rains, the Agricul- den by Shorty Freeman, and Me-
taral Marketing Service reports. lita King, owned and ridden by
| Yellow squash prices sagged to Robert Copeland of Olney,
about the lowest point of the sum- Novice-novice. 20 horses judged
mer. by Bobby Knight and George Ev.
Field peas—purple hull, black- ans - 1. Frosty Wolf, owned and
eye and crowder—as well as okra ridden by Vernon Click of Lued.
became a little more plentiful but ers: 2 and 3 (tie Dutchess Lady,
are still in rather light supply owned and ridden by D. L. Pow-
Golden Bantam corn moved at ell of Seymour, and Clacheta.
steady prices owned by Mrs. Lou Hildreth of
| Turkey prices sagged to near Weatherford and ridden by Coy
record low wholesale levels, en- Carter: and 4. and 5. (tie) Honey
couraging retailers to feature spe-Boy Babe. owned and ridden by
Ray N Sims, assistant county riculture Department's first com-
extension agent at San Antonio, prehensive crop report of the sea-
f ormer Haskell County Club calf son indicated Tuesday a sharp
feeder, will become Coleman drop in the total acreage of crops
County extension agent Aug. 1. being grown this year.
According to Roy Huckabee of It estimated that farmers
San Angelo, District 7 extension plartod-306-million-acres or 5.3
a Texas Tech animal husbandry harvest will be about 295 million
graduate. He trained in exten- acres, down 6.5 per cent from last
sion work in Coleman County un- year.
der County Agent Sterling Lidnsey, The report told of a sharp re-
Huckabee said | duction in spr ing w heat in the
During a break in his school northern Great Plains due to hot
years, he worked for Earl Gui-lweather and drought.
Sharp Drop Hits
Principal Stocks
Tomatoes Flooding
Markets in Texas;
Other Crons Down
NEW YOR K (AP)—The stock the next major swing. Some ana
market took a fairly sharp loss lysts pointed to the possibility that cials on this meat.
Wednesday in moderate trading the government may mobilize the
An estimated $1.44 billion was National Guard and Army Re .
clipped from the quoted value of serve units as preparedness for DIFECIOIS
stocks listed on the New York the Berlin crisis, saying that this •
Stock Exchange, based on the fall was bound to create caution
in the Associated Press average among investors. Others mini IV Fldll ID FICIC
Lex Graham of Wichita Falls,
and Patty Lynn, owned by E M
McCright of Trent, and ridden
by Donald Rutledge of Abilene
Cotten said the next show of
the association will be July 22 in
the Manuel Davis pen at Claire-
It was the steepest decline in mized this and other news factors, mont with books closing at noon
more than two weeks. but fairly stressing the technical aspects of BALLINGER—Directors of the WCTCHA will hold a cutting
routine in the light of past his- the market. Runnels County Farm Bureau show Aug 5 in the Eastland
tory Losses of most key stocks The AP 60-stock average slipped will discuss plans for the annual County Sheriff's Posse Arena,
went from fractions to a point or 1.00 to 245.90, its biggest decline barbecue and queen contest at Eastland, with books closing at
so, and declines of the really since June 26, when it fell 2.10 a monthly meeting Thursday, 6:30 p.m. Another show with
"big" stocks were trifling Some. Industrials were off 1.10, rails 1 10 Jul 20, at 8 p.m. here books closing at the same time
like General Motors and U.S and utilities 40. The barbecue and contest is set is set for August 19 at Olney.
Steel, closed unchanged. Volume was a routine 3.07 mil- for Aug. 24 in the Ballinger City Both shows begin at 7 p.m.
The more dramatic declines, go- lion shares compared with 3.16 Park
ing from 2 to half a dozen points million Tuesday, detracting from Directors will also review the
or so, were among the "growth" the significance of the decline in program of the 1961 Texas FB Aspermont Enrry
stocks which made hay in the prices. Institute to be in Mineral Wells Wins Pig Contest
steep rise from last October to Prices also declined on the July 25-28 Students to attend 2
May. These were subjected to a American Stock Exchange, where from here are Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Perry Workman, Aspermont 4-H
continuation of long-term profit volume was 1.11 million shares Vogelsang and Patti McDaniel, of-member, won the Sweetwater
taking. compared with 1.19 million Tues- fice secretary of the local organi- Sears store area heavy litter con-
The Dow Jones industrial aver day zation. test with a litter of nies that
age fell 3.68 to 690.79—leaving this Corporate and U.S. government The event grew from a crowd weighed 651 pounds at 56 days
indicator still in a fairly high bonds traveled in opposite direc- of 175 in 1950 to about 2,000 last This was 200 pounds more than
notch of the range between rough- tions Wednesday. Treasury issues year the closest contender, it was re-
ly 670 and 700 that has confined were generally higher and corpo- B B Campbell of Hatchel, ported.
the market since May. rates were mostly lower. Corpo second vice-president of the group Other winners of Stonewall Coun-
The day's performance looked rate volume traded on the ex- and chairman of the barbecue ty included Rita Baldree, third;
to Wall Streeters like just another change totaled $6.08 million par committee, said bids are being Sharon Leverett, fourth: Jimmy
routine move in what could be a value compared with $7.01 million taken for preparation of the an-Leverett, fifth; Edward Patton,
consolidation movement prior to Tuesday. I nual meal. | ninth, and Tim Jones, 10th.
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