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"THERE Is NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR OUR FRIENDS"
MAY CITY. TEX AS THURSDAY. N OVEMBER 21. 1935____________
Meeting Held To Have Part of HEAVING SHALE IS CONQUERED
$5,000,000 Flood Control Fund
Apply To Lower Colorado River
VOL 90
NO 19
FIV K CENTS PER COPY
irectors Of
Wharton Spectator
Wharton, Matagorda and Colorado
Counties are vitally interested in the
possibility of flood control on the
lower reaches of the Colorado River.
. This fact was demonstrated at the
. meeting held at the Plaza Hotel last
w Friday at noon, when representatives
A from the three counties gathered to
* form an organization in an effort to
secure a part of the $20,000,000 of
federal funds which have been allo-
S i rated for improvement of the Colorado
. River.
J Five million dollars of the $20,000,000
.has been earmarked lor conservation
. and flood control, and the organization
which was formed last Friday noon
will make an effort to have a part
of this $5,000,000 fund set aside to be
spent on the lower leaches of the
Colorado in the counties which were
K represented at the meeting called by
. F. O. Taulbee, president of the Bay
City Chamber of Commer.se, last Fri-
xay.
Some thirty persons were present
when the meeting was called to order
by H E Wilson, president of the
Wharton Chamber of Commerce. Mr.
Wilson stated that the meeting was
U.
WINS
DELAY ON RICE
Chamber Of
Commerce Meet
New Chemical and Engineering Methods
Are Used On Three Matagorda
County Wildcats
By Earl S. Post
Staff Writer, Oil Weekly
E
Singer Fortune
Is Still Hidden
a. 0. P. Has Narrow Lead in
Electoral Votes: F. D. R.
Continues In Popular Vote Lead
PROCESS TAX
regular session Thursday noon. No-
SUPREME COURT EXTENDS TIME
FOR FILING OF BRIEFS TO
NEXT THURSDAY
Washington, Nov. 19.—The adminis-
tration yesterday won a respite on
which to prepare for a Supreme Court
battle against efforts to halt collec-
The following directors of the Bay
City Chamber of Commerce met u
vember 14th, at the BayTex Hotel,
with President Taulbee in the chair;
F O, Montague, F. S. Taylor, C. A
Erickson, Max Epstein, Vance Porter.
L. M. Matchett, S. E. Doughtie, Henry
LeTulle, Layton Moore, Geo. E. Ser-
rill, J. S. Mansfield It Lee Ander-
son, R. O. Kiser and B. L. Livengood
Various committee reports were
tions of some $150,000,000 in AAA proc- made and routine matters attended to.
essing taxes. i Vance Porter and C. A. Erickson re-
The court granted the government ported having viewed the preview of
until next Thursday to file briefs in Newsreel shown at the Franklin Thea-
Mud and engineering experiments
have been successful in overcoming
heaving shale in three wells in the
Gulf Coast of Texas. These wells are
credited with the distinction of being
the first to completely master this
problem, which has until now cost
operators millions of dollars and has
prevent d feting some of the most
promising prospects in t he heaving
shale zone.
Two of the wells are located at
Shepherds Mott and one is at Citrus'
Grove, both prospects being in the vi-
cinity of Bay City, Matagorda County.
One well has made a production test i
and showed for a probable producer,
having possibilities of ushering in the
first oil field below the shale. Second
Mexican Badly
Lacerated In
Knife Fight
FIGHT STARTS WITH AN ARGU-
MI NT OVER A PAIR OF
OF SHOE S
FROM WEDNESDAY'S DAILY
and third wells were progressing to-
pay horizons after
opposition to a demand by Louisiana tre Thursday morning of pictures
rice millers for a temporary injunc- I taken on November 11th of the foot-ward probabl .
‘passing through the shale
CHARLES MORRIS GIVES INTI
MATE ACCOUNT OF BURIED
I REASURE
Scores of stories have been printed
about treasure hunters digging for
gold on Padre Island, in search of the
money said to have been buried dur-
ing the Civil War by Alexander Sing,
er and his father, John V. Singer, but
the hunters all were given the wrong
STERLING TO
RESUME WORK
IN COUNTY
I ----
: SHIFT OF ONE TIED STATE MON-
TANA. TO ROOSEVELT WOULD
TIE THE ELECTORAL VOH IN
THIS POLL, 261 TO 261.
WELL NOW 1818 FEET ON BAEK
ESTATE NO. I NEAR SARGENT.
TO DRILL SEVEN WELLS
"clue," according to Charles Morris
of Palacios.
"It seems they took it for granted," drill in other parts of the Gulf Coast,
says Mr Morris in a letter to The
Tribune, "that Alexander Singer,
nephew of the sewing machine in-
Called away several weeks ago to
the crew of men that was working
New York. Nov 15 As go the four
electoral votes of Montana, so goes the
nationwide "Next President" poll, for
this week, at least.
Those four Montana electoral.' are
deadlocked in a tie vote at tin end
of the fifth week of balloting, If the
deadlock is broken and those four
votes go to Roosevelt, the electoral
vote of 45 states for the week will be
tied at 261 all. If they go to Repub-
lican choices, then the GDP's will lead
265 to 257.
At this time they stand, Roosevelt
257, Republicans 261 and 4 tied in
Montana.
The popular vote to date is 170 795.
Roosevelt continued to hold his lead
with 83,861 to 73,838 for the Repub-
lican choices. Other Democratic
r
the Bear Estate well No. 1 for Ster-
ling Oil and Refining Company near
Sargent, will resume drilling imme-
diately. The well was drilled to 1818
feet and surface casing set when the
crew was called to another section.
The company has 9500 acres in the
Boer Estate, 10,000 acres of Hawkins
Estate and 12,000 acres of LeTulle.
There will be seven wells drilled on
this property.
The well that is now being drilled
is four miles west of Sargent on the
Samuel Hoyt survey.
Alfonse Perez, Mexican, was badly ventor, gave them the true locality
cut yesterday afternoon when an al-or the buried sold But, he explains,
tercation with another Mexican, Fi-that such was not the case.
dencia Villareal, about who owned a Alexander Singer died here in Pa-
pair of shoes in the room each shared, lacios more than a year ago, where he
ended in Villareal’s besinning to lived for more than twenty
slash away at the smaller, unarmed years. Mr. Morris continued "A few
Mexican, with what evidently was a months before he died he called me
large dirk The Mexican .suffered deep to his home, where 1 found him alone.
choices total 8409, while Third Party
choices garnered 5687.
A noticeable decline in ballots for
other Democratic and Third Party
choices during the last two weeks in.
dicates that the 1936 presidential race
is going to be a two-party battle and
a close one. Early returns during the
first weeks of the poll brought a much
larger vote for Third Party choices
than during the past two weeks.
The electoral vote for Roosevelt was
boosted during the week just closed
by ballots from Georgia which gave
him the lead there over othe Demo-
cratic choices. The combined ballots
for other Democratic choices there,
|with Talmadge and Al Smith in the
majority, had previously held the lead.
The Electoral Vote
। While the vote from some states
remains small, and the margin of the
lead is very scant in other states,
here is how the majorities of the po-
litical-minded voters in the 45 states
are thinking at this time, and now
tion restraining the administration ball game, Pep Squad drills and vari-
from collection of processing taxes, ious other scenes, and stated they were
At the same time the Supreme Court I very good. Due to mne dEcac. ,
fixed December 19 as the date on weather, however, quite a few shots 17485 feet where preparations are en
which which argument will be held in had to be cut i ,
F S Taylor passed out , list of considered to be through the heaving
prospective members to the directors shale at this depth with 8%94-inch spe-
The new deal suffered an expected and requested that a report be made
■I test of the constitutionality of the
called by Mr. Taulbee, president of . .
the Bay City Chamber of Commerce, Tennessee Valley Authority.
and was being held in Wharton lie-
cause of the central location of this
city. It was the second meeting of
this kind which has been held here
set-back in the battle over farm pol-
icies.
Governor Talmadge of Georgia
scored in his battle against the new
Continental Oil Company's Feife 1.
Due to the inclement Citrus Grove, is down a total depth of
ing made to go ahead The well is
cial extreme line casing set to bottom
and cemented. The manner of drilling
this well will be discussed later in this
article.
The success of two wells at Shep-
herds Mott, after 27 previously drilled
tests failed to successfully drill
game with East Bernard Friday, No-through the formation, brings to light
vember 22nd. place to be designated the importance of properly condi-
later. It was voted by the board to tioned mud and careful drilling. This
authorize Vance Porter to do all that is especially exemplified in Helmerich
& Payne’s Hawkins 1, which is now
at our next meeting.
Vance Porter called the attention of
the board to the report that th ■ foot-
ball game scheduled for Friday night
with San Jacinto B team had be n
called off, but that we would have a |
within the past few weeks. The in- , , , ,
K troduction of those present was held ideal when the Supreme Court granted
in an informal manner, after which I permission for him to file suit against
. Mr. Wilson introduced President Taul- the government contestin validity of
■ bee of the Bay City Chamber of Com, another Roosevelt foundation stone-
" merce. who stated the purpose of the the Bankhead cotton control act.
■ meeting that day. 1 Th® government was directed to file
■ In his statement to the group as-its answer to the Talmadge suit on | could be done through the athletic
.sembled at the Plaza Hotel last Fri-January 20. This would be a much council in securing this game for Bay
Eday. Mr. Taulbee briefly stated the later date than that set for consid- City.
1 serious condition which confronts the eration of the suit of Lee Moor, Texas | Mr. Erickson made a suggestion and
counties along the lower reaches of cotton grower, testing validity of the it was agreed to by the board, that in, ,._. ,
along lower same law. order to arouse and create more in- and proper conditioned muds has been
----,( rest in Christmas, that two prizes the key to its success. H M Smith
first and second prize, Corporation’s Wadsworth Estate 1. on
the extreme west flank of the same
coring 6570 feet in bentonic shale, ap-
parently beyond the heaving section.
Its problems have been many, but
cautious drilling with good equipment
I the Colorado River According to the
speaker, the channel of the Colorado
across Matagorda Bay is in such seri- j
Sous condition that it is but a question
" of a few months until another raft
"may be formed in the channel and the i
work that has been done to keep the |
channel clear will h ve gone to naught
and must necessarily be done again
Black Cats Meet
1. bera
SI
here
if a clear channel into the Gulf of | Fa wp gas V* 1 1
Mexico is not opened and maintained' AnMa-MAR ts fess ETO
Mr. Taulbee stated that the purpose, h ; udY • 4 ILIC
of the meeting t Wharton was to' *
be offered, a first and second prize,
for the best decorated store and sim- . . .
ilar prizes be offered for best deco- dome, is testing at 8 total depth of
rated home or yard If the Christmas
decorations are displayed throughout
the business section and also the res-
idential section that the city will be
I more attractive to the tourists as well
as the outside trade. Mr. Porter st>ted
| whatever prizes were put up by the
chamber for merchant prizes, the Cen-
tral Power and Light would match
8853 feet, where it is attempting com-
r letion. It has produced some oil from
this depth, but is now trying to in-
crease pressure and reduce an in-
•ru ion of salt water.
Mechanical Phi
Continental Oil Company has re-
sorted to mechanics almost entirely in
controlling the shale
in its project.
I formulate an organization which 1
1 would represent the counties of th EAST BERNARD, WINNER OF THE for home prizes. .. conantiue Cum - : 1
. lower reaches of the Colorado a I , LOWER BRACKET. OUT FOR A posed of Max Epstein, J S. Mansfield, early summer of this year, and
I make an effort to secure a part of the WIN OVER BAY CITY Vance Porter, S. E Doughtie. C. A been active almost continuously since
I federal funds which will be spent to | -----| Erickson and Carl Bachman was ap-
K reclaim lands and prevent a recur-j East Bernard, winners of the lower pointed to work out plans for such a
■ rence of the disastrous floods which .bracket in District 37-B. claims to have contest. It was also suggest'd that
y have visited this section in past years, the best team they have had in years, judges be named from surrounding
The gentleman told those who had and the record they have hung up
gathered that he had no plan to out- this season proves that they are right,
at line as to how the money might belli is that great team they bring here
A committee com-
The well was commenced during the
that time, making several tests, in-
eluding one attempt at completion
above the heaving shale. Approxi-
m tely 1500 feet of this formation has
towns.
spent; that it should be the purpose Friday night to play Bay City for
of those most interested in the Colo-the championship of District 37-B,
rado to secure funds for improvement. Each team is champion of its own di-
and then let the engineers worry vision in the district and this playoff
about the manner in which whatever will be for the entire district.
funds might be allocated should be
East Bernard has two men on its
spent on the lower reaches of the squad who are all district calibre and
the play they have turned in this
year makes them stand out as
river.
Mr. Taulbee introduced Colonel E.
H. Marks, federal engineer, of Galves-
ton, who expressed his sympathetic
interest in the problem which con-
fronts the people of Wharton. Mata-
gorda and Colorado Counties. Colonel
(Continued on Page 8.)
Veteran Dies Of
Injuries Received
On Armistice Day
(STEVE) STUBBLEFIELD OF
LEDGER DIES IN BAY CITY
FROM CAR WRECK INJURIES
claimants for that title with little op-
position. They have a halfback and
a left end who are superb, from ac-
counts. The team is about the same |
weight as the Black Cat squad and
is the scrappiest bunch of youngsters
in the lower bracket of the district.
The game should find both teams
in excellent shape for the game and
it will be the best seen here in many
days. For those who have been misled
led—Bay City is champion of its half
of District 37-B and East Bernard is
champion of its bracket in the same
district, so those who thought Bay
City had already copped the entire
district have yet to discover that an-
other heavy and hard barrier awaits
the Cats. Should the Cats be able to
hurdle that barrier they will be cham.
pions of the entire district and will
take on Kenedy for the bi-district
play.
Program Given
For Red Cross
At Rotary Club
been drilled and cased off to its pres-
ent depth of 7485 feet.
The manner of drilling this well has
been similar to the project of the same
CHAIRMAN OF MOVE IN COUNTY
URGES ONE HUNDRED PER
CENT MEMBERSHIP
Mr. E. 0. Taulbee, county chairman
of the Red Cross in Matagorda Coun-
ty, put on a program at the Rotary
Club Tuesday and urged that each
person in the county become a mem-
ber of this great movement.
Mr. Taulbee paid high praise to the
work of Mrs. W. H. Stinnett, roll call
chairman for this year and several
previous years. He also took occa-
sion to thank his committee, who have
done a great work this year, as here-
tofore, in putting over the Red Cross
drive of membership. The committee
company near Seadrift, Calhoun
County, completely described in the
Oil Weekly of July 8. 1935. Loffland
Brothers, Tulsa, Oklahoma, contrac.
tors, who drilled the Calhoun County
well, have the contract on the Citrus
Grove project, using practically the
same set-up.
The equipment on this well in-
cludes four boilers; three mud pumps,
compounded; double drawwords and
double engines; hydraulic rotary, and
a number of usual devices to insure
continuous operation and to provide
pulling and pump power when needed
The outstanding feature of the well
has been in the pipe program and its
handling. A 150-foot string of 20-
inch surface casing was set in the
hole. This was followed by a string
gashes about the head, shoulders, arms
and side and little hope was held for
his recovery yesterday, but having
pulled through the night he is given
a chance to recover.
The assailant pulled his knife on
Perez in the yard back of Hernandezz
restaurant and although Perez had no
knife, he did not attempt to run, even
though several avenue were open to
him.
Officers failed to find Fidencia Vil-
Ireal yesterday and the search is con.
tinued today.
Alice’s Cafe
Changes Hands
Mr. Joe Wigodsky, who recently
moved here from Wharton, has pur-
chased and is operating Alice's Cafe
He seemed to have a clear vision of
past events He told me he had an
important message, which he dictated
and I took down with pencil and
pad."
The message was about the buried
gold and was as follows, as reported
by Mr. Morris:
Mr. Singer's Story
"I am totally blind My 88 years on
this earth will soon come to an end
Owing to favors you have shown me
in the past, I am going to reveal to
you a very important secret, the true
story of which I have kept locked in
my soul for many years. During these
years I have given out many untrue
statements as to the amount and lo-
cation of money and other valuables
which my father, John V. Singer, and
I buried on Padre Island during the
Civil War.
"The people are foolish to think 1
would give them the true location of
Royalty Tax
Levy Upheld
In Test Case
WILL MEAN MILLION IN REVE-
NUE TO STATE, ATTORNEY
M.CRAW SAYS
the money. We have been there only
Bay Citv three times to try to locate it. Nei-
practically all of his life before mov- ther one of us has ever gone alone. 1
ing to Wharton and we are indeed
glad to have him with us again. We
wish him every success in his new
business.
on East Seventh Street.
Mr. Wigodsky lived in
and prevented further drilling.
Special Circulation Valve
The Citrus Grove test found condi-
tions similar to those at Seadrift, But
these have been overcome through the
addition of a circulation valve to the
drilling string. The 85»-inch drilling
valve used in connection with the spe-
cial S^a-inch drilling casing, which also
serves as drill pipe, has been playing
an important part in the project. The
chief function of this valve is to pro-
vide continuous circulation during
every moment or during the entire
time the circulation normally would
be idle, such as when going in or
coming out of the hole.
A straight string of 866-inch pipe
Austin, Nov. 15, Decision of the the electoral votes would be distrib-
third court of civil appeals sustaining uted on the basis of the state by state
the right of the state to levy the gross returns to date:
oil production tax on royalty owners j For Roosevelt- Alabama, 11; Arkan-
will mean $1,000,000 a year to the sas, 9; Colorado, 6; Florida, 7, Geor-
state. Attorney General McCraw said gia, 12; Illinois, 29; Indiana, 14; Ken-
Thursday. Itucky, 11; Louisiana, 10; Massachusetts,
The far-reaching op inion was handed 17; Michigan, 19; Mississippi, 9. Mis-
down in the case of Group No. 1 011 souri, 15; North Carolina, 13; Okla-
Corporation versus State Comptroller homa, 11; South Carolina, 8. Tennes-
George H. Sheppard The validity of see, 11; Texas, 23; Virginia, 11, West
the gross production tax act, as Virginia, 8, and Wyoming, 2. Total,
amended by the last legislature, was 257.
firmly upheld by the appellate court For Republicans - California, 22;
which declared: Connecticut, 8; Idaho, 4; Iowa, 11;
We are clearly of the view that Kansas, 9; Maine, 5; Maryland, 8 Min-
for the purpo.se of levying the group nesota, 11; Nebraska, 7; New Hamp-
production tax on the occupation or shire, 4; New Jersey, 16; New Mexico,
business of producing oil, the legisla- 3; New York, 47; North Dakota 4;
ture may validly declare the owners Ohio, »;. Oregon, 5; Pennsylvania 36;
of royalty or other interest in the oil Rhode Island, 4; South Dakota, 4.
produced to be engager! in the occupa- Utah, 4; Vermont. 3: Washington, 8;
tion or business of producing oil." Wisconsin, 12. Total, 261
The burden of the gross production Tied Montana, 4 electoral votes.
top, ,r gold watch, several pieces of tax originally was borne by the pro-’ No ballots have been received at
jewelry, one gold breastpin, solid ducers alone and netted the state ap- national headquarters in this poll from
silver knives and forks, Spanish coins proximately $8,000,000
know father never dug it up He left
immediately after our last trip there,
went aboard his boat at Brownsville
for New Orleans and died some time
afterward in a town in Mississippi.
"The amount of money we buried at
Padre Island was $60,000 in gold and
silver. Formerly there was $63,000.
"After we moved to New Orleans
father and 1 came back to Padre
Island and dug it up. We took $2000
and placed the balance back. Father
wanted this money to finish paying
for a boat.
"We buried this money in a stone
jar with screwed-in top. The money
consists of gold and silver, gold on
,I a year Die three states. Those states and their
of ancient date, not counted Under- forty-third legislature, however, electoral votes are: Arizona 3; Dela
amended the act so that royalty own- ware, 3, and Nevada, 3.
ers who received E of the oil pro- I Roosevelt showed only a slight frac-
duced should bear their pro rata part (Continued on Page 51
of the tax burden, which in the light =========
of past income of the state from the
neath this jar there are two silver bars
resting on the ground in the bottom
of the hole. There was no room In
, ,. the jar for the bars. The hole in
was run to a depth of 6073 feet, or at which the money is buried is about
the bottom of the 1194-inch hole, four feet deep. (Here the man gave tax would be roughly $1,000,000 a year. 1
valve was placed, a detailed description of the locality: The comptroller's office revealed
From this point, valves were placed where the treasure was buried, be-Thursday that $500,000 collected un- |
on every double of this special pipe, tween five and six miles south of der protest from the royalty owners is |
these doubles ranging from 68 to 86 Money Hill,)
feet in length. | "At the time we buried the money
This valve, is 30 inches long, similar the Civil War was on. Part of this
to a tool joint, with threads and con- money came from the sale of cattle
nections to fit the special type of pipe - and part of it from a wrecked and
The side of the valve has an opening,
of 1480 feet of 16-inch casing. A third three inches in diameter, which is ar-
string of pipe, 11%4-inch stream line, ranged to carry a mud hose connec-
was set to 6037 feet, tion. Inside the valve is a plate, con-
Below the 6073-foot casing seat, a
special type of 8%4-inch extreme line
casing-drill pipe was used for drill-
where the first
abandoned Spanish ship that
ashore during a storm.
came
ing the hole. The bit was a collapsi-
ble wide line proposition, to be re-
covered through the casing in the
now being held pending the court’s ac-
tion and the victory won by the attor.
ney general releases this immense sum
for the current use of the state.
Cotton Loans
Season Opens
Today: Closes
December 19th
S. O. (Steve) Stubblefield, age 42,
died at the Loos hospital last night
'about 6 o’clock from injuries received
in a car wreck on Armistice Day,
when the car which he was driving
ran head-on into a car driven by Mr.
Charles Carr of this city. Mr. and
Mrs. Carr and daughter received in-
buries, but not of the serious nature
that Mr. Stubblefield suffered.
I Mr. Stubblefield was a world war
veteran, having gone overseas with the
■American army. On his return he came
to Pledger and engaged in business.
He is survived by his wife and son.
He is to be buried this afternoon at
Wharton with the Masonic order in
■charge of the services.
Facts
Washington, Nov. 16.—The
cratic party platform adopted at the
Chicago convention of 1932 said:
this year is composed of F. S. Taylor, event it became stuck in the hole.
Lewis Matchett, Vance Porter, J. S. This is the same type of equipment
Mansfield and R. O. Kiser.
Mr. Taulbee urged more individual
membership this year and stated that
a few individuals and firms had been
used in the drilling of Continental Oil
Demo- bearing the brunt of the total drive
for funds each year and each special
Company's Moody 2. Seadrift test in
Calhoun County. The Seadrift well
went to a total depth of 7384 feet be-
fore the pipe became stuck in the hole
nected to a swing. While the mud
pressure is being forced through the
regular channel, It forces the plate
against the opening on the side of
valve When, however, the pressure
is increased on the side and the press-
ure reduced through the kelly, the
valve reverses and closes against up-
per seat.
In the above manner it is possible
to drill the hole the length of a dou-
ble. connect the hose to the side of the
(Continued on Page 8.)
"W eadvocate an immediate and
drastic reduction of governmental ex.
penditures by abolishing useless com-
missions and offices, consolidating de-
partments and bureaus and eliminat-
ing extravagance, to accomplish a sav.
ing of not less than 25 per cent in
the cost of the federal government.”
In September there were 794,469
government employes compared to a
total of 563.487 when President Roose-
velt took office—an increase of 230,982.
call. He cited the great work accom-
plished by the Red Cross in this
county in 1934 after the devastating
tidal wave at Sargent and other parts
of the Gulf Coast. Over $7000 was
spent in this county at that time, more
than our contribution to the Red Cross
in twenty years.
Mr. Tat 7 bee had arranged a musical
program before his Red Cross talk,
featuring Merton Smith at the saxo-
phone, accompanied by Mrs. Highley,
and Mrs. F. S. Taylor, soloist, also ac-
companied by Mrs. Highley.
GULFCOAST HURRICANE
AND RED CROSS SERVICE
This money was first buried under
the floor of our ranch house at Las
Cruces. Union soldiers anchored off
shore and came on to the island,
struck camp and began killing our
cattle While we were Union sym-
pathizers, we feared the soldiers might
find our buried money, under the
house at the time.
We finally decided to take it, in
the late hours of the night, from its
hiding place and carried it down to
the water's edge and in a small boat
we paddled down to the designated
spot.
Buried Between Two Trees
There were two small trees there,
a few feet apart. We dug the hole
between the trees, placed the jar con-
taining the money in it, and leveled
off the sand. As stated heretofore,
we dug the money up one time and
got $2000 out and placed the balance
back in the hole.
"We never lived on the island any
more. We came back from New Or
All cottonfarmers will be interested TEN DUCKS A DAY AND FOUR
in the following lucid explanation of
GEESE AKS UP BAG
LIMIT
Dr. Casteel, U. Of T. Is
Supervisor Centennial
Exposition Division
[ Dr. D. B. Casteel has accepted the
invitation to act as supervisor of the
[division of zoology in the University
centennial exposition, completing the
[ nominations of managers for the five
I divisions of the campus feature, it has
I been stated by William L. McGill, di-
' rector of the exposition. Supervisors
of the other four divisions are Pro-
fessor J. E. Pearce, authropology; Dr.
G. W. Goldsmith, botany and bacteri-
ology; Dr. H. B. Stenzel, geology, and
J. Evetts Haley, history.
The university exhibition will in no
way be a duplicate of Centennial ob-
servances in other parts of the state,
Mr. McGill said. Museum collections
of all kinds will be displayed during
the university exposition and the work
of the teaching departments and their
scientific laboratories will be among
the featured exhibits. Funds are
available for the fields of natural and
civic history and these will be empha-
sized, he said.
Aggie Student Still
In Critical Condition
Edward Lee Goodwin, 20-year-old
A. and M. student of Wharton, re-
mained in a critical condition in St.
Joseph’s Infirmary Monday.
The youth, who was in Houston for
the Rice-Aggie game, was injured
FOUR INJURED
IN ACCIDENT
NEAR NEWGULF
when his car was in collision with a
beer truck at Preston and Austin at
10:30 p. m. Saturday.
Young Goodwin received a fracture
of the skull and internal injuries.— ,
Houston Chronicle.
Mrs. A. J. Turner, Mr. and Mrs.
Nensteil of Palacios and Miss L. Gillian
of Houston are in the Loos hospital
here as the result of an accident oc-
curring Monday evening at the inter-
section of highway 35 on the Newgulf
road.
Mrs. Turner was returning from
Houston when her car collided with
Editor's Note: Lee Goodwin is the an unknown driver in another car
son of Mrs. Goodwin, who, with her which did not stop to offer aid.
late husband, had a music store in the Mr. and Mrs. Nensteil are both suf-
city where Golob’s Produce Company fering with fractured ribs. Mrs. Tur-
is now located, nerner has a broken pelvis bone and
-----------------------fractured ribs. Miss Gillian is suf-
A Fitter’s Fix
Lady Customer: Of course, you un-
derstand I want my shoes comfortable,
but at the some time good looking and
stylish.
Clerk: Yes, ma am. I think I un-
derstand perfectly. You want them
larg einside and small outside.
Editor's Note: In order to impress
upon every citizen of Matagorda
County the duty of becoming a mem-
ber of the Red Cross to the extent of
every cent the individual can spare, it
is only necessary to publish the story
of our great need and what the Red
in the Matagorda Bay section Alto-
gether, five counties were hit either
by the hurricane, the tidal wave
which accompanied it, or the twister
which followed close behind.
Prompt Response
As soon as its course was deter-
mined, word of the approaching dis-
aster was received at the Midwestern
Cross promptly did for us.
This story recites facts about a ca-
lamity which scourged us right here branch office of the American Red
Cross at St. Louis. Before the wind
in our own
county. It is not a fan-
tastic tale of some distant catastrophe.
Read it—then join the Red Cross to-
day.
It follows:
faring from a broken collarbone Our
last reports were that all were resting
easily.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Mozola of Edna
were guests in Bay City Tuesday.
Mr. Mozola is the manager of the
Edtex theatre there.
THE TEXAS GULF COAST HURRI-
C ANE OF JULY 24-25, 1934
Striking with less than the usual
warning near nightfall of July 24,
1934, a hurricane came out of the Gulf
of Mexico to ravish many miles of
Texas coast line, leaving eight dead
and as many injured in its wake. It
was accompanied by a destructive
tidal wave. The disturbed atmospheric
conditions also gave rise to a small
| tornado which was responsible for
half the deaths and part of the prop-
erty damage.
Communities along the jagged shore
line from Freeport to Corpus Christi
were first to feel the effects of the
storm, which spent most of its force
had subsided the following day,
trained Red Cross disaster relief work,
ers had been dispatched to the strick-
en area. First reports dealt only with
communities which escaped the worst
of the wind, but by the morning of
July 25th the plight of communities
bearing the disaster's brunt was
flashed to the outside world. The Red
Cross workers arrived in the area July
27th and on the next morning as-
sumed charge of relief activities.
All coastal counties between Port
Arthur and Corpus Christi were in
the path of the storm, with scattered
crop and minor property damage over
the entire front. These counties in-
cluded: Brazoria, Matagorda, Calhoun,
Jackson and Refugio. The most seri-
leans a short while after the 1867
storm and decided to dig it up. We
discovered the storm had swept water
over this part of the island and
washed away the two small trees,
leaving no identification marks. We
failed to find the money. We remained
at Brownsville a while with the inten-
tion of locating the money before we
went back to New Orleans. We made
two more trips, but did little digging
there. Father gave it up and re-
turned to New Orleans."
"Mr. Morris adds that Alexander
Singer and his father, John V., could
neither read nor write, that the sew-
ing machine inventor—Merrit Singer
the cotton loan bounty policy, re-
printed from the current issue of the
Progressive Farmer: FROM WEDNESDAY'S DAILY-
"The cotton loan bounty policy pro- Austin, Nov 19 If temperatures
vides a 10-cent loan on % low mid- drop and shots are accurately placed,
dling or better new crop cotton until duck and geese hunters are due for
August 1, 1936. It also provides a some rare sport, Will J Tucker, ex-
bounty payment which is determined ecutive secretary of the game, fish
by the ten-market average price on and oyster commission, said Tuesday
the day the farmer makes his sale and night. The season poens Wednesday
not by his own selling price. The and closes December 19.
payment for any given day is the dif- The supply is extremely good and
ference between 12 cents and the ten-much better than it has been for
market average price for that day, several years past,” Tucker said. "Con-
based on 7s middling But in no case ditions were favorable during the
will the payment exceed 2 cents a hatching season and there appears to
pound, be plenty of food available. The
"For example, if a farmer sells weather is too warm, however, and
strict middling inch cotton on No- hunting would be improved if the
vember 10 for 12 cents and the price temperature declines.”
of middling % on that day is 11 cents, | Hunters may kill ten ducks a day
his bounty will be 1 cent a pound, but may not have more than 10 in
"Loans and payments will be re- their possession at any time. The
stricted to actual production not in limit in ge.esc is four daily with the
excess of the Bankhead allotment The same possession limitation.
new cotton loan bounty is available The hunting period will be from 7
only to those producers who have co. a. m. to 4 p. m.
operated in the adjustment program This year's regulations place an
and who agree to participate in the added premium on accuracy. Auto-
1936 program, matic and pump guns must be choked
"The plan is so attractive that farm- hack to contain not more than three
ers can't afford to turn it down, and shells.
their acceptance of it insures produc- 1
tion control in 1936. It does not mat*
,1
ter very much what the Supreme COTTON CROP IS
Court does to the Bankhead act, be-
cause in order to obtain loans and I
bounties farmers will sign production
control contracts with the government
which will he enforceable."
OVER 900 BALES
MORE THAN 1934
—had a moderate education; that a £. ,
letter from Merrit Singer of New I Negro Killed In Car
York to John V. of Brownsville, dated
1848, requesting his brother to send
him $500 to secure a patent on his
sowing machine; a letter written by
The 1935 cotton crop of Matago rda
County, according to figures give n out
. by the bureau of census, through Sta-
Wreck Near Palacios tistician A. H. Wadsworth, place the
_____ number of bales ginned this year at
Mrs. Bob Anders collided with a
902 above 1934
The figures are as of November 1,
the postmaster at Brownsville at the truck containing three negroes early The figures are as ol Novem •
Sunday morning by the golf course 1935. 5196 bales, as against 4204 bales
on the same date last year.
dictation of John V. Singer, in which
he mailed the 1500 and stated it left
him broke, and the letter received
from Merrit Singer later to the effect
that Merrit was sending John V. $150,-
on the outskirts of Palacios, Mrs. An-
ders and two of the negroes were
seriously hurt and one of the negroes
was killed.
Safety First
Mi
I’FM
000, his half of the sale price of a
block of stock in the Singer Sewing
ous damage was limited to the coun-
ties of Brazoria, Matagorda and Cal-____________..____._____-
houn, with smaller areas affected in disposed of, are in the archives of the
Machine Company, which he had just
(Continued on Page 5.)
general land office at Austin.
Grocer: A thief entered my store
last night and took everything but a
box of soap.
Judge: The dirty crook.
Teacher: Johnny, why does Mis-
souri stand at the head of mule raUM
ing in the United States? I
Johnny: Because the othei end is
too dangerous.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1935, newspaper, November 21, 1935; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696381/m1/1/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.