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THERE IS NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR OUR FRIENDS"
VOL 90
NO. 30
BAY CITY. TEXAS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1936
NITROGLYCERINE EXPLOSION Putting U. S. Gold County Coes Wet
KILLS ONE, INJURES TWO MORE In Rackyard Can"
AT CITRUS GROVE WELL,MON. Cost 5600,000 By Big Margin
T.: I : THAT COVERS PRICE OF POST-
Drivers Licenses AGE ALONE
M M ■ Washington. Jan. 31-The Postoffice
Lay Ctata fuinior Department stands to make a profit
DldLC ruLOL of about $400,000 when it moves gold
bullion into the Treasury’s new un-
—— derground vault, at Fort Knox, Ky.
PREPARATIONS FOR PUTTING | Figuring on handling $3,000,000,-
000 worth of the metal, postal offi-
Camouflage In
Farm Program
Cited By Cox
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
TEXAS SULPHUR AND
(xPITON
IRA WARD KILLED
INSTANTLY
M. M. Kinley and H.
C. Rhodes Injured In
Tragic Accident
Mansfield Seeks
Texas Buildings
QUIETEST CAMPAIGN IN HISTORY
RESULTS IN GREAT VICTORY
| FOR LEGALIZING THE SALE Ol
LIQUOR.
AAA REMOVAL FAILS TO
SO LV E P RO B I. E M . II E
D EC I. A K E S
Bryan Mound
Plant Sold
The value of sulphur, a natural re-
source of Texas, is shown again in
experiments to control of the flea
hopper, an enemy of Texas cotton.
BOOTLEG JOINTS SHOULD
CLOSED AT ONCE
By Dr. A. B. Cox, Director
Business Research, Texas University.
Because of the recovery in world
BE consumption of cotton, the drouth,
IS SOLD AT JUNK PRICES TO
HOUSTON ESTABLISHMENT
THE PAST WEEK
Ira Ward, age 30, employee of the
drilling crew of the Continental Oil
Company on the Citrus Grove well,
suffered fatal injuries Monday af-
ternoon at 2:20 when nitro glycerine
exploded in an attempt to load a
shell to "shoot" the well. Mr. Ward,
who met instant death, was badly
mangled and two other men were
painfully injured.
H. C. Rhodes, an employee since
last Wednesday, suffered the loss of
two fingers, bad burns and bruises
Mr. M. M. Kinley, who had come
down from Houston to "shoot" the
well, suffered a broken arm and leg
and bad burns and bruises.
A watch carried by Mr. Rhodes
stopped at 2:20 as a result of tlu l
explosion.
Taylor Bros, made rush calls to
the scene of the accident with both;
of their ambulances. Mr. Rhodes
was brought to the city in a Conoco I
car about an hour before the other
two men were brought in.
Mr. Ward is survived by his wife.
The body will be shipped to Pauls 1
Valley, Oklahoma, this afternoon for |
NEW LAW IN EFFECT FEBRU
ARY 14 ARE COMPLETED.
Austin, Tex., Feb. 3—Texas’ major
experiment in the field of motor-
ing safety, designed to reduce the
cials said today the Treasury's bill
would run around $600,000 with may-
be a few extras. The $600,000 is for
parcel post.
The movement probably won't start
huge toll of human life on its high-until in July or later. Right now
speeds roads, will get under way soon, workmen are battling snow and cold
L. G. Phares, acting director of the to erect the monetary fortress in
Department of Public Safety, said the center of the Kentucky Military
Saturday that his organization would | Reservation.
Washington, Jan. 30- Three bills
seeking authorization for federal
buildings in El Campo, Hallettsville
and Freeport, Texas, were introduced
in th? house Thursday by Represen-
tative Joseph J. Mansfield of Colum-
bus.
Mr. Mansfield explained that all
three cities are on the eligible list of
the post office department, but that
it is not expected that an appropria-
start issuing motor vehicle drivers’ li- . Latest word here was that con-
censes when the law making them tractors had finished a 10-foot thick tion will be secured for more than
concrete mat on which the vault will one of the buildings this year.
The bills limit the total cost of each
mandatory becomes effective Febru-
ary 14.
The law will be
through a separate bureau under su-
rest and had put into place 16 per
administered cent of the steel. When the 40 bybuilding to $75,000 and authorize and
64 foot vault is complete, the actual direct the .secretary of the treasury to
pervision of Capt. J. D. Moffatt, vet-construction of a two-story square
eran highway patrol inspector. The
patrol will form the chief field force,
co-operating closely with local offi-
cers and jurists
building to house it will commence.
Transferring billions in gold is
tickli h business, postal men said.
but they are well equipped by ex-
All drivers of motor vehicles must perience to do the job and take the
obtain licenses before April 1. They profit,
will be issued by County Tax Col-
Matagorda County, legally
dry
acquire by purchase, condemnation or
otherwise, suitable sites in El Campo,
Hallettsville and Freeport, and cause
to be erected suitable buildings with
since the year 1907, was turned back
into the wet columns last Satur-
day by a majority of over 400 out
of the healthy vote of some 2000.
The day was a miserable one or
else the total vote would have mount-
ed and the majority would have been
heavier.
This overwhelming vote in favor
of legalizing the sale of liquors and
bringing the traffic out into the open
should prove a mandate to the offi-
cials of both the city and county
to proceed immediately to the clos-
ing of every place where liquor is
sold illegally. There is no further
excuse to wait for complaints to be
made. These places are known, they
are operated contrary to law and
and the curtailment of cotton acre-
age in the United States, world sup-
plies of cotton are only about 3,000,-
000 bales above normal The excess
supply consists entirely of American
cotton in the hands of the federal
government, largely a result of the
bad federal loan policy on the short
crop of 1934-1935, and the mistakes
of the farm board. A critical posi-
tion prevails An the durrent spot
cotton market All indications point
to the fact that a businesslike sales
policy consistently followed on the
part of the government would not
only I revent thi squeeze but would
liquidate a large part of government
stocks and strengthen prices for the
next crop. This would diminish the
club now hanging over the market
in the form of excessive supplies
in the hands of the government. Will
A force of a dozen men were put
to work here the first of the week in
taking apart the sulphur mining
equipment of Freeport Sulphur Co.
at Bryan Mound, which has been
purchased by Sampson Machinery &
Supply Co. of Houston.
The equipment, it is understood,
was sold at junk prices and is be-
ing moved away in trucks of the
Houston concern.
All equipment, including plants C
and D, have been sold. It is esti-
mated that it will take in the neigh-
borhood of a year to get all of the
equipment off the ground.
Men employed on the job are work-
ing eight hours at 30 cents per hour.
Freeport Facts.
should be closed The owners of the government have the vision to
fireproofs vaults, heating and ventilat-
ing apparatus, and approaches, com- such places can apply for and buy
plete, for the accomodation of the license to operate. Let them do this
post offices and other government of- or be closed.
see the wisdom of inaugurating such
a policy and the courage to carry
it out?
burial. The body was prepared for
burial by Taylor Bros.
lectors and may be obtained simul-
taneously with the registration of mo-
tor vehicles.
Phares calculated that approximate-
ly 2,500,000 Texans would be requir'd
to obtain licenses. He said there were
Grady Walker
fices.
While the wet majority in Bay I
Party to Inspect
River Arrives
approximately 1,250,000 vehicles with
an average of two and two-tenths
I drivers of each.
j Licenses, which will be valid for
three years unless revoked for traf-
fic code and law violations, will be
[ issued free.
Must Carry Permits Always
| Phares warned motorist, to carry
their licenses with them at all times
to avoid embarrassment.
Houston Rotary
Announces for
District Clerk ClubRenders
Program Here
The Tribune is authorized to an-
nounce the candidacy of J. Grady
Walker, of Palacios, for the office
of District Clerk Matagorda County,
subject to the action of the White
As president of the Lower Colo-j “There will be plenty of time for Man’s Union Primaries. .
all to obtain licenses," he said. "I Mr. Walker has been a. resident
| hope all officers will enforce the law of the county for many years, is
from a reasonable, sensible stand- well and favorably known in his
point and not attempt to harass th section of the county and is quali-
reclamation on the lower Colorado public. It was not the intention of fied in every way for the office
River the Legislature to embarrass citi-the seeks.
The party is headed by Mr. Clar-zens but to improve conditions on He will appreciate the encourage-
ence McDonough, manager of the the highways. We want it to be ment given him and your support
Lower Colorado Authority, and who of constructive benefit, but if it be-and vote,
comes a nuisance through bad en-
forcement practices there will be at-
tempts to repeal.”
License forms are being mailed to
rado River Flood Control Associa-
tion. E. O. Taulbee had as his guests
today a delegation of gentlemen di-
rectly interested in flood control and
has expressed much interest in our
problem at the mouth of the river
and in the counties in the flood area
as high up as Columbus, Texas. He,
has previously expressed the opin- ■ Tax Collectors,
ion that we were entitled to a por-
tion of the $5,000,000.00 fund which
has been earmarked for reclamation
and flood control, and believes that
constructive work here in giving to
the river an unobstructed outlet to I
The license is in three perforated
sections. The first removal of one of I
the sections for violating traffic law ,
automatically reduces the classifica- |
Warn Against Dig
Scy Bean Acreage
tion of the driver from first to sec- FARMERS ARE CAUTIONED THAT
ond class.
On conviction of a violation the
the Gulf will be the solution to our
problem, rather than the construc- '1,1 Judge will note on the det ached
DEVELOPMENT SHOULD
BE SLOW
section the offense and the disposi- I
The Corsicana soybean conference.
W. G. DAVIS HOST TO VISITING
ROTARIANS AT REGULAR
MEETING
Mr. Bill Davis was in charge of
the program at the regular meeting
of the Rotary Club Tuesday noon
at the BayTex Hotel and he had as
his guests several Rotarians from the
| Houston club' and two ladies of Hous-
j ton.
1 Mr. Ed Blackburn, chairman of the
Houston delegation, arranged" a mu-
sical, comical and serious program
with the members he brought. Mrs.
Dorothy McCall, accompanied at the
piano by Mrs. Rountree, rendered
two beautiful solos. Hyman Engel
'gave a comical account of the visit
and the mixup of the members on the
trip.
Tom Caruthers was the principal
speaker for the occasion and he chose
as his subject "Pivotal Characters
in History,” Mr. Caruthers stated
that his characters were not great
men necessarily, but pivotal men and
that many great men he had lett
City should have been at least 2
to 1, there are many who were sur-
prised that the majority vote was
in favor of legalized liquor. Many
people who have never in their lives
voted a wet ticket did so Saturday
In the above connection, it is well
to remember that the farmers have
practically no hope of getting any-
thing additional out of the govern-
ment-loan cotton. That being the
case, the farmers should be interest-
led in having the government pass
las much of the 6,100,000 bales it now
because they preferred the legal, open
sale of the goods against the illegal controls into consumption as soon
boot legging which has been so bold as possible mid before the farmers
and prevalent for so long a time. I have to market the 1936 crop. It
This, of course, was the proper way seems to be a question of policy.
| Does the department of agriculture
of looking at the question. Bay City’s
vote was 438 for legalizing liquor.
377 against, a majority of 61.
Palacios and Collegeport proved to
be the only boxes in the county to
return a majority against legal li-
quors Palacios voted 226 dry and
200 wet. Collegeport voted 20 dry,
13 wet. The banner wet box wa
El Maton, where the dry vote was
want to continue to dabble in the
market and use its stock of cotton
as a club to prevent price advances
in the future' on the theory of the
over-normal granary?
Deplore Camouflage
Removing the AAA by act of the
supreme court did not solve the cot-
ton problem. Furthermore, the at
1 against 49 wet. The closest vote
tion of additional dams between Co-- i m .
lumbus and the main dam t Buch-I tion and mail it to the safety depart-sponsored by the East Texas Cham- ____
ana n site ! ment Similar procedure will be fol - | ber of Com merce, was a most im- from his list who were considere 4
"Mr. "MeDonough is an engineer of ■ lowed on the second conviction and portant meeting and one calculate -
distinction, was formerly chief en- 1 . . . . . 1.
gineer of PWA in Washington and sent the department on the third con-bean as one of the crops to sub-
was loaned to the Authority by Mr.
Harold Ickes for the work on the
lowed on the second conviction ami portant meeting ana one caiculla great men were not pivotal men
the final stub will be confiscated and ed to gradually develop the soy- Beginning with Homer, Plato and Ju- |
Hit-And-Run
Driver Hits P.
A. McLendon
ELDERLY MAN RECEIVES BROK
EN HAND AND OTHER IN
JURIES BY WILD DRIVER
Mr. P. A. McLendon received a
broken hand and other injuries when
he was run down by a hit-and-run
driver near his home on the Whar-
ton highway north of the city. The
accident happened Saturday night
early. The driver did not stop to
render aid.
tempts of the department of agri-
was at Van Vleck, 20 wet to 17 dry culture to bring back the old scar-
and at Caney where 7 wet votes city program of paying farmers to
were polled against 4 dry. Markham do less, in order to get more, un-
was also close. 58 wet to 53 dry. der a camflouged soil-conservation
The election was quiet and order-program, will neither solve the cot-
ly throughout the entire day, not ton problem nor be appreciated by
a great deal of effort being put forth the American people. Soil conser-
or electioneering done None on the vation is a tremendously important
part of the antis in the Bay City problem in the United States, one
voting precinct the pros were more that demands most careful scienti-
or less active and did a great deal fic study and rem dial programs is
of work in the way of meetings, it wise to prostitute soil conserva-
card and letter writing, using the tion in an attempt to bring back
phone and by personal contact, how- the controlled scarcity program of
ever, creating no rancor or unpleas-the unconstitutional AAA? Funda
Officer Is Killed
By Automobile
In Austin Monday
Sulphur is one of the valuable
natural re ources of Texas. Most
Texans know that. Perhaps, bow-
ever, not so many of them know
that experiments carried out in Tex-
as by the Division of Cotton In-
sect Investigations, Bureau of En-
tomology and Plant Quarantine, Unit-
ed State Department of Agriculture,
in cooperation with the Texas Ag-
ricultural Experiment Station have
shown that dusting cotton infested
with flea hoppers with sulphur cam
result in an average increase in pro-
duction of cotton of more than one
hundred and seventy per cent. In
short, it has become apparent that
sulphur is decidedly important in
connection with Texas’ chief agricul-
tural crop. How important it is may
be shown by the report of the men
making the ox pe ri ments with sul-
phur that it "has so far proved to
be the most satisfactory and econom-
ical means of controlling the cot-
ton flea hopper"- which means that
a Texas mineral offers the best way
of fighting a pest that menaces Tex-
as cotton.
It was about twelve or fifteen
years ago that the cotton flea hop-
per first became recognized as a
serious pest of cotton. Authentic
records show that this insect has
done a great deal of damage in ev-
ery cotton State The cotton flea
hopper is a small insect about one-
eighth of an inch in length, pale
greenish or grayish in color, thick-
ly dotted with brown spots, and with
two characteristic black marks near
the top of each wing. The insect
feeds mostly on the tender portions
of the cotton plant, especially on
the terminal buds and on small
squares The small squares suffer
the most serious damage; when a
field of cotton is infested with flea
hoppers, the squares often die when
thy are no larger than the head
of a pin, turning brown or black
and eventually falling from the
plants It is because these blasted
squares are so small that they are
frequently overlooked, and because
the flea hoppers are rather diffi-
cult to see until one becomes ac-
customed to looking for them, that
the cause of the damage some times
is not recognized, the failure of the
plants to bloom being attributed per-
haps to weather or other unfavor-
Table conditions.
ACCIDENT LAID TO HEAVY FOG While the flea hopper is distribute
AND RAIN fed over the entire Cotton Belt, and
antness.
The vote by boxes is as
Colorado. He has constructed many
important projects in this country
and in Europe, and is a gentleman
of a great deal of common sense in |
addition to his engineering attain-
ments. He readily recognized the
important fact that a permanent
opening into the Gulf of sufficient
width and depth at the mouth of
the Colorado was important and that
permanent levees of sufficient height
and width across the bay to con-
fine the river at flood stage was
necessary.
He had planned this trip for sev-
eral weeks, but illness and engage-
ments in Washington and Denver has
so far prevented.
Mr. McDonough will be joined in
Bay City by Mr. Ralph McMahon,
State Reclamation Engineer of Aus-
tin, Col. E. H. Marks, U. S. Dis-
trict Engineer, Galveston, Texas; Jno.
T. Bond, of the Matagorda County
Raglamation Board; J. H. Wilkins.
@Oheer for the local district; and
. Gustafson, engineer, of Aus-
tin.
A trip through the bay to the
peninsular will be made in one of
the conservation district boats, and
the party will be entertained at din-
ner by the City of Matagorda.
viction. 1 stitute or replace acreage released
Persons driving after their licenses from cotton, but the sense of the
have been suspended will be subject conference was universally that, in
to heavy penalties, including impris- the promotion of this crop, the pro-
onment for six months, i cedure should avoid a mushroom
All members of a family who drive growth and should follow along the
the family automobile will be re- lines that would permit of sound
quired to obtain licenses. Each li-development, according to officials
cense will carry a detailed descrip- j of the Texas agricultural experiment
tion of the person to whom issued and ! station.
they will not be transferrable. | The production of the soybean is
Causes for Revocation attractive in that a market prac-
Licenses would be suspended auto-tically as stable as that for cotton
matically or revoked on conviction of seed has already been established
negligent homicide resulting from the for the oil and the meal which have
operation of a motor vehicle, driving many and varied uses. Current
a motor vehicle while under the in-
fluence of intoxicating liquor
drugs; any offense punishable as a
felony under the motor vehicle laws,
three convictions in twelve consecu-
quotations, as of January 15, range
or from 86c to 88c per bushel and about
a million and one-half bushels were
lius Caesar and then with Jesus,
Buddha and down through Gutten-
berg, Christopher Columbus, Pasteur,
Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare,
Thomas Edison. Woodrow Wilson, and
many others. He showed how each
of these men had contributed great-
ly to the advancement of morality,
government, invention, medicine, sci-
ence.
A Houston delegation was compos-
ed of Hyman Engel, A. S. Piman-
tel, Bob Keer, Dick Houser, Tom
Caruthers, Ed Blackburn, and Mes-
dames Dorothy McCall and Rountree.
Mr. Harigel, of Wharton, was a guest
of Mr. Davis’, also.
Bay Citv
Palacios
Gulf
Matagorda
Wadsworth
Markham
Blessing
Midfield
Cedar Lane
Pledger
Caney
Buckeye
Collegeport
Van Vleck
El Maton
Ashby
Wet
438
200
59
87
87
58
66
69
15
28
7
17
13
20
49
19
follows
Dry
377
226
11
11
11
22
17
10
12
4
8
20
17
1
5
mentally, the scarcity program is in
conflict with a sound program of soil
conservation, for the latter means in-
creased production.
| It would be interesting to know just
how much soil fertility there is in
a bale of lint cotton. I have been
told the amount is less than a dol-
lar’s worth, and certainly, it is very
1 small. Moreover, cotton seed oil, the
most valuable part of the seed, draws
little from the soil and has very
1 little fertilizer value. Cotton seed
meal, the heaviest and next most
valuable product of the cotton plant,
is one of the most valuable ferti-
lizer materials produced in the world.
| The return of the cotton seed meal
land stalks to the land will prob-
City Officer E P. Morrison, 29,
died at 3:55 a. til. Monday in Brack -
enridge Hospital from injuries re-
ceived when he was struck by a
car in the 300 block of Congress
Avenue, in Austin, shortly after 11
p. m last night. Morrison never re-
gained consciousness
Officer Morrison was struck by a
car driven by Edgar Wilson, an em-
ployee of the U. S. postoffice, who
lives at 1001 East Seventh. Wilson
told police he was driving under 20
miles per hour when the accident
occurred, and didn't see Morrison
walking across the street because of
the fog and rain. His windshield
wiper wasn’t working, Wilson said.
Wilson stopped immediately after the
crash, called an ambulance imme-
diately, and reported to Capt. Roy
Smith, traffic officer, as soon as
may be expected to be found at one
time or another wherever cotton is
ably restore more plant food and
Clemville and Sargent had not re-
ported when this went to press How- humus to the land than was taken
over, as they are both wet boxes, out in
the results will not be changed. Their mainly because the sun and the at-
votes will run the wet majority to mosphere contribute a great deal to
around 400 the production process.
he production of the
crop,
Sale of Hoarded Cotton
Dallas News.
If the Federal Government's threat
to market part of its huge stock
of pegged-price cotton will be a de-
terrent to keep this year's acreage
within safe bound, the benefits may
outweigh the harmful effect that the
sudden announcement exerted upon
the market. The 5.100.000 bales which
five months for speeding or reckless
driving, fajlure to stop and render
aid after an accident and conviction
on two spearate charges of aggravat-
inspected for export.
Dr. E. B. Reynolds, of the Texas
experiment station, presented results
to the conference showing that over
a period of years, the production of
soybeans at the several substations
Pay Sand Is Hit At Hawkins Test
Shepherd’s Mott
ed assault on a person with a motor has not been high and in most cas-
vehicle, es less than yields of cow peas. The
Licenses will be granted all persons | highest yield recorded is 25 bushels
who are prima facie sound mentally
and physically. Permits will be de-
nicd persons less than 14 years old.
habitual drunkards and users of nar-
cotics, persons adjudged insane, epi-
leptic or feebleminded and persons
who are shown by common experience
to possess defects that render them
incapable of efficient driving.
Special provision has been made to
license visitors who remain in Texas
more than ninety days.
Administrative expenses will be de-
frayed from a $3 license fee on chauf-
feur and other professional drivers.
the Government is to sell at the
proposed rate of 1,000,000 bales a
year would affect he price for just
five years. No man knows better
than Jesse Jones, chairman of the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
which supplies the finances for the
cotton held by the Commodity Credit
Corporation, the effect of selling the
proposed 25,000 bales a week He
is a Texan and undrestands the im-
portance of cotton and its orderly
marketing in the economic program
of the South and the Nation
i Although the cotton trade has long
• urged the Government to turn loose
some of its hoarded cotton, because
I there has been an actual shortage
. of certain grades and taples in view
y of recent abort crops, there never-
theless is a danger that cotton reach-,
• ing the market in volume will de-
. press the price. But perhaps that
, is exactly what the Federal planners
have in mind. Farmers must be stop-
i ped from planting the fence corners
’ to the one crop which they insist
Car Accident On
Seventh Street Early
Saturday Morning
The Ford pick-up of Mr, F. B. Arm-
strong of Armstrong Nursery, was
parked in front of his house early
Saturday morning A car driven by
a Mexican skidded on the wet pave-
ment into the Ford pick-up and both
cars were badly damaged.
per acre for the Mammoth Brown
at the Tyler station in 1936, where-
as in 1934. it produced less than three
bushels, and in 1935, less than one
bushel per acre, indicating strong-
ly that climatic conditions material-
ly affect the production of seed of
soybeans in this state. Similar or
poorer results than those quoted for
the Tyler station have been obtain-
ed at other stations in consecutive
periods ranging from three to five
years. At Angleton, of nine varie-
ties tested for four years, the best
variety, Laredo, produced 14 bush-
els in 1934 and averaged 7.8 bush-
els. At Beaumont, of seven varie-
ties tested five years, Otootan pro-
duced 21 bushels in 1932 but none
of the varieties produced seed in
three of the five years. At Chil-
licothe, of eight varieties, Easycook
was best with a yield of eight bu-
shels in 1935, but in most cases no
yields were secured At Iowa Park,
Helen—The way that new publi-
city man looked at me was most in-
sulting.
George—Did he stare?
Helen-No, that’s the trouble. All
no variety produced seed in 1935 and
the highest yield in 1932 was Laredo,
producing six bushels per acre.
Irregular Yields
It should be borne in mind that
there is abundant authoritative in-
formation from the experiment sta-
tions here in Texas to show that
soybeans will not yield profitable
crops year in and year out, and it
would be misleading to farmers if
they should gain the impression that
this is a crop that can be depend-
he gave me was a casual glance—after ed upon every year to produce prof-
all the time I spent fixing up for itable yields. Titis is not strange to
him.
on over-planting at tha expense of
every other, even food crops. A fall-
ing market at planting time might
be a detriment to the new crop.
anyone familiar with climatic con-
ditions west of the Mississippi Riv-
er, as it is generally known that
climatic conditions are much more
erratic west of the Mississippi Riv-
er than they are east of it, and
(Continued on Page 8.)
DEERINGS ESTILL NO. I, SET
FOR FRIO. MAKES SURPRISE
SHOW IN MIOCENE
Two wildcat tests are warming up
interest in two separate areas in
Matagorda County.
Helmerich & Payne's Hawkins No.
1, a flank test at ill-fated Shep-
herd’s Mott, has topped an oil sand
at 7770 feet. Showing is so good
that a completion test is in prospect
Shell Petroleum. Amerada Oil and
Atlantic Oil are named as buyers of
leases in the area within the last
few days.
Passes Perils of Shale
This test passed through the per-
ils of the heaving shale belt.
In another section of Matagorda
County, John Deering's Estill No. 1
hopped into prominence when it cor-
ed 28 feet of sand showing oil col-
or in an entirely unheraled and un-
expected show at 6226 feet. This
was in the Miocene. The well is
projected for the Frio about 2000
feet deeper.
Other Matagorda County Activities
in the Skelly Bay City field three
rigs are going up for immediate drill-
ing on three deep test wells.
Continental Oil's Fiefe No. 1, Citrus
Grove area, J. S. Chriswell survey,
attempting to pull six-inch casing
from 7620 feet.
John Deering’s Estill No. 1. Cedar
Lane area. Tone & Jamieson survey,
drilling down from 6500 feet.
Hamman Exploration's May Cleve-
land No. 1, Bay City area, Elisha
Hail survey, drilling down from 8600
feet.
Helmerich & Payne's Hawkins No.
1, Shepherd's Mott area, D. McCar-
thy's survey, coring oil sand at 7770
Swabbing
Helmerick & Payne’s No 1 Haw-
kins, in the Shepherds Mott area,
Expand Markets
The fudamental issues of the cot-
! ton problem are recognized as mar-
kets. costs of production, and the
I advantages which tariff -sheltered in-
dustries and trades now have over
cotton. Are not the cotton grow-
ers too vitally affected, and is not
the cotton problem too important
nationally to be dealt with on any
other basis than these issues?
grown in large quantities, records
show that the Gulf Coast section of
Texas probably suffers severe cot-
ton flea hopper damage at more
regular intervals than any othe large
ection of the Cotton Belt. It was
for this reason that the Bureau of
Entomology, when it determ ned to
start experiment looking to the con-
trol of the insect, established a re-
search station in that section of Tex-
as. The station was located at Port
Lavaca, Calhoun County, in 1933, and
during that year and the next a
series of dusting experiment with
several diff rent insecticides was con-
ducted.
Eleven sulphur dusting experiments
were carried out at the Port Lavaca
station in 1933 and six in 1934, every
effort being put forth to make the
tests wholly conclusive. The plots
for each test were selected v ith the
utmost care, regard being given to
the uniformity of the soil and seed
so that the potential production of
cotton would be the same in both
treated and untreated plots. The
plots receiving the treatmer t and
those on which it was omitted were
either adjacent or separated by only
bout thirty rows in order that con-
ditions might be as nearly AS DOS
sible the same.
Since it has already been clearly
Matagorda County, was swabbing Since it has already been clearly
Monday at about 7766 to 7796 feet, demonstrated that the cotton restric-
No definite estimate of the flow has tion program was a failure, would
been made, but according to reports it not be wise to try to solve the
the well made a little oil and salt problem by making an intelligent
effort to expand the market for cot-
water. Operators late Monday were
failure, would
ton, to raise cotton prices by im-
attempting to final the well, ton, to raise cotton prices by im-
A new location has been staked in proving the quality of the product,
the Shepherds Mott area by Horace to increase farmers' profits by low-
M Smith. It is the Wadsworth No. ering their costs of production, and
2 located in the northeast corner of increase farmers' buying power by
pulling away monopolistic advantages
of sheltered industries and trades so
lot 33, block 4, in the Fischer sur-
vey. The test is projected to a depth
of 8800 feet.
Mrs. Susan Crowder
that the products of these industries
and trade will have to be sold on
their competitive merits?
Mrs. Susan Crowder died at the
family residence near Midfield Mon-
day morning after an illness of a
few days. Mrs. Crowdri is surviv-
ed by five daughters, Mrs. Rose Tal-
bott, of Palacios, Texas, Mrs. Emma
Herring, of Monte Celo, Calif., Mrs.
L. Marcaurell, of West Columbia,
Texas, Misses Ollie and Alice Crow-
der, of Midfield, Texas, and one son,
G W. Crowder, of Anchor, Texas.
Funeral services were held Tues-
day morning at 11 o'clock at Haw-
ley Cemetery, with Rev. L. A. Pe-
terson, of the First Methodist Church,
officiating. Funeral arrangements
were under the direction of Taylor
Bros.
Mr. Clarence McDonough, manager
of the Lower Colorado Authority,
1 from Austin; Mr. Ralph McMahon,
state reclamation engineer, of Aus-
tin; Col E H. Marks, U. S. district
engineer, Galveston, Texas; John T
Bond, of the Matagorda Reclamation
Board; J. H. Wilkins, engineer for
the local district; E. N. Gustafson,
with the Portland Cement Co., from
Austin: Judge Oscar Barber, Mata-
gorda County Judge; James W. Gar-
trell, county engineer; Luther Rob-
inson. Ed Baker and George Harri-
son. county commissioners, made a
trip through Matagorda Bay in a con-
servation district boat to th penin-
sular Tuesday afternoon.
possible.
Morrison was badly cut and bruis-
ed, his skull was fractured, and his
right leg broken by the impact. Chief
of Police Raymond Thorp, Det. Capt.
Rex Fowler, Capt Roy Smith, and
other officers were at his bedside
when he died.
The entire police force was crush-
ed by the news of Morrison’s death
"He was a splendid officer, and
above all, a fine gentleman," Chief
Thorp said. "He has been with the- ,
force about six years, and to say Records were made throughout the
that his death i: deeply regretted season "" representative por tons *
does not adequately express our sor- '“' 1 plot '" the purpose ' ' com
row. paring the progress of the experi-
Morrison, with his wife and three ments. It is not necessary t Pro-
children, lived at 1610 Holly Street duce here the tables prepared y the
He is the son of H. G Morrison, entomologists in their report to show
pastor of the Eas t Avenue Baptist | how many less flea hoppers and how
oil many more blooms were fo I on
( hureh. The body IS in the l ooh ,
..... . , the plots treated with sulph than
Funeral Home pending DU l
I those not treated. Sufficient to say
rangements, , . that in 1934 at the high point of
Officer Morrison wa doing detec-1 ne
live duty at the time of the wdi j Jury bin-ratn: there Were ^ bloom,
dent, and Was said to be CFOSSIDS 7 .__
4 e 6 D_____, per acre on the cotton receiving the
the street near the Swift Packing 1. . e
, A sulphur treatment, while the untreat
Company office when he was struck. 1 . . , . tor. W .
6. . , led plots had only 1,377 blooms per
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Ale u ‘
ma Morrison and three children, Al-acre ( .
vin Eugene, 6, Elkins, 4. and Mary The figure showing, the yield of
Margaret, 1. his parents, Rev. and cotton from the field-plot experi-
Mr II C Morrison: six brother ments it Port Lavaca deserve a more
Robert Dana of Houston, H. Car-thorough analysis, for here we find
roll. Eugene T. Charles P., Thomas the actual, final results of the sut-
.. D A ,phur treatment In 1933 the increase
Preston, and Ben r Austin ,
in yield of the treated plots over
the untreated ones ran all the way
I from eighty-eight to four hundred
and eleven pound of seed cotton per"
acre The average increase was 230.4
Improving Her
Clothes Closet
- pound per acre, an increase of more
“My closet has new shelves, two | than one-third 33.6 per cent, to be
exact
hat racks, one tie rack and one shoe |
rack added as a result of my start |
as bedroom demonstrator,” says Mrs.
Joe Lucas of El Maton. She lso
has a ne w scarf and dress bap al-
most completed.
Friday the club meets with M
The results
ments were €
| Slightly more
"a the 1934 experi-
more startling,
dphur per acte-ap-
Lucas und she will show the v •- |
men how she is refinishing her fur
plication was u’red (12.62 pounds as
compared with 12.3 in 1933. From
the table giving a report of the 1934
irk. we find that the yield of cot-
ton on the plots receiving the sul-
phur treatment rose as much as three
The Department of Agriculture of
Japan recently estimated the total
1935 rice crop of Japan at 310,000,000
bushels, an increase of 16.0 per cent
over last year’s production.
probably will be deepened.
Sun Oil’s J. H. Craig No. 1, Haw-
kinsville area, Thomas Williams sur-
feet.
Sterling Oil's Baer No 1, Samuel
Hoy tsurvey, shut down 5900 feet, vey, drilling down from 4750 feet.
j Mr. Parkham Saywood, formerly
employed by the North and South
Development Company, anil located
in Bay City, and now of San An-
tonio, is a business visitor here to-
day.
Mr. E. E. Wood left today for Ro-
sharon after several days visit here
with his family.
-------------------hundred and ninety pounds per acre
Mrs. Leola Cox Sides left Tues-over the yield on the untreated plots
day afternoon for Lubbock where 1
she will participate in the wedding
of her sister, Miss Leah Cox, to Mr.
Henry Kothmann of Mason. The
wedding will take place at the Church
of Christ at high noon Saturday,
February 9th. Mrs. Sides was ac-
companied as far as Austin by Mrs.
Pat Thompson.
and the average increased yield of
seed cotton per acre was three hun-
died and six pounds. In other words,
the average per acre yield on the
untreated plots was one hundred and
seventy-six pounds, while on the sul-
phur-dusted plots it was four hun-
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1936, newspaper, February 6, 1936; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696552/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.