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VOL 90
NO. 31
1€ itlotagoroa Count Tribune
"THERE IS NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR OUR FRIENDS"
BAY CITY, TEXAS THURSDAY, FEE
Y 13, 1936
Republic Supply Company Will THE ROAD TO OIL COMPANIES PAYROLLS OVER Cotton Land li
Make Amicable Settlement SKELLY FIELD S2,200.00 EACH DAY IN COUNTY
$2,200.00 EACH DAY IN COUNTY
South On Lists
FIVE CENTS PER COPY
POSSIBILITY OF STRONG DISTRICT
IN INTERSCHOLASTIC LEAGUE RACE
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According to a notice sent out by amicable settlement will enable the
The people of Bay City as well as
R. O. Huff, special master in the United North and South or the Re- everybody connected with the Skel-
matter of the United North and South public Supply Company or both to ly Oil Company express their gran-
Development Company, the Republic resume operations at Buckeye. It tude to the members of the Commis-
Supply Company, a creditor, has made is the general belief that there is sioners' Court because of their time-
application to purchase the Darst an enormous oil field at Buckeye ly decision to begin preparations to
Creek oil and gas leases and cer- and everybody will be pleased to construct a permanent road from
tain Buckeye oil and gas lease s and | know that our good friend, Col. Ed- Highway 60 to the field, a distance
production as well as certain per
sonal property of the United North
gar B Davis, will be enabled to re- of approximately five miles.
sume his exploration work there, as This road will serve many farm
and South Development Company in well as relieved of a great many families as well as the oil company
consideration of its claim, releasing burdensome handicaps.
its lien upon the balance of the
Buckeye oil and gas leases and cer-
tain other assets.
It is believed, here, that this agreed
burdensome handicaps.
and the city and because of that
Bay City stands ready to extend fact will be °f considerable public
a cordial welcome upon the return good.
of these good people to our midst,
if such is to be the case.
Negro Pedestrian Texas' Five Big
Killed Sat. Night Cattle Count!
The road, however, will be built,
I primarily, to accommodate the oil
field and it will be of a very per-
j manent character because of tire per-
| manency of the field.
| The Skelly Company has encoun-
tered five different pay sands, any
I one of which can be utilized toward
making producing wells Upon this
i basis it is said the field is good for
a long term of years Including
HMMIE TORRENCE RECEIVES FA-
% "AE INJURIES WHEN STRUCK
WEBB HAS 106,436 HEAD, WITH
MATAGORDA COUNTY'S
Johnson No 1. there are four pro-
ducing wells in the field now, three
of which are capable of large pro-
duction, and three more drilling.
DY AUTO ON HIGHWAY NEAR 80,172 FIFTH
RIVER. I -----
I Laredo, Feb. 8—Webb County has The activity in the field is great
Jimmie Torrence, negro, age 34, of more cattle than any other county even now, with an early necessity
Bay City, was fatally injured Sat- in Texas, County Agent L. A Pierce of getting heavy tonnage to and from
the field. It is obvious, therefore.
urday night when he was struck by announced.
that the very best sort of a road
will be needed.
an automobile driven by D. V. The county, according to the pre-
O’Brian of Galveston. The injured liminary report of the 1935 federal
man was rushed to the Loos Hos-farm census, shows the number of We can afford to build roads to
pital by Taylor Bros, ambulance, but cattle in the county on January 1, any and all producing oil fields, for
died soon after reaching the hospi 1936 was 106,43G. It leads Kenedy everyone of them will help, mater-
tal.
According to Mr. O’Brian, the ni
ially
in the rapid and substantial
County, which was second, by morel
than 4,000 head. building up of the town.
gro was walking down th highway | Tlie five big cattle counties in Tex-
on the same side of the road he are Webb, with 106,436 head; Ken- Mrs Calli S.ancat
the driver of the car, was driving, edy, 102,048; Victoria, 98,098; Brazo-1 4 0 24
He failed to see the negro due to|ria 93.565; and Matagorda, 80,172.
the bad weather of Saturday night
until he was right on the negro |
When he did see him he swerved |
the car in an attempt to miss him 1
The negro jumped the same way the
car was swerved, receiving the im-
pact of the moving vehicle.
The Tribune is
Mrs. Callie Swansey, one of the
older residents of Matagorda County,
died at five p. m. January thirty-first,
at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
Alice Stafford. Mrs. Swansey was
born February 9, 1852, in Cherokee
A n County, Alabama. On July 8. 1874,
C she was married to Perry T. Swan-
A m eve - sey and their four children were
1 antoi "mN* ----born during the time they made
OONICil STHHHFGE L The fawrun @ Matagorda County their home in Alabama Later, in
■ and those of about 102 other coun- 1894, they moved to Texas and spent
L AanLL ties of the state are at a loss to the remainder of their lives here
181121N know where the writer of an ar-in Matagorda County, with the ex-
lUIDil SPPUGRU ticle that appeared in the Tribune ception of four years in Brazoria
m F 1 on Monday, February 3rd, regarding County, where they first settled. Mr.
Dntown l"llin a farmer's meeting in Fort Worth Swansey preceded her in death by
9 U HUlul V on Saturday, February 1st, in which twenty years, having died June 9,
• it referred to them as being fight- 1916
| ing mad and with sleeves rolled up Mrs. Swansey was a constant read-
SEA CAPTAIN GIVES INTEREST- . ady to fight, and that the higher er and student of the Bible and was
court, robbed the people by their affiliated with the Watchtower Bible
decision regarding the AAA. It is and Tract Society for tire past twen-
unreasonable statement that |ty-five years. She led a life of pray-
ever presented in any press, and er and it was her deepest desire
.us been to be faithful to Jehovah. She re-
tary Club at the regular noon lunch- misinformed or he has deliberate-joiced in the hope of the resurrec-
eon at the BayTex Hotel Tuesday ly printed something that he knew tion and was fully resigned to leav-
and Captain Dierlam was speaker for was false, for there was not evening this world, with its cares. Dur-
meeting in Fort Worth, it was ing her last illness she many times
expressed her desire to enter the
ING ACCOUNTS OF TRIPS
TO ORIENT
Captain and Mrs. Emmett Dierlam,
of Galveston, were guests of the Ro-
the occasion.
the mo
we feel that the writer has
a
Captain Dierlam gave an account held in Waco, and there were some
Matagorda destiny of the hereafter.
She died at the age of 83 years.
of his last voyage to the Orient which 8 or 10 farmers from
took over seven months to complete County there and will tell the writer
and in which he travelled more than that not a word of his statement is 11 months and 22 days, lacking only
36,000 miles. He gave accounts of true, and we feel unless it is cor-nine days of reaching her eighty-
rected that is was printed for the fourth birthday. Her four children
sole purpose of throwing some re- survive her: Mrs. Alice Stafford, of
flection on the farmers of the State , Bay City: V. J Swansey, of Cedar
of Texas, as lots of other articles Lane: John B. Swansey, of Browns-
that have appeared in the Tribune1 ville; and Joe A. Swansey, of Mis-
have done, i soin; also twenty-two grandchildren
told of how one of the sailors had The foregoing was handed the writ- and fourteen great-grandchildren.
the typhoons, the cargoes, the peo-
ple, and he also told of a visit he
made on a new Japanese merchant 1
marine. He stated that it was cap-
able of making 22 knots whereas his
boat was good for 11 knots He also
shown him how the merchant ma-er by Mr. Jim Tabb in the presence
rine could within a few hours be of Mr. W. C. Lloyd, with the request I
transformed into a vessel of war, we publish it, which we are doing 1
Tlie captain is with the Lykes Bros with pleasure.
Steamship Lines. Mr. E. O. Taul- Our friends are mistaken if they
bee introduced Captain Dierlam, think the Tribune has anything
Bulletin of
Missionary News
A Testimony
ss Anna Bell Williams, who
3 lives in connection with the Lam-
outh Training School, Osaka, Japan,
gives an interesting incident from
the life of a Japanese Christian
At our special meetings for the
deepening of our spiritual life held
at the beginning of this term, Ha-
oshi Utako Sensei, who gives all
her time working for temperance and
purity, was with us. She told how
God has marvelously led her through
her seventy-two years. As she was
four when the great Emporer Meiji
ascended the throne, she knows well
| against the farmer. We have given
more free labor, time and space to
things pertaining to the welfare of
the farms, farmers and canning clubs
(within the past six years than any
ten papers in South Texas, and are
going to continue to do so. Of course,
all we can do is devote our time
and space to such work. We can't
make anyone read or appreciate it.
So much as to our interest in the
farmer.
As to the start off of our edito-
rial. which is under question, as to
the farmers getting fighting mad,
etc. We have started many an ar-
ticle about other things in the same
way, and, of course, meant no harm
whatsoever. We could have said “de-
termined, fist-pounding, red-blooded
farmers” just as well, but didn't, so
if we offended in that particular in-
stance, we are indeed sorry for it
and offer an apology for the offense.
if such it be, for we think more of
the friendship of one farmer than
we do of the outcome of anything
left to others to harangue over.
However, we are asked for our
Japan's marvelous history since her
doors were opened to the world. A
splendid father helped her in many
ways, and she was always seeking
truth so that when she read in the
primary reader, which evidently bore that, we respectfully request our
source of information. Answering
the influence of Western books, that friends to look up and read the As-
all things were made by heaven, she sociated Press reports of their meet-
stopped worshiping before the Budd-
hist altar in her grandmother's home
and began to worship the heavenly
power which to her was embodied
in the sun. Later, in Tokyo, some-
ing. The very first paragraph of that
report reads: Farmers of Texas as-
Her four children
OIL NEWS
The Helmerich-Payne well at Shep-
herd Mott is swabbing.
The MacDermoth Rig Building Con-
tractors moved a crew of about ten
men here to work on the Strake well
at Cedar Lake.
The F. M. Long Company has a
crew of sixteen men here working
on the H. N. Smith No. 2 at Wads-
worth.
The Noble Drilling Company has
a crew of twenty and their families
moving here to work on the Strake
well at Cedar Lake.
The Rutherford Drilling Company
is rigging up to start drilling on
the No. 5 Cobb.
The Hammon Drilling Company is
drilling at approximately 9.240 feet.
Bay City Girl
Wins In Horwitz
Amateur Contest
TEXAS GULF SULPHUR COMPANY AND PHOENIX REFINERY PAY-
ROLLS SWELL THAT TOTAL MUCH HIGHER
The oil company payrolls in Bay City and Matagorda County conser-
vatively estimated, reach $2,247.00 each day. With the supply men and
machine shop men and truck men who are employed as a result of the
other work, the total reaches approximately $2,292.00 daily.
This does not include the Texas Gulf Sulphur Company, whose pay-
roll has been the backbone of the county for many years and with the
return of the operations at Gulf, will continue to contribute a great
amount, together with the fact that the taxes paid by this company alone
are about one half of all the taxes paid in the county Nor does the
above figures take into consideration the Phoenix Oil Company Refin-
ery which has been delayed in its work, but which will, when put into
operation, employ from 20 to 25 men daily with a possible payroll of
about $100 daily.
There are 321 men employed by these companies. The payroll each
half month is $33,705.00 or $67,410.00 every month Such an amazing fig-
ure should bring joy to the hearts of the merchants of this city and coun-
ty. Look over these figures.
The Halliburton Oilwell Cementing Co., a permanent Bay City insti-
tution. has a payroll of $22 per day, $330 per half month and $660 per
30 days.
The county is on the boom upward. Every available house apart-
mint, room and business house in the city is occupied. Building is go-
ing along rapidly and plans for much more building is developing.
These figures below are from Mr. O. J. Doubek who has compiled them
with a great degree of accuracy.
Skelly Oil Co. (Lease)
Rutherford Drilling Co.
Hamman Exploration Co. (Lease)
Helmurick & Payne, Inc.
Sun Oil Co.
Continental Oil Co. (Lease)
Lofland Bros. Drilling Co.
John A. Deering
J S. Abercrombie Co.
Hamill Drilling Co.
Powers Production Co.
Horace M. Smith Corporation
United North & South
Exploration Crews (3)
Men Emp. Daily Wage
12 Month
Month
Of Acute Areas
FOUR SECTIONS NAMED AS AF-
FORDING HUGE U. S.
PROBLEM
REVISION OF DISTRICT MAY PUT
BAY CITY IN ONE OF STRONG-
EST CLASS B DISTRICTS IN THE
STATE
14
64
3
16
. 28
.5
28
16
21
20
20
16
....5
. 65
$ 70.00
475.00
30.00
125.00
196.00
45.00
196.00
160.00
135.00
130.00
130 00
35.00
390.00
Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 10—With vir-
tually no good free land left in the
United States for families to settle
the future of the country depends
largely on the conservation and con-
version to proper use of vast tracts
that have been made useless by abuse
in the past, believes L. C. Gray, as-
sistant administrator of the resettle-
ment administration.
"Less than a century ago,” said
Gray, “there were hundreds of thou-
sands of acres of good land in the
public domain available to citizens
who wanted to stake out a homestead.
Today, not only is there scarcely an
acre of such land, but countless thou-
sands of acres that once were profit-
able have been ruined unless they
can be converted to other uses or re-
stored to their original productive-
ness."
Gray cited four great districts in
the United States where the misuse
of land has not only made it unprofit-
able but in many cases has reduc-
ed the occupants to economic misery.
Poverty in great portions of the
southern Appalachian mountains
The fears that Bay City would pos-
sibly be placed in a district with
Wallis, Sealy, Sugarland, Damon,
West Columbia and other small towns
were eased Saturday when it was
learned that plans were being made
to place Bay City in a district that
would comprise possibly tlie strongest
district in South Texas in Class B
circles. The new district that is be-
ing planned but officially has not
been released from Austin will be
made up of Bay City, Richmond,
Rosenberg, El Campo, Eagle Lake,
Wharton and Columbus. Seven teams
in all with no lower or upper brack-
et From this plan a round robin
will be played each year and there
will be three home games and three
games on foreign territory. Never
before has any of the seven teams
in this district been in as strong a
district as th- one planned. It will
allow for some great football.
The district is not only geographi-
cally perfect, but each team to make
up this planned district is of about
the same size in enrollment and has
about the same chances each year:
for a championship. With Columbus
entered now the interest will be
greater than ever before. Columbus
has regularly won or has been run-
ner up in all of the district races
in the district of which it was a
member the past few years.
The arrangement of the games,
three at home and three away in
the district set-up will enable for
at least three and maybe four games
of non-district play, which will be
an ideal set-up for each team.
Everyone who has followed the
teams is elated over the new plans
and hopes that they go through just
as they are planned.
Flexible Cotton Control Program to
Permit Continual Readjustments
where living conditions are particu-
larly severe, he said, is the direct re-
Urg
iy Economics Bureau
321
Supply men, machine shop men and
truch men. daily average 15
Horwitz Unit
Takes To Road
AMATEURS START ON TOUR
FOR PROFESSIONAL
EEXPERIENCE
336
$2,247.00
$33,705.00
$67,410.00
45.00
675.00
1,350.00
$2,292.00 $34,380.00
$68,760.00
Account Of The
Kendleton
Bridge Fire
suit of an unscientific use of land.
Forests Rapidly Thinned
Forests, which formerly provided
the chief income, were cut off with-
out any care for the future reproduc-
tion of trees.
The land as a rule is too steep for
farming: cultivation only aggravates
the problem by encouraging soil ero-
sion. and with both the forests and
top soil gone, the standard of living
of the inhabitants has decreased
steadily.
Wharton Spectator
The fire of indignat n that The
The first unit of the Will Horwitz
amateur road shows left Houston
Monday for an extended tour over
the state.
The first stop was at Hallettsville,
where a performance was given Mon-
day night.
The performers, all winners in the
Horwitz amateur contests, taking with,
them Ron De Jon and his orchestra. | latest accident at the Kendleton
left Houston in automobiles at noon Bridge Wednesday night fire of un-
Monday Jake Schwartz, pioneer determined origin consumed the
showman of the city, give them a few | bridge and a serious menace to ev-
ery motorist who has occasion to
sage words at parting and had his
picture taken with the group.
The troupe will tour the state for
several weeks. Bookings have been
arranged for a considerable period in
advance. Other sections of the coun-
try may be included in the tour be-
fore it ends.
Those making the trip are: Gladys
Deacon, accordionist: Mildred Shapi-
State of Texas would
death trap flared anc
maintain a
Wednesday
morning when word spread that three
young men of Wharton and one from
Columbus had been injured and an-
other young man from the Colorado
County town had lost his life in the |
pass over Highway 12 was removed.
What started the fire and the hour
when it first began to cat away the
timbers of Kendleton Bridge are mat-
ters that are being investigated by
local officers, but The Spectator was
informed Thursday just before noon
that there was no tangible clue which
would lead to solving the mystery.
It i; generally believed that the
fire was of incendiary origin as the
bridge was burning furiously at both !
ends and in the center when it was
ro, dancer and singer: Margaret
Streeter and Mary Jane Roberts, who
present a Topsy and Eva act; Bill
Fleet, imitator and impersonator;
Juanita Bonham, pianist: Jackie Fer-
guson, who is billed as a minature
edition of Eddie Cantor; Jean Harl-
son, whistler and singer, and Karol
Taylor of League City, impersona-
tor.
De Jon and his orchestra will add
a professional touch to the perform-
ance and will play for a dance in
each town as an added attraction. I
Mr. Horwitz said that another unit|
discovered by passing
about the midnight hour
motorists
Fire fight-
ing equipment was rushed to the
scene, but the efforts of the firemen
were fruitless, and Thursday morn-
ing all that was left of the Kendle-
ton Bridge was a mass of smoking
timber which had fallen from the
charred remains of piling
Traffic over Highway 12 will be
detoured by way of East Bernard
show will be sent over the route as until such time as the State High-
soon as enough talent is discovered way Department erects a temporary
in the Uptown Hall broadcasts. ' bridge or another route is opened
The Will Horwitz Ameteur Road whereby traffic can be resumed
Show No 1 will play Frels State | from Hungerford direct to Kendleton.
Theatre one day only, Friday night. The old offset bridge over the East
February 21st. Don Jon and his or-
chestra will also play for a dance
at the BayTex Hotel.
Bernard River claimed many lives
and was the scene of many accidents
before it was burned Wednesday
night Thursday morning as the
Other Dams
Washington, Feb 6—The Bureau
of Agricultural Economics recom-
mended today a flexible cotton con-
Y A I I trol program to facilitate continual
OF EGrAOO readjustments made necessary by
1 SWI variable production from year to
year.
EIGHT MILLION DOLLAR STRI C-
TURE TO OCCUPY TRAVIS
COUNTY SITE
Tlie suggestion was part of a 100-
page report on world cotton condi-
tions A preliminary report was is-
Austin, Feb. 8—Over $8,000,000 of
construction in the lower Colorado
River Authority program is sched-
The old forest region bordering the
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Great Lakes which presents a similar uled to be put under contract with-
problem, the Western plains where the
destruction of forests has eliminated
moisture and produced dust storms in
recent years and finally the old cot-
ton belt of the South, he said, are
instances of the misuse of soil that is
now causing poverty for great por-
tions of the people.
Problem Grows With Years
The situation, he declared, is even
in the next 90 days, in addition to
the $3,500,000 completion of Buchanan
dam now under way.
Within a week bids will be called
for the construction of the Roy Inks
dam, on the Arnold site, three miles
below Buchanan dam, at an estimat-
ed cost of $1,100,000.
The Marshall Ford sector of the
sued last spring.
“Any long time cototn production
program in the South," the report
said, "must take this (variable pro-
duction) into account, and area re-
adjustments in production should be
effectively co-ordinated and integrat-
ed with considerations having to do
with land use and soil conservation,
and with the rehabilitation or re-
settlement on more production land
or in non-farm occupations of some
of the human resources in the cot-
ton belt."
Magazine Writer Is
In City Gathering
columns of smoke furled upward
I from the charred remains of what
I had been called a bridge, it seemed
river in Travis County has been
, adopted as the location of the biggest
with an inevitably in-dam in the series, a structure to cost
creasing population the nation will re- approximately $7,000,000.
quire more land under cultivation in
the future than now.
graver for
the present.
the future than it is for
Whenever industrial depressions
cur. hundreds of thousands will
back to the land
oc-
go
1
approximately $7,000,000. General
Manager Clarence McDonough has an-
nounced plans will be complete ready
for the calling of bids on this project
in April. This dam will be 167 feet
., . as they did during high, as compared with 137 feet at
the present one.| Buchanan dam.
With no virgin land left, and with
great sections of the country made I
profitless by misuse of the land in the I
past, the problem, he declared, can j
only be solved by a well defined gov-
ernmental policy of soil conversion
and conservation.
Approximately six sites, ranging in
a six-mile stretch of the river from
the lower end of the horseshoe bend
area known as Marshall Ford, up to
Lohman's crossing, were tested for
foundations and the selection has been
narrowed to sites in the Marshall
Ford section.
Studies made by the resettlement
administration. Gray believes show
that unless all people living off the Jiliteu mates .ecldidton burtud 16
soil can do so profitably, a great bur- the clearing of over 17,000 acres of the
11 taxation is thrown on persons Buchanan lake basin in Burnet and
in other parts of the country.
Cost to Country Shown
In one case, 28 families were found
who cost the country $185 each year
to transport their children to school
Yet their farm lands were so unpro-
ductive that their taxes averaged only
$6.40 per family.
In another state it was found that
$7,000,000 was spent on relief, pri-
vate charity and uncollectable loans
during four years to farmers who
could never hope to make a living out
of their farms.
The land utilization program of the
federal government, Gray said, is de-
signed to correct these conditions.
Where necessary, families are moved
to more fertile ground, and their old
farms given over to forestry, grazing
or other forms of conservation. A
Bids have just been opened by the
United States reclamation bureau for
Llano counties.
Approximately 320 workers, time-
keepers and persons engaged in the
operation of commissary, mess hall
and other facilities are now at work
at the Buchanan dam site.
Trench Silage
In Texas Gains
JAC K SHELTON SURVEY SHOWS
1724 SILOS DUG IN
1935
Seventeen hundred and twenty-four
program is being worked out to keep new trench silos were dug on Texas
families from settling in areas where farms and ranches in 1935 and filled
they may become public charges as | from the most beautiful feed crop the
the result of the poverty of the land state has ever known, according to
- P iy or me 4and. figures issued by Jack Shelton, vice
director of the extension service and
state agent of agricultural work.
There were also 1745 other trench
one suggested that she go to church,
but she would have nothing to do
with “that foreign religion!” Then,
because she wanted money to con-
tinue her studies, she became the
language teacher of a missionary s
daughter and finally attended church
to see what it was like. Bishop Wil-
liams, one of the pioneer mission-
aries, preached. Not all could she
understand, but she got three things
—that God created all things, that
he is a loving Father, and that all
men are his children and therefore
brothers. The teaching fitted into
the longings of her heart, and she
discovered that night that Christian-
ity is a world religion belonging to
both east and west. Her life since
then has been full of sufferings borne
and noble deeds done, for the Mas-
ter's sake. Her work for peace, tem-
perance, and purity has taken her
several times to Europe and America.
The Ewha Laundry
The new plant at Ewha College,
Seoul, Korea, has a laundry which
(Continued on Page 8.)
sembled in large number at the Cot-
ton Palace Coliseum Saturday and
YELLED THEIR APPROVAL of a
resolution DEMANDING an amend-
ment to the Federal Constitution."
Is there any difference in the “yell-
ing" and "demanding" and "clutch-
Miss Isabel Deatherage, daughter of
Rev. and Mrs. Deatherage, pastor of
the local Christian Church, was one
of the winners in the Radio Ama-
teur Contest and will sing Sunday
over KXYZ at 9 p. m., according
to word received by Mr. and Mrs.
J. G. Long.
Miss Deatherage was one of the
winners in the Amateur Contest held
by the Franklin Theatre several weeks
ago and appeared over KPRC in
Houston.
Miss Deatherage will no doubt ap-
preciate having her many friends and
those who had the pleasure of hear-
ing her in the Franklin contest, lis-
ten over KPRC Sunday at 9 a. m.
ing their fists?” If there is, we fail
to see it, however, we meant no more
by our statement than the Associat-
ed Press did by its statement.
But, let’s go on with the Asso-
ciated Press, and we’ll keep the re-
port in the office so all who care
to may call and read it themselves.
Tlie Associated Press says in para-
graph three: “In the preamble to the
resolutions, after ref ring to the
Supreme Sourt’s opinions declaring
AAA and the processing tax uncon-
stitutional belief is expressed: . . .
“in rendition of these opinions agri-
culture not only is imperiled, but
the ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF
Attempt To Break
In Two Garages
Made Mon. Night
An unsuccessful attempt was made
some time during Monday night to
break in the garage of W. II. Min-
ton but the heavy chain on the lock
of the garage door kept the intruder
out.
An attempt to take the car of Jack
Hinton’s was also made during the
night. The lock, on the garage door
. was broken but evidently the bur-
OUR NATION IS MENACED. Would I glar was frightened away before he
men in an easy frame of mind use succeeded in getting the car.
such language AFTER the Supreme
Court had render a decision on any
other question?
But, since we have expressed a
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Friends of Mr. Johnnie Grubb will
be sorry to learn that he is ill with
the mumps and confined to his home.
in fantasy that one could see a
History Material cheering section spirits of those
Naylor’s Epic-Century Magazine of who had lost their lives it the spot.
San Antonio, publication devoted to Visitors to the scene of the con-
publishing the historic background of flagration were not overwhelmed
Texas and her counties, and which with grief but wore happy smiles be-
had been meeting with unprecedent-cause of the knowledge that never
ed success all over Texas, now has again will it be necessary for those
its special writer, Tom A Keene, in who must use Highway 12 to cross
Bay City, compiling a general his-
toric survey of Matagorda County,
to be published in its forthcoming
edition next month.
The Naylor Company, one of San
Antonio’s oldest publishing houses,
started Epie-Century two years ago.
Since then it has devoted its pages
to enlightening the people of Texas
with facts about the state not gen-
erally known by the vast multitude
The Bay City and Matagorda Coun-
ty historical survey will be profuse-
ly illustrated and will include a story
of the county dating back to its be-
ginning, coupled with one showing
Bay City as it is today, the progress
made during the past 25 years, and
will depict in detail, the agricultural
and live stocks interests, the resources
and possibilities of the city and coun-
ty and its standing in Texas in 1935.
Mr. Keene will be here several
days.
a bridge that presented a menace to
every vehicle which came this way.
In facetious vein almost every male
citizen of Wharton has been accus-
ed of the burning of the bridge. With
a few exceptions there have been no
denials; but regret has been express-
ed by many that various individuals
were not invited to be present at
the burning.
The State Highway Department has
been repeatedly requested to con-
struct a modern bridge over the East
Bernard River to replace the old
wooden bridge which caused so many
accidents. It is hoped now that there
is no bridge, action will be taken
immediately and the direct route to
Houston from this section will
re-established
be
Pledger Road is
Being Improved
COLLEGEPORT 1-11 CLI B
Mrs. Leola Cox Sides met with
seventeen of the Collegeport 4-H
Club girls Tuesday, February 11. to
discuss “Spic and Span from Head
to Toe." A bathing center and ap-
propriate clothes for various occa-
sions were talked about. Emma
Franzene taught the girls how to
make "Italian hemstitching.”
Elaine Hendrix, 4-H Club Reporter.
Charlie McGlaun
Takes Over
Magnolia Station
Mr. and Mrs Charlie McGlaun, of
San Angelo, have returned to Bay
City to make their home. Mr. Mc-
Glaun has taken over the Magnolia
Filling Station owned by the Ameri-
can Legion of Bay City, on the high-
way North Avenue F.
We welcome these good people to
our midst and their return to their
old home.
The Pledger road, in Commission-
ers' Precinct No. 1. extending from
an intersection with State Highway
No. 35 near Merritt’s Filling Station
througr the town of Pledger to the
Matagorda-Wharton County line, is
now being improved with the use
of federal and county funds. The
shell shoulders along the concrete
section of this road is being resur-
faced with eight inches of mudshell
and when completed will put this road
in first class condition. The Fed-
eral Government is contributing $11,-
397.57 of the cost of this work. This
road has been used for a number
of years as a detour for State High-
way No. 60 and has been carrying
all of the heavy State Highway traf-
fic between Bay City, Wharton and
points beyond. Highway No. 60 be-
tween Bay City and Wharton will
soon be completed which will give
this county another fine highway con-
nection and will take approximately
seventy per cent of the traffic from
the Pledger road.
silos which had proved their value in
1934 filled again in 1935. "This
method of storing feed is growing in
popularity as it is recognized that it
gives insurance from deterioration in
feeding value, and from loss by
storms, or fire or rate. That’s four
kinds of insurance and no premium
to pay.” Shelton said.
“The feed stored in silos is being
used chiefly for dairy herds, beef
cattle and for general feeding in win-
tering stock." Shelton stated, "though
some of it will not be touched this
No confidential enterprise has been
found, the bureau said, to substi-
tute generally for cotton production
in the South.
The bureau offered as ‘‘a choice
of policy between two extremes:
"1. Restricting production to ob-
tain relatively high prices but yield-
ing a part of his world market to
the foreign producer, and finding the
profitable use of a substantial part
of his labor and other production
resources.
"2 Producing more cotton to hold
a larger foreign market for Ameri-
can cotton but selling his product
at relatively low prices."
"A number of intermediate courses
of action have been proposed by va-
rious groups and individuals,” the
report added, "one of which is to
arrange for the domestic producer
to obtain a domestic price if cot-
ton which would be above the world
price and to produce for the foreign
markets a volume sufficient! large
to maintain his position in that mar-
ket.
"Other intermediate proposals in-
clude export debenture plans, mar-
ket stabilization plans, foreign loan
and inflation. These various alter-
natives need to be carefully consid-
ered in the selection of a continu-
ing cotton production policy and pro-
gram that will best serve the long
time interests of domestic cotton pro-
ducers."
Production resources both in the
United States and foreign countries,
the bureau continued are such that
long time upward trends in world
production could be maintained for
many years.
During the period from 1890 to 1929,
the report said, acreage in the Unit-
ed States increased at an annual rate
of approximately 550,000 acres and
production at about 175,000 bales.
“Income from the cotton crop of
1935, the bureau said, "under pres-
ent conditions as to costs and la-
bor supply in the South is suffi-
cient to encourage ,i material ex-
pansion in planting in 1936. With
the complete abandonment of acre-
age restriction, recovery from the
level to which acreage was reduc-
■ cd. probably would not be realiz-
| ed in one year. But with income
from cotton continuing as . gh as
in the past year and other condi-
winter at all because it was put up tions remaining about as in 1935, the
to be kept as insurance against a area planted with cotton probably
7 would soon return to more than 40,4
future | 000,000 acres."
feed
drouths,
surance
shortage caused by
That, a fifth kind of in-
trench silos.”
to be had
by the use of
"Other state-wide report figures of
the extension service show 134,975
head of cattle on feed in Texas this
winter and 101,562 sheep for market
purposes." Shelton stated.
Information that is being gathered
from county extension agents indi-
For Commissioner
Of Precinct No. 1
cates that many more animals are
being fattened on Texas farms to be
slaughtered for home use than has! residen
ever before been the case. The great
feed crop and the detailed plans for
living at home of the extension ser.
Clifford R. Walker, a well-known
citizen of Matagorda County and a
of Cedar Lane, announces
his candidacy for county com: lission-
I
CLOTHES STOLEN
MONDAY NIGHT
Around $60.00 worth of clothes be-
longing to Fred Metzger, an em-
ployee of Rutherford Drilling Com-
pany, were taken from his room at
the residence of Miss Tonie Holmes
some time during Monday night.
vice have both tended to make thi
enormous increase.
New Cars Registered
New passenger cars registered from
January 1, 1935 to December 31, 1936
totaled 439. Those registered from
January 1, 1936 to February 1, 1936
totaled 64, making a grand total of
503.
i er from Precinct 1.
Mr. Walker his been a resident of
. Cedar Lane for the past seventeen,
years, and is engaged in farming in
that section. His training and ex-
perience fit him to be of great ser-
vice to the precinct in this capacity.
If he is elected, he promises to serve
impartially all parts of the precinct.
He advocates equalization of taxes
and better reads and drainage. I
Mr. Walker will appreciate any help
and consideration the voters may give
him.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1936, newspaper, February 13, 1936; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696553/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.