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Rice Should Bring S5 Per Barrell COUNCILS OF Farmers Urged By Farmers Start
MODERATION Solon to Hold Rice Cutting Rice
it l both interesting and to For $5 Minimum This Week
most folks, surprising, to see the " W "
advertisements of one of the lar-
gest firms of whiskey distillers
counseling moderation of drink-
Says Representative IL E. Quinn
CATTLE, OIL
AND RICE
Rice News
It is a mistake to dissassociate
the rice industry in Texas and
Louisiana from cattle raising and
oil production inasmuch as prac-
tically all the large rice growers
have herds of cattle varying in
size to graze idle rice lands during
alternate years when these lands
are resting from rice cultivation
and in view of the further fact
that as land owners, rice farmers
are directly concerned with oil de-
velopments, each in his own com-
munity.
In addition to their main cash
crop which is rice, rice growers
during the past five years have
had increasing incomes from leas-
es on oil lands and sales of por-
tions of oil royalties. Annually |
sales of beef cattle bring these
DEBT PERILS
U. S. LIBERTY
COMMISSIONERS AND
JUDGES WILL MEET HERE
Beaumont, Texas
August 5, 1936.
Carey Smith
Editor Tribune
Bay City, Texas
Dear Editor:
The rice harvest has just be-
gun in Texas and Louisiana and it
has been reported that the market
will open up at about $3 50 per
barrel, which is entirely too low
under the present conditions,
Corn has jumped in the past few
days to $1.20 per bushel and it
is reported there is a shortage of
all grains and food stuff in the
United States, and there is also a
prospect of European war, which
would cause a big increase in the
price on rice and other grain, but
ing. Yes, on analysis, it appears
to be the most intelligent move
which the liquor business has ever
made.
Most folk will agree that drink-
ing cannot be prevented by law.
The unfortunate experiment of
national prohibition provided the
necessary proof of that. Almost
every nation has made efforts by
political methods to control the
traffic in "hard liquor," but no-
where has any means been found
effective except that of educa-
tion in temperance. America has
under the present conditions rice always been a whiskey-drinking
should sell at not less than $5.90 ration. The manufacture and sale
per barrel, and, of course, if we of whiskey has again been legal-
have a European war, the price
will go to $7.50 or probably $10.00
per barrel.
The rice farmers throughout the
rice belt should be advised to hold
their rice for a minimum of $5.00
farmers in money at times it is which is a reasonably fair price,
very much needed. During the under present conditions, I there-
fore, respectfully request that you
be kind enough to publish this
letter or a part of *.
Yours very truly.
B. E. QUINN,
State Representative.
past three years conditions in the
rice industry have steadily im-
proved and cash returns from rice
crops have increased to such an
extent that on the whole rice
farmers generally in these twol
states are now in a very good po-
sition financially.
It is a little different in the rice
belt in Arkansas with respect to
oil development and a large cattle 1
industry. While considerable live- I
stock is raised in the rice belt 01
that state, the tendency there with
respect to rotating rice with other
crops in yearly increasing in favor
of soil building crops, whi h ar 1
Casing Being
Run To 9670
Feet In Well
ized, except in a few states which
are still "dry" by popular vote.
It is not the moderate use of whis-
key which lies at the root of the
still active agitation for prohibi-
tion; it is intemperate and exces-
sive drinking.
It is, therefore, a highly intel-
ligent move on the part of the
distiller to join in the counsels of
moderation, to warn their custo-
mers against excessive indulgence.
They want to continue in busi-
ness, but not at the price of mak-
ing drunkards.
Their situation is camparable, in
some respects, to that of the build-
ers of automobiles. The increas-
Beaumont, Aug. 7. — Farmers
throughout the rice belt should be
advised to hold their rice for a
minimum of $5 a barrel, in the
opinion of Representative B. E.
Quinn of Beaumont.
"The rice harvest has just begun
in Texas and Louisiana and it has
been reported that the market will
open up at about $3.50 per bar-
rel. which is entirely too low
under the present conditions,” he
said.
“Corn has jumped in the past
few days to $1.20 per bushel and
it is reported there is a shortage
of all grain and food stuff in the
United States, and there is also a
prospect of European war, which
would cause a big increase in the
price of rice and other grain.
Under present conditions rice
should sell at not less than $5 per
barrel and, of course, if we have
GREAT CROP FOR COUNTY
24,000 AC RES IN RIC E
THIS YEAR
Today cutting began on the best
rice crop seen in Matagorda Coun-
ty in several years. This week
will see cutting of rice in many
of the fields that comprise the
24,000 acres in cultivation this
year in the county. W. L. Dudley.
D. O. Dodd. Jim Norris, J. D. Tabb,
Harry Norris, Virgil Harper be-
gan cutting today.
According to many in the busi-
ness, this is the best outlook for
rice in the county this year than
any of the previous past few pears
and may even compare favorably
with the best the county has ever
seen. At present, it also looks as
if a very good price will be paid
for the crop.
The author of this article is the
mayor of the city of Portland,
Oregon. In his paper he makes no
distinction between municipal,
state or federal debt, the point
being that all these public obli-
I gallons have the effect of even-
tually enslaving the citizens by
rocketing taxes to the point where
the people can no longer afford
to pay and repudiation or infla-
tion are the only alternatives. Re-
pudiation would destroy credit.
Inflation would bring chaos, So-
cialism, Communism, a dictator-
ship or what not. He agrees that
the question of mounting public
debt, due to exohbitant cost of
government, is the most serious
situation, facing America today.
—EDITOR.
Good Cotton
Crop Is Seen
' Representatives From 52 Counties
Will Be The Guests of Bay
City September 18 and 19 i
Program Arranged Last Saturday
littl
il developing
11 TRRISON & ABERC ROMBIE
PLAN TO DRILL AHEAD: TO
PLUG BACK OF NEEDED
nany in that st
Houston Press
when the production of petroleum Casing was being run today no
will move east out of the Ozari to what may develop into the dep-
country into the level counties est producer in the Texas Gulf
along the White and Mississippi st, . .
River country, but possibly what. Harrison & Abercrombie’s Arm-
ever production is obtained wili strong Plantation 1 at Old Ocean
be t Apt 11 t . in Brazoria county is bottomed in
at depths which are similar to . , , .
those in the plains of Southeast shale at 9670 feet to which 7-inch
Tex and Southern Louisiana casing will be run.
Plenty of Show
While the ce growers of Ark- I It encountered shows from 9458-
ansas have not had the benefits of 9640 feet in the Frio sand series.
oil land leases, oil royalties and
The well will be drilled on
royalty sales during the past year deeper from 9670 feet after cement
they have had the advantage has been allowed to harden
of Southern rice growers last year around the casing.
in the matter of better prices for Two years ago the Old Ocean
their rices. Owing to weather con-field was the deepest producing
ditions about the time of harvest pool in the Texas Gulf Coast. Then
in Arkansas in 1935 very few sales production at Dickinson and Ham-
of rough rice could be made This man at Bay City was discovered
was at a time when prices were at deeper levels.
low. Later on when Arkansas rice ,
had dried out and was ready for
Can Plug Back
- Operators of the Armstrong
milling, the prices were up, and plan to plug back and complete
in many instances Louisiana rice in the sands from 9458-9640 feet
if deeper drilling fails to uncover
a worthwhile producing body.
Old Ocean was discovered in
growers. Arkansas rice farmers
received much more for their pro-
duction than did their neighbors
to the South.
These are the general conditions
which prevails in the rice growing
end of the industry in Louisiana
1934. It has two wells producing
from 8541-foot sand.
and Texas at this time. What | Stanolind Oil & Gas
the situation is going to be by the
end of the coming season, because
of an unusually large acreage, is
somewhat speculative. It is fear-
ed by some that prices are going
to reach bottom this fall and that
rice growers will again find them-
selves as in 1932 with large bur-
dens of debt obligations and crop
surpluses, but this does not now
seem to be altogether likely inas-
much as growers are in better fi-
nancial shape than they were in
the spring of 1932 and in view of
the further fact that they, as well
as the Government, are going to
a European war, the price will (
go to $7.50 or probably $10 per .
barrel.
"The farmers throughout the
rice belt should be advised to hold
their rice for a minimum of $5,
which is a reasonably fair price,
under present conditions.”
Terrific Drop In
Grain Is Forecast
Soybeans In The
Rice Belts; its
Value As A Food
Judge Oscar C. Dancy, county
judge of Cameron county, Browns-
ville, Texas, and secretary of the
South Texas Judges and Commis-
sioners’ Association, was the guest
of E. O. Taulbee Saturday at
which time convention dates were
set for Friday and Saturday. Sep-
tember 18 and 19, and a tentative
program arranged for the two
day sessions. Judge Dancy ex-
pressed the opinion that local ar-
rangements would be very satis-
factory for the sessions, wh ch
will be held in the District Court
House. He also inspected the Bay-
Tex Hotel, which will be official
headquarters, and LeTulle Park
where a free barbecue will be-
held at noon on the 18th. He was
particularly pleased with the ar-
rangements of the annual banquet
and dance on the Palacios pavilion
at Palacios. The Judge was of the
opinion that the hotel facilities,
including those at Palacios, and
the willingness of the citizens of
Bay City to have some of the
WASHINGTON, Aug 6. — A
current cotton crop of slightly
more than 12 million bales will
be forecast Saturday by the crop
reporting board of the department
of agriculture, it was indicated to-
day.
Despite severe damage to the
crop in Georgia and the Carolinas,
reports flowing into the capital
from agents in the field hold
strong promise that the unusually
good growth in Texas, Mississippi,
Arkansas and Louisiana will off-
set the loss caused by the drought.
The official estimate is being
eagerly awaited by farmers,
brokers and exporters, inasmuch
as it will be the first appraisal on
cotton this year and the first
under the new soil conservation
program.
Observers here said that if the
crop approximates 12 million
bales, the farmers of the South
are due for the most successful
year they have experienced since
the World war.
This conviction is based on the
By Joseph Carson, Jr.
Will debt and extravagances de-
stroy free government?
My answer is that they will. I
do not propose to discuss statis-
tics. I do intend to discuss what
I believe to be the central prob-
lem our people today, namely, a
growing mass delusion that we
can live without labor and in-
dustry and that prosperity can be
had through the adoption of in-
flationary schemes and currency
manipulation.
What is our case against the
public debt? If it becomes too
large default follows. The per-
petuity of government rests upon
its integrity. Both recent and
ancient history has shown us that
every government that has de-
faulted on its obligations has fallen
or is tottering today. If debt be-
visitors as guests in their home
would be very satisfactory, and
entirely ample to handle the ex-
pected visitors.
The association now has a me m-
bership of commissioners and
judges from 52 counties in South
and Southwest Texas. Howe ver,
when organized a few years since,
the association was composed of
only the counties of Matagorda,
Jackson, Calhoun, Wharton, and
fact that cotton already has touch-'
ed the 12 cent a pound mark, in-
suring growers a substantial re-
turn, in addition to the federal
payments they will receive for
shifting their acreages under the
conservation plan. Approximately
11 million acres have been taken
out of cotton production this year.
A 12-million bale crop would
Rice News
Because cattle are used chiefly
in the rice belts of Texas and
Louisiana as a rotation crop, rice
farmers in these states do not be-
lieve they are in line for as great
benefits from this supplemental
ling number of cars, with gerater
engine power and vastly higher
possible speeds, has been accom-
panied by an appalling toll of hu-
| man lives from motor accidents.
| Now the automobile makers are_1
| giving vigorous support to the partment of agriculture forecast as interested in soybean culture
campaign for moderation in in this year's corn crop, based on as Arkansas farmers and busi-
ling just as the whisker August 1 conditions, at 1,439,135,-ness men.
are counselling moderationin 000 bushels. A month ago 2,244,- This large indifference of Loui-
drinking .......834,000 bushels were indicated, siana and Texas rice growers to
When all’ . id and done the Last year 2,291,629,000 bushels the production of soybeans is not |are rampant in this country. When
problem of temperance whether were produced.
in driving, in drinking, in eating Wheat production was forecast value of soybeans as
or in any other human activity ‘
is an individual one. Every man with 638,399,000 a month ago and soi
must solve it for himself There 623.444,000 produced last year.not justified. It is stated simply
is no mass method of making 1 The preliminary estimate of the as a fact.
people behave according to a fix- winter wheat crop is 519,097,000
ed rule ■ + ■. . j bushels, compared with 512,085,-
own best interests' But e or the 000 a month ago, and 464,203,000
fort, such as this one of the whis-
key distillers, to instil the prin-
ciple of moderation in all things,
is a step in the direction of sanity
and human progress.
WASHINGTON, August 11.
Drought's toll on the nation's crops and soil building crop as are rice
was shown today when the de-growers in Arkansas, nor are they
comes exceedingly heavy all the
demagogues will clamor for re-
pudiation and there tire thousands
advocating it at the present time.
Debt has been the principal mo-
tive and cause for all the wild-
cat and hair-brained schemes that
compare with a production of 13 Brazoria.
million in 1930, 9.700,000 bales in Hon. John Norris
Its first president was
of Wharton
ELMER E. FRY
here defended, for considering the the government issues bonds and
they are treated virtually as cash
632,745,000 bushels, compared crop, as feed for cattle and :
produced last year.
All spring wheat production, in-
cluding durum wheat, is indicated
as 113.648.000 bushels, compared
With 126,314,000 a month ago, and
152.241.000 produced last year.
; Durum wheat production is in-
i dicated as 9,031,000 bushels, com-
pared with 9,610,000 a month ago,
Death, Thursday, removed from and 22,957,000 produced last year,
the citizenry of Bay City one of
our oldest and most highly re-
spected inhabitants, a man highly
esteemed because of his rugged
All other spring wheat is indi-
cated as 104,617,00 bushels. com-
pared with 116,704,000 a month
ago. 136,284,000 produced last
honesty and reverred because of year.
his earnest simplicity and cheer-. The oats crop is indicated as
771,703,000 bushels, compared with
ful disposition.
E. E. Fry departed this life at
Rosenberg after an illness of two
weeks, caused by a ruptured ap-
pendix. The funeral will be held
from the Walker-Matchett funeral
home this afternoon at 5 o'clock.
money
builder, this indifference is
Where tests have been
made of soyb
they have i
ns in Arkansas
all expectations
Lease 2125 Acres
From Franz Huebner
immediately after the services
which will be held there,
Elmer E. Fry was born and
reared in Westover, Pennsylvania,
January 18. 1862. of sturdy pion-
eer American parentage. He mov-
ed to Bay City in 1900 and has
resided her continuously. By dint
of ceaseless toil, and strict hon-
The Stanolind Oil and Gac Co. 0
, , , At , esty in all of his dealings he made
has eased 2125 acres of land out
of the P. Bertrand survey and the
Elisha Hall survey from Franz
Huebner et al for the considera-
tion of $1,593.75.
After a period of four months
should the lessee elect to retain
the lease, the lessor will be paid
$10,625. If renewed after a year
and four months, consideration
will be $5,312.50.
success of raising his
805,420,000 a month ago, and 1.-
196,668,000 produced last year.
Indicated production of other
important crops:
Barley, 145,027,000 bushels com-
pared with 164,866,000 last month
and 282,226,000 last year.
Rye. 27,095,000 bushels compar-
id with 26,380,000 last month and
58,928,000 last year.
Buckwheat, 5,606,000 bushels
compared with 8,220.000 last year.
Flaxseed. 6.342,000 bushels com-
pared with 9,468,000 last month
and 14,123,000 last year.
Rice, 43,638,000 bushels com-
1934 and 10,600,000 last year.
The official estimate is expect-
ed to reveal for the first time
the full extent of the damage to
the cotton crop in Georgia and the
Carolinas, where extensive losses
profit by bitter experiences which
they have had in the past and | .
will not fall into the ame mis Voice And Llano
take again. , . Studio To Be
It is also further shown that'
notwithstanding there is a large
rice acreage planted in the United
States this year, there will be no
Opened In Bay City
carry-over of paddy and practi-
cally none of clean rice at the
opening of the 1936 season, and
this is at a time when all the do-
mestic markets of the country are
empty of rice and will require
millions of pockets to restock. It
is also believed, although no
promises of any kind have been
made, that should a distressing
surplus of rice develop later on
in the season, the Government will
help to devise plans for giving re-
lief. This is provided for in the
new Soil Conservation Act and
such authority can be used to save
a bad situation should one deve-
lop.
Taking then, the general situa-
tion into consideration, conditions
in the Southern states with re
spect to the rice industry is not
now as bad as it would seem at
first sight on account of increased
acreage and production. On the
other hand if rice growers have
been thrifty during the year and
have held down their cost of pro-
duction it is possible they will go
through in good shape until 1938
Mrs. Lillian D. Dickson of the
extension faculty of the Sherwood
music school, Chicago, will open
a branch studio in Bay City. The
location to be announced soon.
Mrs. Dickson is an experienced
teacher of voice, piano and theory.
She is a graduate of the Fine Arts
Department under Rudolph Ganz,
and theory under Franklin Wad-
sen, both of the Chicago Musical
College, and voice under Karleton
Hockett of the American Conser-
vatory; also extension work from
the Sherwod music school. Besides
giving private lessons, Mrs. Dick-
son will organize a Boys Junior
Glee Club, and a choral group
of boys and girls of high school
age and over. Tuition very rea-
sonable.
Interviews cheerfully given
prospective pupils and patrons.
Anyone interested please call
Mrs. Henry James, who is regis-
trar for Mrs. Dickson.
and getting together quite a com-
petence in the way of property.
He moved quietly, even though
ener getically, about his daily tasks
and, seemingly never had a mo-
ment to spare. His friends are
legion, and his happy, earnest
companionship will be missed.
Mr. Fry is survived by his wife,
one son, John C. Fry of San Be-
nito, and two daughters. Mrs. B.
H. Helmecke, of this city, and
Mrs. George Haines, of Gulf Two
granddaughters also survive. They
are Dorothy Fry, of San Benito,
and Bernatte Haines, of Gulf.
The pallbearers are Bob Tilman,
Jim Sisk, Jack Spurgeon, A. A.
George Helmecke. Joe Freeman.
A. A. Helmecke, John Blum and
Oscar Ziegenhals.
The Tribune joins the hosts of
friends of the family in the most
sincere expression of sympathy.
family pared with 41,997,00
CEDAR LANE GETS
FIRST BALE
last month
and 39,132,000 last year.
Grain sorghums 81,588,000 bush-
els, compared with 97.823,000 last
Record-Breaking Of
Chevrolet Cars Sale
and at this time Stuttgart, the
rice center of Arkansas, is becom-
ing nationally known as a soybean
source of supply.
Discussing soybeans as a food
for human consumption, the Gil-
lett (Arkansas) Record in a recent
article on soybeans said:
It is only natural that a crop
so new in general use in this
country as the soybean should be
for its worth as a legume to be
misunderstood. Recognized widely
plowed under for the benefit of
soil fertility, and having good
standing as a stock food and for
use in crop rotations, the most
we hear of the rapidly mounting
acreages in many parts of the
country concerns the new com-
mercial uses to which it is being
put, its oil and other derivatives.
And from time to time something
about the “edible varieties" that
find place on the dinner table.
In that particular, the soybean
is being under-exploited. We have
it from G. H. Banks, assistant
director in charge of the Rice
Branch Experiment Station near
Stuttgart, Ark., that most field va-
rieties of the legume are good to
eat. Mr. Banks finds irrigation in
the designation of some of the va-
rieties are being “edible" and the
inferences tha t the rest of them
are inedible. As he explains the
matter, those varieties, described
as “edible" are merely the varie-
ties that are more easily prepared
for food.
We have from the same authori-
in the bank, is it any wonder that
those who witness that perform-i
ance ask: "If the government |
can issue bonds which draw in-,
terest and those bonds buy any-
thing that money will buy why
not issue script or currency in-
stead?" Thousands are saying
that today. But the fact is that
a bond is a debt—nothing more.
I have another objection to pub-
have been attributed to
drought.
the
county, and our own W. E. Mc-
| Nabb, then county judge of Mata-
I gorda county, was its first secre-
tary.
Since attaining its present mem-
bership, the smallest city in which
a convention has been held was
Corpus Christi. The judges and
commissioners were invited to
lic debt.
come the
Its existence can be-
Athletic Field
Lights Turned
On Thurs. Nite
hold this summer session by E
O. Taulbee, who was then presi-
dent of the local chamber of com-
merce, at the winter meeting ir.
means
privileged class.
of creating a
It will enable
men of large fortunes to place
their wealth in publie bonds, with-
draw their substance from public
(Continued On Page 8.)
Forty-Eight Thousand Watt Light-
ing System Completed And Is
Given Successful Try-Out On
Football Field.
C. & C. Drilling
Co. Moves Crew
Eagle Lake Headlight
L. D. Allen, a member of the
local school board, turned a switch
at 8 o’clock Thursday night, and
To Bay City for the first time illuminated the
high school footbull field with
The C. & C. Drilling Company
has moved a crew here to begin
work at Shepard Mott. Approxi-
mately fifteen families arrived the
past week end.
To The Patrons Of
The Post Office
Cedar Lane got its first bale of
Cotton Wednesday, August 5.
It was grown by Solomon Bess,
a negro farmer, ginned by the
II. W. Bowie gin and weighed 555
pounds.
Mr. Henry Estill, who brought
the news of this first bale in, says
the cotton crop in that part of the
county is still a great big question
mark.
Record-breaking sales of Chev-
rolet cars and trucks in South I
Texas and throughout this sec-
tion have hastened the company’s
attainment of another important
milestone, the production of its
12,000,000th car, it was announced
today by J. B. Hancock. Houston
zone manager.
Chevrolet No. 12,000,000 was
built at Flint, Mich., on August
5, Mr. Hancock said. It came off
the assembly line exactly eight
months and one day after the 11,-
000,000th Chevrolet was built, and
its production brought to 1,182,-
000 the number of cars and trucks
produced by Chevrolet since the
manufacturing and assembly
plants began on the 1936 model.
"In all but two of the months
since the current models' introduc-
tion", said Mr. Hancock, "the out-
put has exceeded the 100,000-
mark. Three of these months set
new all-time records. Chevro-
let’s goal of ‘a million, plus, in
1938’ is assured.”
Sales in the Houston zone alone,
in the month of July, were 2705
units, as comparide with 1943 in
July, 1935.
ty that soybeans are as rich in
proteins as eggs, meat and milk,
have as high mineral content and
a trace of starch In fact, the
Arkansas specialist reports that
the present Secretary of the U.
S. Department of Agriculture,
Henry A. Wallace, lived for six
weeks on soybeans and cornmeal,
carried on his school work; had no
ill effects physically, and spent
15 cents a week for food. That
was in the Secretary's under-
graduate days, when this age-
old legume had not won recog-
nition in Arkansas for balanced
meals composed entirely or in pure
of soybeans. On the menu were
found soybean loaf, butter, green
soybeans, and soybean bread,
sugar cookies and coffee. It is not
clear wether we shoudd have
quoted “coffee" or not, for we do
not know whether it was “soy-
bean coffee" or just coffee.
On July 13th 1 tendered to the
Postmaster General my iesigna-
tion as pos mnas ter at Bay City and
asked to be relieved of tile office
Ly August 13. 1936 My action is
prompted by a desire to return to
private business.
It is with distinct regret that
I leave your service after more
than two very happy years. It
'has been a pleasure to be asso-
ciated with the fine men who
compose the personnel of the of-
fice, and I am sure no post office
has ever had better or more consi-
derate patrons to serve. It is in ap-
preciation of these things that I
am addressing you and assuring
you of my lasting goodwill.
For your information it gives
me pleasure to report that the
postal receipts at this office for
the fiscal year closing June 30,
1936, have far exceeded any year's
receipts since the establishment
of the Bay City Post Office, in-
dicating a very healthy business
flood lights.
A force of workmen of the Giant
Manufacturing Company of Coun-
cil Bluff, Iowa, under the direc-
tion of L. E. Harris, whose head-
quarters with the same campany
are at Houston .working since
Monday morning, yesterday after-
noon (Thursday) completed the
lighting system for the school
athletic field here.
Those on the field last night
were highly pleased with the
lights, which give Eagle Lake a
splendidly lighted field.
The system installed is a 48,000
watt lighting job, standard for
high schools and above the stan-
dard installed by most schools.
There are eight poles standing
52 feet above the ground, 8 feet
in the earth, with double reflec-
tors carrying 300 watts, or 6000
w atts to the pole. A main feature
in the lighting system here is the
use of the improved reflectors,
Which give far more light over the
field and a softer light than other
48,000 watt fields. Though the
lights are brilliant, the reflectors
are so improved that when
look
you
straight at them and then
condition for the community.
Your friend.
turn your gaze to another part of
the field you are not momentarily
blinded, as is the case when you
look directly at the bright lights of
other fields.
Rosenberg school is said to have
Galveston. When the invitation
was extended, there was no oppo-
sition, all other applicants with-
drawing in favor of Bay City.
Unquestionably holding a con-
vention ofthis size will be of un-
told advertising value to Bay City,
Palacios and Matagorda county.
The official program of the
semi-annaul convention, follows:
Friday. Sept. 18, 9:30 A. M.
Convention called to order by
President Bob Wolf, county judge
of Nueces county. ,
Invocation, Rev. Paul Engle,
rector St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Bay City.
Address of Welcome, Hon. Oscar
Barber, county judge, Matagorda
county; Hon. George Harrison,
county commissioner of Matagor-
da county, for City of Palacios
Response, Hon. W. H. Ward,
county judge Harris county.
Address, Hon. Clyde Garrett,
president State-Wide association.
Address and greetings, from
representatives of North, East and
West Texas associations.
Safeguarding the public health.
Dr. John W. Brown, Sate health
officer.
Miss Olga Burish, State Depart-
ment of Health, Austin, Texas
Round table discussion.
Announcement of conim, te es,
etc.
Adjournment for barbecue at
LeTulle Park.
Fri., Sept. 18. 2 P. M.
PWA work in Texas, Hon Ji an
Montgomery, State director
State and County Planning,
Maj. E A. Wood, director of State
Planning Board.
Collection of delinquent ta ts.
Hon. George H Sheppard, State
Comptroller; Hon Scott Ga nes.
Assistant Attorney General; Hon.
Ann Currington, past pre dent
Tax Collector's Assn.;
Round table discussion.
Reclamation and conservation in
South Texas, Hon. Chas. Clark,
chairman State Board of Water
Engineers; Hon. H P. Bunger,
construction enginneer U. S. Board
Aug
11, 1936.
a 36,000 watt field; Richmond
30,000; Columbus, 48,000 and of Reclamation; Hon Ralph Me-
Rowland Rugeley-Cchulenberg, just installed last| Mahon, State reclamation engin-
week 48.000, with the same im- eer.
Golf Tournament
At Newgulf Sun.
pro reflectors that arc used in
the system here. The reflectors |
used on the filed here, a feature
Round table discussion.
Adjourn to Palacios pavilion
Mrs. H. K. Ogden had as her
guests Sunday afternoon, her cou-
when the several states will con-
stitutionally step in and curtail the - .
excessive production if such sms, Mesdames Mollie Hunsacker
action is necessary.
and Maggie Merick of Houston.
Mr. V. M. Raborn of Houston,
was a business visitor here Mon-
day
Horace Soule of Houston lead-
ing candidate for Associate Jus-
tice has majority over opponent
in their home county of 23,478 to
11,774—more than two to one lead
His lead in the district is over
10,000. Honest, able and ex-
perienced he will appreciate your
support. Hear him Thursday,
August 20, KPRC, 9:15 to 9:30 p.
m. Friday, Aug 21, KTRH, 8:30
Chris Elliott of Newgulf won
first place in the golf tournament
held at the country club there
Sunday. Second place, or “runner
up” was won by Bob Chappel of
Freeport. Messrs. P. R. Hamill,
John Rakestraw and Eddie Wil-
lenberg of this city entered the
tournament.
____7:30 p. m, banquet, E. O. Teul-
of the Giant Manufacturing Com - bee, toastmaster; Hon. William
pany, are said to afford a far bet-McGraw, Attorney General; can-
ter lighted field than other 48,-quet will be followed by a dance.
000 watt fields using a different Registered convention delegates
reflector, and guests admitted by badges.
--------------------Music by Steve and Fred Gard-
High standards of living cannot
be brought about through restric- |
tion of production. They can only
be accomplished by increasing
production and cheapening the
to 9:00 p. m.
d & w
Mr. and Mrs. J. K Cookenboo,
Miss Eunice Baker and Mrs. E.
H. Highley have returned home
from Dallas and Ft. Worth.
cost of products so that they may
be purchased and enjoyed
more and more people.
by
ner orchestra.
Sat., Sept. 19, 9:00 A. M.
Convention called to order by
Bob Wolf, president.
Invocation, Father Dave Buck-
ley. Port Lavaca, Texas.
Address, James V. Allred, Gov-
Mr. J. Cook of Dallas, was a
business visitor here Tuesday
| ernor of State of Texas.
Farm to market highways and
| other W. P. A. work, Hon. Harry
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