Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1956 Page: 7 of 8
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Thursday, January 19, 1956
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PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
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BEFORE YOU BUY ANY FERTILIZER
LET ME QUOTE YOU A PRICE
McMillan gin
PHONE 7147 PALACIOS
BULLINGTON'S
GULF STATION
Highway 35 and University St. in Foley Village
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GULF TIRES — BATTERIES — ACCESSORIES
WASH — GREASE — TIRE REPAIR
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MARY KING, Mgr.
Soil Sample Tests
Made Speedier By
Proper "
WHARTON—One pint of soil
is an adequate sample for soil
testing purposes, Dale Mayeaux,
director of the Soil Testing Lab-
oratory at tho Wharton County
Junior College, reminds farmers.
Many farmers are sending in
too much soil, he said, and still
others are not filling out the
proper forms to accompany the
samples.
"All county agents, all Soil Con-
servation offices, and my office
have instructions for taking soil
samples, and forms to be used in
filling out information for test-
ing." Mr. Mayeaux said. "We
would like to advise farmers tak-
ing soil samples that it is much
easier to take care of their samples
if they give us the proper informa-
tion.
Mr. Mayeaux said that it takes
less time to handle a sample if it
is accompanied by all necessary
information.
"Send us your samples at least
30 days before you expect to use
soil fertilizers," he said. "This is
the busiest time of the year for
the Laboratory, and1 because of
the number qf samples to be test-
ed, we need time to do the job
properly.
"Farmers should allow us at
least nine days to give them the
results on their soil testing. Nor-
mally we would need only five or
six days, but at the present, we
need nine days."
Mr. Mayeaux is running an
average of 32 samples per day at
the Laboratory. During the first
10 days of January the Labora-
tory received 312 samples to be
analyzed.
NO BARGAIN AT ANY PRICE!
Bathrooms were first installed
in the White House in the late
1870's.'
AERMOTOR
PUMPS
AND MILLS
J. M. Pennington
WATER WELL CONTRACTOR
607 First St. Phone 6961
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A RECENT SURVEY, conducted in 19 States
in the Midwest, South and Southeast, reveals
that there are nearly 21 million acres of rich,
idle farmland available for crop production
when more^ food is needed to feed the Nation.
At the same time Government plans are under
way to take additional acreage out of produc-
tion because of the huge surpluses of food
the Federal Government now has stored in
bins around the country. Despite these facts
Congress is being asked to approve the in-
credible Upper Colorado River Project to
"irrigate" 583,000 acres of arid mountain land
in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming
at a cost to the Nation's taxpayers of $4 Bil-
lion in added taxes. Figures for the rich, idle
land now available were obtained from the
U. S. Soil Conservation Service.
County Jr. 4-H Club
Members To Compete
For United Gas Trips
COLLEGE STATION—Matagor-
da County 4-H Club members 14
years of age and over are being
invited to compete with club mem-
bers from all over Texas for 148
expense-paid trips to state and
national 4-H Club events in the
Texas 4-H Club Junior Leadership
program, it was announced by
Floyd Lynch, State 4-H Club
Leader.
The Junior Leadership activity
is being sponsored for the seven-
th consecutive year by United Gas
in cooperation witfi the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service.
Similar programs are sponsored
by the company in Louisiana and
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And from the same pipe that fires your furnace comes
dependable natural gas for heating water, cooking, re-
frigeration, drying clothes ... all for just pennies a day.
LOT OF COMFOI
While the cost of most other things you buy today has
increased sharply, natural gas service offers you more
for your penny than ever before.
In the industries of this Gulf South area as well as in
the homes, natural gas has found many uses... because
no other fuel serves so well, so economically.
UNITED GAS CORPORATION • UNITED GAS PIPE LINE COMPANY • UNION PRODUCING! COMPANY
Mississipp.
A folder outlining details of the
program is now being distributed
to 4-H Clubs throughout Texas by
agricultural and hime demonstra-
tion agents, Mr. Lynch said.
Two boys and two girls, selected
as outstanding junior leaders, will
be awarded trips to Washington,
D. C., as Texas delegates to the
National 4-H Club Camp in June.
In August, three boys and three
girls will be selected from each of
the 12 Agricultural Extension Dis-
tricts as delegates to the Texas 4-
H Club Junior Leadership Train-
ing Laboratory to be held at Bas-
trop State Park. An additional six
boys and six girls will attend the
lab as delegates-at-large.
One boy and one girl will be se-
lected for trips to the American
Youth Foundation Leadership
Training Camps at Shelby, Mich.,
in August. Travel expenses are
paid by United Gas.
Twenty-nine delegates to the
Texas 4-H Council will have their
expenses paid for an annual meet-
ing and other special activities
during the year. The company al-
so provides funds for use in con-
nection with an action research
program which is carried out un-
der the direction of the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service.
Its objective is to extend the work
of the Texas 4-H Club Junior
Leadership Laboratory into the
various Agricultural Extension
Service. Its objective is to extend
the work of the Texas 4-H Club
Junior Leadership Laboratory in-
to the various Agricultural Exten-
sion Districts.
Correcting Acid Soils
Featured This Week
On 'Texas In Review'
Behind-the)-scenes preparations
for the opening of a great hotel
will be of particular interest to
Texans as The Humble Company's
TV Program, Texas in Review,
presents films of pre-opening
activities at the New Statler-Hil-
ton in Dallas.
JNext week's Texas in Review
program also includes a feature
on Texas-Made materials young-
sters use for their " 'readin', 'ritin,
'rithmatic" and other school stu-
dies.
Two other interesting features
will be films of the inauguration
of new direct air service by Ameri-
can Airlines from Houston to New
York and of the work of the Texas
Agricultural Limestone Associa-
tion in correcting acid soils of East
Texas.
Texas in Review can be seen
Sunday (January 22) on KPRC-
TV, Houston, 10 p.m.
They arc saying now that a Tex-
as pedestrian is a guy who walks
to his garage for his Cadillac.
Kubela Is Named
Ambassador To
S. A. Exposition
Stanley Kubela of Palacios has
been appointed official ambassa-
dor of the Palacios area to the
Seventh Annual San Antonio
Livestock Exposition, E. W. Bick-
ett, Exposition president announc-
ed.
The greatly enlarged Exposition
will be held in the Bexar County
Coliseum February 10-19.
As an Ambassador of the forth-
coming show, Mr. Kubela will be
its official representative in this
area and will be furnished with
complete and up-to-the-minute in-
formation concerning the show.
Five new divisions have been
added to the San Antonio show this
year. These include Charbray and
Charollaise cattle, Cheviot and
Montadale sheep and Delaine sheep
in the junior division.
The Everett Colborn World's
Championship Rodeo will play 15
performances during the sbock
show and Rex Allen, popular cow-
boy star of screen, radio and tele-
vision will appear at each perform-
ance of the rodeo.
Livestock entries for the show
anl rodeo total 4,408 animals, it
was announced Tuesday by Robert
B. Tate, general livestock super-
intendent.
The heavy entry list reaffirms
the San Antonio show's stature as
one of the nation's major livestock
expositions, Tate asserted, adding
that the out of-state entries this
year are the heaviest in the local
event's history.
While placing flowers on a
grave, a man saw an old Chinese
placing a bowl of rice on a nearby
grave and cynically asked, "When
do you expect your friend to come
up and eat that rice?"
The Chinese replied with a smile,
"Same time your friend come up
to smell flowers."
Snob: "My ancestors came over
on the Mayflower."
Snubbed: "Good thing they did,
wasn't it? The immigration law3
are so much stricter now!"
No joke—you will like our friend-
ly one stop service. We will keep
your car full of ffre fiesT"gas unci"
oil and we take small things like
headlights and windshields into
consideration. Drive in today.
RAMSEY'S
GULF STATION
MAIN & FOURTH
County Supervisors
Attend 15th Annual
Meeting In Lubbock
Conservation strategy for 1956,
speedup of upstream flood preven-
tion work, and water legislation
for Texas will be the big topics of
discussion when farmers and
ranchers from all over the state
meet in Lubbock January 18, 19,
and 20 for the 15th annual con-
vention of the Association of Tex-
as Soil Conservation District Su-
pervisors.
Billed as a "working conven-
tion", there will be plenty of time
for committee work and floor dis-
cussion of the many soil and water
problems facing Texans.
This year's Soil And Water
Show, a feature of the convention,
will present one of the largest dis-
plays of irrigation, land-leveling,
earth-moving, brush-control, and
other conservation equipment for
farms and ranches ever assembled
in Texas.
Supervisors of the Matagorda
County Soil Conservation District
planning to attend the Lubbock
Convention are Ramon Rooth of
Bay City and W. A. Turek of Pa-
lacios.
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Rosenthal, Henry. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1956, newspaper, January 19, 1956; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth428211/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.