The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1949 Page: 4 of 20
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BAYLOR COUNTY BANNER. SEYMOUR. TEXAS
THURSDAY. Dl
Bawlor Countg jQamter
rnhlishrd Every Thursday by
THE BANNER PUBLISHING CO.
O. C HARRISON & GENE CARTER. Owners and Publishers
O C. HARRISON. Editor
GENE CARTER. Business Manager
Entered as Second Class matter October 5. 1895 at the Post Office of
Seymour. Texas under the Act of March 3, 1879.
TEXA§-^r PRESS ASSOCIATION
BUBSCRIPTION RATES In Baylor and Knox Counties and Megargd.
Texas, 1 year $1 50, 6 months $100; 3 months 60c. Outside this
area: 1 year $2.00; 6 months $1-25; 3 months 06c.
Banner will try to have the list
next week, and would be glad of !
any help toward making
The colleges are beginning to
be out for Christmas, and practic-
list 1 ally the entire list of students are
as nearly complete as possible. to be home for the holidays.
SOUTH KOREA—Two American officials of the Economic Co-
Operation Administration were released unharmed after 81 days as
prisoners of North Korean communists. Photo shows Albert E. Willis,
(left), as he was greeted by his wife Beatrice and son Albert Jr., 8.
Holding flowers is Alfred T. Metschter, second “captive," and at right
is Capt. C. H. Ritchie of the ECA. The two Americans were seized
aboard an American ship operated by Smith Koreans who mutinied
and sailed the ship into North Korea.
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CHRISTMAS
CREETINCS
BEST WISHES FOR A
HARRY HOLIDAY
MR. and MRS. A. E. GRAHAM
Graham Laundry
NEWS OF
MILLER-BRAZOS
SoJ Conservation District
Quality
LUMBER
1x6 F.H.A SIDING ........................ $13.50
1x8 SHIPLAP .............................. $6.50
2x4 and 2x6 ................................ $6,50
1x4 and No. 2 FLOORING....................$7.50
24x24 WINDOW and FRAME................$7.50
NO. 2 OAK FLOORING......................$8.00
NO. 1 117-105 SIDING...................... $10.00
COMPOSITION SHINGLES ................ $4.50
"WE DELIVER ANYWHERE IN TEXAS”
Castleberry Lumber Co.
Highway 80 Phone 7-6601
Two Blocks West of Traffic Circle Fort Worth. Tex.
The Miller-Brazos Soil Conserva-
tion District is sponsoring a grass
judging contest for the FFA and
4-H boys in this district. This will
be held January 21, 1950. in Sey-
mour. This will be a preliminary
to the grass judging contests to
be held at the Dallas. Forth Worth.
I and Houston Stock Shows Teams
I and individuals will be present
i from Baylor and Throckmorton |
i Counties.
Baylor County 4-H Club boys
I attending grass identification and |
| judging classes being given by O |
H. Bartley, Range Conservationist. |
and Roy McClung, County Agent. |
| are Jowaughn Crump. Bob Miller,
i Leo Hatter. Bobby Powell and |
Billy Powell from Red Springs
j and Roy Thorne, Henry Styles,
j Jimmy Stout, Leonard Fallin, John
j Fallin, Jim McDaniel, Leroy Ste-
venson. Don Bartley, Bobby Me-
j Farland, Buster Styles. Matthew
(Syptak. Bobby Blankenship.
1 Franklin Coufal, and Edward Or-
sak of Seymour.
Mrs. Lem Bellows in the South-
! east Seymour Conservation Group
I terraced her field after the cotton
i was gathered.
W. T. Green, cooperator living
j in the Levelview Conservation
! Group, built about two miles of
terraces on the old Machen place.
Mr. Green also has sown about six
acres of alfalfa
Harvey Arthur, who lives on
Mrs. N. P. Mitchell's farm in the
Southeast Seymour Conservation]
I Group, says that Austrian Winter
peas and hairy vetch paid off in '
cotton this year He had a sandy
strip around the east of his field
that he sowed to vetch last year.
This is the first year that this
sandy strip has made any crop
since he has been there.
PLANTED ACREAGE LARGEST
SINCE DEPRESSION ERA
WASHINGTON. Dec 19. (API —
United State crop production was
the second largest in history this
year—and as a result it may be
the last year for some time that
farmers are free of board gov-
ernment controls.
The agriculture department's
final report of the year showed
today that the total output was
132 per cent of the 1923-32 aver-
age, compared with last year's
record peak of 137.5 per cent.
This year's harvested acreage
turned out to be the largest since
1932, when depression - ridden
farmers sought to offset declining
prices by expanding production.
Considering the big acreage,
production this year would easily
have set a new record had acreage
yields equalled last year's. But
bad weather during the growing
season in some ection kept
yields down.
Nevertheless, the harvest is so
large that the department h^s
felt called upon to invoke pro-
duction controls of various kinds
in an attempt to reduce the vol-
umn next year. Crops likely to be
produced under controls of some
kind or other include cotton,
peanuts, major types of tobacco,
rice, potatoes and soybeans.
This year's b;g volumne has been
reflected in lower production
prices and in a drop in farm in-
come.
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Winter Wheat Crop Forecast
WASHINGTON,Dec. 20. (UP)
—The agricutlure department in
its first report on 1950 crops today
1 forecast a winter wheat crop of
884.(.'38.000 bushels next spring.
That would be the smallest win-
ter wheat crop in four years, but
still the fourth largest in histoy.
It would be only 17.000.000 bush-
els smaller than this year's even
though growers had cut back
planting for 1950 by 15 per cent
from the record-high 1949 acre- |
age.
The report said 53.023.000 acres
have been planted for next year’s
crop.
THIS DAY IN' TEXAS
December 21. 1944
By Curtis Bishop
On this day in 1944 the old
Pecos River high bridge, one of
Texas' most historic structures,
was abandoned by the Southern
Pacific Railroad
Transcontinental trains went
creeping across a newer and more ]
sturdy span. The Southern Pacific
planned to dismantle the old
bridge this year and reassemble
it in another part of the country.
The yawning Pecos canyon pre-
sented a serious problem for the j
early builders of the S-P. A sharp
detour, together with two tunnels,
provided temporary crossing of
the gorge until the high bridge
was built in 1891. Then it was
the world's highest with a length
of 2.180 feet. Its completion shor-
ened the El Paso-San Antonio
route by 11.2 miles.
In 1929 the structure was re-
paired and reckoned safe for a
speed of 12 miles per hour. A
sharp increase in freight traffic
made a new bridge necessary. The
modern structure is built entirely
of medium carbon steel while the
first span was of wrought iron.
The bridge is 321 feet above the
waters of the Pecos River.
I Mr. and Mrs. O F. Harvey Jr.
and 9-months-old son. Edward, are
; here from Stamford for Christmas
j with Ode's parents. He is in the
j oil fields in Jones County. Ed is
j getting to be a big boy, and will
j whistle for you if you approach
! him right.
To remember folks like you with an
earnest wish for your well-being
enc happiness, is one of the
delightful privileges we have
at Christmastime.
M SYSTEM STOREC
J1MJL SEYMOUR J.M EDWARDS,OWNER - TEXAS
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May the season be one of utmost joy
filled overflowing with every happiness
your heart may desire . . . that is our
Christmas wish for each of you.
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Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 22, 1949, newspaper, December 22, 1949; Seymour, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth505605/m1/4/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Baylor County Free Library.