The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 58, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 27, 1941 Page: 3 of 8
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Thursday, November 27, 1941
THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
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By STANLEY
Annual Dressed Turkey
Show Will Be Held At
Plainview December 3-4
Stewart Says:
Free Trade With
South America
Worth Discussion
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Columnist
TO TIE the western hemispheri-
cal republics together nothing could
be so efficacious as an inter-Ameri-
can free trade program, according
to a recent re-
PLAINVIEW—The eighth annual
^uthwestern Dressed Turkey Show
Will open here on Wednesday, De-
cember 3, for a two-day exposition
of prize birds from flocks in several
states.
(iThe show will be officially opened
8F 10 a. m. Dec. 3 and judging of
dressed birds will begin thirty min-
utes later. During the two days there
will be demonstrations on latest
turkey dishes, as well as the tra-
(jitional serving; a banquet for
lowers, special program for breed-
ers and the show will close with
the annual auction of dressed birds.
In addition to the dressed show
there will be an exhibit of live birds.
J[^jze money for the two exhibits
totals $400 and entries are eligible
from anywhere in the United States.
Miss Lucille Shultz, Hale county
home demonstration1 agent, with
assistance of club women will con-
ftbute to the show program with
an exhibit “Starring Turkey", show-
ing how the bird is transformed
from "turkey in the straw” to “tur-
key on the table”, Miss Shultz said.
72je first demonstration will show
a^bird properly dressed, the next
the fowl stuffed and skewered and
the final step will shotv the turkey
baked and ready to serve.
W. A. Painter, president of the
Ifi-Plains Turkey Improvement As-
sociation which, with the Plainview
Board of City Development, spon-
sors the turkey show, said fewer
turkeys would be marketed on the
Plains this fall, but that the crop
of higher quality and a larger
per cent of the flocks would top the
market this year than in the past.
The Baby Beef type of turkey,
developed on the Plains during the
past several years, is the rule among
Hicks of this section and will be
displayed in all his form and pride
in the dressed and live divisions.
George McCarthy, poultry hus-
bandryman of the A. & M. extension
service, will judge the show. Mc-
Carthy has urged turkey growers to
“ride herd” on their flocks and cut
out the properly developed and most
marketable birds, much as livestock-
men cut out their cattle for market.
Well fleshed birds with a proper
amount of fat and the absence of
pin feathers are among the points
largely determining the grade a
judge will mark on a turkey, Mc-
Carthy said. Only turkeys rating
U. S. Prime will be- accepted for
exhibition atrlhe Southwestern show.
The annual auction sale, sched-
uled this year at 1:30 p. m. on the
last day of the show, in past years
has attracted buyers from many
points and hundreds of orders for
one or more turkeys have come
from all over the country. H. S.
Hilbum is chairman of the sales
committee. The growers banquet
is scheduled at 7:30, Wednesday
night.
M. C. Vineyard of Kress exhibited
the grand champion turkey at last
year’s show, a 22-pound old hen
which sold at $2 a pound to the
Central Plains A. & M. Club which
presented the bird to the Aggies
for their Christmas dinner.
Persons desiring information on
the show should write to Pete H.
Smith, secretary of the Plainview
Chamber of Commerce, and mana-
ger of the show, and a catalogue
will be mailed immediately.
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country’s For-
eign Policy as-
sociation.
It was a con-
vincing docu-
ment, top, pre-
pared by one
Constant South-
worth, an inves-
tigator for the
association.
That the adop-
tion of Con-
stant's sugges-
tion is a possi-
bility isn't so
likely. The Latin nations unques-
tionably would fall for it like a
ton of brick, but there are interests
in the JJnited States that shy away
from it in perfect horror, and the
United States would have to take
the initiative.
It's an initiative that State Secre-
tary Cordell Hull, our reciprocal
tariff apostle, has long favored tak-
ing, not only in Latin America’s di-
rection, but in all other directions,
with peoples that we're at peace
with. If Cordell isn't an unquali-
fied free trader, and I've long sus-
pected him of being one. at least
he's about a 95-percenter, and has
gone as far with our international
treaties as he could get away with.
He's done it, though, in the face
of considerable opposition, and a
proposal to level all export and im-
port barriers between the Americas
unquestionably would create a ter-
rific holler from Yankee crop and
livestock producers.
It would be, from the jump, an
excellent thing from the stand-
point of our manufacturers, be-
cause the Latins don’t do much
manufacturing, but have to import
all of such stuff. They've done so,
to a great extent, from Europe, but
if they could swap with us on a
mutuality free trade basis, they
naturally would- do business with
us almost exclusively. Just now,
with our factories turning but
practically nothing but military
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Wits End
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Anderson
Weymouth, Mass., residents have
a twisted sense of humor or a very
off-center idea of what constitutes
good, clean fun. The police and fire
department have been harassed by
a series of false fire alarms and
after a long and fruitless search,
nabbed the guilty party.
The fellow admitted to turning in
38 fireless alarms over a period of
two years. While the police were
questioning him, two more false
alarms came in.
So now they’re off on another
false-alarm hunt.
HULLS!
HULLS!
For a limited time only, we will
sell Cottonseed Hulls at—- .
25c
per 100
pounds
—or-
$5 per Ton
No contracts-come and get them.
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and naval supplies, it wouldn't
make any immediate difference, for
we haven’t the goods that our
neighbors need, but as soon as
peace is restored we'd get simply
a flood of their orders, and, with
US buying from THEM, they'd
have the money to pay for what
they wanted.
What We Require
And there ARE things we re-
quire from the Latins that we
don’t produce ourselves and could
not object to letting in as freely as
atmosphere—sorhe minerals that
we haven’t any of or not enough
of ’em, coffee and rubber, if the
upper Amazon’s natural supplies of
it were developed. Furthermore
our winters are the Latins’ sum-
mers and we could get their fresh
fruits and vegetables during our
off seasons.
Our purveyors of CANNED veg-
etation would squawk, however, to
a certainty. And oh!—how our
grain and cotton and meat raisers
would yowl!
It isn’t a certainty that the sit-
uation wouldn't presently adjust
itself all around.
Over in Ellis County, Okla., a
human skull, closely resembling the
Peking man, earliest identifed sub-
human, was Acovered and Dr.
Shapiro, of the American Museum
at New York, says it may be a
skull of one of the earliest Ameri-
cans.
Dr. Shapiro, comparing the an-
cient Oklahoma skull with the mod-
ern Oklahoma man, says he finds
the 1941 product “has a well develop-
ed chin, small teeth and absence
of a snout-like development of the
face.”
For which a lot of Oklahoma
women are duly thankful, no doubt.
Marine Parachutists Can Serve
As Defensive, Offensive Unit
Shamrock will be sitting down to
its festive board Thursday and for
the next few days housewives will
rest from cooking, merely shoving
out what was left of the Thanks
giving feast.
At our house the chief cook en
joys dabbling around with left
overs and mysterious dishes appear
on the table for several days follow-
ing the feast. She tries to pretend
there wasn’t so much as a scrap
of turkey left and we explore these
new foods with a fork asking "Is
this turkey?" and she says “Just
go ahead and eat it and stop asking
questions.”
And we take a bite, chewing
slowly in case something snaps at
us. “But is it turkey?” we insist.
“What difference does it make if
it’s turkey or tiger as long as it’s
good!” she exclaims.
Which is right, what difference
does it make? It’s Just the idea of
eating the same thing for three or
four days and just think of the
people in Europe sitting down to
potato soup day after day and con-
sider themselves most fortunate.
Household Hint
Prepare grapefruit for break-
fast or as a first course for dinner
in this fashion: Cut fruit in half,
loosen the segments, add a little
sugar and chill. Then just before
serving add 1 teaspoon of black-
berry juice.
LIBERTY Theatre
It wouldn’t if international trade
worked only two ways, but it
doesn't; it's triangular or multi-
lateral. With the Latins traffick-
ing almost exclusively with us,
they wouldn't be fixed to send
much of their agricultural and ani-
mal supplies to Europe and maybe
OUR farmers and stockmen would
find Latin-abandoned markets on
the eastern side of the Atlantic.
Besides, the improvement in our
manufacturers’ southerly business
would be calculated to reflect it-
self domestically agriculturally-
ward and livestockishly-ward and
the net result would be generally
beneficial.
Nevertheless, the rejiggering
process necessarily would be grad-
ual, and, while it was in progress,
Yankee farmers and cattle grow-
ers doubtless would feel the ef-
fects of it. It’s no wonder that
their skeery of the prospect.
When Better Pictures Are Shown,
The Liberty Will Show Them
Friday—
“Desperate Cargo”
Serial, “JUNGLE GIRL” Chapter 2
Comedy, “California or Bust”
Family Night 25c plus 3c tax
Family consists of man, wife and
children under 12 years of age.
Singles 10c & 20c, plus lc & 2c tax
Saturday—
BIG DOUBLE PROGRAM!
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A Long-Run View
The Foreign Policy associatioh
takes a long-run view of the mat-
ter.
It considers Investigator South-
worth's reasoning economically
sound, in the first place.
Furthermore, it takes a squint at
the political aspect of inter-Ameri-
can free trade, arguing that it
would solidify the Pan-Americas as
no amount of theoretical, sentimen-i
tal good neighborly talk can ac-
complish.
Protectionists aren’t going to like
the idea, no matter how cogently
it's presented.
All the same, it’s worth discus-
sion. ;
Among other things, it would
call for the evolution of a consid-
erable new sort of taxation, to take
the place of tariff collections.
Cheese production in the United
States for the first week of October
was up 26 per cent over the cor-
responding period of 1940, reports
the Agricultural Marketing Service
of the USDA.
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A Columbia Picture
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News Reel & Comedy
10c plus lc tax
Saturday Night Preview—
10c plus lo tax, 20c plus 2c tax
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday—
10o plus lc tax, 25c plus 3c tax
LAKEHURST, N. J„—Parachute
troopers of the United States Ma-
rine Corps can serve as a defensive
as well as an offensive oragnization
in military operations, according to
Major Marion L. Dawson, officer in
charge of the Marine Corps para-
chute training center here.
In the important problem of
transferring troops, the parachute
provides another form of trans-
portation. It furnishes another way
of placing troops where they are
needed.
In discussing the type of men
selected for service with Marine
Corps parachute units, Major Daw-
son emphasizes that all Marine
parachutists are volunteers.
Parachutists Same Height
‘Men chosen for parachute duty
in the Marine Corps are in excellent
physical condition and of average
height and weight,” he stated.
“Parachute troops must be about
the same height and weight so
that when they jump they will
land at approximately the same
time. A big fellow would drop too
quickly and a smaller man might
be carried too far from the propos-
ed landing point.”
The course of training for Ma-
rine parachutists here requires
about six weeks. During the first
two weeks, the men are limbered
up with physical exercises, taught
how to pack a chute and shown
methods of manipulating a para-
chute in the air. They learn to
jump from platforms three to seven
feet Jiigh.
Use Practice Tower
During the second two-week
school period parachute students
begin jumping from a practice tow-
er equipped with a parachute con-
trolled by guide lines. When a
jumper has learned to land prop-
erly, he jumps from a “free” tower.
“During the fifth and sixth weeks
the men go up in planes and make
mass jumps, nine to fourteen men
leaving the plane within a few sec-
onds,” the major says.
"A parachutist learns to steer
his downward course to some extent
by pulling on the lift webs of the
parachute canopy, making the ex-
posed area smaller and causing the
chutist to fall faster. The manipu-
lation is called ‘slipping’ a chute.
Its purpose is to avoid landing in
water or other dangerous spots.”
Parachute Is Manipulated
By manipulating the lift webs in
another fashion, he says, the chute
Major Marion L. Dawson, USMC
can be made to “sail” or catch the
wind. The latter practice checks
rate of fall and enables the para-
hutist to ride along with the wind.
The landlhg speed of each jump
is the same regardless of the height
of the jump. The landing is equiv-
alent to jumping off a car moving
at about 15 miles an hour and the
shock is about the same as leaping
from a five or six-foot fence.
Major Dawson states that 200
feet is l onsidered the lowest jump-
ing point for a safe landing, al-
though there are cases on record
of jumps being made from about
a hundred feet.
Cargo Parachutes Used
In jumping, a parachutist carries
only a pistol, helmet, a few hand
grenades, some ammunition, con-
centrated food and water. Cargo
parachutes are used to drop ma-
chine guns, anti-tank guns, mortars,
shells, shovels and any other equip-
ment they might need.
Heavy guns, Major Dawson says,
ar^ dropped in parts which are
quickly assembled on the ground.
It is possible, according to Major
Dawson, to make a canopy large
enough to drop a heavy gun in one
piece. ,
The United States, according to
the major, is the only country that
provides its jumpers with additional
emergency chutes, strapped to the
chest of each parachutist, to be used
if the regular chute fails to open.
ARMY TESTING NEW
CASING FOR SHELLS
STEEL-COPPER COMBINATION
MAY PROVE EFFECTIVE IN
SHORTAGE OF METAL
WASHINGTON—Army ordnance
experts, it was learned, are testing
a method of combining soft steel and
copper in the manufacture of shell
casings which, if successful in ex-
perimental pj-oduction, could reduce
this nation’s severe copper shortage
nearly to the vanishing point.
But, whether the method, if suc-
cessful, will win war department
approval apparently depends on the
outcome of a family row between
ordnance perfectionists and officers
who fear that available copper sup-
plies would be hopelessly inadequate
if the United States entered a
shooting war.
It was understood that experi-
ments with steel-copper casings
have advanced to the point where
defense officials now can speak of
the possibility of mass production
within 18 months or less.
Army perfectionists claim, how-
ever, that the combination casings
never could equal the efficiency of
brass casings, made largely of cop-
per, and that this country has not
yet been forced to the “next best”
extremities of Russia and Germany,
both of which have been using
combination casings for some time,
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 58, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 27, 1941, newspaper, November 27, 1941; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth528915/m1/3/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shamrock Public Library.