The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1946 Page: 4 of 12
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
Thursday, March 14, 1946
Dear Ed
Dear Ed,
After having witnessed the "mas-
acre” at the Intramural boxing
matches recently, I've decided this
office is forced to take second place
In the slugging division, Instead of U) tjecom(.
probable first place.
nothing stronger than soup on his
j menu. His mouth won’t open wide
I enough to admit anything else. One
i of the very good fighters actually
I went Into the ring with his nose
broken and his eye swollen shut.
Then there’s the one who claims
that his opponent hit him so hard
on the side of the head that his
eyes crossed, so he just stuck out
the other side and let him hit it
to knock thorn back again. You
all remember the one who decided
astrologist because
Top American Saddle Horse Group Given Texas A. & M. ArG Tllcit
Texas Farm Land Will
Remain High In Price
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Prom the “golden mitten" to the
heavyweight group, they really
showed form, ambition, and some
evidenced the results of some time-
ly punches. I know now why a ref-
eree has to be able to move so
quickly. If two of those block-
busters should connect at the same
time, there would be a new sky-
light in the gymnasium.
And, of course, there was a little
scrapping going on after the inter-
mission when the “I-got-this-seat-
flrsters” tangled with the ‘‘I-dldn’t-
see-your-name-on-lt-seaters,” but
after tlfe loss of a few minutes and
the same amount of coke bottles,
the dispute was calmly arbitrated.
It looks like a lot of fun from
those nice, safe bleachers to watch
them bounce, skip and dance
around out there with the audience
cheering and rooting, but Ive found
out, after seeing some of them after
their bouts, that they really suffer
the results of those glorified rounds.
One of the boys tried to eat, but
has gone on a two-week diet with
i he discovered some new stars and
whirling orbits in the sky that
night.
You were the one who said and
I quote, “if that guy in the green
corner wasn't out there to stop that
other’s punches, he’d knock him-
self out. "He did sort of swing
wild, though, because he drilled a
hole in the floor from all the spin-
ning and twirling.
When my fingernails grow out
again, I'd like to go to another
boxing tournament, wouldn’t you,
when you grow some more fingers
you chewed off in the excitement?
Wishing I had another golden
glove,
Joyce.
COLLEGE STATION — Appear-
ances do not suggest that a decline
in the prices of Texas farm land
is in the offing. Accordingly, says
Tyrus R. Timm, economist in farm
management for the A. and M. Col-
lege Extension Service, families
looking for a break before invest-
ing wartime savings in land may
have to wait beyond 1946 to get it.
Alexander Hamilton was not born
in the United States, but on the Is-
land of Nevis.
-o--
Samuel P. Morse gave up his ca-
reer as a promising painter to be-
come an inventor.
Edgar W. Brown, Jr., Orange, Texas, capitalist, rancher, shipbuilder, presents to the Animal Husbandry-
Department of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas a group of the finest American saddle
horses in the South. Included in his gift were six famous mares from the Pinehurst Stables, among which
were "American Model,” a winner of championships at the Kentucky State Fair, Chicago Charter Jubilee
Show and other top shows; and “Jingle Beils,” shown in the fine harness and five-gaited classes, and pos-.
sessor of an outstanding record of winnings. Also given to the College was the stallion, “Proctor’s Red
Light,” an outstanding show horse who has sired a long string of winners, including “Man of Destiny,” one;
of the outstanding champions of the breed. Shown as the gift is presented are, left to right, F. I. Dahlberg,
acting head of the Animal Husbandry Department; Owen tlarrigan, college horseman; Brown, and Lt. Col.
D. W. Williams, head of the Animal Husbandry Department, who has just returned to the campus.
BUCK and REN
Will appreciate your business for
MOBIL GAS and OILS
Truck — Tractor Service
Tractors of all makes repaired and rebuilt
Buck’s Garage
East on Highway 66
Buck Slaughter, Owner Ren Bumpers, Mechanic
ill
PURE APPLE-BLACKBERRY
NELLY 12 ounces 20
Go to Twitty for
Bargains Fri. & Sat
Plan Spring Garden
Horticulturist Advises
“Now is the time to make plans
for your spring garden," Dr. Frank
B. Cross, head of the Oklahoma
A. and M. College horticulture de-
partment, has announced.
With spring planting time Just
ahead, Dr. Cross suggested that
orders be placed with seed dealers
immediately and a program of
readying the ground be started at
once to be prepared when planting
time rolls around the last of Feb-
ruary.
Since vegetables grown close to-
gether In a small garden require
an abundance of plant food ele-
ments, they respond readily to ap-
plications of commercial fertilizers.
Three to five pounds of fertlizer in
a 5-10-5 formula of nitrogen, phos-
phorus, and potash respectively,
per 100 feet of row Is sufficient.
The fertilizer should be distributed
in the bottom of the furrow and
mixed with the soil some time be-
fore planting or divided Into halves
which are placed in a furrow to
each side of the row at planting
time. ,
There are approximately 10 days
difference between the planting
dates in northern and southern
parts of the state, Cross pointed
out, and care should be taken to
determine the correct date for your
part of the state.
as the weather will permit, Cross
suggested numerous vegetables
which might be planted giving the
variety which is best adapted to
Oklahoma soil and weather condi-
tions.
Among these are Black seeded
Simpson lettuce, Early Scarlet
Qlobe radishes. Little Marvel and
Laxton peas, Long Standing Bloom-
dale spinach, Giant Southern Curl-
ed mustard, Lucullus Swiss chard,
Purple Top Globe turnips, Chan-
tenay (Red Core) carrots, Golden
Acre or Wakefield cabbage, Warba,
Triumph or Cobbler Irish potatoes,
and Sweet SDanish onions.
To finish out the spring, String-
less, Greenpod, or Bountiful snap
beans and Golden Cross Bantam
sweet corn may be planted after
April 1 to 15 with Pritchard or
Stokesdale tomatoes, Dwarf Prolific
or Spineless okra, and White Bush
or Yellow Straightneck squash fol-
lowing on the planting calendar for
April. Porto Rico or Nancy Hall
sweet potatoes should not be plant-
ed before May 1, and the exact
dates for planting each vegetable
you wish to have in your garden
should be ascertained.
For convenience it is suggested
that rows be laid off in the order
of'time of planting. When the gar-
eral rows of the early vegetables
will mature at about the same
time and release space for succes-
sive plantings or for the planting
of warm weather crops.
With careful daily attention, a
small plot of suitable ground plant- ,
ed to wisely chosen vegetables can |
be made to produce abundantly |
and besides providing fresh health-
ful food for the family can be an
economic asset to the producer.
Average farm land values on
July 1, 1946, he explalnes, were
above their 1920 levels in one sixth
of the states, and equal to or above
1919 levels In one half of them. The
trend in Texas was revealed in a
sampling of three representative
counties by the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station, showing that
farm land prices went steadily up-
ward in the third quarter of 1045.
But a significant factor was voted
In an Increase In cash buying,
Timm says. Tenant buying which
usually Is low at this season, show-
ed an increase over the previous
year in two of the sample counties.
A more desirable trend was in-
dicated in this quarter, however, in
the fact that more buyers indicat-
ed Intention to operate the tracts
purchased and non-farmer sellers
still were on the Increase.
Timm explains that during the
war farm and ranch leaders in and
out of the government cautioned
about the consequences of the
existing land boom. One of the
hopeful signs for control was ef-
forts to enact a stiff capital gains
tax to stop speculative buying. The
principle embodied was to tax away
practically all of the profits if a
farm was resold within two years
or some other specific period dur-
ing the emergency.
Ceiling prices also are under con-
sideration. But because of the
many ’’variables" in a piece of farm
real estate ceiling prices probably
would affect only sales after “the
next one," That Is to say, the first
sale would become the ceiling for
the emergency period with allo-
wance for Improvements.
A third, or voluntary method, is
through education. Throughout
the war county agricultural agents
and other farm leaders discussed Al
causes and effect of land booms
with their farmers. "An attack on
the ‘land boom’ Itself likely will
bring little result,” Timm says.
IT SEEMS WASHINGTON
WASN’T THE ONLY ONE
BUTLER, Pa.—Like George Wash-
ington, there’s one Butler woman
couldn’t tell a lie.
Yesterday in traffic court, the
young woman confessed. “A year
ago I parked my car on main street,
left it, and came back to find a
parking ticket. I told you that the
meter had registered 25 minutes
when I left it, and you excused me.
For a year now, that lie has been
on my conscience because there
was Just five minutes left on the
meter.
”1 want to pay my dollar.”
Police Magistrate George P. Mel-
linger accepted the fine.
VISIT THE NEW
SPORTING GOODS STORE
New Merchandise Including—
Softball Gloves, Masks, Bats
and Balls.
Fishing Tackle & Supplies
Tennis Nets & Rackets; all prices
Tennis Shoes
Picnic Ice Boxes
New and Used Shot Guns
Shipment of Baseball Shoes expect-
ed soon.
BOB HOLMES SPORTING GOODS
West On Highway 66 Phone 450
RED SPUDS
per sack $1.85
PRESERVES, Pure Blackberry, lb. 35
IN HEAVY SYRUP
PRUNES, Hunts Prepared
2 No. 2 cans
MUSTARD BREENS, White Swan 25
TENDERONI, Van Gimps, 3 boxes 25
SPAGHETTI Chef Boy or Dee, box 35
MILK, Grnation 5 and JQ
COFFEE, Folgers, Limit One, lb. 35
WE WILL PAY 30c PER DOZEN FOR
EGGS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
ONLY.
M. Jeter's Grocery
TWITTY, TEXAS
NEW 1946
( The Great New)
Now on Display
Dekle Bios. Motor Co.
^ BLOCK EAST OF WATER TOWER
SHAMROCK, TEXAS
Jack Dekle Aubry Dekle
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Montgomery, Arval. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 14, 1946, newspaper, March 14, 1946; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth529181/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shamrock Public Library.