The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1947 Page: 4 of 20
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TEXAS BRIEF NEWS—from the State
TAXABLE PROPERTY RISES
George Sheppard. Slate Comptrol-
ler. has announced that taxable prop-
erty values in Texas have now passed
the $5,000,000,000 mark
STATE BANKS PROSPER
Total resources of all State-charter-
ed hanking institutions in Texas now
stand at an all-time high of $1,041,000-
000. This marks an increase of $43.-
000,000 in the last nine months.
NEW ELECTRONIC MICROSCOPE
A new electronic miscroscope which
may reveal molecules to the naked eye
has been presented to Texas A & M.
College 'bv General Electric Co The
instrument is valued at $14 000. It
will be turned over to biologists for
daily use.
TEXAS EARNINGS CP ,
Weekly earnings in all Texas indus-
tries showed an increase during Decem-
ber up to 29 per cent over 1945. Man-
ufacturing industries led the State in
wage increases and the manufacture of
apparel groups was second.
HEART DISEASE MOST FATAL
More Texans die of diseased hearts
than from any other disease, the Texas
State Department #of Health reports.
The mortality rate’ from heart ‘disease
has increased from 103 7 per 100,000
in 1931 to 192.4 in 1945. Cancer is the
second greatest killer. Cancer mortali-
ty has climbed from 58.2 to 87.6.
PARK LEADERS TO MEET
C. C. Bunnenberg, Galveston direc-
tor of recreation and parks, has an-
nounced that recreation leaders from
the Southwest will hold a three-day
meeting in Galveston starting March
6. About 200 representatives from
Texas and Oklahoma are expected to
attend.
HALF COW DECLARED SURPLUS
The War Assets Administration has
declared surplus half a cow. The semi-
cow used to work for the Navy but the
gobs don’t need her any more. It sebms
she is plastic and she comes apart easily
so as to show amateur butchers just how
to carve up meat. It cost the Navy
$1,000 new. but the WAA hints that it
can be bought cheaper now.
TEXAS EMPLOYMENT AT PEAK
Total quarterly payrolls in Texas
were at their peak at the end of 1946.
according to the Texas Unemployment
Commission. Total quarterly payrolls
of employers of eight or more people
reached $47,000,000, and both veteran
and non-veteran unemployment drop-
ped sharply. In the 17 principal indus-
trial areas of the State employment
was up 7 per cent. Veteran unemploy-
ment was down in Texas from 108,000
to 61,000. Principal advances in the
State were made in Fort Worth lup
20.3 per cent); Dallas (up 18.8 per cent),
and Brownsville, Cameron county (up
18.3 per cent*.
ASKS TEXAS BONUS
A California war veteran evidently
believes that all the other States were
just helping Texas n little in winning
the war. At any rate he has asked the
American Legion in Fort Worth to send
him an application for "mv $300 Texas
veteran’s bonus.”
REHABILITATION WORK REPORT
The earning capacity of the 1,723 dis-
abled persons being aided by the Texas
program of vocational rehabilitation
has been increased by 600 per cent dur-
ing the last year, according to Mrs.
Frances Frazer, supervisor of the pro-
gram Annual wages for the group, be-
fore training, was $430,750. After train-
ing they were $2,584,500. "The work
we are doing takes people off the chari-
ty lists." Mrs. Frazer says ‘‘It also re-
turns their self respect."
TEXAN GOING FOR BIG GAME
For forty years, W. G McMillian,
Lubbock county contractor, has dream-
ed of going African big game hunting
This year he is going to realize h's
dream with a three-month expedition,
for which he and his family will leave
in early summer Although he is an
excellent shot, McMillan declares he
will spend most of his time shooting
with color cameras.
TEXAS MARINE RAISED FLAG
Corporal Harlin H. Block, of Weslaco.
Hidalgo county, has been definitely
identified as one of the Marines who
helped raise the flag on Mount Suri-
bachi on Iwo Jima. It had previously
been reported that Sgt. Henry O. Han-
sen, of Massachusetts, was one of the dent traffic congestion and parking
VETS WANT ENGINEERING
More than half the 50,000 service
men attending Texas colleges are fresh-
men and more than a quarter have an
engineering degree as their goal. From
statistics supplied by 61 of the 74 high,
er educational institutions in the State’
it was learned that engineering leads
the entire curriculum by a wide mar-
gin. Of the 50,000 vets, more than 11,. •
000 are at the University of Texas
SAFETY DRIVE PLANNED
Organization has been started in Tex-
as for a traffic safety program sponsor-
ed by automobile, tire and petroleum
products dealers throughout the State.
The group will organize into local com-
mittees and will strive ‘‘to meet acci-
FAIR WILL HAVE LIVESTOCK
BARN
The State Fair of Dallas definitely
will have its new $1.50,000 livestock
barn by the time the annual fete opens
next October, W. H. Hitzelberger, gen-
eral manager, says. The barn will con-
tain 1,200 stalls for cattle and w’ill be-
come part of the huge $2,000,000 live-
stock unit planned for the Fair Grounds.
TEXAS HIGHWAY TRAFFIC
INCREASES.
Automotive drivers used the highways
of Texas more than ever before during
the twelve months ending in Decem-
ber, 1946. According to the Texas
Good Roads Association, the overall av-
erage of cars on the highways was two
per cent higher than in the former peak
year of 1941 and the figures are still
rising each month.
UNUSUAL
LANDLORD
Paul Hollis, of
Fort Worth, is an
unusual land-
lord. He is so
fond of children
that his tenants
get free rent for
as many months
as they have 1
babies. Parents '>
of twins get two
months of free
rent; parents of
triplets get three
months and so
STATE HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION
CONTRACTS
State highway construction contracts
in Texas awarded since V-J Day‘have
totaled more than $65,000,000. accord-
ing to Ray Lowry, Austin statistician.
Roads arc being built faster and in
greater numbers than ever before in
the history of the State in order to
make up for the lack of construction
during war years. The program calls
for $147,000,000 to be spent on high-
ways in three years with half the
money being supplied by the Federal
government.
select group, but a letter from Block's
father-precipitated further investiga-
tion and final identification.
JUNIOR COLLEGES RELIEVE
PRESSURE
There are 30,000 students enrolled
in junior colleges in Texas and half that
number are World War II veterans, ac-
cording to Dr. C. C. Colvert, professor-
consultant in junior college education
at the University of Texas, Dr. Colvert
pointed out that those 30,000 students
w'ould be still further complicating the
crowded conditions at senior universi-
ties if the junior colleges did not take
care of their needs.
problems which confront highway
transportation.” Purpose of the group
is to reduce highway fatalities.
NO GUN NEEDED
Three youngsters from Sweetwater,
Nolan county, went fishing recently but
came back with wild duck instead, and
they didn’t have to fire a shot. The boys,
Bernard and Robert Strancer and
Johnny Sweek, said three ducks were
decapitated when they hit a power line
in a swoop across the lake and fell prac-
tically at the point where they were
fishing.
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AGED IN WOOD
Frankness Reed, of Stephenville,
Erath county, recently received some
tobacco from Kentucky which had
been aged in a wooden box for 46
years. Reed says he is going to pass it
on to his grandchildren with instruc-
tions that they wait until the tobacco
is 100 years old before smoking it. He
described the tobacco as exceptionally
mellow and of fine flavor.
CERAMICS DOUBLE OUTPUT
The infant ceramics industry of Tex-
as passed its second birthday in 1946
and doubled in size while doing so.
There are now 15 plants in operation
in Texas, while there were only 6 in
January of last year. There has never
been a business failure in the new in-
dustry and most plants have stepped
up production.
MULBERRY
BUSHES FOR
SILK WORMS
Twenty - thou-
sand mulberry
trees w-ere flown
into Mineral
Wells, Palo Pin-
to county, each
week and plant-
ed to feed the
silk worms of a
growing Texas
silk in d u s t r y.
The quota is ex-
pected to be rais-
ed to 75,000 a
week soon until 250,000.000 trees are
planted in Texas.
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102-YEAR-OLD
BARBER DIES
The oldest bar-
ber in Texas,
George W. Mose-
ly, of El Paso,
died recently at
the age of 102,
after serving pa-
trons more than
87 years. Mose-
ly, a negro, learn-
ed the barber’s
trade as a slave.
Member of a
family known
for its longevity,
he is survived by
a 90 - year - old
* brother. His fa-
ther died at 100
years of age and
his mother at 96.
MAYOR W ANTS HIS PAY CUT
Here’s a public official who has ask-
ed that his own pay be cut. He is*Mayor
R. J. Kroeger, of Harlingen, who has
formally asked the Harlingen city com-
mission to reduce his salary from $2,400
annually to $1 a year. Kroeger said the
city’s affairs are in such good shape that
they can be handled exclusively by the
city manager.
BAYLOR U. 102 YEARS OLD
Baylor University, of Waco. McLen-
nan county, observed its 102nd birth-
day February 1. The occasion was
marked by a Founders’ Day program
with addresses by prominent alumni of
the institution. A move was begun to
discover and preserve historical mater-
ial concerning Baylor.
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STILL GOING STRONG
Mrs. J. W. T. Baird, of Paris, Lamar
county, celebrated her 101st birthday
recently. She is the oldest member of
the American Legion Auxiliary, having
had one son and four grandsons in
World War I and five grandsons and
two great grandsons in World War II.
TWO WILD
GEESE ARE
HIS GUESTS
A wild gander
flying over San
Angelo, Tom
Greene county,
during a snow-
storm was stun-
ned when it
crashed into the
roof of J. M. Wal-
ter. president of the Texas Game and
Fish Commission. The gander’s faith-
ful mate circled the spot several times
and finally t*ame in for a landing. Wal-
ter didn’t have the heart to kill them,
so he is feeding them corn. ‘‘They can
stay with me permanently, if they
want to.” he said.
OYSTERS PLANTED AT ROCKPORT
Rockport oyster men and State offi-
cials have joined in a housing and life-
saving project for young oysters in an
effort to save an industry which return-
ed $150,000 to the Rockport area last
year. The program is the first co-opera-
tive oyster restoration and conservation
project in the history of the Texas coast.
TEXANS BUY U. S. SAVINGS
BONDS
Texans invested more than $240,-
000,000 in government savings bonds
during 1946. including $171,040,922 in
Class “E" bonds. The total represents
a maturity value to Texans of $300,-
000,000 in 1946. Nathan Adams, chair-
man of the State Advisory Committee
on Savings Bonds, attributed the re-
markable volume of sales to 15,000 vol-
unteer workers throughout the State
who have made up the sales force.
SUBURBAN TRAPPER DOES WELL
Clyde E. Fine, who lives in Dallas
county, operates a trap line within
twenty miles of the city of Dallas and
he keeps himself prosperous with a
generous collection of mink, fox, ’pos-
sum and 'coon. He attributes his suc-
cess to the use of ‘‘bug dust,” the very
fine sawdust found in old stumps where
insects have been gnawhig. He sets a
light trap and covers it with the feath-
ery dust. He averages $45 a week for
his furs.
GI CO-EDS—Six ex-service women who are gaining an education under the GI
“Bill of Rights” are. from left: Lois Peters. Lorain. Ohio; Pat Overmiller, Pitts-
burgh, Pa.; Mary Burton, Marblehead, Ohio; Marjorie Nees, Torrance, Calif.;
Evelyn Tracewell, Humble, Texas, and Lois Shumway, Portsmouth, Ohio. They
attend Ohio Wesleyan University.
CELEBRATE ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. William Stork, of
Roundtop, Fayette county, have cele-
brated their sixty-fifth wedding anni-
versary. The celebration was held at
the home of their daughter, Mrs. John
Fuchs, of Burton, Washington county.
Both the Storks are 88 years old. They
have 27 grandchildren. 20 great-grand-
children and one great-great-grand-
child.
FORMER GOVERNOR HEADS
GROUP
Retiring Governor Coke Stevenson
will head the newly-formed organiza-
tion which will assist in development
of the Gonzales Warm Springs Founda-
tion for polio victims. The Gonzales
Springs Foundation is comparable to
the famed Warm Springs in Georgia
and it is a non-sectarian, non-profit,
charitable treatment institution.
TEXAS TO GET BIG ETHYLENE
PLANT
The Dow Chemical Company will
build a $5,000,000 ethylene plant at
Freeport, Brazoria county, which will
be part of a new $20,000,000 building
program, it has been announced. The
new plant will produce ethylene for
use in making styrene for synthetic
rubber and plastics. It is expected that
the project will be completed in March,
1948.
FRUIT SHIPMENTS GAIN
The University of Texas Bureau of
Business Research reports that 8.122
carloads of fruits and vegetables left
Texas in December, an increase of 24
per cent over the previous month.
Grapefruit is still the export leader,
with 2,684 carloads. Oranges were sec-
ond with 1,219 carloads and there were
1,162 carloads of mixed vegetables ex-
ported.
BUILDING CONTRACTS BOOM
Running at almost $1,000,000 a day,
the Texas building boom is still pros-
pering despite the usual mid-winter
lull. During the first 17 days of the
year, $16,200,075 in building contracts
were awarded in the State. Biggest con-
tracts were for a ten-storv office build-
ing to be constructed in Midland. Mid-
land county, which will be the highest
structure between Fort Worth and El
Paso, and for development of a 165-acre '
plot in Houston to house the annual Fat
Stock Show.
ENGLISH LAD WILL BE
ANSWERED
Postal authorities recently received a
letter from London addressed to a ‘‘A
cowboy on a ranch in Texas. U. S. A.”
The note, from a little English bov. said
he wanted to learn all about cowboys.
“I want to be a cowboy and I hope there
are no more crooks in Texas Best
wishes to all you cowboys.” The letter
was forwarded to Midland, Midland
county, and put in the hands of the Mid-
land newspaper, the Reporter-Tele-
gram. The editor said it would be an
easy job to find a cowboy to answer the
English lad’s appeal.
LUMBER OUTPUT RISES
Texas lumber production has been
increasing steadily since the war’s end
and should increase through 1947 to a
point 10 per cent above the 1946 levels,
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
says. The Texas lumber output climb-
ed from 55.841,000 board feet in Jan-
uary, 1946. to 122,685,000 feet in Octo-
ber. Almost four per cent of all the
lumber produced in America now
comes from Texas.
LOOK FOR A WRINKLED THIEF
When thieves stole the chickens of
Dr. George R. Herrman. of Galveston,
Galveston county, recently they may
have made a fatal mistake. The chick-
ens Were being used for experimental
purposes and had been inoculated with
a drug that stops operation of the thy-
roid gland, and anyone eating the birds
would be likely to grow' wrinkles and
get old with amazing rapidity. Dr. Herr-
man spread warnings immediately and
police started looking for prematurely
old chicken thieves.
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VET BENEFITS TOTALED
Col. T. G. Lamphier. of the Veterans’
Administration, in Dallas, has announc-
ed that the VA spent $263,271,615 for
veterans’ benefits during 1946 in Tex-
as, Louisiana and Mississippi. He said
there are 200.000 ex-GI’s taking either
education or training programs. This
•represents almost 20 per cent. There
are 6,432 vets in VA hospitals. Out-
patient clinics average 41,000 examina-
tions and 25.000 treatments a month.
Disability pensions are being paid to
171.593 vets and 35,739 loans of all
types were guaranteed at a value of
$188,186,199.
TEXAS OIL ACTIVITIES IN 1946
Drilling figures show that oil and gas
activities in Texas in 1946 surpassed
the 1945 record except in gas well com-
pletions and discoveries. There were
4,604 oil well completions in 1946 as
compared to 4.044 in 1945. There were
also 2,458 dry holes reported in 1946
compared with 1.903 in 1945. An area
totaling one-third cf the entire State
and covering more territorv than -nine
entire States of the Union plus the Dis-
trict of Columbia is now leased to oil
and gas operators. More than 54.000,-
000 acres are under lease for oil de-
velopment.
CAME TO TEXAS BY ACCIDENT
DIES WEALTHY
John Molesworth, 89-vear-old Clar-
endon, Donley county, cattlemen made
a fortune in Texas because he came to
San Antonio from England accidental-
ly, 66 years ago. The rancher, who
died recently, thought San Antonio
was a big wool market back in 1881
and made his way across the Atlantic
to set up a wool business there When
he found that he should have gone to
Boston instead, he philosophically turn-
ed to cattle raising and became one of
the best-known and wealthiest ranchers
in West Texas.
LEGISLATIVE SAFETY PROGRAM
ASKED
The Texas Safety Association has
asked the State Legislature to pass bills
to reduce traffic fatalities on Texas
highways. The six points of the request
include: Increasing the Highway Pa-
trol by 250. to bring the total to 450
men (Texas is now' 39th in numerical
strength); adoption of a Model Traffic
Code to make regulations uniform
throughout the State; broader authori-
ty for traffic courts in metropolitan
areas to try drunk driving, hit-and-run
and juvenile traffic cases; restriction
of issulnce of drivers' licenses; a con-
trolled access highway law' and ade-
quate approprif tions for driver educa-
tion.
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White, Jefferson B. The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 13, 1947, newspaper, February 13, 1947; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth576665/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.