Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1946 Page: 3 of 8
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have been delays, we’ve tried to
make them as short as possible.
All of us at CPL want you to know
we are doing everything humanly pos-
sible not only to serve new cus-
tomers quickly, but also to maintain
the kind of dependable service our
old customers have come to expect.
It isn’t just GOOD, electric service
we’re striving to give you—it is the
BEST electric service possible — around the
clock — around the calendar. ... So long, now.
CENTRAL POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY
PLANT FLAX
NEWS ITEM
November 4
FLAX ADVANCED TO $7.25 PER
BUSHEL MINNEAPOLIS.
Planting Seed Is Becoming Scarce.
Contact Us For Your Supply Now.
ARCHER-DANIELS-
MIDLAND COMPANY
GANADO, TEXAS
materials, equipment and trained
men.... But we’re not letting short-
ages stop us, although they do slow
us down sometimes and in some
places. In most cases, how-
ever, we are connecting new cus-
tomers promptly. Where there
If you stand in the way of your
iend'a nrosneritv vonNl <mlv bin.
FRIDAY NIGHT
There are no two generals in the
country more famous than General
Motors and General Electric.
STATED MEETINGS
PALACIOS LODGE
NO. 990. A. F. & A. M.
1st Thursday each month 7:30 P.M.
Visiting Brethern Always Welcome
Joe B. Feather, W. M.
T. E. Friery, Sec
INSURANCE
REAL ESTATF.
NOTARY PUBLIC
326 Main St. Phone 158
Thursday, November 14. 1946
PALACIOS BEACON, PALACIOS, TEXAS
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TERNATIONAL NEWS AS IT HAPPENS — BEST
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WHERE —MOST POPULAR COMICS —TIMELY
FEATURES—FAST SERVICE—CLEAR TYPE
These are some of the reasons why tbs STAR-
TELEGRAM has mors readers tkaa mmy stksr
Tsui Newspaper.
THE ANNUAL BARGAIN DAYS REDUCED
MAIL RATES ARE NOW IN EFFECT.
This year on account of the print paper shortage
the offer is open only to RENEWAL SUBSCRIBERS.
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Special Social
Security Rights
For Vets' Families
Even though the veteran never
had u social security account num-
ber card, and even though he never
worked on a job covered by the
Social Security Act, survivors of
any World War II veteran who has
died since his discharge muy be
eligible now for payments undeV
the Social Security Act.
These payments are made pos-
sible by a recent amendment to the
Social Security Act. according to
information received from Mr. R.
R. Tuley, Jr., manager of the Gal-
veston office. He pointed out that
the new amendment does not pro-
vide any payments to the veterun
himself and that it does not pro-
vide for payment to the survivors
of men who died before discharge
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or release from active duty in the
armed forces.
The new section of the Act pro-
vides for the payment of monthly
benefits to qualified survivors of
veterans who die within throe years
after their honorable discharge
from service and whose dependents
are not qualified to receive compen-
sation or pension from the Veter-
ans’ Administration. National Ser-
vice Life Insurance payments to
survivors are not considered as
compensation or pension from the
Veterans’ Administration.
The measure provides for month-
ly benefits retroactive to the date
of the veterans’ death if the sur-
vivors file their benefit claims with
the nearest office of the Social Se-
curity Administration on or before
midnight February 10, 1947. Claims
filed after that date will be retro-
active for no more than the usual
3-month period.
As in the case of all other per-
sons qualiifed for social security
benefits, families of deceased vet-
erans to whom this new section of
the law applies should contact the
nearest office of the Social Secur-
ity Administration to file their
claims as soon as possible.
Carteret named New Jersey for
the Isle of Jersey.
F!ax--A New Crop For The Lone Star State
The following article prepared by
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company
Mills, with branch offices in Gana-
do, is sent to us in the interest of
flax sowing. This company is pro-
viding u market for flax that is
grown in this section.
In ten years, the Flax acreage
of Southern Texas has multiplied 90
fold. It has increased from 1,000
acres in 1937 to approximately 90,-
000 in 1946, bringing Texas Flax
farmers an income of over 2,000,-
000. Today ('lax has earned a profit-
able place in crop programs
throughout southern Texas.
The future of this new winter
cash crop is practically unlimited
South Texas’ winter growing sea
son with its cool, moist climate is
ideal for raising high quality Flax
is great, the market huge, and Flax
products and uses are growing.
Leading agricultural authorities
agree that a half million acres of
Flax could be raised in Texas.
Farmers of the United States have
never been uble to fill America’s
demand for Flax in the form of lin-
seed oil, linseed oil meal, paints, li-
noleum, oil cloth, water proof cioth-
I’LL S
S an electric serviceman and speaking for
all my buddies at CPL, you can take it
from me that things in the electric busi-
ness are really humming. Right
now with nearly everybody and
his neighbor wanting electricity,
* We’re busier than ever before.
Sometimes things beyond our con-
trol make our job pretty hard.
Like a lot of other people, we’re
struggling against shortages of
ing, printers’ ink, patent leather
and many other commodities es-
sential in the daily life of every
American.
To the South Texas farmer, this
large and ready market for Flax
plus ideal growing conditions means
a chance for additional farm in-
come.
Flux, properly raised, is a high
income crop. During the past few
years yields in southern Texas have
averaged from 9 to 12 bushels pet-
acre, with man/Flux furmers get-
ting up to 25, 30, and even 35
bushels. Such yields mean a cash
income of from $35 to $100 per
acre.
More important, Flax has a low-
cost of production, returning a net
income which can be as good or bet-
ter than any crop grown in south-
ern Texas. Texas, farmers sab,
“Over a period of years, Flax has
yielded a higher NET return than
any of ouV extensively grown
crops." Being a winter crop, the
Flax farmer gets this additional in-
come at the most advantageous
time of the year.
Flax is a dependable crop. Suc-
cessful Texas Flax farmers express
such views as: "Our late summer
crops may dry out or be wiped out
by tropical storms, but never Flax.
Flax comes off early. We are al-
ways sure of a return."
Flax is no harder on the soil than
small grains. It has been raised on
Texas blackland for as long as sev-
en consecutive years with no com-
mercial fertilizer being added. The
7th year yields were actually high-
er than the first. Valuable cultural
practices such as summer fallowing
which are used for Flax do much to
improver fertility.
The growing period of the Flax
plant is well suited to withstand
both the winter and spring frosts
commc n to southern Texas. With
proper cultural practices preceding
planting and use of correct planting
dates. Flax can be past the two-
leaf stage enabling it to withstand
early winter frosts and late enough
so as not to be in bloom during the
late spring freeze. Flax matures
early enough to be harvested before
the advent of summer rains.
Insects are no great problem in
Flax. The com ear worm, commonly
Irnnam no noPt,... 1.„ 11 ________ •
Stay-at-Home Fan*
To Hear Four Game*
Saturday Via Humble
Play-by-play descriptions of three
Southwest Conference football
games and one intersectional game
will be brought to stay-at-home
fans in broadcasts sponsored by
Humble Oil and Refining Company,
this Saturday afternoon.
The broadcast of the Rice-Texa*
A. & M. game at College Station
will go on the air at 2:20 p. m.,
with Kern Tips announcing the
play-by-play and Alec Chesser de-
scribing the color highlights.
From T. C. U. Stadium in Ft
Worth, the broadcast of the Texas
University-T. C. U. game will begin
at 1:50 p. m. with announcer Char-
lie Jordan giving the play-by-play
description and Jerry Doggett sup-
plying the color.
Also beginning at 1:50 p. m. wiH
be Humble’s broadcast of the Ar-
kansas-S. M. U. game at Fayette-
ville. Arkansas. Ves Box will do the
play-by-play announcing and Fred
Kincaid will fill in the color.
Humble’s broadcast of the inter-
sectional game between Baylor and
Tulsa at Tulsa will begin at 2:20
p. m. Bill Michaels will describe the
action play-by-play and Bill High-
tower will handle the color.
One reason the gentleman of to-
day doesn’t kiss the modern girl’s
hand is that he’d burn his nose on
her cigurette.
known as the cotton boll worm, is
encountered only in a mild way. It
is readily controlled by dusting \\ i.h
5% DDT at the rate of 15 to 20
pounds per acre. Only late seeded
Flax is likely to be infested.
Stink bugs have caused little
damage, having attacked only small,
scattered plots of Flax. They are
controlled by a 2% solution of Py.
rethrum spray.
The only Flax disease which has
been encountered in Texas is rust
With the present rust resistant va-
rieties, this is kept well under con-
trol.
Flax is a premium crop. As such
it merits use of first quality land.
It grows best on fertile, fairiy
heavy, well-drained, black land
prairie soils.-
DR. JACK KAHN
OPTOMETRIST
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Appointment.
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Dismukes, Mrs. J. W. Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1946, newspaper, November 14, 1946; Palacios, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth726085/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Palacios Library.