The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 26, 1951 Page: 1 of 8
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DEVOTED TO THE EET-T INTERESTS OF TAFT AND SAN PATBICfO COUNTY
TAFT—THE BLACK LAND CITY
EIGHT PAGES — NO-
TAFT, TEXAS — THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1951
VOL. 29—EST. 1921—PRICE 10 CENTS
Pickers Hard to Find as
Lotion iVtoves 1 o Gins
San Patricio County Farm Leaders
Attend Pyrenone Demonstration
Richard Swanson was installed
I commander of the local Ameri-
j can Legion Post Tuesday night
i at special exercises at which
: R. M Nutt served as the install-
ing office*.
Other officers who were sworn
in also are Jack Jones, 1st vice
j commander; Then E. Bel!. 2nd
vice commander; Claud" M. Eich-
blatt, adjutant, W. E. Eussell,
chaplain; Robert Hack, finance
officer; Marvin Ondrusek, Sgt-
at-arms; Ernest L. Guedin, his*
& Observed from the window:
'■j The city marshal giving a car a
R ticket for parking about 12 min-
W' utes in the 10-minute stone. This
jf fellow would probably have been
E able to park somewhere other
B than in the 10-minute zone ex-
$ cept for the fact that the mar-
£■ shnl's or, the editor's car and
jE other businessmen's cats lined
» the street Perhaps if our custo-
» mere squaked loud enough wi
11 would park our cars in the back
SK of our business houses and leave
kf tht cur*, for paying customer'
I If worth trying! If you hav:
T ha ! trouble finding a parking
■ spot on a busy morning, complain
S to your grocer, druggist or bank-
R er and maybe the next day
you will find a place to park
Strangers in town should he
S treated as guests, so if one parks
Cotton began moving from the f approximately vm «----«f j
fields to the gins at a quickening | ton nad been received at thej
i par- this week with most of the; compress up to Thursday tv.ora-j
| gins in the area reporting from|ing.
i 150 to 200 bales turned out this; The cotton season is expected
! week, but as expected a shortage j <0 hit its peak next wee*, and j
| of cotton picker: plan ed *he. «»Jt v/ssi sifter, with Ui* bulk n*t
i farmar" ;c cou'-n being gathered within.
The C. P. Rosson Gin in Taft three weeks.
reported 330 bales of cotton gin- _________ .
i iud up to Thursday morning. Of
j S£ np“Sr SJ’“' 790 Chest X-Rnys
; The Midway Gin showed 149 ~ s « <v f_
1 bales turned out this week. 1 fflffllf 113 | f£ff
Bill Hunt’s Gin in Grigoryj 1 ■■■
reported 200 bales and of this I|-L
number 190 were pulled cotton. Wy VwIMl j Wflll
few #!
the grain during stoiage insures
a full season's protection against
insects. Eastern Seeds utilized
this insecticide in the storage of
grain in their elevators this year
for the first time, according to
Mr. Roach. Seed held for storage
.s also being treated in a like
manner.
More than 60 farmer-, and
grain dealers recently attended
a demonstration of insecticides
held at El Campo. Among those
attending were Grady C C lark
arid Jim E. Roach, of Eastern
Seeds, Taft. The dealers learned
about a new ■>!" ’’f ir 1
that when mixed directly with
Water Weil for
City Now
Being Drilled
if he got a friendly notice rather
than a ticket We paikeri our
car on the square in Crockett
one day and over stayed our
nickels worth and when we re-
turned to the car there was a
little card dri the windshield say-
ing "You have over parked, but
we have paid a nickel for you
Tf you wish, give this card to
any merchant with a nick
Thank you, please visit us again.
Very few fail to pav the nickel „
it was biter learned and ah MRS. LEONA RAGL»*
leave Crockett with a pleasant PRIZE POEM
foensk. ac. like AT A. & I. COLLEGE
Layne of T- , moved their
water well ng mto Taft last Fri-
day and started drilling the test
well for the new water well for
the city on Saturday morning
Tests were being run Thursday
to determine if the well was sat-
.... ictory. After these initial tests
are run and arc proven the hole
will V enlarged and the water
wc:’i completed.
Paul R. Gustafson, Jr., arriv- >||Ot €ll rtOITIC : Mrs j
ed this week from San Antoni . . r. '- an
and will be in charge of the DiCQF 1 UsT ijumo
Cage Funerai Home. R B. Meets i
resigned, effective August 1, to Mrs. Homer Hutto, ~f>, of Thftr nd ,
take a similar position in Big is in a Sinton hospital ir a! eial S
Springs. serious condition as the result of
Mr. Gustafson has a wife and a gun shot wound in the upper i
one daughter, Paula Ann, why abdomen. A .22 caliber bullet! «• ’
will start to school this year entered the upper part of her! '
Mrs. Gustafson clans to teach; abdomen, pierced the liver and .. f ‘
in the Taft schools. left the body near the spinal col- J
Mr Merts had been director j lum reported by Sheriff Frank!
of Cage Funeral Home for al-; Hunt. i fv&f
most two years. He was active in i Deputy Sheriff F. L. Johnson,
many civic affairs. He and Mrs. i who investigated the case, report- pQg
Merts plan to move next week, jed that the action took place
--------------- I about 10 p. m. op the family The
Youth Night Set 1 farm near Taft. The woman's u.r 0
r ™P husband was reported to be ly-1 this t
f4or i .do r fIda} in tied when Mrs. Hutto left , for j
The Youth Night, which is the house for a few minutes, j strick
sponsored by the Junior Woman’s When she returned to the house
Club, will be held Friday night she was clutching her stomach., The
o» 7-sn Mrs f A. Glasson. Jr,, Mr. Hutto brought his wife to i condo
Mrs. Leona Ragle was one of
two elementary education stu-
dents from A. it I. College who
received childrens literature
awa:4-! at the Writers Conference
m Corpus Christ! last week. The
other was Mrs. Helen S. Albin
Mr:-. Ragle, who is a senior at
A & I, i,.reived a poetry award
(or her poem ‘Hopping.’' She
|Pfe. Matinee Culm
Returns to .Daty
Pfc. Maurice Cohn left fikm
; to return to his station at* R®
' City, N, M- He catr<e Jw a*
\ ago to attend tint iuis*r«*S
j his father, S*» Ohn, and ad
I’hen he ha* been looking %
i his father’s business at the I
:.ntose. He hopes to get a ,
charge from the service to det
his time to the store.
Power Off *n
Toft Over 2
Hours Wednesday
The power for Taft and vicin-
ity was off Wednesday afternoon
Miss Lynn u having a hard
time these days Mus Birdget has
lost three of her baby teeth and
the Fairs lias left five nickel
under her pillow- each night after
a tooth is pui'*«i Now Mas
Lynn ha.-, had a loose tooth for
about two w eeks, but it resists all
efforts to remove it much to the
distress of the young lady, who
already has the five nickels
spent. Yesterday at noon Lynn
told me. Daddy we ll just have
to have the dentist pull the tooth
so I can get my five nickels.’’
She r ,11’dn’t ,-ee why I resisted
and Mrs. W. L
the hostesses
for two hours and 45 minutes j boy* and girl*
but up to press time Bill Moore, attend,
local C.P.iL. manager, did not;
Know the exact cause of the trou- ■-• ■ .
bie. He was out working with ■ Employee in
hi- crews Tuesday afternoon and I Mrs c H Ba
Wednesday morning. was employed j
While the power was off the - Pacific Railroad
City Water Department turned;^ ^
off the watei in town in order - vacant for sevi
to conserve the supply while; cording to K. 1
ti,>* i-iei-it r: pumps were off. Station agent.
! peal to the local chapter came im
i after the national chairman re-1
jeeived a letter from President Pfc. Billy Htilftt
1 Tamttn» I To Get Wing# Attf. It '0,
The Rev M. C. Brittain w.ll■ ^ m%y u ut H«k»>
receive donations in Taf. ; ihrop Aero Institute, Hotlhtotf
' Hawthorne, Calif. He Jaw™-
281 X-RA V ED Bt jed the air force in FtfbmMgffi
took his basic training ai Li«fe-
land Air Force Base, a nd bast
been in California since A$rfii£,.
The County X-Ra.v Unit was! He expects to receive hia wMP
Gregory last week for one day ■ August _ 10 and expects t» m
il.d 111 During That day 231 - He » the son trf Mr. aadt Mm,
people had s. chest X-Ray Mrs. i hi f. Hunt, ant* is a y
, » i„ oKspaa of Taft Hieh SehosL
course
Coleman Kirkpatrick
To Instruct Flying
For Air Force
Coleman Kirkpatrick left Fri-
day for Hondo, where he will be
a civilian instructor at the Hon-
do Air Base,
After a 12 day stay at Hondo
he will go to Craig Field, Selxr.%
Ala., for a six-week refresher
course. When he returns to Hors- — .
do his family expects to join j GREGORY LAST WEEK
him.
______________________ J ’
MRS. E. W. SANDARS HOSTESS -in Gregory last week for one-. - . ^
■ffi F'ViBKOiUDER'y CLUB i to take care of the Gregory-Port- home about the Utb.
land area During that day 231; He is the sou of Mr. and S®(8k \
Mrs. E. W. Sander* was ho«t*-ss; peop2(. had a chest X-Ray MrsjH. V. Hunt, anti is a trrad«MM'.-|
for the July meeting of the Em-lj Taylor was in charge of}of Taft High School
broidery Club, which was held arrangements and appreciated all j ^
Friday afternoon. jthe work everyone did to make j | ^ WltUviR:'* Sfeifer
this ?.SUCeetf.__________ iCareer Out df Am?
,m\1-t■ Herman H, yt-idiam:*,
hi ATI ON GETTI : «< * j Air Corps, is at Sioux Falla, Si St Y
COAT OF “DEPOT 'lie « » «<m of Mr. xtd
YELLOW” PAINT ;0. H WilUama «# Gregory,. Sffc $i
l wife, the Uxmex MSat
“Just call it Depot Yellow”,.Turner of Gregory, and thefr *w‘.fg
was K A. Wallace's reply to a | children are with him. £|
quiery about what color the local j lieutemrsi Withwns » * ‘VMf^gS
Southern Pacific Depot was being' as of Work! War II and is
painted. 1 malulag in mxrksa,
Crews moved in the first of stationed sa aitflar«S dwwig
the week and began a job of war, and after the war
repairing and painting of the de- ntee month* on Gnaw. Me
pot. The job will probably be graduate of Gregory Bib
finished bv the first of next and attended A. & L
knig»vuie fur one year MMilr'ip
______________ entr-rtaf tin: aervic*.
LEN MORGAN WRITES „ ftv ^ X0m
,-i.x is, the' Cos. Oavid P. Kmhmbi sk-: i
Modern ginning machinery is - ar,,( Mrs j ;q Krisell
coming in for its share of prats* ; lan to jeave Friday on a two-
around Taft these days for wdh- > weei< trjp ,0 Conway and Little
out it a great deal of the current Rock_ Ark . and Jenkins. Mo.,
crop probably wouidnt be tut • thi-v will visit relatives,
vested due so the reluctance,
of pickers to work in fields where j Mr and Mrs. Miller Harwood
the cotton was poor. But due to have returned from a trip to
the modern machinery that al-' Hunt, where they witnessed the
|OWs a farmer to pull hi- cotton , it . gram of Camp La Jun-
rather than pick it without, the' ta, which their grandchildren,
loss of anv grade in his staple the p,-t a ad Bud Walsh, of Corpus
season is moving rapidly alone < hristi attended
K JM-Z. ST-i; u«, »d
m'I jssxr-
area’s modern gins are being: Rev M C- Brittain preached
graded "strict middling” almost i ,ast prt(jay night >n a revival
without exception. An examina-; nieeting held at f irst baptist
than of several samples m the; Church in odem.
Carpenter Brothers grading room I .....
this week revealed a clean sarn- j Mrs. E. M. Beftfd, Man-
pic, probably cleaner than what: etta Beard and Mrs. i. A. Glas-
the gin a few years ago turned f non, Sr, left Thursday for a
out from clean picked cotton, 'vacation at K*rrvil!e Mr. Beard
Practically without exception; went up for the week-end, and
every farmer in the area put; Mist Marietta Beard returned
hands or machines in their cotton ; with him Sunday,
fields this week and most of them ™ » Mullen
are pulling their cotton. The gm ; M Sunday in Kingsville with
zf&szzsrj&s* »'*
The only thing that worries Mrs ciora Gibson and Mrs.
growers, ginners and buyers alike Woolley and five chU*
Joseph Kirkpatrick, Jr. Taft cer- ^
tified public accountant, has been se,
elected a member of the Amer- a-
xan Institute of Accountants, na- «r}
tional professional society of "
CPAs, He has been associated
for the past year with the Cor- A1
pus Christi Hardware Co. and
was formerly employed by Mor S<
gan and Cox. Corpus Christi pub- 'jr,
Uc accounting firm.
Mr. Kirkpatrick who was born
in BeeviUe, Texas, is a graduate pa
of Taft High School and of at
Schreiner Institute in Xerrvilie. j na
He holds a CPA certificate from ! Jr
the State of Texas, obtained by ;
written examination, and is an;
associate member of the Texas j ,i,.
Society of Certified Public Ac-j x-
countaats. j ;
Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Glasson. Jr.
and daughter, Linda, spent Mon
flay in Robstown with Mrs. Glas
Up Ftont in a „ .
title ot an article whteb appears £ 8. mMk - ^ v •
in the July 0 issue of Skyway*J^ *t*tbm«d *4 Jteaatj i -h t, ',T..
magazine and which was written j ClJil HeSaiiatb# fiauiM*
by Len Morgan «on of Rev and; gt yb* Air (f««
Mrs. K. G. Morgan. j Before CpI MorgBS west
.jr-SKr
Dull as. has flostfa with. jjgHg
Hovai Canadian Air Force. thei'TrStBf, Jj-^4 «c
R AF. and me Army Air Corps s w
and has been with Bramft for' r*'“ ,
the oeiM three years. i
Th;s artcle, whicn appears uc 'fspsasamf m &»»» 1
the popular magarine, deato wRh . pvt cbarl** tftodd? -
the piloting <>f a OC-0 tok lej»rd» ha* eompletod » ‘
the type *f plane Mr. Morgan j c*aip fiMvvIr, Va wnd S*' *
flics now. j *****
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Guthrie, Keith. The Taft Tribune (Taft, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 26, 1951, newspaper, July 26, 1951; Taft, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth749212/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Taft Public Library.