Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1947 Page: 3 of 8
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CANDY
TRUMAN APPEALS
FOR CO-OPERATION
IN CURBING FIRES
We have a nice assortment of delicious
candy—an excellent gift for any occa-
BUSSEY’S DRUG STORE
Phone 16
Washington, May 6—Presi-
dent Trjntan today called on
atftte »e'J local government of-
ficials to join the federal (ov-
COMBS WORKS
FOR FORESTS
Washington, D. C.
—J. M. Combs was one of the
congressional leaders in a
strongly sponsored effort to
support forest conservation
work by assisting the private
ers to go into the woods with! Cotton insect infestations in
small woodland owners and, Texas last season were prob-
ing, cutting and| marketing; ably the worst in the state’s
May 9. Prac^ea- Also, it was asked history, say Extension entorao-
ernment in mapping a pro-1 timberland owner with fcrae-
that the present maximum au-! logists of Texas A. and M.
gram to cut the nation's “stag-
gering” fire loss.
The President told the open-
ing session of the national con-
ference on fire prevention that
fires destroy more than 5560-
000,000 of the nation's wealth
during the last 12 months.
The loss for 1947 will be
more than three-quarter, of aj u,ged ;ncrea9ed forestry acti- 0,1 the part of the
billion dollars unlesa wu can re-' . - . . , terests.
duce the present rate,” he raid, c,t* *3 s°und “usl"es* « s ,0T’»
Mr. Truman added that no range plan of national econo-
“dallar value can be placed on .my.
lives lest in fires. He said an Specifically, the appropria-
_ year from burns while tions committee was asked to
average of 2,000 children die provide additional farm forest-
ad vise them on proper plant-
thauaands are scarred for life.
BENEDUM TEST NEAR
SAN AUGUSTINE SHOWS
PETTIT POSSIBILITIES
Marhall, Texas, May 8.—
Pettit lime oil production for
the southeast part of East Tex-
as six miles north of San Aug-
ustine and west of Bland Lake
in San Augustine county, was
indicated Thursday at the No.
1 W. A. Johnson, Edmund
Quirk survey, wildcat drilled
for J. C. Benedum by M. E.
Davis of Shreveport.
Tested at 8,156-65 feet with
quarter-inch top and three-
eights inch bottom hole choke,
the test on 11 minutes built up
to 85 pounds and recovery was
3,300 pounds.
This is the farthest south
and east that tbe Pettit lime
has shown for production in
East Texas. Location is near
the center of a big geophysical
block, one of four held by Ben-
edum, the others being east in
Sabine county. All are due for
tests, with Delaney Drilling
company, Dallas, contractor on
the No. 1 Johnson, slated to do
the work.
After the test, operator cored
deeper to around 8,225 feet
with no information on recov-
ery, and at last report was dril-
ling below 8,245 feet. Infor-
mation has been withheld on
the test since drilling started
in February. _
Margaret Truman in Concert
Debut At Pittsburgh
RETAIL SALES MAKE
20% GAIN IN TEXAS
Pittsburgh, May 9.—Mar-
garet Truman, daughter of the credit buying.
President will make her Na-
tional Concert debut in Pitts-
burgh May 29, it was. announc-
ed today by Tom Beegle, man-
ager of Beegle Concerts.
Beegle said that he received
Miss Truman’s signed contract
today. He said her appearance
at Syria Mosque here will be
the first‘of a series of personal
appearances throughout the
country.
The tour will carry Miss
Truman to Texas, where she
will appear at the Fair Park
Auditorium May 25 under aus-
pices of the State Fair of Tex-
as. iOther appearances will
Austin. — Depsrtment and
apparel store sales in Texas
surged upward 20 per cent in
March over February sales but
failed to register the expected
25-per-cent seasonal gain, the
University of Texas Bureau of
Business Research reported.
Most retail trade remained
far above the prewar level.
Sales last month were almost
three times the size of the av-
erage month’s sales in the pe-
riod 1935-39. The rate of buy-
ing is slipping downward slow-
ly but is viewed as a forerun-
ner of greater reductions to
come.
Sales in all 23 cities survey-
ed by the Bureau were greater
than in March 1946. Amarillo,
Corpus Christi and Lubbock
all turned in gains in excess of
30 per cent. In comparison
with February 1947, 10 cities
reported a decline in sales
volume while 13 recorded a
monthly increase. Corpus
Christi was a leader in Febru
ary-to-March sales gains with
a 24 per cent hike. Lubbock
March sales were 25 per cent
greater than in February.
Heartening developments in
the retail picture as a whole
and especially in department
and apparel stores were in
The ratio of
credit sales to total sales de-
clined slightly in March for the
first time since December, as
more customers paid cash for
their purchases than in Janu
ary and February. Collections
were better in relation to ac-
counts payable than in the first
two months of this year.
be at Cleveland, Buffalo
Rochester.
Four-Cent Egg Pay*
Off; Nickel Inside
Delias, Texas.—Mrs. Brice
Armstrong of Dallas bought
the cheapest egg in Texas to-
day.
She paid her next-door neigh-
bor four cents for it. Inside
was a buffalo nickel.
TEXAS TOMATOES
BRING $500 A TON
tical on-the-ground help.
In an appearance before the
House sub-committee on agri-
cultural appropriations, to-
gether with 71 other congres-
sional members and 45 wit-
nesses representing a nation-
wide cross section of forestry
interests, the congressman
thorization for fire protection
bo approved and that the 5-
year plan for localized re-
search experimental and dem-
onstration cents, initiated a
year ago be put in full opera-
tion as proposed for the sec-
ond year of the plan.
Congressman Robert L, F.
Sikes of Florida was chairman
of the congressional group.
The Forest Farmers Associa-
tion with headquarters at Val-
■College.
dosta, Georgia led
the support
forestry ln-
About a quarter of a million'
veterans reinstated their lap-;
sed National Service Life In-
surance policies with Veterans |
Administration during <1946. I
Shelby Electric tk Plumbing
T. J. Young
Timpson, Texas
Edinberg May 6.—Toma-
matoes that brought S500 a ton
at a New York auction—the
highest ever paid on an auction
fer Texas tomatoes—will cost
New York housewives SO or
more cents a pound when they
finally hit the dinner table.
The shipment of tomatoes
brought a new high when Tru-
lyn shippers of Edinburg sold
the car load. T E. Stephens,
owner of the shipping comp-
any, said the tomatoes brought
$10.50 for each of the 650 lugs
or approximately 30 cents a
pound. By the time the jobber
I and grocer get their profits, the
tomatoes were expected to hit
50 or more cents a pound.
II Natural Gas could be
carried in Buckets . . .
Every family within reach of a gas well could
have natural gas service ,r. every Jack and Jill'
hi Texas would be fetching a pailful...if gas
could be carried in buckets!
But that's impossible, of course.
The only way to move natural gas from
wells to markets is through pipe lines—great
steel arteries that wind over hills and under
riven, through swamps-and wastelands, link-
ing enormous underground reservoirs with the
burners in your home and factory
‘ United Gas has more than 6)000 miles of
such lines, connected to more than 100 fields in
Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi. At the out-
let ends of United’s pipe lines ate 322 southern
dries and towns, many of which are served by
United Gas distribution systems. By tiroriding
this link between welts end markets, by m+hiag
this ges available for use, United is giving
value to gas that might otherwise remain worth-
less in the ground... is helping to being the
comfort and convenience of natural gas service
into your home and that of your neighbor.
YELLOW PINE AND HARDWOOD
Lumber
CAR STRIPS
C.C.&C. LumberCo.
Timpson, Texas
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, May 16, 1947, newspaper, May 16, 1947; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth814237/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Timpson Public Library.