Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, April 5, 1940 Page: 6 of 8
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PAGE SIX
F ALFURR1 AS FACTS
FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1940
Horn Fly Trap Aids
Cattle On Range
•The horn flies were bad and
the cattle were nearly crazy. Out
of the brush comes an old cow at
a dead run. She heads for the
trap, goes through it, and starts
grazing easy on the other side.”
That is an example of the stor-
ies going the rounds about the new
horn fly trap designed by W. O.
Bruce of the U8DA Bureau of En-
tomology and Plant Quarantine,
and tested experimentally on sev-
eral Texas ranches.
The trap resembles a carnival
‘•crazy house” and is placed where
cattle must pass through it on
their way to water and in iimilar
locations.
Weighted flaps knock off the
flies and traps—placed to take ad-
vantage of the insect’s habit of
flying to the side when disturbed
—catch them.
There has been no difficulty in
familiarizing livestock with the j
trap. Once the flies become annoy-
ing, the cattle so^n learn to make
for the trap.
A list of materials and an iUus-
Farmers* Shortcourse
Set For July 8-12
The annual Farmers' Short
Course at Texas A & M College
will l.e held July 8-12, H H Wil-
liamson, director of the Extension
Service, has announced.
The annual gathering will again
be divided into three sessions. The
junior short course for 4-H Club
members and other boys and girls
is scheduled July 8 and 9 and the
adults will meet July 11 and 12.
County agricultural and h. me
demonstration agents will hold
their annual conference in between
two sessions on July 9, 10 and 11.
A number of special groups, in-
cluding the Texas Home Demon-
stration Association and the Texas
Agricultural Writers, have sche-
duled their annual meetings to
coincide with the adult session.
Letter Writing Contest Surplus Commodity Visual Dental Show
rc,„ a** Prow, r ' .ion Serves i For load Schools
Eight of the thirty winners of
Facts special goodwill contest last
week were fifth and sixth graders
of Mrs. Vera Bowers’ English
classes, a check-up of the list of
winners revealed. The prizes rang-
ed fr m $1 to $10. and totaled $36
figures show.
Winners of prizes in the fifth
grade were Jerry Schutz, Emma
Jean Jones and Eugene Courtney.
'Sixth grade prize winners were Joe
Rufus Spncer, Charles Otken, Dor-
othy Williams and Marie Carrol.
Mrs. Bowers used the letter writ-
ing plan as an English class pro-
I ject.
Farmers’ Markets
The Information printed in the state Department
article below has been released lo- (he cooperation of
rally by the Commodity Dlstribu- partment Qf Education and the
tion Project of the state Depart- j-.i0 Teeth council for Children,
ment of Public Welfare through
Mrs. Sue Farr. Br oks county com-
modity manager and will he of in-
terest to this area.
the cooperation of his mother and
the friendly family dentist. Jack’s
toothache was relieved and he was
taught how to care for his teeth
to prevent toothache; lv<w dental
____ disease affects the general health
The Morrey-Towse Dental ‘he body, as well as that of the
Health Puppet Show will be giv- mouth; he is told of the impor-
Falfurrias schools by the tance of the right foods, exercise,
of Health, with borne care, and dental care,
the State De- The show has been given in over
a hundred counties of Texas to
m< re than a half a million chil-
of Chicaen, according to an an-1 dren and teachers the past three
nouncement released this week by years and is scheduled to cover
tration of the trap—which can be
built from scrap material by any-
one handy with tools—may be ob-
tained by writing to Cameron Sid-
dall, etomologist of the Texas A
and M College Extension Service,
College Station, Texas.
GOOD
A PROCLAMATION
Supt. H. Lee Clifton.
This piece of visual health edu-
cation has been arranged under
the approval of nationally known
in the fields of dentistry,
The Federal Surplus Commodi-
ties Corporation during 1939 pur- .
chased and removed from burden- elementary educa-
ed. price-depressed agricultural ^,^ M ig drdamatizPd wfth muSic,
and humor, bringing out
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By FRANKLIN I). ROOSEVELT
Cancer Control Month 1940
WHEREAS the President Is au-
thorized and requested by Public
Resolution No. 82 75th Congress,
approved March 28. 1938 (52 Stat
148), to issue annually a proclam-
ation setting apart the month of
April i f each year as Cancer Con-
l ol Month, and io ir.vite the Gov-
ernots of the several States, Terrl-
tor'rs s.nd possessions of tnc
United States to issue proclama
Mons for like purposes: ii?jd
WHEREAS it s also revested n
the said Public Resolution No. 82
that the proclamations issued in-
vite the medical profess'on, the
press, and all agencies ano indivi-
duals interested in Le c ntrol of
cancer through a national pro-
gram of education and j-her co-
operative means t - unit? in r.edi-
ca' ori to such a pm" nie and by
Cv'i ce ttd effort t* in’ .tss its
necessity upon the nc .'..lo of kn
Nation; and
WHEREAS by this dedication of
the month of April to a voluntary
natii nal program for the control
of cancer, the people of the entire
markets more than 139.400.00u
pounds of surplus farm commodi-
ties in Texas, and made available
for relief distribution in the State
approximately 51,483,000 pounds
. f food products purchased in Tex-
as and other States, Roe L Mont-
gomery, State Director of Commo-
dity Distribution, announced to-
day.
The surplus purchase and distri-
bution operations in Texas are
part of a national program con-
ducted by the Corporation for the
purpose of stabilizing glutted agri-
cultural markets, improving farm
income, and concerving for needy
families surplus food in danger of
waste, Mr. Montgomery said.
The commodities purchased in
Texas were bought at a cost for
the products of approximately $2.-
124.000. They included 720,000
pounds of oat cereal; 17,850 barrels
of wheat cereal; 33,000 barrels of
corn grits; 56,600 barrels of corn
meal; 51,840 barrels of graham
flour; s9,300 barrels of white flour; j
738.000 boxes of grapefruit; 663.400
cases of grapefruit juice: 8,741,000
pounds of i nions; and 3.908.000
pounds of milled rice. In addition,
the Corporation purchased 1.630
bales of raw cotton and 177,195[
yards of cotton fabric in Texas in
a special diversion program con-
ducted for the benefit of the c<>t-
Vi ice. and humor,
four fundamental points in dental
health in such a way that it is not
only entertaining, but lasting im-
pressions on the minds of the
school children as to the value of
dental health
The plot of the story concerns
the trials and tribulations of Lit-
sixty odd couhties this year. It has
shown to several million children
in other parts of the United
States, and both pupils and teach-
ers are loud in their acclaim of Its
value.
Following Is the schedule for
Falfurrias Independent School
District on the morning of April
12.
Grades beginners, 1st, 2nd., 9:30
to 10:15; grades 3rd, 4th, 5th, and
6th, 10:15 tn 11:00; grades 7th, 8th,
9th, 10th, and 11th, 11:15 to 12:0o.
Dr. W. D. Holland is Brooks
I tie Jack who could nut go to the [county dental chairman and as-
1 circus with his sister, Joan, be- sistod In iiringing the show to Fal-
I cause he had toothache. Through furrias.
country will be acquainted with
progress that is being made by the | ton industry. The raw cotton was
Federal Government through the used in the manufacture of mat-
Barnes Auto Co
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CHRYSLER—PLYMOUTH
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United Public Health Service, by
certain of the States and by other
agencies, as well as by individuals,
in the struggle against this dread
disease, which is second among the
causes of death in the United
States:
NOW, THEREFORE. I, FRANK-
LIN D. ROOSEVELT. President of
the United States of America, do
proclaim the month of April 1940
as Cancer Control Month, and do
invite the Governors of the several
States, Territories, and possessions
of the United States to issue simi-
lar proclamations; and in order
j that the people throughout the
land may have informed kn<wl-
! edge concerning the prevalence of
1 cancer and of the means which
can he taken to control it, I also
invite the members of the medical
profession, individually and
through their associations, other i
scientific groups, all organs of * pi- |
nion, including the press, the ra- I
dio, and the motion piiture, and all;
J others who have the interest of j
the publii health at heart, to unite
tresses for relief distribution, and
thecotton fabric was obtained in
connceiton with an exprimental
program in which new outlets for
cotton products are sought.
Purpose Of Purchases
The primary purpose of the pur-
chase program is to relieve the
producers of price depressing sur-
pluses and the commodities pur-
chased are donated to the State
Relief agencies for relief purposes
with the stipulation that they be
distributed in such amounts and in
such a manner as not to interfere |
with the normal channels of trade.
The amounts and variety of com-
modities distributed do not provide
an adequate diet and are used by
the State relief agencies to supple-
ment the normal purchases of food
by the relief clients from their
own resources or those furnished
by local relief agencies. These com-
modities have been of untold liene-
fit to the underprivileged in Tex-
as.
The commodities distributed in
Texas included most of the pro
during the month of April 1940 in I ducts purchased in the State, and
concerted effort to impress upon
the people of the United States the
necessity of a national program for
the control of cancer to the end
that suffering may be relieved and
life preserved.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF. I have
hereunto set my hand and caused
the seal of the United States of
America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington
this eighteenth day of March, in
the year of our L< rd nineteen hun-
dred and forty, and of the Inde-
pendence of the United States of
America the one hundred and six-
ty fourth. AlilJB
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—Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Jfeak Ijsuh
fodh School iWwBo*5
W0A1
5:30-
6:°0 Pm.
also butter, dry skim milk, dried
apples, fresh apples, canned
peaches, dried peaches, fresh
peaches, fresh pears, dried prunes,
raisins, dry beans, cabbage, onions,
canned peas, and syrup, which
were donated by the Corporation
to the Texas State Department of
Public Welfare. Distribution was
made by the State agency to eligi-
ble relief roll recipients, and also
to undernourished school children
who were served during school
hours with hot lunches prepared
in whole or in part from commodi-
ties made available to sponsoring
groups. An average of 90..596 Tex-
as families fiancially unable to
buy sufficient food and clothing to
meet daily dietary and clothing
requirements were served In this
way, and 110,800 children in 1494
Texas schools participated in the
hot lunch distribution. The estim-
ated retail value of food and cloth-
ing distributed in Texas during
1939 was $12,620,145.07.
The onions and fresh grapefruit
j purchased in Texas were bought
I direct from growers and shippers
and grower and shipper coopera
fives. The gapefruif juice repres-
ented fresh grapefruit which was
i purchased by the Corporation in
, the same manner and processed
j into juice as an additional means
\ of alleviating the serious grape-
i fruit surplus situation existing in
Texas. The rice was purchased
from millers on condition that
they purchase from growers 162
pounds of rough rice for every 100
pounds of milled rice bought from
millers, thus assuring to produc-
ers direct benefits from the pur-
j chase program. Mr. Montgomery
said. The cereal and cotton pro-
ducts were purchased on a compe-
; tltive basis.
(To Be Continued Next Week)
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Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Mara.ska and
daughter of Coupland, Tex is, are
visiting in the home ?f their sis-
ter, Mrs. C. H. Otken.
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Mrs. Tom Gamme of P-mca City.
i Oklahoma, is visiting
I Mrs. H. C. Holi.rook.
mother,
Charter No. 14072 Reserve District No. 11
REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE
First National Bank
In Falfurrias in the State of Texas
At the close of business . n March 26, 1940
(Published In response to call made by Comptroller of the
Currency, under Section 5211, U. S. Revised Statutes)
ASSETS
1. Dans and discounts (including $212.24 overdrafts'$146,437.25
2. United States Government obligations, direct and
guaranteed 60,664.38
3. Obligations of States and political subdivisions 54.884 27
4. Othpr bonds, notes, and debentures 15,212.50
5. Corporate stocks, including stock of Federal Re-
serve Bank 1,890.00
6. Cash, balances with other banks, including re-
serve balance, and cash items in process of
collection 257.386.00
7. Barfk premises owned $22,000.00, furniture and
fixtures $7,500.0o _______________________ 29,500.00
11. Other assests ___________________________________ 2.00
12. TOTAL ASSETS _______________________ $565,886.40
LIABILITIES
13. Demand deposits of Individuals, partnerships, and
corporations $335,854.93
14. Time deposits of individuals, partnerships and
corporations 58,101.60
16. Deposits of States and political subdivisions _____ 52,217.24
is. Other deposits (certified and cashier's checks, etc.) 3,412.09
19. TOTAL DEPOSITS ________________ $499,585.86
24. TOTAL LIABILITIES __________________________ $499,585.86
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
25. Capital Stock:
(c) Common stock, total par $50,000
50.00o.00
26. Surplus ______________________________________ 10,000.00
27. Undivided profits ________________________________ 6,300.54
29. TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS 66,300.54
30. TOTAL LIABILITIES & CAPITAL ACCOUNTS $565,886.40
MEMORANDA
31. Pledged assets (and securities loaned* (book
value*:
(a* United States Government obligations, direct
and guaranteed, pledged to secure deposits and
other liabilities 37,914.38
(b* Other assets pledged to secure deposits and
other liabilities (including notes and Mils redis-
counted and securities sold under repurchase
agreement i ----- 28,000 00
<e* TOTAL --------------------------------------- 65.914.38
32. Secured liabilities:
(a) Deposits secured i>y pledged assets pursuant
to requirements of law 52,217.24
<dl TOTAL 52.217.24
STATE OF TEXAS. COUNTY OF BROOKS, ss:
I, J. Wayne Gore, cashier of the above named bank, do solemn-
ly swear that the above statement Is true to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
<6ignedi J. WAYNE OORE. Cashle,*
* SEALi
Sworn to and subscribed before
me this 29th day of March. 1940,
R. L. Schultz. Notary Public
CORRECT—Attest:
Carl F. Hopper,
Cecile R. Hopper.
J. R. Scott, Jr.
Directors
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