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The McGregor Mirror
AND HERALD-OBSERVER
[VOLUME SIXTY
McGREGOR MIRROR, McGREGOR, TEXAS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1949.
NUMBER 36
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SUNDAY’S SNOW CREATED BEAUTIFUL SCENES. . .
McGregor Thaws Out
After Numbing freeze
And If-inch Snow
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The Mirror staff photogra-
pher was out Sunday after-
noon, along with hundreds of
other shutter-hugs, shooting a
white McGregor.
^Pictured herb are several of
e many homes that attracted
attention. Upper left, is a
picture taken across Arnold
Bailey’s front lawn of the
John D. Mann home; upper
right, is M. S. Turner’s home;
lower left, is Charlie Hering’s
home and at lower right, is
Frank Lyon’s home in the
background and Raymond
Collin’s home in the fore-
ground.
Sleigh riding and snowman
building was also added to
Sunday’s activities. Pictured
at left is one of the hastily
built sleighs, and on it (from
left to right) are Joan Hudson,
Larry Neal McBride, Mrs.
John Hugh Hudson, Linda
Hudson and Mrs. Neal Mc-
Bride. Pictured along side his
snowman is Roger Hestilow.
—Mirror Staff Photos
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ATTENTION FARMERS!
Important Bureau Meeting, Feb. 17
McGregor Farm Bureau will
hold its regular monthly meeting
on next Thursday night, Feb. 17,
at 7 o’clock, in offices of McLen-
nan County Electric Cooperative,
located on North Main Street just
across Cotton Belt railroad.
This meeting is of great im-
portance to each and every farm-
er living in the section adjacent
to McGregor, and they are urged
to be present. At the meeting a
land of a quiz program is to be
held and farmers will express
themselves as to the type of re-
search and experimentation in
which they are most interested.
In a large measure, from this
meeting will govern the activities
conducted by Bluebonnet Farny
during the next two years. Mr.
Henry 0. Hill, superintendent of
the farm, together with several of
his staff members, have promised
to be guests on the occasion. Blue-
bonnet Farm executives are in-
terested to learn what farmers of
this section really expect and de-
sire of the farm. Hill, with staff
members will gladly answer all
questions propounded them re-
garding the farm’s future.
If you have a problem pertain-
ing to soil or crops which you
would like solved, this is an op-
portunity for you. If Bluebon-
net officials can not answer your
questions satisfactory, they are in
position to run experiments and
research to obtain the answer.
Not only should this meeting
be of importance to farmers, but
to all business men as well, and
they too, have a special invita-
tion, to be present, and help in
outlining a program to be follow-
ed at Bluebonnet Farm during
coming two years. Chamber of
Commerce here is vitally interest-
ed in this meeting and directors
of the organization are expected
to attend.
Remember the date is Feb. 17,
at 7 p. m. in the REA building.
BOY SCOUTS GIVEN
MOVIE BY RITZ
Boy Scouts of Troop No. 9
will sponsor a show at the
Ritz Theatre next Thursday
night , Feb. 10. The title of
the picture is “No Minor
Vices,” and the film stars
Dane Clark and Lili Palmer.
All proceeds from the pro-
gram will go to finance lo-
cal work of Troop No. 9 for
the ensuing year. The Scouts
will receive all proceeds from
the advance sale of tickets,
plus those sold at the box
office the night of the en-
gagement, less federal tax,
of course.
Citizens who would like to
assist the scouts in their lo-
cal program are urged to
buy tickets from them when
they visit you.
39-B CAGE TOURNEY
TO GE STAGED HERE
McGregor school gymanium
will be the scene this week end
and next week end of the District
39-B basketball tournament com-
posed of Midway, Moody, Axtell,
Reisel, Crawford, Lorena, State
Home and Bruceville-Eddy
teams, Coach Carl Warrington
has announced.
This was the reason the Clif-
ton-McGregor game, orginally
scheduled for tonight, was moved
up to Wednesday night.
Crawford’s once-beaten Pirates
are favored to win the tourna-
ment, butRiesel, Lorena and Mid-
way will be breathing down their
back. The Riesel five has shown
great improvement in recent
games. Lorena and Midway are
having good seasons and are al-
ways tough for loop rivals.
Crawford has lost only to Lam-
pasas this year. Lampasas is rat-
ed the best Class A aggregation in
Central Texas. The Pirates recent-
ly captured their own invitation
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Some real winter weather was I ture resulting from the snow, Hill
experienced this past week end, said the ratio was measured ten-
and old-tmiers were racking their to-one. In other words, ten inches
brains Mjonday morning trying to | of snow would amount to
recall a colder spell in McGregor,
when the mercury dropped to
five below zero.
Another topic discussed was
the snow fall of Saturday night
and through the greater part of
Sunday. This was also a hard one
to decide. However, a decision was
reached that the snow fall back
in December, 1929 measured more
than the one of this week end.
The 1929 snow was around 15
inches and the snow of this week
was estimated at 11 inches.
They had to go much further
back to match the 5-below tem-
perature—1899.
The snow and cold was def-
initely not confined to the Mc-
Gregor area, as it extended into
the southern part of the state,
and north into the panhandle and
other North Texas areas. The
Valley (crops suffered untold
damage and millions of dollars
will be lost to raisers of citrus
fruits and vegetables.
At this time it can not be de-
termined whether or not the
grain crop in this section was
hurt too -much. There is a dif-
ference of opinion among farm-
ers. One will tell you that no
damage will result from the cold,
and the snow was the saving fac-
tor. Another farmer says that if
the grain stood Friday night’s
cold, no damage will result from
the extreme cold of Sunday night
following the. snow. Then another
will say the cold and snow will
make the grain crop around
here. However, following a few
days of sunshine when all snow
disappears, will tell the true
story. y
The Mirror contacted Supt.
H. 0. Hill, of Bluebonnet
Farm, Wednesday morning,
but he would not commit him-
self regarding any damage to
grain by the cold. He, like oth-
ers stated that if the grain
got by Friday night’s spell,
the snow saved it from fur-
ther damage, and it would be
almost impossible to say
whether grain was damaged
seriously at this time. How-
ever, Beal Hargrove, field
supervisor of the farm, broke
in and said: “Let me stick
my neck out and say that
less than five per cent of
the grain was damaged dur-
ing the recent cold spells.”
. Regarding the amount of mois-
one
inch of water, and his estimate
was ffcom three-quarters to an
inch of moisture for the amount
of snow falling out on the farm
area. ^
The greater part of Sunday in
McGregor was given over to
sleigh riding, snow balling, build-
ing snowmen, clicking cameras,
etc. And luckily, no accidents
have been reported. For many
here this was the first time to
ever play in any snow of con-
sequence, however, a light snow
did fall in this section last year
on Thursday, Jan. 29. It was on
the following day the deeds were
turned over by WAA to officers
of A&M College for the vast tract
of land which was formerly Blue-
bonnet Ordnance Plant.
The cold spell no doubt brought
some misery to many families
and discomforts to hundreds of
people in this section in the
form of frozen pipes, no water,
frozen automobiles, etc. It also
had its brighter side, especially
for the hundreds of youngsters
who enjoyed several holidays
from school duties. School was
dismissed on Friday afternoon
and pupils did not report back
until [Wednesday morning as it
was impossible for busses to make
their runs on Monday and Tues-
day.
GROUNDHOG SEES SHADOW
WEDNESDAY, REPORTS SAY
As McGregor was digging out
from one of the heaviest snows
ever recorded in this section
Wednesday, the groundhog saw;,
his shadow, and went back into
his hole. As the adage goes, there
will be six more weeks of wintry
weather.
Thursday morning the thermom-
eter read 41 degrees, a top high
for the past week. A slow drizzle
of rain was falling, and with low
heavy clouds, the indication was
more good additional moisture
for the McGregor section.
It’s next to impossible to cor-
rectly measure snow from a mois-
ture standpoint, and checkup with
the government guage here
Thursday read only .67 inches.
However, it is certain that the
snow did furnish more moisture
than the guage indicated, and
a conservative guess is. about an
inch of moisture.
Bulldogs'] Have Tough Assignment
In Meeting Gatesville Here Tuesday
With two straight victories
under their belts, Coach Carl
Warrington’s McGregor Bull-
dog quintette Tuesday night on
the local court will again attempt
to trip Gatesville’s championship-
bound Hornets.
The session will be a double-
header with the B-teams leading
off at 6:30 p. m., and the varsity
game beginning immediately af-
ter, about 8 p. m. Admission is
20 cents and 35 cents.
This will be the third attempt
for the Bulldogs to down the
Coryell county boys and the odds
are still against them. They are
a vastly improved machine, how-
ever, and should seriously test
the Hornet’s strength. In their
first meeting the locals fell only
two points short of their age-old
rivals, but the last time they had
an off night and succumbed to a
20-point shelaeking.
Since then, however, the
canines hit their stride in
downing Waco Tech, a pre-
vious conqueror, 45-22 last
Friday night, and Wednesday
night they breezed Clifton’s
Cubs 45-27 for the second
time.
The Bulldogs have no chance
to win the district because of
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