Cooper Review (Cooper, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, March 28, 1947 Page: 12 of 16
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TEXAS
PRESS MEETING DATES
The 1947 State convention of the Tex-
as Pic.*s Association will he held in
Amarillo, Potter county, June 19 to 21.
The National Editorial Association and
the National Association of Press Wom-
en will meet in Fort Wuith April 11-13.
TEXAS LUMBER PRODUCTION UP
The U. S. Department of Agriculture
says lumber production in Texas has
been steadily rising since the end of the
war and should continue through 1947
to a point 10 per cent higher than in
1946.
PEACE-LOVING PEOPLE
Kenedy county, with less than 700
inhabitants, is so peaceful that the
Twenty-eighth District Court never has
any business when it meets there.
There hasn’t been a court case in four
years and there hasn’t been a divorce
in two years.
CHANGES II1S NAME
For 17 years Dr. Leo Charles Zehnp-
fennig has practiced dentistry in Mer-
kel, Taylor county, but has had trouble
getting people to spell and pronounce
his name right. Therefore he recently
petitioned the court to change his name
to plain Dr. Zee. The court complied.
LIVED ON SAME FARM 53 YEARS
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Bundy, of Era,
Cooke county, have lived on the same
farm for 53 years. They have been
residents of the county for more than
seventy years and still take active part
in maintaining several hundred acres
of land.
EAST TEXAS i.UMBER VALUE
The timber in the 36 heavily-forested
East Texas counties is valued at $275,-
250,000 as it stands on the stump, ac-
cording to a report of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce. The area em-
braces 10,775,000 timbered acres, which
last year produced a cash crop of lum-
ber estimated at $136,000,000.
APE ADOPTS KITTEN
Harriet, the ancient chimpanzee in
the Fort Worth Zoo, has adopted a
motherless kitten. The chimp croons
to her new foster-child and has made it
a little bed in the corner of her cage.
The only way Zookeepcr Sam Hittson
can distract Harriet’s attention from
the kitten is with a bunch of bananas,
and then for only a few moments.
TEXAS LIKE ARABIA
Prince Saud A1 Saud. heir to the oil-
rich desert kingdom of Saudi Arabia,
claims Texas is much like his own land.
“We have the same flat country,’’ he
told Houston newsmen. “We both
have oil and we both raise splendid
horses. We also both have hot sum-
mers.” Newsmen wondered w'hether
the Prince would spread the slogan in
his home country: “Remember . . .
Saudi Arabia Brags!”
YOUNG EDISON
Nine-year-old Andres Martinez re-
cently revolutionized the technique of
gathering and stacking shingles at the
Elrod-Thise Lumber Yard in Harlingen,
Cameron county. The youngster in-
vented a press which gathers the shin-
gles into stacks of exactly the same size
and then binds them. It cuts the time
of the operation to about one-third of its
original length and does the job much
better.
TEXAS LEADS IN ROADS
Texas is well out in front in postwar
highway construction in the four-State
division of the Public Roads Adminis-
tration. Construction in the division
so far this fiscal year is $58,000,000
with five more months to go. Last year
the total for the entire year was $60.-
000,000 and the pre-war average was
only $35,000,000. Arkansas. Oklahoma
and Louisiana, the other States in the
division, lag far behind the Texas aver-
age.
OLD TIME EDITORS
J. C. and J. A. Mecklin. of Hubbard,
Hill county, have operated the Hub-
bard City News together for half a cen-
tury. The two brothers comprise the
entire staff of the News. J. A., the pub-
lisher, has been on the News for 45
years, so he takes care of the mechani-
cal end of the shop. J. C., who recent-
ly celebrated his golden anniversary
with the News, is the one-man editorial,
advertising and circulation manager.
UNIDENTIFIED SOLDIER HERO
John L. Reeves, proprietor of an am-
bulance service in Dallas, was trans-
porting a grievously ill woman in an
ambulance when a wheel came off the
vehicle while it was crossing the rail-
road tracks. Reeves knew that the Bur-
lington Zephyr was due in 4 minutes,
so he ran for help. While gone a sol-
dier came along, took in the situation,
borrowed a jack from a service station,
lifted the axle off the ground and pull-
ed the ambulance to safety just before
the Zephyr roared by. When Reeves
returned and learned what had happen-
ed he sought to thank the soldier for
his quick thinking. The soldier had
diaanpeared.
BRIEF NEWS—from Over the State
TEXAS CAFES CLEANEST
George L. Wenzel, nationally known
food consultant from Baltimore says
Texdj hau the cleanest restaurants in
the United States. He recently toured
fifteen cities talking to restaurant pro-
prietors and housewives. He pointed
out that most restaurants suffer their
greatest losses through waste, and that
the average is 112 pounds of garbage
per customer.
TEXAS CABBAGE LEADER
The U. S. Department 01 Agriculture
says that Texa.-; will easily lead the na
tion in the production of cabbage in
1947. More than 136,800 tons will be
produced in the Lone Star Stale this
year. The production in Florida will
be 23,800 tons less and that in Cali-
fornia 54,700 tons less.
Eighty-six-year-old
Waco. McLennan county,
CANAL TRAFFIC BOOMS
The intracoastal canal, which links
South Texas with the Mississippi and
the East, is growing so swiftly that 15,-
908,020 tons of cargo were carried over
the single section from Corpus Christi,
Nueces county, to the Sabine river dur-
ing 1945. The 1946 figures, which will
not be available until next December,
will probably be higher, according to
the canal association. Builders of the
canal system estimated that traffic
would never top 2,000,000 tons annual-
ly-
SMU GETS MORE LAND
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nicholson, of
Longview, Gregg county, have given
Southern Methodist University 22,786
acres of ranch land in Webb county as
a permanent endowment to its students.
The gift establishes a permanent en-
dowment of $200,000 and is so designat-
ed that half the proceeds shall go for
theological scholarships and half for
other purposes.
EXPERT VIOLIN MAKER
Bob Smith, ul
is still mak-
ing excellent violins out ol l: ' p', ' J
from the ruins of the old Cotton Palace
there. He is now engaged in rnakint,
his eightieth violin. He uses t ,
of an old Stradivarius for 4 fancy- fid-
dlers,” but he makes his own nnp
ed“ models for Texas hoe-down play-
ers.” Smith also uses wire strings lor
his violins, insisting that they fflxl c
better tone than the regular cat-gu
string.
NEW DRUG FOUND FOR
TUBERCULOSIS
Drs. Kenneth L. Burdon and Edwin
A. Johnson, of Baylor College of Medi-
cine, in Houston, have discovered a
drug which they say will probably be
effective against tuberculosis. The
drug, which they call eumvein, was de-
veloped from harmless bacteria taken
from the soil and it has proved effec-
tive on rats and guinea pigs The scien-
tists will not know how effective it will
be on humans for several months.
HANDSOMEST SADDLE IN THE
WORLD
Sam O. Myres. known to horsemen
all over Texas as “Tio Sam,” is now en-
gaged in rebuilding the $20,000 saddle
he made for Col. Joe Miller in his
Sweetwater, Nolan county, shop. Miller
wanted the best saddle in the world
back in 1916 and he commissioned “Tio
Sam” to make it for him. Sam not only
made it a work of art but studded it
with 247 diamonds. 120 sapphires. 16
rubies and four large garnets, and he
trimmed it with 15 pounds of gold and
silver. The value of the saddle was
estimated at $10,000 thirty years ago,
but experts say it is worth twice as
much now.
DOGWOOD
TRAILS TO
OPEN
The annual
opening of the
dogwood trails in
the vicinity of
Palestine, Ander-
son county, has
been set for
March 30. The
date is subject to
change, however,
because the open-
ing must coincide
exactly with the
dogwood blos-
soming period. In
connection with
the opening of
the trails, the
East Texas Coun-
cil of Garden
Clubs will hold
their annual
spring meeting
in Palestine on
March 28.
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EDISON KIN AT CENTENNIAL PREVIEW—Mrs
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Thomas A. Edison, widow of
LEG THIEF
SOUGHT
Dallas police
were out on a limb recently when they
sought a thief who had looted a car in
the downtown area. The thief broke in-
to the car, overlooked a woman's fur
coat and a camera and stole an artificial
leg.
the great inventor, cuts a huge birthday cake at Menlo Park. N.J.
Mrs. J. Sloan, looks on during a pre-observance of the scientist’s
February 11.
as her daughter.
looth birthday,
CELEBRATES CENTENARY
In Dallas, Mrs. R. B. Schaeffer re-
cently celebrated her 100th birthday.
The widow of a former surgeon in the
Confederate Army, Mrs. Schaeffer liv-
ed for a long while in Brookston and
Paris, Lamar county. She moved to
Dallas in 1941. Her anniversary was
the occasion of a large family reunion.
TEXAS INSTITUTIONS’ STATISTICS
ANNOUNCED
Of the 52.292 veterans in Texas in-
stitutions of higher learning during the
autumn-winter semester 25,626 were in
universities, 18,521 were in senior col-
leges, 7,248 were in junior colleges and
897 in professional schools, according
to a survey by the University of Texas
Veterans Advisory Service.
RING FOUND INSIDE POTATO
Twenty-seven years ago, Mrs. Faye
Miller, of Savoy, Fannin county, lost
her wedding ring. Mrs. Vol Dawson,
Jr., who now owns the old Miller house,
recently found the ring inside a potato
that was stored under the house. Mrs.
Miller, who now lives at Bells, Grayson
county, had no explanation of how the
ring got under the house or inside the
potato.
$12,500,000 CORN REFINERY
The Corn Products Refining Com-
pany, of Corpus Christi, Nueces coun-
ty, has placed an order with the farmers
of Texas for 6,000,000 bushels of milo
maize each year. Delivery is to start
as soon as the company’s $12,500,000
plant on Nueces Bay is completed in
early 1948. The new plant will grind
20,000 bushels of milo maize a day in
the manufacture of such products as
salad oil, starch, dessert foods and
syrup.
GILLESPIE FAIR SET FOR AUGUST
The 50th annual Gillespie county
fair will be held in Fredericksburg on
August 22, 23 and 24, it has been an-
nounced. Gilbert Kaderli, of Fred-
ericksburg, is the new president of the
fair.
QUARTER HORSE SHOW PLANNED
The American Quarter Horse Asso-
ciation has accepted the invitation of
the Texas Cowboy Reunion and Rodeo
to hold an official show during the
rodeo festivities, July 2-4. at Stamford,
Jones county. Additional barns will be
erected for the show and a special
class, consisting of get-of-sire, will be
added.
FRANK JAMES NO HARD DRINKER
Dr. John F Storey, a dentist of Beau-
mont, Jefferson county, recently chal-
lenged a wire service story which said
that Frank James, reputed outlaw, was
a hard drinker. “Frank often went rid-
ing with me in my buggy. I never
heard of him taking a drink and l»e be-
came a reformer after the old gang
broke up,” Storey said.
TEXAS SILK INDUSTRY
PROGRESSES
Texas approached a step nearer its
goal of becoming a major silk center
recently when the Adams Engineering
Company, of Dallas, was awarded a
contract to produce the world’s first
successful automatic silk-reeling ma-
chines on a mass scale. The contract
was awarded by the American Silk Cor-
poration at Mineral Wells, Palo Pinto
county. ’ Walter Scott Roberts, presi-
dent of the company and co-inventor
of the machine, says it produces finer
quality silk than does the hand-reeled
Japanese process.
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18,000,000 SEEDLING TREES TO'BE
GROWN
More than 18,000,000 young tree
seedlings will be grown at the Indian
Mound nursery of the Texas Forest
Service near Alto next year, it has been
announced. This is the greatest pro-
duction of seedlings ever grown in Tex-
as. Slash pine seedling will be chiefly
produced, but many other varieties wiil
be grown. Approximately one million
acres of land in East Texas are said to
be in need of reforestation.
MORE AC reage needed
A11 additional 2,000 acres is needed
for the Big Bend National Park before
the Federal government will begin full
scale work in the area. Claude Meadow*
director of the Big Bend Trail Associ*
tion, says.
NEW HOSPITAL PLANNED
Originally planned ar . a $600,000
structure, the Beaumont Baptist Hos
pital in Jefferson county will cost a
total of $1,000,000. Plans have been
enlarged because of the response to the
fund-raising campaign.
MEXICAN GOOD CITIZEN
Trevino Gamez, who lives in Nuevo
Laredo, Mexico, believes in being a
good citizen wherever he is. He
ly received a parking ticket in Dallas
and despite the fact that he was sale
from prosecution, sent in the line
money anyway, not choosing
^ ____ ________ to take
advantage of the international border
laws. “Laws are for everybody. ’ he
wrote to the corporation court clerk.
MAYOR GETS SALARY ANYWAY
R. J. Kroeger, mayor of Harlingen,^
Cameron county, last month asked the
city commission to reduce his salary
from $2,400 a year to $1.00. This month
the commission decided to compromise
with the mayor. They said he will get
$50 a month or $600 a year.
FISH DYING OF OLD AGE
Marion Toole. State Game and I' ish
Commission biologist, says strict reg-
ulations have caused fish to die ol old
age all over the State. He cited Lake
Buchanan, in Burnet and Llano coun-
ties. as an example where too stringent
restrictions resulted in thousands of
black bass being found on the surface
of the water, dead or dying from ad-
vanced age. “It’s better to let people
catch them than to let the fish die that
way,” Toole said.
TEXAS DOG CHAMPION
Texan Boy. a white and liver point-
er. owned by D. B. McDaniel, of Hous-
ton. has been named the new all-ace
quail champion of the National Field
Trial Club. T-ials were held at Shu-
qulak, Mississippi, and Texan Boy won
over a field of eight finalists.
OFFICERS
NAMED FOR
CIRCUS
Leo M. Kuehn.
Jr., has been
elected president
of thofourth an-
nual Community
Circus and Home-
coming Round-
up. which will be
held in Gaines-
v i 11 e, Cooke
county. April 23.
24 and 25. The
round-up was
started in 1939
and has been held
annually, except
for the war
years.
FREE ORANGE BLOSSOMS FOR
BRIDES
The Chamber of Commerce in Mc-
Allen, Hidalgo county, is offering free
orange blossoms for marriage cere-
monies. Only catch is that the couple
has to come to McAllen for the wedding.
TWO-HEADED TURTLE EXHIBITED
A two-headed turtle was the feature
of all exhibits at the twelfth annual
North American Wildlife Conference
at San Antonio. A sign under the tur-
tle explained that he was named “Joe
Stalin” because “one head looks to the
east very comtortably. The other looks
to the west with infinite confidence.”
NEW NEWSPAPER IN LLANO
A new weekly newspaper, the Llano
County Leader, has been established in
Llano, with Jerry MacGuire and W. A.
Whatley as publishers. They bought
the newspaper plant of the Liberty Hill
Leader for their new publication.
VETS’ LOAN
ANNOUNCED
A total of 12.-
837 GI loans
with an aggre-
gate valuei of
more than $66,-
000.000 have
been approved thus far by the Dallas
office of the Veterans Administration.
The loans have all been used to aid
vets in purchasing homes, farms, farm-
ing equipment or in establishing new
businesses.
COLLEGES LEASE U. S. LAND
The War Assets Administration has
leased five acres of land and eight
buildings to Texas Technological Col
lege and Texas A. & M. for seven'years
at an annual rental of $3,139.50. The
land lies 15 miles northeast of Amarillo,
Potter county, and is part of the Pantex
Ordnance Company. The entire plant,
which cost the government $24,991,000,
includes 16.903 acres and 414 buildings.
DOW PLANS HUGE PLANT
Dr. Willard H. Dow. president of the
Dow Chemical Company, predicts that
his organization will spend $100,000,-
000 on plants at Freeport, Brazoria
county, during the next five years. He
added that the plants will employ 10,-
000 people and will support a commun-
ity of 100.000. Work already under
way at Freeport totals about $25,000,-
000. Dow's plant has been making
magnesium out of sea water.
BAYLOR BIRTHPLACE TO BECOME
STATE HISTORICAL PARK
Plans were made at the recent annual
meeting of the Baylor Historical So-
ciety to convert the birthplace of Bay-
lor University into a State historical
park. Baylor originally was located at
Old Independence. Washington county.
A charter for the college was obtained
when Texas was still a Republic. Gen.
Sam Houston was one of its early bene-
factors.
SAIL SHIP DOCKS IN GALVESTON
Workers at the Todd Drydocks in
Galveston were surprised recently to
see a four-masted Portugese bark sail
in fob repairs. The vessel, launched in
Glasgow. Scotland, in 1892, was called
the Foz do Duoro and had a steel hull
with three square-rigged masts and was
fore-and-aft rigged on the spanker. She
was 26t) feet long, 43 feet wide and of
2,323 net tons. The Foz do Duoro plies
between Mexico and Portugal.
PLASTIC EYE CLINIC PLANNED
A Veterans Administration clinic to
furnish plastic artificial eyes to ex-GI’s
will be opened soon at McKinney, Col-
lin county. Dr. Robert E. Stewart, head
of the clinic, says there are 600 veterans
in the tri-State area served by the Dal-
las V. A. office who are entitled to these
new plastic eyes. “They are a great
improvement over the old glass-eye."
he said. “They will do everything the
natural eye will do except see.” The
clinic will also supply seamless plastic
noses, hands, ears and other prosthetic
devices.
TEXAN HEADS INTERNATIONAL
J. C.
A 33-year-old oil man from Midland
now heads the Junior Chamber of Com-
merce International. C. Taylor Cole
was named to the position at the final
session of the international organization
at the convention held recently in Dal-
las.. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was chos-
en as the site for the 1948 World Con-
gress.
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