The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1933 Page: 1 of 8
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A Weekly Newspaper Devoted Unreserve dly to the Development and Upbuilding of Burleson County.
CALDWELL, BURLESON COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1933
The Caldwell News, Vol. «, No. U
( SCHOOL COSTS
f REDUCED BY
NEWBUDGET
Substantial Saving
Effected by Rigid
Economy
Announcement was made today by
C. H. Moore, acting president of the
local school board, to the effect that
✓ the budget for 1988-34 had been pre-
pared and that a meeting of the board
w*uld be held in the assembly room
of the court house on August 20th.,
at nine o'clock a. m. for the purpose
of adopting it.
This budget will show a reduction
in expenditures scheduled for 19S8-34
of 83 pe rcent less than those of 1980-
81, 30 per cent less than those of
1981-32, and 20 per cent less than
that of 1932-33. Thus it will be
sean that the local school board has
been following a program of prac-
tical and sane economy in advance of
the hardest period of the depression.
Many of the school boards over the
state apparently waited until the crisis
of 1932 came before they slashed
their budgets; consequently such dras-
tic reductions had to be made until
it appears that the efficiency of many
ackools will be greatly endangered the
coning session.
The local board and the administra-
tion should be commended because of
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Caldwell Company
Off To Palacios
For Encampment
National Guards Unit Leaves
Saturday Morning for Two
Weeks at Camp
Oil Mill Hires
Fifteen More Men
To Aid Recovery
Th® addition of an entire shift crew
by the Womble Oil Mill was announc-
ed this week by J. C. Womble, man-
ager, who stated that his company
has resumed operations for the season
and had approximately 60 men on its
payroll, an increase of 16 men.
16 men.
The Womble mill, in line with the
president's employment and in dust-
rial program, went on an 8 hour shift
this week, as compared to 12 hour
shifts in former years, thus assuring
permanent employment for an addi-
tional crew of between twelve and
fifteen men.
The mill will be operated through-
out the fall and winter season and
will conform with the industrial re-
covery program.
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Pro Forces Choose
Hassler To Lead
Fight in Burleson
Speakers Expected to Tour
County Urging Defeat of Beer
And Repeal
Mr.
Hassler stated.
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Equipped for a two weeks' stay at
Camp Palacios sixty-five members of
Company E 143rd Infantry, led by
Captain A. T. Autrey entrained Satur-
day morning, joining other national
guard units from various sections of
the state.
Hie Caldwell soldier boys were all
in good spirit and eager for train-
ing, when they boarded the train at
the Santa Fe depot at 3 o'clock.
The annual encampment will con-
tinue for two weeks, during which
time Captain Autrey and his men will
be trained into the modem arts of
warfare. Plenty of amusement will
b« provided for the Texas soldiers,
to break up the monotony of the hird
work in store for the Texas national State
guards.
The Caldwell company is expected
to return on August 26th, as the en-1 Thc pubHc in Renprnl
campment will be brought to a con-
clusion on the 24th, it was said.
Rev. W. E. Hassler, pastor of thc
Methodist church, was selected chair-
man of the prohibition forces, and
H. P. Woodsun, prominent Caldwell
lumberman, was name.l secretary-
treasurer, at a meeting held at the
Methodist church Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. W. O. Wright was named as
assistant to Rev. Hauler and th« com-
mitter was instructed to wage a con-
certed fight against the repeal of the
18th amendment, as well as againat I *
the beer law, which will be voted up-
on by Texas on August 26th.
Speakers will be organised to tour
the entire county, it was said, and j
meetings will be held at important j
precincts, with thc hope of advanc-
ing the cause of prohibition. Ruv.
Hassler said.
The program has not yet been out-
lined but it is expicted thn! a series
of meetings will be held the coming
week Hnd that the prohibitionists will
make u determined effort to get
voters to the polls on the 26th., in Rev. W. 0. Wright Pleads For
the hope of stemming the unti tide, Retention of Eighteenth
LARGE COTTON
CROP DESPITE
ACREAGE CUT
Cotton Slumps Off As
Report Comes—Picks
Up Wednesday
The unusually good condition of the
cotton crop Tuesday resulted in a
government forecast of 12,314,000
bales this year, as compared with
slightly more than 13,000,000 balea
last year.
In making public the estimates the
crop reporting board at Washington
said the potential crop, if there had
been no cotton reduction program,
would have been approximately 16,-
561,000 bales. The board said the
amount of cotton taken out of pro-
duction is around 4,247,000 bales.
The unusua.' production report, de-
spite the approximately 10,304,000
acres plowed under, was attributed
to the estimate that the crop on
August 1 was 74.2 per cent of normal.
This compared with 66.6 per cent
a year ago and a 10-year average of
67.9 per cent.
Government statisticians at Wash-
ington said that the August 1st condi-
tion was higher than any August 1st
since 1915, except the 74.9 per cent
reported in 1931.
Growing conditions have been parti-
cularly favorable in the Atlantic sea-
board states, and in Texas and Okla-
liomu and the central part of the belt,
condition- were above the average al-
though less favorable than along the
seaboard.
The crop reporting board said the
August 1st condition indicated an area
29,704,000 acres. On
July 1st the acreage in cultivaticn
was estimated at 40,789,000 acres or
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Defeat Beer Law
Urges Minister
At Union Service
Amendment
Large Attendance
Urged at Meeting
Here Friday Morn
te Supervisor to Address
Patrons and Trustees Of
Schools
and patrons
Publishers Meet
Here Friday To
Discuss New Code
Executives of Surrounding
Counties to Assemble At
Courthouse
Mora than a score of newspaper
publishers and commercial printers of
Burleson, Brazos, Bastrop, Lee Mi-
lam and Washington counties will as-
semble at the courthouse at 2 o'clock
Friday afternoon for the purpose of
discussing the trade code to be sub-
mitted the president, according to an-
nouncement of the Texas Press Asso-
ciation committee for this district
The newspaper publishers and print-
ers of this section, like thousands of
others throughout the United States,
will endeavor to work out a code that
will be acceptable. The new code, it
is Baid, will go into effect about Sept.
1st.
No set program has been announc-
ed and no arrangemeuts are
MANY ATTEND
CODE SESSION
AT NAVASOTA
Caldwell Sends Large
Delegation to District
Meet
The answer to the question on the
lips of most people who are studying
the operation of the President's Re-
employment Program, or NRA, as to
how store managers and heads of In-
dustries are going to pay the cost
of additional labor, increased wages'
and stand the decrease in working
hours, was given by Tim Evans, In-
dustrial Manager of the Houston
Chamber of Commerce, when he ad-
dressed a meeting of approximately
126 people in Navasota on Tuesday
afternoon.
Negroes Ask For
Pardon Before Jury
Passes On Guilt
Three negroes in the Burleson
county jail, awaiting action of the
grand jury on charges of burglary,
were a little hasty in their request
for a pardon, according to attaches
of the county courthouse.
Tired of looking out from behind
the steel bars Howard Douglass, al-
leged ringleader of a gang of Fort
Worth burglars, Paul A. C. Lang and
S. G. Squires, held for grand jury
investigation into the robbery of the
Porter farm store, wrote the pardon
board asking for a pardon and
suggesting that Mr. Porter appeal to
the authorities for clemency.
The pardon request is rather pre-
mature, according to old-timers
around the courthouse, since the ne-
groes have to wait until the grand
jury finds an indictment and they are
tried by jury for the robbery. The
blacks were told that they would ha«e
"The one feature of the whole pro
gram that most people are overlook- p|enty 0f time to petition for a par-
.. being *n£-" stated Evans, "is that of the in- don, if they were found guilty and
made for the entertainment of the'crea8e(l purchasing power which wi'l • sent to Huntsville, and it was sug-
visitors, as It was stated the news-1 be caujed by more employment, also geste(j that they wait until thnt time
paper folks and printers were coming the fact that present employees will
to Caldwell to work out their own
problems and the meeting will be de-
voted entirely to consideration of a
suitable code.
CAMPAIGN OF
COTTON PLOW
UP NEAR END
Burleson Co. Farmers
Expected to Wind Up
This Wfcek
Throughout every Mction of Bur-
leson county more than one thousand
farmers were busy plowing under a
larg per centage of their growing
crop of cotton, with indication of com-
pleting the task by the end of the
week, according to G. C. King, coun-
ty agent.
Approximately seventeen thousand
acres were being turned under. Farm-
ers of this county will receive in the
neighborhood of 9190,000 for this
work, in addition to having options
on several thousand bales of 6 cents
government cotton, Mr. King said.
Hundreds of fanners this week com-
pleted their contract with the gov-
Rev. W. O. Wright, pastor of the
I<1a,'USt C,hTh' _Sunday nl*ht was in I ernment~and their lands'WCTe'hwpVct-
on thc jpj jjy em| wee|j these
force- contract5 will be on their way to
charge of the union services
courthouse square, deliver
ful address on prohibition, lie urged
ti c large crowd in attendance to vote
down the beer amendment on August n,en7 and "checks will
26th.
The well known Baptist minister ar-
gued beer would not bring back pros-
perity out would increase government-
al c.\penses and bring about general
Nail Picker Does
Great Work On
State Highways
Over Five Hundred Pounds
Picked Up on Road No. 21
and 36 by State Machine
More than five hundred pounds of
nails, staples and other tire puncture
paraphanalia were picked uK on High-
way No. 21 and 36 this week by the
state highway department's nail pick-
er, according to a statement of Z. J.
Ramsey, Burleson county foreman.
The picker, in charge of J. W.
Whiteakcr, of Austin, started work
in Burleson county, for the first time
In history, cleaning up the highways
of nail* and iron rubbish, completing
of the public schools in particular ¿¡«regard for law and o<-dcr.
I are urged to attend a meeting at the Knjoyablc musical numbers were
| courthouse Friday morning at 10 rendered by the mixed congregation.
I o'clock, when E. E. Chamness, state The services proved interesting to the
¡supervisor, will talk on the rural aid several hundred gathered in front of
law, J. M. Hare, county superintend- the speaker's stand, as well as in au-
ent stated today. tomo.iih* parked in l'ront of thc court-
The recently adopted rural aid law house.
has so many new features, beneficial S-rv ice-, will be conduc'ed Sunday
.to this county that Mr. Hare is par night |,y RPV. Anderson, of the Pres-
j ticularly anxious for a large attend- byteriun church ami the public is cor-
ance. Trustees of the burleson dially invited to attend.
schools are expected to be in attend-; o
anee.
The meeting, first of its kind held
here this year, will prove of vital
interest to all citisens, Mr. Hare said,
and will be held in the eourihousc in
order that a large crowd can be ae-
con- .dated.
Washington, where they will bo final-
ly approved by the federal govern-
be mailed to
landowners and their tenants for the
amount contracted.
The work slowed up considerably,
Mr. King said, due to the complicat-
ed syrtcm of inspection and approv-
al by the local committees. Of
be givan e. greater purchasing power
through increased wages. In addition
the cotton retirement money will soon
be in the hands of the farmers and
many purchases that have been de-
layed for months will be made."
A list of official interpretations of
the Blanket Code of the N. R. A. was
read and Mr. Evans led the discussion
and answered questions on the code.
The primary purpose of the move-
ment, which is to put mora people
to work was stressed and the differ-
ent subterfuges some individual mer-
chants over the nation are using to
violate the spirit and intent of thc
plan were severely condemned by the
speaker. The custom of reducing store
hours to such a low level in order
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To Open Library
For Use Schools
Rural Districts
Hare Announces Establishment
Of County Circulating
Library Here
A county circulating library will
be set up for the next school year,
according to Superintendent J. M.
Hare, who stated today that the rural
law permits the appropriation by the
state of $10 per teacher for every
county school. This amount is to be
supplemented by a similar appropria-
tion by thc eounty and sufficient funds
will be available to establish a fair-
size library of more than two thousand
volumes.
The library will be open to the
teachers and pupils of every school in
before asking for mercy.
Grades Run High
First Report Of
U. S. Board Shows
Classing Reveals First Caldwell
Cotton Strict Middling or
Better
Rankin Buys More
Property To Add
To Iiand Inherited
Last week W. W. Rankin, city at-
torney, purchased from W. M. Hil-
the task of going over the two state iliard, prominent Caldwell attorney,
routes late Monday evening. |hls interest in the 160 acre Holubec
Mr Whiteakcr'* magnet picker jf*rm in the Jas. Reed survey, accord-
brought about highly desirable results, j to records at the county coure-
fathering together on the 22 miles of house.
Route No 2) IK ', pounds and
total
of 3ft 1 pounds of nails, spikes, etc.,
on the 82 miles of No. lift.
The state highway department op-
erate < three magnet nail pickers and
is gradually picking up the nails on all
lítate road*. It is said that the ma-
chines have saved many lives by ma-
terially reducing the possibility of
pur.etures.
records
At the same time G. M. Hous-
ton and wife, together with Mr. Ran-
kin, bought the Hilliard Interest In
the 120 acres in the Jas. Shrimp's
survey.
Thees transactions make Mr. Ran.-,
kin and his wife sole owners of the
160 acre* and joint owners with the
Houston* In the 120 acres, property
Absentees Now Able
To Cast Ballots For
August 26 Election
County Clerk W. II. Hundley an-
nounced today that absentee voters
can cast their ballots either in person
or by tnnil, according to the law. The
absentee ballotting began Monday and
will continue until thc Saturday be-
fore the election, August 26th.
Mr. Hundley said that voters who
expect to be away from Burleson on
thc day of the election can vote by
¡the county and should prove of mi-
courre, he pointed out. the task was bonrfjt th(J CQ 8chool head
a gigantic one and it required pains-1 stated
taking work U, do it properly. In" The',ibrary wi„ be ef,tablished in
the county superintendent's office and
books will be permitted to be with-
drawn by the schools as needed, to be
returned at stated intervals.
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Black Hurler Is
Hero by Whiffing
Twenty Batsmen
Caldwell Black Cats Defeat
Austin Black Hawks In
Exciting Tilt
Twenty good batsmen hit the dust
at the negro ball park here Sunday
evening, when Charlie Green, Cald-
well hurlor, made the Austin Black
Hawk* bow to the tune of 4 to 0 in
one of the most exciting games this
season.
The Black Cats, with Anderson as
their hero, played excellent ball to
than fifty white fans witnessed the
wonderful pitching of the black hur-
ler, on thc mound for the locals.
The Black Cats have played superb
ball throughout the season, defeating
uppcaring before him and presenting shut out the visitors. A crowd of
their poll tax receipts, or certificate neveral hundred negroes and more
of exemption.
(Qualified Voters who are absent
from the county at this time and who
will not be here on August 26th, can
vote by writing for application and
forwarding their tax receipt, where-j many of the strongest negro teams
upon the clerk will send ballots for ¡of this section of Texas. Not in many
them to scratch. [years has a record of 80 strike-outs
I All absentee ballots will be sent | been established in thesa parts, it was
■ i. «... hor 'M the county cllerk to the presiding pointed out by white fans, as Ander-
TJ1Ind Rnnkins settled' °'cc®'ion ^ge in the various precincts. son struck out the last man to sew
Fourteen good middlings and eigh-
teen strict middlings were the grades,
stamped by the United States de-
partment of agriculture's Austin of-
fice, in classing the first thirty-two
bales from here, according to Steve
Krystinik, whose gin handles the cot-
ton samples for the department here.
The report further revealed that
the staple was also favorable 12 bales
being classed seven-eighths; 10 bales
were 29-32; 8 bales 16-16; one each
was classed as 1 and 1-32 and 1 and
3-32 inches.
Mr. Krystinik says that thc agri-
cultural department renders this ser-
vice to the farmers of this county in
order that they can know how the
cotton grades and staples are turn-
ing out. The samples arc sent in twice
each week by Krystinik's gin and re-
turns are promptly received.
Mr. Krystinik said that farmers can
receive the class and staple of each
bale, as the samples are numbered and
the class rendered for each sample.
State To Repay
Schools Half Of
Money on Vocation
TO SPEED UP
ROAD GRANTS
THROUGH CITY
City Authorities And
County Officials Work
On Right-of-Way
Concerted work on the part of city
officials and county commissioners
this week brought the completion of
securing rights-of-way for Route 21
closer than at any time since the taak
was undertaken in this county, it waa
reported at the county court today.
All deeds have been prepared for
rights-of-way from Caldwell to the
Lee county line, it was revealed, and
committees were actively at work se-
curing signatures.
City officials, led by Mayor C. E.
Croinartie, who has been very active
in securing the right-of-way through
the city, gave effective aid to the
county authorities and paved the way
for a quick accomplishment of the
county's part of the job of securing
the necessary right-of-way.
Indications are that all deeds will
be signed within a few days and Route
No. 21 will be in shape to call for
construction bids.
Much enthusiasm prevailed among
the gooil road workers of Caldwell
and th-1 county as prospects of getting
actual construction of the paved high-
way from the Brazos to the Lee coun-
ty lines appeared much brighter.
It is ur-derstood that Mayor Cro-
inartie and his co-workers had little
or no difficulty in getting the rights-
of-way through the city, and equal
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Cotton Flow In
Caldwell Steady
Ginners Report
Season Now Under Way With
Indication of Rush to Gins
In Few Days
The four gins of this city Wednes-
day night were nearing the 300 bale
mark, according to a survey made late
Wednesday, one of the best ginning
days of the new season.
Indications are that by next week
the gin plants in Caldwell and
throughout Burleson county will be
operating at full capacity.
The rains of two weeks ago con-
siderably slowed up picking, and
slightly retailed thc season, but with
the ideal picking weather of the past
few days and the plow-up task com-
pleted on many farms, Burleson coun-
ty planters started to harvest their
193'i crop in earnest.
The exact number of bales ginned
in this city at the time of press could
not be ascertained by The News, but
ginners estimated the total ginning
Caldwell District To Be Re- at just a little under 300 bales.
Imbureed for Vocational
Teachers
Old Timer Liked
Paper Brought To
Coast By Friend
A Caldwell News brought by Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Vychopen on their
trip to California last month brought
cheer to the hearts of two well
known Burleson county residents, Mr.
and Mrs. J. J. Mikeska, reported Mr.
Vychopen, employee of the Woodson
Lumber Company, upon his return
last Saturday.
"They were so well impressed with
The News," said Mr. Vychopcn, "they
did not hesitate a minute to sub-
scribe to it for a year. And now
they arc enjoying the news from home
every week. They really were agree-
ably surprised to see that Caldwell
was publishing such a good paper
and it made them feel mighty good
to read it."
Mr. and Mrs. Vychopcn visited with
thc Mikcskas at Los Angeles for three
weeks. While in California they
viaitod all the surrounding cities and
crossed ever into the Old Mexi o. The
trip was highly enjoyable, the ' >••
chopeas ruid, an-l Burleson cuunty
folks living in far-off California still
feel close to their old-homo.
Announcement came this week
from the State Board of Vocational
Education that the local schools
would be reimbursed to the extent of
60 per cent of the salary of the home |
economics techer during the past ses-
sion instead of the 26 per cent reim-'
bursement anticipated. This increas-
ed reimbursement was made possible (
because a number of schools hnd elim-
inated their home economics depart-
ment. The local schools have l>ecn
commended by the Vocational Division
of the State Department of Educa-
tion for continuing this department
at a time when President Roosevelt
has urged that all vocational work
be retained in thc schools and that
additional vocational courses be offer-
ed wherever possible.
The State and Federal governments
i Next week the News will publish
i comparative ginning statistics of this
! season und last year.
Mit Parker Farm
In River Bottom
Bought By Porter
Caldwell Young: Man Acquires
Valuable Plantation With
(Jrowinjr Crop
The Mit Parker farm, in the Tunis
section of Burleson county, consisting
jof 1152 acres and known for years
¡as one of the finest plantations in
j this county, this week became the
i property of Boswell Porter, son of
.the widely known cotton planter and
I Caldwell business man, J. Earl Por-
ter.
According to reports Mr. Porter
bought the growing crop, implements
and teams, in addition to the land. The
amount involved was not made pub
¡lie. The new owner took possession
j Monday, it was said.
Robert Jaster, Caldwell cotton buy- Seth Taylor has been named man-
or, this week opened offices in the j ager of the big farm and w ill super-
Foreman building, next to the post I vise the harvesting of the crop and
office, for Rodgers & Co., Inc., of be in charge until the young owner
Houston, and will be local representa j can adjust his affairs to personally
tive. I supervise his new property.
Mr. Jaster has been in the cotton I ,1 \V. Hickman, of Alexandria. La-
business for several years and en (who has been manager of the farm
Joys a large circle of friends through-: since early spring, is leaving this week
out the county. j for his former home, it was said.
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Opens Cotton Office
Here for Rodgers Co.
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Andrepont, L. A. The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1933, newspaper, August 10, 1933; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth175063/m1/1/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.