The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1938 Page: 1 of 8
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AND THE BURLESON COUNTY LEDGER
f *'OL, 53—No. 36
CALDWELL, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938
SUBSCRIPTION 91 JO A
Visual Education Practices In Burleson
County Schools Praised by Educator In
Radio Talk Over Texas Quality Network
Soil Conservation
Demonstration To
'Be Staged Monday
500 Fx peeled To Sec All
Phases of Terracing Fully
Carried Out
A ccunty-wide soil conservation
<1 •monstration will be held at the
August Telg farm two and one-
half miles east of Caldwell on High-
way 21, Monday, December 12, be-
finning nt 10 a.m., it was an-
nounced this week from the office
oí the county agent.
Three members of the Texas Ex-
tension Service, Dutch Hohn, R. S.
Miller and M. K. Bentley, will as-
sist County Agent Perkins in the
demonstration which will include
the complete terracing of 00 acres
of land. Instructions on how to use
modern terracing instruments, how
to run terraces, and how to use all
types of terracing equipment, in-
cluding road building machinery,
tractors, plows, etc., will be given
and demonstrated, Perkins said.
A barbecue plate with all the
"trimmings" will be served at the
noon hour to the more than BOO
tAiersons expected to attend the dem-
' nitration. . Each person will U'
¡-ked to contribute twenty-five
i nti to defray the expenses of the
barbecue.
Everyone in the county interest-
id in soil conservation is urg'd to
take advantage of the opportunity
to further familiarise himself with
the importance of the proper ways
( f * rracing land by attending the
all-day educational demonstration.
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* Boy Scout Circus
In Houston To Be
Big: Amateur Show
Every Hoy Sc>ut and t ub in the
Sam Houston Area is lookinp for-
#mrd to Saturday, December 17.
the date of the «econd annual Boy
¡§, Scout Circus. At that time 5,000
l oys from Houston and the 10 sur-
rounding counties will gather in
the H Mton Coliseum for the big-
TMft*l amateur show in South Texas.
;p"From Madisonville, Caldwell, Co-
lumbus, Franklin. Wharton, Bryan,
Rrenham, (Joose Creek, Con roc and
2fi other towns, boys will flock in
with I heir chariots, animals and
bridge mi :* rials to take part in a
great downtown parade and two
showintfs of a circus all their own.
The shows will be nt two and eight
and ti • parade at 11:00 a.m.
Every actor in the show will be
a bov and not a "ingle profession-
al performer will take part in any
of the 10 biu acts. Every boy, 500o
of them, will tak" part in tl
opening act. n errand entry ie I
||iarnde on the floor of the col ¡sen ri
People who witne sed the Scout
show last year till i member t'v
thrill of watching this tfteat ma j
of boys with th ir uniforms ir il
colorful flags marching to the r-
i ing music of an K0 piece band.
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California Death Chamber Gets First Test
'
EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO
Commissioners Court met Tues-
0 day and installed the following
newly elected county officers:
G. W. Grant, district clerk; T.
J. Carter, county judge; W. H.
Hundley, county clerk; E. A. Ellis,
sheriff; Hays Bowers, county at-
torney; T. J. Oliver, county treas-
urer; L. W. Hens! e, tax collector;
E. G. Jenkins, tax assessor; lx*e
Hensl y, county superintendent; S.
G. Ragsdale, commissioner, precinct
1; Jos. Slovacek, commissioner,
precinct 2; J. W. Porter, commis-
sioner. precinct K and Ed F, Mate-
jowsky, commissioner, precinct 4.
There was a large number of
colored teachers here this week for
the trial of those indicted for alter-
ting examination papers in the col-
ored normal here two years ago.
Caaes were continued.
Two cars were damaged here last
week when they ran into a large
hole right in the main street of
• town. This dangerous hole should
he fixed,
Por the first time in Texas his-
tory there will be no inaugural ball
given upon the inauguration of
Governor Ncff in January. A prom-
inent Baptist, he has requested that
]P> only a formal reception be tendered
r Mm.
(Editor's note: The following ad
dress was given by W. E. Dris-
kill, deputy state superintendent
of schools, over the Texas Qual-
ity Network, Monday, Dec. 5, at
11:30 a.m., from the studios of
Station WTAW, College Station,
TexaM.)
"Each year we have additional
teaching devices and aids for teach-
ing in our public schools. One of
the two most recently recognized
major helps is the visual educa-
tion equipment and materials. The
other one, and it parallels the first
one, is the radio in our public
school. The two items or types of
supplementary aids to teaching
form the 'Audio-Visual Education
Program*. It is the visual educa-
tion program, which has been in
progress in the Burleson County
rural schools for about twelve
months now, that I want to discuss
with you for a few moments.
"First may I say that we recog-
nise actually hundreds of visual
education aids, an dtypes of visua.
education materials. We have maps,
charts, pictures for primary de-
partments, pictures for our picture
memory work, globes, mounted
flowers and insects, steroscopes and
pictures for them, and an unlimit-
ed supply of commercial materials
that i . free for the asking. I could
noi login to mention all the avail-
able teaching materials for th
alert and aggressive, and I should |
say progressive, teacher in the vis-
ual education field.
"The State Bourd of Education,
finder the leadership of K. S. Bow-
ers, of Caldwell, as chairman, vot-
ed to include visual education ma-
terials as a legitimate expenditure
in the schools receiving aid from
the 'Equalization Fund'. Following
this ruling over a year ago, J. Mal-
vin Hare, County Superintendent
of Schools, of Burleson County, be-
gan to select and purchase the
proper materials to institute such
a program in visual education.
"Mr. Hare was alio" ed $5.00 per
teacher In his schools for the pin-
chase of visual education material*.
He recognized that the absence of
electricity in many of the rural
schools would of necessity elemin-
ate moving pictures or sound pic-
tures. This has been partially rem-
edied since that time. He pooled all
of the funds of the rural schools,
with but one or two exceptions, and
created a circulating library of
films with the machines.
"In making the purchases Mr.
Hare recognized the need in some
schools as being greater than
others, and three of the schools,
Chri. sman, San Antonio, and one
oth r, purchased th ir own picture
ni"-hiñe-. Then Mr. Hare purchased
five mor machines for the white
schools and live for the negro
ehool lhat would be it ed in the
various schools. He th 'ii purchased
r.in ty ight film set h ninety-
eight tolls of fill,' to I' u i'il in
j ¡h« machi ? '!'I. v , . e 'still*
| films, but that was the -t type
jt.i -tart out on and lo K used in
•ill the schools from the one teach
r type upward.
"Th. rol' • of film- are kept by
ihe librarian who handle- 'h • Coun-
ty Library also in tit nt ,-«1 l>y Mr.
Hare and which is housed in one
room in Connection with his office
(Turn to No. (1, column 3, last page)
Contract Let On
Highway 21 Work
Cage Brothers and Ii. A.
Turner SurceHsful Bidders
Cage Brothers and L. A. Turner,
Bishop contractors, submitted the
lowest bids for the construction of
7.4 miles of grading and drainage
structures from the Middle Yegua
in Lee county to one-fourth mile
beyond the Burleson county line and
for the construction of bridges and
approaches over the Bast and Mid-
dle Yegua when bids were opened
by the Texas Highway Commis-
sion at Austin last Thursday, De-
cember 1. A figure of 989,546 was
submitted for the grading and
drainage work, while $108,125 was
the hid for the construction of the
two bridges.
The successful low bidders are
the same contractors now employed
on paving Highway 80, from Som-
erville to Caldwell, and who were
recently awarded the contract for
paving Highway 80, from Caldwell
to the Milam county line.
Two of five convicts convicted of murdrring Waiden Clarence Larkin in the Fol .ua prison riot of Sep-
tember, 1!)37, went to their deaths Friday, December 2, in the new lethal gas chamber in Californian's San
(¿uentin prison. The other three convicts will be executed on successive Fridays. Left view shows the
chamber's interior, while at the ri«ht San QuentinV Warden Court Smith inspects the new device.
Bellville Brahmas
And La Grange To
Play at Brenham
Championship of Region
}>-B To Be Determined
Friday Night
By RED BI EHRER
Brenham Banner-Press Sports
Editor
BRENHAM. Dec. 7.- TWo great
undefeated and untied teams will
tangle here in Cub Stadium Fri-
day night in pitched battle for the
championship of Region 9-B before
an expected attendano of some
6.000 football-mad fans.
Bellville and La (¡range, both vie-
torious in nil Karnes this year, will
meet in what promises to be one
of th greatest sports attractions
ever staged in this section of th •
state.
The game is l>. ing held undc i
the direction of the Brenham Jun-
ior Chamber of Commerce who ex-
tended the invitation to th tvo
schools to play the champion-hip
tilt on neutral ground here.
Coach Chester Allen's La Grange
Leopards, featuring the rifle-shot
tosses and hard running tactics of
Vic Struve, 167-pound back, have
gone through eleven straight games
without n mar on their record. They
whipped a fine Luting team, 21 to
t\ but week in the bi-district.
Wild Willie Znptiiac, II llville's
All-State back, hns enabled Coach
Pearson'.- Bellville Brnhmns to pi'
up a bet11 i or just-as-good record
The Sleet have had only 1''
points «balk'd up n.rninst tli.-m ir
ten g.tni while rolling up a total
now heading towards 500 points,
/.npabir hiorelf has In u rcsponsi
ble for Iof the point- to take
an undisputed lead in the state
scoring race.
Fans from Bellville. La flrnng .
Niivnsotii, Bay City, Luling. Cald-
well, & scores of others will he here
en masse for the fracas, and Bren-
ham officials are making feverish
plans to take care <>f the immens?
crowd,
1 imo for the gome will be 8 p.m.,
and regular admission prices will
prevail.
Farmers To Get
Crop Benefits
Early In 1939
WASHINGTON, Dec. (AP)
Agriculture department officials
said today 1988 crop program bene-
fit paynien >.. -Id be distributed
this win'er an - xt spring
eral months eariLr than in pas,
seasons.
The i 'tjective of earlier payments
it was saiil, was to increase fr-n
purchasing pow r during a p i iod
of low mirket receiptB.
About $500,000,000 is scheduled
for distribution.
It was said grower applications
for payment would be receivable
in December and January. The
first checks are scheduled for mail-
ing in February.
Cotton Farmers To
Vote Saturday For
Or Against Quotas
News To Publish
Santa Claus Letters
Ah has been the custom of The
News for several years, let-
ters from small children writ-
ten to Santa Claus will be
published again this season.
Children are urged to sit down
and write their letters to San-
ta today and send or bring
them to The News office on or
before December 17.
Annual FFA Father
And Son Banquet To
Be Staged Tonight
Members of th Caldwell High
School F. F. A. Chapter will honor
their fathers with a banquet at the
Methodist church tonight (Thurs.)
at 8:00 o'clock, W. W. Mclilroy, ad-
visor, announced today.
(iiusts for the occasion will be
L B. Rut bland, FFA state advisor
and J. L. Sowell, FFA area advisor.
Other guests will include Dr. Swan-
son and Mr. Flam, federal voca-
tional ag nls. and n pres ntatives
of the school board, school faculty,
Rotary Club and Chamber of Com-
merce.
A vat • 'I program v. ill It pres-
ented l>\ the FFA boy-, which will
include mu.'ic by their iring bahd
reports nf wnrtbwhil acliviu of
tb choptcr thi- year, and a play
writt -n by members of th< ">< ¡in¡-
at inn
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Highway 36 Paving
Crew Sets New Record
For Concrete Pouring
A new record for concrete pour-
ing on highway construction was
set Tuesday on Highway 36, south
of Caldwell, offices of Cage Broth-
ers and L. A. Turn?r, contractors,
announced today. It was stated that
1966 ft.—616 batches—were poured
in 610 minutes, a little more than a
batch every minute over a period
of more than 10 hours. The Stato
Highway Department rules that
each mixer full of concrete must
turn 60 seconds before being poured
Into the roadbed forms, it was said.
The concrete mixer la operated
conatruction crew here this week,
construction crow her this week.
According to officials, the paving
crow will reach the concrete ap-
proach to the overpass just outside
the city limits of Caldwell by Sat-
urday.
COURT HOUSE HEWS
Marriage Licenses
James Fillis and Mrs. L. V.
Wright.
Harry M. Gates and Loretta Jan-
cik.
Clarence (>. Nix and Verie Moore.
Probate Matters
Application to probate will of
Claude (1. Hitchcock, deceased.
Application to probate will of
Mrs. Rosinn Cosina, deceased.
Application to probate will of
Mrs. Mary Ward, deceased.
New Automobiles
Theo. Howard, 1939 Chevrolet
Master Coupe.
Last Rites For
Mrs. Ben Hill
Held Thursday
Well Known Lady Had
"ven In III Hea th
Several Months
Funeral rites for Mrs. B n Hill
wore held nt the Harvey-Schiller
Funeral Home Thursday afternoon,
¡December 1, at 3:30 o'clock, with
the Revs. A. E. Harrison and A. S
Broaddus, of Caldwell, and Rev. W.
O. Wright, of Marlin, conducting
the impressive service which was
eliquent ir« its entirety.
Mrs. Hill passed away at her
home here Thursday morning at
one o'clock, following a lingering
illness of several months.
The deceased was born in the
Hix community on April 17, 1886,
having been 52 years of age at the
time of death. She was the daugh-
ter of Thomas E. and Pattie Jack-
son, deceased. She was married to
Ben Wade Hill December 26, 1907,
and to that union three children
were born, Mrs. Mildred Lewis, and
Harry A. Hill, of San Antonio, and
Hugh Hill, of Bryan, all of whom
survive.
Other survivors include one
sister, Mrs. T. W. ,1 -nnings, of An-
derson, and four brothers, Adrian
Jackson, of. Beaumont, Ben Jack-
son, of tirjldc, and Tom and ( bar-
lie Jackson, of Hix.
Mrs. Hill, a member of the Bap-
tist church s,,-' ■ childhood, was n
i devoted mother and Cbiistiar. and
wa- loved by all who knew her.
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Former Caldwell Hitfh
School Football Star
To Captain U.T. Team
Ned McDonald, former Caldwell
nigh school football star, has been
elected a co-caption for the 1939
University of Texas football team,
it was learned here la -t week. Mc-
Donald. who plays an end position,
was one of the University's out-
standing players this season, and
will he a senior at the state school
next year.
He was a regular on th • high
school football team here four
years, and was a member of th •
1928 graduating class. He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Loss McDon-
ald, former Caldwell re ¡dents, who
now live in Houston.
Early Mailing Of
Christmas Gifts
Urged by Kocurek
Early mailing of Christmas pack-
ages is urged by Postmaster George
Kocurek in order to assure proper
delivery and to avoid the last min-
ute rush which swamps postal facil-
ities and frequently brings disap-
pointment to giver and recipient.
Articles should be packed care-
fully in strong and durable contain-
ers, ami should not be senled except
when bearing a printed label or
notation reading "Contents, mer-
chandise Postmaster: This parcel
may be opened for postal inspection
if necessary".
Parcels may not exceed 100 inches
in hngth or girt and the weight of
parcel post mail r is limited to 70
pounds.
Parcels may lie marked "Do not
open before Christmas", as this
stimulates early mailing.
All packages should be addressed
plainly and in ink. The street ad-
dress. box number or rural route
should he given when possible. Re-
turn addresses should be included.
In the case of Christmas cards,
the return address should show on
the envelope. If the sender is in
doubt as to the correct address,
he should use a two cent stamp for
local and three cents for out-of-
town, as this will permit forward-
ing or return.
But most important is careful
wrapping and addressing—and ear-
ly mailing.
Land Mattera
Vaclav Hyvl, et ux to John P.
Trlica, for use and benefit of Mu-
tual Aid Society of the Evangelical
Union of The Csech-Moravian
Brethren in North America— 100
acres of land out of the Wm. Huff
League. Note for $1000.
W. E. Clardy, et ux to Bob Reid.
Lien on Lots Nos. 6, 7 and H out of
Block 11 out of the James Lastley
League. Note for $100.
E. A. Ahrens, et ux to Mrs. Em-
mie Rowland. Lot No. 10 out of
(Turn to No. 7, column <1, page *1)
First Aid Team To
Enter Bryan Contest
In conjunction with a state-wide
first aid contest being sponsored by
the State Highway Department, the
Burleson County Highway Safety
Council has recently organised a
first aid team which will go to
Bryan Saturday to compete in a
division firat aid contest. The team
winning the division contest will go
to Austin within the near future
to compete in the state-wide con-
test.
Members of the Burleson County
First Aid Team are: C, W. Reese,
captain; R. I . Reese, W. F. Den-
son, A. L. Evans, E. L. Weiderhold
and H. F. Pochl.
Woodsons Enter 26th
Year in Business Here
Monday, December 1, marked the
25th anniversary of the Woodson
Lumber Company in Caldwell, Har-
ry and Jim Woodson, brothers and
owners, revealed this week.
The brothers, natives of Mis-
souri, also own five other lumb.r
vard-i. loceted at Lexington, Madi-
onville, Normangee, Bryan and
I' enham. Their Brenlvim yard wa--
opened on December '. this year.
General offices for ¡'! the yard -
are maintained in Caldwell, horn
of the own; rs.
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Mrs. Mary Ward
Is Buried Friday
89-Year-Old Lady Had Been
Confined Two Years
One of Burleson county's oldest
citizens was laid to rest Ia4 Friday
afternoon when funeral services
were held for Mrs. Mary Dunn
Ward, a resident of Caldwell. The
pioneer, who moved to this county
¡ from her birthplace, Water Valley,
Missis dppi, in 1869, would have
be n «9 y ai s old December 9. She
was the widow of the late L. D.
Ward, who died of wounds received
in the Civil War.
Mrs. Ward died at her home here
Thursday morning, December 1,
at 10 o'clock, following an illness
of several years. She had been con-
fined to her bed the past two years.
Funeral services were conducted
at the Harvey-Schiller Funeral
Home with the Revs. A. S. Broad-
dus and A. E. Harrison in charge
Burial was in the Providence ceme-
tery. She had been a member of
the Baptist church since childhood.
She is survived by two sons, Jesse
Ward, an employee of the First
National Bank at Del Rio, tind
Lour y Ward, East Texas oil oper-
ator; two sisters, Mrs. S. E. New-
comb, of Caldwell, and Mrs. H. E.
Newcomb, of Providence, and one
brother, W. C. Dunn, of Bradley,
Oklahoma.
Election Will Determine If
Cotton Produced on Acre-
age in Excess of Allotment
Is To Be Taxed
Burleson county cotton farmais
will join thousands of planten
throughout the south Saturday In
voting their approval or rejection
of marketing quotas for cotton
crops, a measure proposed under
the federal agricultural program to
control the production of cotton
and consequently bring about •
better price for the product.
The ballots will be cast for or
against continuing the cotton mar-
keting quota in 1939, County Ad-
ministrative Assistant J. V. Ander-
son said here today, reminding
farmers that the 1939 program will
be in effect regardless of how the
vote stands on the marketing quo-
ta.
If two-thirds of the farmers vote
for the marketing quota, the farm-
er who plants within his alloted
acreage:
1. Can sell all the cotton he pro-
duces tax-free in 1939.
2. Will be paid benefit payment
under the agricultural program.
3. Will receive subsidy payment
on his 1939 cotton.
4. Will be eligible for the cotton
loan on all of his cotton.
The farmer who plants more than
his allotted acreage:
1. Will pay three cents per opund
tax on the excess acreage harvest-
ed.
2. Will not receive benefit pay-
ments under the agricultural pro-
gram.
3. Will not be paid subsidy on
1938 cotton.
4. Will not be eligible for the
loan on any of his cotton.
If more than one-third of the
farmers vote against the marketing
quota, an agricultural program will
still be in effect, but there will be
no tax on the amount of cotton pro-
duced or sold in excess of the farm
allotment.
Mr. Anderson explained the cot-
ton marketing quota applies to the
sale of market cotton, and it is not
to be confused with the term, cot-
ton allotment, which applies to the
number of acres assigned the pro-
ducer for cotton planting. The cot-
ton allotment is a separate measure
of the federa! farm program, and
will continue in effect regardless
of whether the cotton marketing
quota is voted.
The marketing quota program, if
adopted in Saturday's referendum,
will be practically the same in 1939
as it was in 1938, Mr. Anderson
said. In 1938, the marketing quotas
wer compulsory, bt ing made so by
farmers in a vote early in the year.
In commenting on the referen-
dum Saturday, Mr. And rson said:
"Fanners generally wnnt to un-
derstand what affects th> price they
irct for cotton. The cotton situation,
both in the United Sates and for-
eign countries, largely determines
v-hot the price will be.
"The present world supply of
•otton is 52,000,000 bales, approx-
imately half of which is American,
r>nd the other half foreign. In 1937
the world actually consumed four
and a half million bales less cot-
ton than they did the year before.
And in that same year, when volun-
(Turn to No. 1, column 3, last page*
Farmers Market
(Priccs ubject to change)
Cotton, strict middling 8.75
Cottonsc.d, per ton .. S21.00
Meal, per sack $1.40
Meal in ton lot . . $25.00
Pecans 7c
Hulls, per ton $9.00
Hogs, per pound 6c-7ttc
Hides 6c
Eggs 25c-26c
Butter, per opund 40c tn trade
Hens, per pound i c-llc
Fryers ■ llc-12c
Bakers, per pound 10c
Roosters, per pound 5c*6c
Turkeys, No. 1 hem. . 16c
Turkeys, No. 2 10c
(•Id Toms, pound 12c
Fom i, No. 1 16c
Ducks — 10c
Geese 8c
Hutt t rfat. No. 1 . 24c
Hutterfat, No. 2 ..... . 22c
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Smith, G. A. The Caldwell News and The Burleson County Ledger (Caldwell, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 8, 1938, newspaper, December 8, 1938; Caldwell, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth175335/m1/1/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harrie P. Woodson Memorial Library.