The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 34, No. 51, Ed. 1, Thursday, December 23, 1943 Page: 1
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Only 2 More
Shopping Days
Until Christmas
Volume 34
Wool Growers
Association To
Be Organized
In a meeting Friday afternoon
December 17lh plans were mack
for the organization of a Swisher
County Wool Growers Association
with the permanent organization
to be organized on the first
Saturday in January at which
time all farmers sheep breeders
and feeders will be Invited tc
attend said John Palmore Swisher
County Agricultural Agent foi
Texas A and M College Extension
Service
At this meeting the cooperative
handling of wool through the association
Graded Lamb program
and breeding improvement pro
gram will be discussed and plans
made for organization Those present
on December 17th at the meeting
are working toward getting
out the majority of those owning
sheep for tills meeting in January
Swisher County
Lagging On Monthly
jWar Bond Sales
Swisher Countys war bond total
for the first half of December
was 882450 just a little over
onethird of trie set quota for the
month said James T Hale county
bond chairman
Bond buyers will have to dip
deeper during the last half than
they did from Dec 110 if the
quota of 23400 is reached he
added The remaining sum to be
raised is 1457550
Sale of stamps in the county
was 21185 Stamps do not count
toward the bond quota
It is not too late to purchase war
bonds for Christmas gifts declared
Judge Hale in urging the public
to keep up its good record of bond
buying
Local War Panel
Fighting To Keep
Prices Controlled
The work of the Price Panel of
the Swisher County War Price
and Rationing Board is now getting
under way according to R
V Miller local Price Panel chairman
if you have not already had
Panel youll be surprised to learn
what is being done each day to
protect the value of your earnings
and your savings by fighting to
keep prices down
The Swisher County Price Panel
consists of the following volunteer
members who serve entirely without
pay R V Miller chairman
W H Edmondson and S P Atch
ley Mrs Lora Goodrich is chief
clerk and price clerk
What we need Miller said
is more people who are willing to
tailer here in town to stay in bus
iness and cam a decent living
CV
THE TUL1A H
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Kress Boy Held
As PrisonerOf
War By Japs
The War Department made
public Saturday the names of 28
Texans who arc held as prisoners
volunteer their time to help price of war of Japan
control work effectively for the They included Pvt Jack W
protection of their neighbors and Bailey son of Mrs Katherinc
themselves We feel ho said Elizabeth Bailey of Kress
that since our panel is made up
of people who know local con Housewife Gets
ditions and local people who can
settle most complaints about price Meat Points In
control violations in a neighborly iVCLUr rorr l
way without a lot of red tape and
unpleasant legal action Please The salvage fat program now
dont get the idea Miller added provides that each housewife will
and Rationing Board
The salvage fat should
tesP0
OPA Gives Pork American Legion
D t Has Last Meeting
rOintSUOr Of Year Monday
i nriSirnSS villi Tno iast meeting of the year oi
The Office of Price Administra > e Ljjon jn held
ration points to be applied on 0
f busn < S8 wn
Kiwanians Give
Christmas Party
For Children
Ht H V Knst pastor of the
local Baptist Church win t h e
principal speaker at the rcguln
Tulia Kiwanis Club meotin Iiu
day at noon when they entertain
etl and served Christmas dmne
to the Tulia Hoy Scouts ami
seventeen other children from tho
Tulia community
H G Wells and John Rcdmon
piano pupils of Mrs V 11
Humphreys gave musical selectionsGeorge Childress who wiw in
charge of the program presented
each of the children with a bag
of Christinas candy and fruit I
The annual Installation of the V
new officers and directors for the 1
Tulia Klwnnls Club will lakcjl
place at next weeks program
which will be held in the basement
of the First Presbyterian
Church at 800 p m Tins progtam
is a ladles night affair and Ki
wanians will have their wives anil
other ladies as guests
pork effective last Tuesday at
transacted in the inteiest or the i
Lwinirtu ciCml conservation
in bringing the ycai
It designated spare ration stami
No 1 in Ration Book Number 4
as good for an extra five s Z shite d To Farmers
in the
purchase of pork
The order was issued to meet
rapidly mounting pressure on the
hog markets and storage facilities
where swine and meat were piling
up without enough lakers
The extra points are good only
until midnight Sunday Jan 2
OPA said the temporary valid
ation of a special stamp for extra
some contact with your local Pricepork provided the simplest and
most effective manner for getting
the unexpectedly large civilian
supply of pork into the hands ol
the housewife The spare stamp
may be used only for pork
Department were read commend
ing the post for special services
rendered by this organization In
awards for their activities
the
Boy Scouts
Are Kiwanis
Club Guests
As i reward to those Hoy Scouts
v ho have made the inost advance
ment and been the hardest working
members of the trocvp Scoutmaster
Mack Elliott took t e n
boys to the Kiwanis Club Christmas
dinner at the Presbyterian
Church Tuesday at noon
They weie J W Maynard
Keith Llndley Richard Griffith
George Hicks Hilly Cosby Joe
Derringer Jackie Ramsey Temple
Elliott Wilson Youngblood and
Hilly Love
organization
to a close a brief resume of the Service Reports
Jess J Shaw Work Unit Leader
for the Surher County Soil Con
iiervation Service reports that
dividual members received special kichnkians frfjm Uu > Jocal < ffjc
rendered services to the following
II G Briggs received farmcrs during the
thanks from me Legion for having j Novenber
month ol
raised the American Flag at the
AnnlIlll ingaflon ditch weir
Hall more than 1000 times ott f H Q silveithruie and
the last four years
The meeting was climaxed by
the ladies serving a steak supper
JDrive For Old
Clothes To End
Here December 29
The drive for old clothes sponsored
by the American Legion wil
close Wednesday Dec 20 It bar
been announced by James I McConnell
chairman
Contributions to the campaigi
have been above expectations hi
said Others have signified theii
intentions of turning in old clothes
for our needy allies in Europe and
it is hoped that they will get them
in by next Wednesday
Clothes may be brought to McConnell
Motor Co
A J Harris left last Thursday
for Denton to be at the bedside
of his sister Mrs J D Harris
who died Saturday morning Jim
that price panel is working just get two meat and fat points in Davo Harris jnd son J D Jr
toprotect the consumers against return for every pound of house Mrs Kenneth Ramscv and Mrs
overcharges We think that is only hold salvage fat which she turns Isom Sharp also attended the
half our job Were just as much in according to word received by i funeral
concerned about helping the the Swisher County War Price
Mr and Mrs Clyde Walters
be I Kress are leaving Swisher County
whole farm demonstrations
Blue prints were furnished for
202 new laying houses built and
100 were remodeld 75 poultry
men used sulphur and a like
R II Mitchell Terraces were
laid out and construction com
pleted on Uie farms of Mike
Huber and Silas Howell Terrace
lines were laid off on the farms
of W W Boston Ellsha Roper and
M T Glenn all of whom plan to
complete the terracing of theh
farms in the near future
Engineering surveys necessary
before the installation of n corn
plete irrigation system were
completed on the farms of the
following V L Harmon J W
KruelOwncr E HurnettOper
ator R II MitchellOwner J W
HollandOperator W C Watson
Ernest Perrin S J Payne II C
Ketchum F L Lemley Geo W
Montgomery W F Cook and
Cleron McMurry
During this period Charlei T
Herring Chairman of the Hoard
District and the following land
owners W F Cook Otis Harman
E G Hell E D Hell Roy HellS
J Payne L G Brown Errant
Perrin R C Ketchum T W
Rucker and II G Hriggs Herring
also received application f r as
sistance from the Distut from
number practiced monthly worm
in of flocks 0 meetings were
held on Inflation and Income Tax
vith some 700 in attendance 100
fruit trees were put out in home
gardens and iome 500 berric vines
04 boys and 80 adults were trained
in the pruning of trees and
vines The adult cotton demonstrators
produced 28000 mors lbs
of cotton titan on the yield of
equal acres 1 f suniliar land 1202
bushels of corn 40000 lbs of grain
sorghum 10000 bushels wheat
3470 bushels of soybeans 180000
lbs of alfalfa hay and some
114000 lbs of irish potatoes were
produced The one benefied one
variety cotton community con
sisted 0 3270 acres with the
farmers securing about 500 a
I rorf Io rr 1 rutton than
other grow era 80 farmer weri
Tulia Swisher County Texas December 23 1913
David E Anthony
Awarded Silver
Wings Of Navigator
DAVID H ANTHONY
i h
son of Mr and Mm Will iy uUmn
Anthony of Tulia rerolvcd lib
ptchenslve air and ground train
Ing ate ready to lead AAF bombers
to the crumbling defenses ol
Axisheld Europe and to the Uneasy
strongholds of Japan
Well find the way Is thi
slogan of the AAFs skilled coin
pas men Hombcrs guided by
American navigators have delivered
tons of death and dciitiuctlon
to the enemy and more will followKach navigator Is an aerial ex
pert trained to find the target
by day or by night In fair oi
inclement weather Teamwork f
their foite and the Axis tholi
common objective
2nd Lt Anthony wna homo on
leave last week visiting hi parentGovernment Asks
For Deerskins
And Feathers
Heres an opportunity for Texan
hunters to conti Unite to winning
the war
According to John Ialmore
County Agricultural Agent for the
A and M College Extension Serv
ice the United States Government
has called for all available
or dealer Ialmore ha
Loyd 41 ton Thomas
Made Captain Inv
rmy Air Co ps
i mn i ion tit
V
luw
i 2nd lt David K Anthony 27
11
The Methodist Church will have
each one to bring hln gift to the
church earlier during tho week i
deer skins and feathers and down that the gifts may be sent to thi
from wild game birds The hldcnii the day before Christmas
are wanted to make Jackets gloves I
and other warm clothing for the > I71
damson Mower
crews of our war planes The 8
feathers and down from wild Shop To Donate
ducks and wild Ieese taken by m ii 1
hunters are needed to makcl iOy 1 O Churches
sleeping bags for our fighting
menCarful
Carful removal of hides from
linZ
Grand Theatre
processor
been advised that tho government Week Program
is gutting its supply of deer hides
through tho leather channels Accordingly
any one desiring to
Only 2 More
Shopping Days
Until Christmas
Number 51
Gov Stevensoit
Sends Greetings
To Service Men
V > i im met every let thai
hup men can meet Gov Cokn
t < enson said in n Chnstmufi
nussi e iiUIreMoU today to Texor
nun > i v > irmod forcev c ery
u hen
I In u i e will bo transmitted
flu mi i I ice publication
11 > ir tliu message
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< i i ii nl peace Thousand of yot
mn iVHm already have made this u
y siaio ini Cn Thomas hiei been in the nlideo IikkI
We M0 our tHl offnriu tr
the Union who after
e f llloul lwo vonr
completion of 111 weeks of com
10It to contribute to American
enlisted at Foil Sam Houston ovorything that the hotm
Texat and hud been employed by
frnnl cmi v Wo dedicate our
the siuv Packing Company at sv wholeheartedly to tin
Austin he on cnteiing Ihe nervlce pi tlixtt when you have re
Churches To Have
Christmas Programs
Friday Night
Untied we will strive with > < u tc
build a Iwttor Texas an part of u
mote decent world
The warm kindly thoughts ol
every Toxan are with you in thu
Christmas season We know ymn
in we know no others on earth
Its annual Cliriiilmas piogram iindl You are of our very flbi
tieo for thu children of the chinch know that whet over you
on Friday night at II oclock in your hearts will be filled
Fellowship Hall
Santa Claus will be there with
treats for the klddleii
Tho program will consist of a
song Jingle Hells by a group oil to us
iris in the beginners department i
and Up on tho Housetops by nl
boys clans In tho beginners American Leqion
partmenl a mtisuiil number
ranged by Mrs w it iiimpiin > vii Rehabilitation
a song by members of the Junior
department a pnivor citation Outlined
00 v uumea
tho chiistmiis story taken froti rrogrum
Luke 2 a Christmas poem and
carols sung by the entire audience
The Itesbyteiliiim will have
their Christmas tree at the 1 hutch
Friday night at II oclock It Is
usually at this time that members
bring their White Gifts for the
Childrens Home at Amarillo but
Rev Russell Wlngert Is asking
W
o r r
Witt
courage and devotion We Kaluti
you fiom every home in Texas
and we pray that you will win
victory illicitly and return if J
J II Deen Iusl St iv Mr Jffut
of Swisher County Iont No 214
American Legion was inlet viewed
by this paper and gave ti
interesting information in rfer
iirice to the American Legion e
hahllllatlou Progtam
He said that due to the fact ttuil
so many disabled men of Wi l
War 1 have already died and thit
employment Is easier for dl ablcO
men to obtain under war eondit
Ions ninetenths of the Lcgion >
problem with tho disabled wov
now directed to World War
veterans This falls trilo i > era
different classes the w < ik vith
those going into the irlic mu
now in tho nurvUc the worn itt
Mi and Mn K I iurrltun fumlhes of men away 111 the v
owners of the Garrison Flower u and helping thorn who L iv
nil have announced that they returned from the sevue t
wZXto Jm Sa u w nl h0ly my rhreh d wuii
vill after It
ini at a time when they are most
of Supervisors for the Swisher I plentiful
County Soil Conservation District j Under Texas law deerskins can
approved agreements between the not be sold direct by owner U
someone come
rioiitiicd soeiially arranged
contribute to this vart rne need
rul iihs at hwl dull
may channel his hides
lhc leather trade
liAl
Miller also stated that he wantistrained through a clean cloth intofor Bentonvillo Ark Tliey will It W Rucker A V Billirigton Mj For cuuvenlenco of thoi < > i
ed Uie people of Swisher County a coffee can and when t least spend Christmas in Kansas City c Grantham Alan B Johnson ing to cooperute with the > u iy
to use the price panel He sugges T pound is obtained be turned inlMo with their daughter Mrs Norman L Burk 2 farms and ment the Texas Game Fish and
Cont
Contmuea on back page to your butcher Earl Smith 1 Emory Elkins I Continued on back page
County Agricultural Agent Files Achievement Report For Swisher For
1 w 1 1
Definite accomplishments can beset
out generally in that the
County Agricultural Agent spent
from December 1 1942 through
November 30 1943 271 days in
the field and 38 days in tho office
Of these days 222 was devoted
to adult work and 87 to 4II
club work
During the year 944 farm and
home visits were made while
7319 people came to the office
215 news stories were written
md published on all phases ol
nsion work all of which were
n to the means for producing
re food and feed for the war
effort 2786 bulletins were distributed
and 4 radio scrips were
prepared There were 10 adult
training meetings held with 37e
in attendance 128 method demonstrations
for adults with 2152
men and women presen 85 4H
club method demonstratons with
2419 present There were twe
adult result demonstrations conducted
on 4H club work with
878 present One achievement day
was held for 4H club boys with
195 present There were 05 other
adult meetings held with 200C
present 3 otber 4H club meetings
with 153 present 85 meetings
were held by local leaders oi
adult and 4H club work with
2343 resent
Exten ion exhibits were shown
at fou diffrorent Spring shows
one of which was held in Swisher
County At the end of this year
195 4H club boys carried on
demonstrations consisting of 4C
acres of grain sorghum 1 acre of
peanuts 1385 acres of wheat 173
chickens 35 dairy cattle 140 beef
calves 182 lambs 347 head of
hogs and 2 poultry The boys
marketed 547884 of Dairy products
208720 of wheat 117800
grain sorghum 3300 from peanuts
40706 from poultry 3033
92 from sheep 1098014 from
beef calves and 1473308 of
swine
Among the adults there were
10 dairy demonstrations 23 poultry
10 soy beans 10 wheat 14
cotton with a onevariety cotton
community consisting of 107 mom
berrs 15 soil demonstrations 10
beef demonstrations 20 trench
silo 10 grain sorghum 0 alfalfa
8 irish potatoes 0 corn and 4
assisted m land use based on soil
types 0 assisted in htnp cropping
8 in the construction of terraces
380 in contouring of crop land
40 In contouring of pasture and
range 148 in irrigation
Tho County Agent helped carryon
all types of Var Bond and
Salvage drives as well as assist
farmers In securing certificates of
War Necessity Certificates for
operation of farm and trucks and
pickups
Since the Labor Program has
been turned over to the Extension
Service 301 farmers have ask for
assistance requesting 2751 seasonal
laborers and 84 year around
This demand has been met to a
great extent by tho boys and girls
d ir 1 ar Arr n < thi
county through the use cvf War
fharles W Welsenhurg man1
can Legion nl Washington win
Ing with th Veterans Admuietf
lion Rating offices liuve ituiui
er <
1 in thousands ot cuw 01
Announces Christmas ctnnected disability > 1 < < i >
mans Army discharge hi u
thut it we not due io ei v t
Frequently if men win r
agf of the Grund Theatre an enough to pass the on > m il Ann
n in
movie program r Christina s i r
wiok duw ti < the fact tliat Christ and even m combat it 1 h i > 1
lumof 00 Saturday tliit preexn mg dbubibtie >
tici with m il aggruvud i > y the sein n
14 hhown tonight American Legion with > ei 0K
on hack page Continual on D ck page
Year
Of 1943
Prisoners and Mexican labor
During the 0 months 1181 men
702 boys and girls urid 14fu
women have been sent to the
farms for seasonal labor 05 Wax
Priboners and some 238 Mexican
have been secured which art
Included In the above members
During the harvest of wheat 87
trucks and 25 combines were
secured from out of county and
were shifted over the entire county
in tho harvesting and tho
moving of wheat All of then
people and equipment was not
secured without much planning
and foro thought by tho labor
subcommittee Agriculture Voc
tory Council Cornmissionen
Court and Service Club as letters
viri uttcn by tr mi rt < 1
the Vittory Council to the peopn
4f
known by them requesting theu
assistance Adds were placed jr
I County papers In North ind W
Texas and Western Oklahom
j stating the needs and prices U
1 be paid
The July peak of labor need
1 vas completed without serioui
loss due to lack of labor This
was accomplished by the Swlshei
j County Agriculture Victory Coun
in securing the exchange oi
1 farm labor among farm fnmllle
with some 000 farm families helping
ouch other harvost wheat
chop cutton and plow Much mus
bo done in tho future months in
securing year around labor ns
jthis has been one of tho most
critical shortage group during the
pmt vi 11 nut will continue to Iso
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The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex), Vol. 34, No. 51, Ed. 1, Thursday, December 23, 1943, newspaper, December 23, 1943; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth42730/m1/1/: accessed May 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Swisher County Library.