Record attendance expected at Texas Short Course events
At Texas A and M College in College Station the Farmers Short Course and 4 H Club Short Course are anticipated to break attendance records. About 750 AAA secretaries and county committeemen will attend, with 1 002 girls 187 sponsors and 1 478 women also expected. The Texas Home Demonstration Association plans 740 delegates and officers representing 40 000 rural women, with around a thousand women at sessions.
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College Station
B. F. Vance
State Aaa
AAA
Texas Home Demonstration Association
A. J. Brown
Nederland
Hale County 4 H Members Crash Movies In Education Film
Hale County 4 H Club youths star in a full length color film about their feeding and marketing methods. The movie follows their year long program from feeding and records through their trip to Kansas City and sale at the stockyards.
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Hale County
4-H Club
Texas
Raymond Holbrook
Hollywood
Central Plains
L. L. Johnson
Texas Extension Service
K. J. Edwards
Mr. Johnson
Kansas City
Plainview
Southwest
Harry Igo
Hale County Club
Modern Farming Practices Earn Swisher Couple Master Farmer Honors
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Sorrenson of Swisher County earned the 1939 Master Farmer award after 32 years of modern farming near Tulsa. Their diversified operation includes wheat, sorghums, Sudan, dairy and beef cattle, swine, and poultry. The couple and their four children, all with college educations, were selected by local county councils to compete in a state contest sponsored with Progressive Farmer and Southern Ruralist.
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Tulia
H. W. Sorrenson
Swisher County
Sudan
Locomotive Engineer Turns Farmer Near Hartley
Dallhart locomotive engineer Jimmie Hawkins farms near Hartley and keeps close records of expenses and income. He recently bought 300 steers to feed through summer and plans soil and water conservation with contouring on 600 acres. Hartley County agent J Coleman notes Hawkins blends engineering with wheat and cattle feeding successfully.
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Channing
Vv. J
Jimmie) Hawkins
Dalhart
J. Coleman
Hartley
Hawkins
Coleman
Hartley Boys Busy on Calf Feeding and Chick Project
Hartley County 4-H County Agent J. H. Coleman reports nine boys are now feeding calves. The latest entrants are Dick Brown Henry Fletcher Jimmie Walden and Kenneth Brown. Peyton Perkins of Channing keeps 50 Rhode Island Red chicks with only one loss, aided by a birthday gift of 25 more chicks from his father.
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Channing
Hartley County
Coleman
Dick Brown
Henry Fletcher
Jimmie Walden
Kenneth Brown
Hartley
Peyton Perkins
Rhode Island
Food Stamp Sales Grow in Memphis County
The FSCC food stamp plan, begun this year, proves popular with relief clients. May sales reached 11,444 dollars in stamps, with orange stamps at 5,912 dollars, blue stamps at 2,956 dollars, and blue stamps for unemployed yet certified relief clients at 2,576 dollars. The program increases relief purchasing power by fifty percent.
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Memphis
FSCC
R. L. Madden
Master Farmer nominees named in Hale County meeting
Nominations for Hale County master farmer were announced at a land use planning committee meeting on Monday. The listed nominees include Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Ferrell, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Ballard, Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Witten, and Mr. and Mrs. (continuation unread).
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Plainview
Hale County
Clayton Ferrell
Chester Hooper
L. D. Ballard
E. F. Witten
Leathers To Get Donley Welcome Leathers To Get Donley Welcome
A Welcome Back Party will honor the D. E. Leathers family winners of the Texas Typi cal Family title in Clarendon park on Tuesday June 11. Mayor Tom Conally and Judge J. R. Porter will speak with an address system planned. The Leathers, guests of the world fair, return from New York after a week away and are due to arrive late tomorrow.
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Clarendon
D. E. Leathers
Leathers
New York
Conally
Tom Conally
J. R. Porter
Conley
Soviet Russia Honors 100+ Officers With New Military Titles
Pravda announces awards of new military titles to over 100 high ranking officers in the army and navy. Names of recipients include L. R. Vaughn and multiple Mr. and Mrs. pairs. The report is issued from Moscow on June 5.
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REDS
Moscow
Russia
Pravda
Communist Party
Grass Improvement Field Day Set for Great Plains Area
A Grass Improvement Field Day will be held at the Southern Great Plains Field Station in Woodward Oklahoma next Friday June 14 to show progress in erase improvement work for farmers stockmen and ranchers. D A Savage and station staff will lead a tour starting 9 am from station office one mile north of Woodward with demonstrations on reseeding land grass mixtures soil preparation and erosion control plus long term grass crop rotations and range restoration.
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Southern Great Plains
Woodward
Oklo
D. A. Savage
Agronomist
Fort Supply
Colorful Quilt Made of Scraps Pattern 6564
In early quilt history scrap quilts offered economy and social ties as friendship quilts. Endless Chain, a prize scrap pattern, uses three easy pieces. Pattern 6564 includes the Flock Chart color schemes yardage directions and an illustration. Send ten cents and write name address and pattern number to Amarillo News Household Arts Dept.
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Amarillo News, Household Arts, Dept
W. 14Th Street
New York
N.Y
AVAC Driver Safe in German Prison Camp
Lawrence A. Jumap, driver for the American Volunteer Ambulance Corps in Europe, who had been reported missing, is now reported safe in a German prison camp at Stuttgart, according to the AVAC.
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New York
Lawrence A. Jumap
American Volunteer Ambulance Corps
Europe
Stuttgart
AVAC
Todday
Dairy Testing Body Formed by Three Counties
A Tri County Dairy Herd Improvement Association is formed for Curry and Roosevelt in New Mexico and Palmer in Texas. Dean Pattison chairs, L H Cooper is secretary, Arthur F Jones treasurer, with George Templar Palmer and others as directors. The group will operate for twelve months then reorganize. Members pay 3 dollars monthly for the first eight cows and 20 cents per head for each additional cow. KF EB Anderson of Slate College advised at Portales meeting.
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L. R. Vaughn
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J. D. McGill
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Great Plains
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