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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1950
Page
9
Bandera teen rodeo star Scooter Fries faces Cherokee's George Epperson in a featured matched roping at Lions as the Liano Horse Show kicks off with exhibition and performance classes.
John Dodge notes top ropers in the Hill Country with Epperson and Scooter achieving state titles and high averages. The London Proffitt family runs a 12 cow dairy near Marble Falls with calves and promising milkers. Preacher payers in Spicewood reflect farming resilience as maize and other crops are readied. Halton Naumann advances in cotton dusting while West Texas range prices remain strong, with Calves sold near Junction and Sonora listings.
Yearling ewes bring 2350 a head with immediate delivery while two and three year old ewes with lambs sell at 40 per pair in New Mexico to San Angelo buyers. Rambouillet stock not purebred. Coats selling well. Angora nannies and mutton kids sold by Texas ranchers at eight and six fifty respectively. Maize prices around 1650 per hundred pounds in San Angelo area with likely drop as grain flows in. Panhandle and South Plains crops fair to good despite wet periods. drought eased with heavy rains in July. Grass talk notes Travis County Farm Bureau meeting in Pflugerville with James Cooper and Elmo Cook. Poultry and eggs price references for Austin markets.
Smithville officials heard a request from Southwestern Bell Telephone for higher rates to fund system expansion as the town grows from 315 to over 880 phones. If approved, business phones would rise to 6.75 monthly. residences and party lines would see notable increases. rural lines also up. The council took no action now and notes Bastrop County saw a rate hike last year.
Elgin's second 1950 cotton bale was brought in by John Pacheco weighing 506 pounds with 800 pounds of seed. Cotton buyer M R Rivers paid 40 cents per pound including a 2 cent premium. seeds sold to Elgin Cotton Oil Co at 70 dollars a ton with a 9 dollar premium. Pacheco received a 50 dollar war bond from the Elgin Chamber of Commerce for earliest bale.
A reflection on the parable of the pearl of great price from Matthew 13 46 explaining that the price is surrendering human fears to gain freedom The piece urges testing the Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy as a demonstrable science of Christianity.
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