Mohair and Wool Markets and Prices Rise in 1951
Mohair posts a 13 cent per pound increase and wool rises to about 1.00 a pound in Central Texas with steady contracting. Will Crow of Dripping Springs reports about 75 thousand pounds contracted for the 1951 spring clip, with 50 thousand contracted since December 20. Ewes with lambs and other wool prices are noted, along with various contracts and buyer conversations amid market optimism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Crow
Dripping Springs
Crow
Texas
Carol McDonald
Menard
Will
Carol
Delaine
New Cotton Price Record Set in Centex at Elgin
Elgin saw a new price record for cotton last week when L. Rivers paid 44 cents a pound for 27 bales of strict middling cotton to Oscar Larson of Lund. Rivers notes it is the highest price he has ever paid after 52 years in the business. Larson also sold 110 tons of cottonseed to Elgin Cotton Oil Company for 125 dollars per ton, with oil mill owner E O Lundgren calling it the highest cottonseed price he has paid in 25 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elgin
L. Rivers
Oscar Larson
Lund
Rivers
Larson
Elgin Cotton Oil Company
E. O. Lundgren
Bertram Chamber Names Committees for New Year
At the January Bertram Chamber of Commerce meeting J R Adkerson was named president and announced committees for the year. The sanitation committee includes Mrs R W McFarlin Guthrie Taylor and Oran Price with street and highway improvement members Grady Williams Herman Frymire and Dr T D Vaughan. The group for securing new business and industrial development lists R W McFarlin Granville Knox and Walter Ruble. Civil defense includes B F Warden Jr R E Brewer and Mrs W A Hall. The membership committee comprises D E Smith Decatur Hibler and C F Stubblefield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. W. McFarlin
Granville Knox
Walter Ruble
B. F. Warden, Jr
R. E. Brewer
Copper Demand Exceeds Supply
Washington January 7 James Boyd defense minerals administrator said all known copper deposits open to the US would not meet the country s defense and civilian needs More than 250 civilian uses of copper have been limited or banned effective March 1 He noted estimates may be high but better to have too much too soon than too little It could be offset by civilian use cuts and material substitutions in military items US producers have pressed to expand facilities and may in five to eight years yield about 250000 tons annually.
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Washington
James Boyd
Defense Minerals
Boyd
Pravda Declares London Parley Doomed Doomed Conference Appear Futile
Pravda scoffed at the London Commonwealth conference calling it a double international game doomed to failure. The paper said British policy makers seek to be Washington’s lackey while uniting commonwealth nations against economic penetration by the United States.
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Moscow
Pravda
London
Communist Party
Washington
Waterworks Retaken By Burma Loyalists
Government troops recaptured Gyokyu waterworks Rangoon main water supply from rebel forces after three years in control. The waterworks, about 75 miles northwest of Rangoon, were built by the British roughly 15 years ago.
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Rangoon
Burma
Gyokyu
Judges Named for San Saba 4-H and FFA Show
San Saba set to host the annual 4-H Club and FFA show at Rogan Field on January 11 with judges Raymond Winkel from Liano for hogs and Frank Jordan and El gen Ebert from Mason for calves and lambs. An afternoon animal auction led by Lemuel Jones of Junction will feature 14 calves 35 sheep and 50 hogs with top animals bound for San Angelo Fort Worth Houston and San Antonio exhibitions.
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ANS
FFA
Rogan Field
Raymond Winkel
Liano
Frank Jordan
Elgen Ebert
Mason
Lemuel Jones
Junction
San Angelo
Fort Worth
Houston
San Antonio
Richard Thornton
Kenneth Taff
M. C. Tyler
J. L. Stewardson
Joe Allen Robertson
Emerson Brister
Scotty Roberts
Mack Hillin
Gene Johnson
Scotty Roberds
Billie Joe Kuykendall
Emmett Peavy
B. T. van Cleave
J. L Stewardson
Pat Peel
Sammy Pierce
Lowell Gage
Charles de Volf
Charles Sutton
Jackie Brister
Gordon Clark
Ross Ragsdale
Sammy Smith
Richland Springs
A. B. Ford
Hereford
Jerry Johnson
Bobby Ratliff
Warren Spivey
Plaque From Westminster Abbey Recovered in Scone Case
Scotland Yard announced the descriptive plaque from Westminster Abbey and the Stone of Scone are now back after a nationwide search. The 458 pound stone and its oak history plaque were found in a bombed Tufton Street site. Abbey experts will confirm the plaque’s link to the coronation chair and the stone.
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London
Scotland Yard
Westminster Abbey
Scone
Abbey
Tufton Street
Westminster
Engagement Told By Contexas Pair
Mr. and Mrs. Gilstrap of Taylor announce the engagement of their daughter Marjorie to Howard E. Ellis son of Mr. and Mrs. V Ellis of Austin. Marjorie Gilstrap graduates from Taylor High School and earned a UT degree last June. She was active in Alpha Chi Omega Alpha Lambda Delta Pan Hellenic and named an outstanding student. Ellis attends the University as a Sigma Nu member and South Western Geological Society, with two years Navy service.
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Taylor
ANS
Harry M. Gilstrap
Marjorie
Howard E. Ellis
Austin
Solon Says Taxes To Hurt Economy
Senator Millikin of Cole county warned Sunday that financing an eighty billion dollar federal budget entirely with taxes would damage the American economy. He spoke as Senators Douglas and Humphrey argued that the large budget could be paid for with increased taxes without borrowing.
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Washington
Millikin
R-Cole
Senate Finance Committee
Douglas
D-Ill
Humphrey
D-Minn
Smithville to Begin City Mail Delivery January 16
Smithville will start city mail delivery on January 16 under Postmaster G W Kunath Jr. The service, granted in 1950, will operate once daily six days a week with Sundays for special delivery mail only. First class rates rise to three cents. Residents must register street addresses and may use either home delivery or a post office box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smithville
G W Kunath Jr
Kunath
New Hours Slated For Library Here
The Carver branch library will operate 48 hours weekly under City Librarian Mary Rice. Starting Monday the Negro branch expands to 48 hours with new daily hours including Monday 1 pm to 9 pm and weekend times.
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Carver
Mary Rice
Paper distributor buys ranch near Bertram
Roy R Brown, longtime Houston paper distributor, has purchased the Cox Place one mile north of Bertram and stocked it with cows. He previously ran a nationwide paper business and now operates from Bertram.
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Bertram
Roy R Brown
Houston
Cox Place
Brown
U.S
Taylor Brownies and Girl Scouts Honor Dads Banquet
The annual Father Daughter banquet for Taylor Girl Scouts and Brownies and their dads will be held Thursday March 15 at the high school gymnasium. Mrs R E Dolan president of the Taylor Girl Scout Association announced the event with each troop to present a stunt in the program following at the high school auditorium.
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Taylor
ANS
Taylor Girl Scouts
R. E. Dolan
Taylor Girl Scout Association
Bastrop Home Demonstration Council Elects New Officers
Mrs Claude Watterson chaired Bastrop County Home Demonstration Council’s first meeting of the year at the courthouse annex. Seventeen delegates and visitors from six clubs elected and installed officers and committee members including M W Kelley vice chairman Wallon Hanna secretary treasurer Gem Simmons parliamentarian Etta Ringgold THDA chairman Dee Alexander historian and numerous committee heads.
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Bastrop
Claude Watterson
Bastrop County
Etta Ringgold
THDA
Dee Alexander
Watterson
Etta
Ringgold
Robert Martin
Cedar Creek
Ralph Cox
Humble Camp
Phillip. Wilhelm
Rockne
Theo. Taylor
McDade
Leland Harris
Red Rock
Albania accuses Italy of using fifth column
Tirana radio reports Albania labeled Italian actions as hostile and said Italy had parachuted American trained spies into Albania. A note from the Albanian ministry of foreign affairs was printed in Albanian newspapers and delivered to Rome.
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Albania
Italy
London
Tirana Radio
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Brooks-Leschber Marriage Vows Spoken in Taylor
Mary B Buron daughter and Gus C Leschber Jr. wed at West Taylor Lutheran Church on December 31 with Rev. Theo Krienke officiating. The couple resides in Taylor after a trip to Old Mexico and Rio Grande Valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Leschber
Dusty Rose
Emil Kasper
June Wilke
Truett Berry
Immanuel Buron
Rudy Moeller
Arnold Leschber
Oscar Leschber
Davis Street
Theodore Schroeder
Thorndale
Willie Zamorsky
Gussie Frances Ballerstedt
Buron
Franklin Street
Taylor
Hutto High School
Montgomery Ward Company
Thorndale High School
Navy
Montgomery Ward
Florence Bridegrooms Delmar Cope Nancy Fisher Wed
Miss Nancy Virginia Fisher and Corporal Delmar Kay Cope were married at the Fisher home on New Year's Eve. The ceremony was by Rev. C. R. Simpson with a reception to follow. The bride, a Florence High School graduate, worked in Austin. the groom, from Bloomington Illinois, served three years in the Air Corps and is at Randolph AFB.
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Florence
Nancy Virginia Fisher
Corporal Delmar Kay Cope
Thomas Fisher
C. R. Simpson
First Baptist Church
Florence High School
Business College
Austin
E. M. Scarbrough & Sons
Albert Cope
Bloomington, Ill
Air Corps
Randolph Air Force Base
Florene Housewright
Wanda McDougal
New Braunfels
Joe Lynnagi
Elgin Air Force Base
Rachel Daniel
Dallas
Merle Fisher
Nicholas Proctor
W. E. Proctor
Jarrell
I. A. Proctor
Gregory
Sam Cox
Taft
T. P. Fisher
Georgetown
Thurman McDougal
Mart Dyer
Stephenville
Girl Scouts in Taylor Add Three New Leaders
Taylor announces three new leaders for Girl Scouts and Brownies. Mrs. R. N. Gay will lead Scout Troop 1 at St. Marys School while Mrs. R. J. Pate and Mrs. H. A. Guentzel share leadership of the Brownie troop at the same school.
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Taylor
ANS
R. E. Dolan
City Association
R. N. Gay
St. Mary's School
R. J. Pate
H. A. Guentzel
Bertram Shop Owner To Be Tractor Dealer
Bertram, January 7 Massey Harris tractors and farm equipment dealer Garrett Wilkinson announced. He has run his welding and machine shop in Bertram since 1945 and will continue that business while adding tractor dealership duties.
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Bertram
ANS
Garrett Wilkinson
Massey Harris
Wilkinson
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