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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1950
Page
14
Kerrville and Center Point residents Julius Neunhoffer and Frank Thomason are elected and appointed as directors at the Comfort Seed Growers Co-op annual meeting. Neunhoffer becomes director and secretary, filling the vacancy left by the former director.
Center Point official notes resignation of George P Walker Jr triggers search for new head. The cooperative will keep its Comfort experimental farm running to test oat varieties suited to the region.
ST. LOUIS Mich March 9 The Central Michigan Florists manager had more flowers than he could use so every business place in town received a large bouquet marking a local display of generosity and community spirit.
Manchester dispatch reports 73-year-old twins Mrs Mary Crannan and Mrs Nora Crannan were struck by an automobile and went to the hospital together. They have been inseparable all their lives and were hurt in the incident.
The United States Marines report over 200 amphibious landings on foreign shores dating back to 1775, marking ongoing large scale naval offensives.
Texas A and M College extension veterinarian Dr W C Banks says clean pens and sanitary lots speed hog growth and cut grain needs. Tests show market weight reached a month earlier and with half a pound less grain per pound gain on clean ground. He urges guard rails, pig brooder, vaccination for hog cholera, and prompt removal of sick pigs to protect profits.
In Vineland New Jersey 27 of 50 eggs targeted for colored chick experiments hatched into birds with red green and deep yellow down. The program led by Mrs Aya Mary Kiss of Cleveland originated 18 years ago by her father to produce colored poultry. Government dyes were injected into 140 eggs on February 6 with an incubation impact noted on Feb 28. The chicks showed normal vitality and vigor despite the color coatings.
Belmont Mass March 9. Morris R Burroughs a music teacher cites Tony LaVelli a basketball player and Otto Graham a football star as promising musicians He notes Belmont Hill School junior varsity football team has not lost a game in two years.
A veteran agriculture class formed in 1949 by F. C. Willard’s group has completed a year of training and shifted toward expanding cattle and hog production in Lee County. Members purchased registered Milking Shorthorns and Yorkshire stock from Hill Brothers, Ulrich, Justis, and Boerne breeding farms, and planned barn building with 70 squares of sheet iron, a 30 by 60 feet barn, and a 50,000 pound grain capacity.
Herman F. Heep of Buda Texas and Norris Leighton Bernice Leighton of Waterloo Iowa receive national honors for Sparkling Dreaming Gem a superior Jersey bull. The bull is rated for high production and breed type with 10 milk producing daughters averaging 8786 pounds of milk and 490 pounds of butterfat in ten months and 22 daughters rated for breed type at 82.95 points.
Dr. Janatha Crosslin announces completion of plans for a county wide chest X ray survey. All county schools and Southwest State College students have set dates for X rays March 24 to 30 excluding March 26. The machine will be at San Marcos Motor Company with local committees assigned to publicity theater radio and transportation duties.
Burnet County groups plan a Founders Day birthday program Sunday in the American Legion Hall Burnet from 3 30 to 4 30 PM Carl Yarborough vice president of the county Girl Scout board will MC. Troops from Burnet Marble Falls and Bertram will participate and refreshments will be served. An award will be offered to a number of adult patrons and friends.
In Giddings a harsh wet winter hits Lee County legume crops with many winter peas dying in patches or whole fields. Vetch fares better in the south while plant lice and powdery mildew hurt others. Howard B Turnipseed leads with 20 acres of robust Dixie Wonder and Austrian peas, 33 pounds seed per acre and 200 pounds phosphate. Alvin L Turnipseed farms 120 acres with clover, vetch, peas and a long cultivated history with terracing added in 1928.
Llano County Farm and Branch Improvement Council announces five community representatives led by chairman T. J. Stewart. Members include H. L. West O. O. Simpson Leslie Bedford Marvin Click and Stewart. The council will oversee the conservation program and equipment for the Lower Colorado River Authority in cooperation with local agricultural agencies. It will continue experimental range work and provide farming equipment to farmers and ranchers in the county.
The turntable draw of Prison Point Bridge has not opened in over 20 years. Miller's River, once navigable for ships to Cambridge and Somerville, runs diverted beneath the span, changing the waterway's historic course.
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