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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1934
Page
4
Secretary Wallace announced a 25 percent production cut for next year under AAA. The plan aims for 12 million bales exported under Bankhead control and 13 million without it, while noting foreign demand, nationalism, and currency constraints keep exports fragile. He warned price falls from overproduction may not revive exports.
Reports from Texas Soil Erosion Control camps highlight mass terracing and outlet ditch construction across 27 Central Texas counties. Estimates show 20 million acres need terracing, terraced farms worth about eight dollars more per acre, and potential $160 million added value plus higher yields and revenues.
Report notes Stalin deemed it necessary to summarily execute ten alleged conspirators against Soviet leaders, signaling discord within the Five Year Plan leadership and ongoing political purges.
Martha Ann Williams McCulloch aged 69 11 24 died at her son J W McCulloch home near Wellborn after apoplexy Saturday. Funeral Sunday at Harvey Baptist Church conducted by Rev R L Brown. Interment Old Bethel cemetery. Survived by three sons a daughter two stepchildren twenty grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Brothers and sisters also surviving. Pallbearers named.
Lillian Ann Stallings died at 3:22 a.m. Monday December 3 after several weeks with typhoid fever. The 13 year old, daughter of Mrs H Green Stallings, had been ill at home on Mechanics avenue before hospital treatment. Funeral plans await brother Abney Stallings from Brooklyn. Survived by mother, two brothers Abney of Brooklyn and H G Stallings Jr of Bryan, and sister Mrs D F Saunders of San Antonio.
Mrs. Clara Smith of Groesbeck died Saturday at home and was buried Sunday at 2 PM in Concord cemetery Grimes county near Bedias. She was 60, born Clara Vance in Wixon, and lived in the area before moving to Groesbeck 15 years ago. Her brothers J L Vance M M Vance Joe Vance of Bryan and F M Vance of Waco attended with many relatives from Bryan and Waco present. Her daughter Mrs Frances O Neil of Magnolia joined family at the bedside prior to death.
In Galveston teachers from Texas and the Southwest heard Dr. George Frazier of Colorado advocate abolishing grading and report cards and promote vertical integration. He argued against dividing science across grades and urged science to permeate all subjects from first to last grade, citing a lighthearted example of a fourth grade student encountering a bug.
Funeral services were held Friday at 3 30 o clock from Old Bethel church for Elizabeth Williams aged Bryan resident who died at her Washington avenue home Thursday evening. She was thought to be among Brazos county's oldest residents having grown weaker for some time. Rev W B Breazeale officiated and pallbearers included E A Peters Douglas Peters E A Hensarling F T Cole Ottie Kelley and O L Andrews.
H. K. Hornsbury and Laurenlia M. Holden, county and home demonstration agents, will appear on the Prairie View annual agents meeting program. Hornsbury opens Wednesday morning at 8 00 oclock, Holden joins Thursday afternoon at 4 30. Both left for Prairie View Tuesday.
Week ending rainfall in Bryan measured 0.71 inches with amounts rounding to 0.7 inches. The precipitation marked a light weekend total across the area.
R. W. Robinson eighteen year old Negro youth who admitted fatally shooting Tom Harris forty three year old Negro at the Robinson home in Wellborn Thursday night has been released and returned home with his mother who was also held. No charges have been preferred against the juvenile but the case will be brought to the grand jury. Barron and Ware will represent the boy.
The Eagle erred claiming wage reductions on relief work. Only the common labor rate changed, rising from 25 to 30 cents per hour under Hopkins. The committee had set 30 cents previously, and the new schedule confirms no further changes to other wages.
Kurten Dome in Brazos county will host another test by Mid-Continent Drilling Co about 1 500 feet west of the first well now at 2 306 feet The new test targets Sparta Carrizo and Wilcox formations The No 1 Klintworth well previously drilled showed gas from the Carrizo at depths between 1 392 and 1 420 feet
Brazos county records show 29 new cars and trucks registered in November, the smallest monthly total in years but more than one per business day. Ford and Plymouth tied with eight new cars each, Ford also selling two trucks for the month, while Chevrolet totaled nine with five cars and four trucks. Pontiac had two cars, Oldsmobile one, and International one truck.
An advertisement hawks McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets claiming rapid gains in weight and vigor. It cites a 3 year old recovering in a month, a thirteen year old girl gaining eight pounds in a week, and a mother regaining health with ten pound gains, urging customers to insist on the original product from Good Housekeeping Institute.
College Station reports the Bankhead referendum date of December 14 across cotton states. Voters will decide whether to continue the Bankhead Act for the 1935 36 crop year with eligibility extending to owners tenants sharecroppers and others producing cotton.
Mrs. Mary Liza Slaughter 71 years 11 months 14 days died at home of her daughter and family Mr and Mrs Wa Hicks Thursday evening. Body sent to Reliance Baptist Church Friday at 2 for services by W B Breazeale. Interment in Reliance cemetery. Survived by two sons Richard Slaughter and Wesley Slaughter both of Brazos County a daughter Mrs Wa Hicks Bryan and another Mrs Cha Saxon Reliance. brother C M Risinger Hollow and three sisters Mrs Ike Holligan Bryan Mrs Ann Bullock Hollow and Mrs Pete Thomp Burleson County.
Mrs. Anton Krenek was named 4th assistant to the committee of the Sixth district at the American Legion convention in Sicana. She succeeds Mrs. Ursula Batt who resigned. Curtis L. Gray commanded Earl Graham Post 159 with Anton Krenek as vice commander and H. T. Schovassa as service officer. Ed S. Martin also attended.
Rental payments to cotton farmers in Texas totaled 22,078,048.86 dollars. Washington Brazos county received 121,320.37. Burleson 148,249.21. Leon 121,172.76. Grimes 131,912.41. Madison 105,433.80. Robertson 293,896.19 in the reported disbursements.
An advertisement offers Black Hawk Ointment with a price of 50 cents from Roman and Vick. The copy promises a guarantee and targets readers suffering skin troubles such as itching eczema athlete's foot ringworm tetter or pimples.
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