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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1939
Page
4
Yoakum voters back an ordinance capping to 100 the number of chickens residents may keep within city limits. The vote reflects a local livestock control measure affecting households and properties.
Alpine resident Stanley Ful cher found two buck antelopes dead with locked horns on the A. H. Richardson ranch southeast of Alpine. The animals appeared to have died three or four months ago. The find was reported by Ful cher in Alpine.
The state game department projects a deer kill of 45 000 in Texas this season. Last year 30 000 buck deer were killed with 5 000 on opening day.
In Ellis County Texas Future Farmers of America clubs at Future Farmers High School will adopt a reforestation project to plant black walnut trees on the black land. The move aims to boost local timber resources and environmental restoration in the region.
Building permits in 43 Texas towns totaled 10 118 168 dollars for October, up 46 percent from the same month last year, according to the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research.
Dr. George W. Cox, state health officer, warned hunters against killing slow moving rabbits. He said these rabbits may carry tularemia, a disease that can be contracted by humans. He urged wearing rubber gloves during skinning.
The U S Department of Agriculture estimates Texas pecan production this year at 17.4 million pounds versus 23 million last year and a 25.12 million ten year average. The smaller crop is blamed on disease and insect damage.
Mrs. Nettie Cottle of Dallas married R. W. Worley of Shreveport by long distance telephone on November 3. The ceremony took eight minutes at the Shreveport end, and she then traveled by train to join her husband.
A cow belonging to Mr. M. C. Kemp died after eating nails and metals. An autopsy revealed 11 nails, 2 pennies and a small bolt in the animal’s stomach. The cow had been ill for weeks before death.
State Highway engineer reports 1098 deaths in January to September this year down from 1148 in the same period last year a drop of 50 or 4.4 percent. Over half the fatalities 649 occurred on open highways.
Massachusetts was paid 4 million dollars in taxes from the estate of Col E H Green. The Supreme Court upheld Massachusetts claim that Green was a resident of the state, rejecting claims from New York Florida and Texas.
Willie Lee Ulich a 19 year old 4-H member from Burleson county has been chosen as the Cera ae 4-H club boy in America for 1939 by the National 4-H Club Committee based in Chicago. This marks the first Texas boy to win the Moses trophy noted for leadership character scholarship and farm skill.
A. F. Moss, a Llano ranchman, maintains a collection of petrified fruit including oranges cocoanuts watermelon and a peach. Collecting petrified fruit is his hobby.
A six and a half foot panther that had killed twenty five goats in a day on Hamilton Wilson’s ranch forty miles west of Kerrville was shot dead. The incident ends a string of livestock losses on the ranch.
Mrs. Margaret Ann Bailey aged 105, claimed to be Texas oldest woman, celebrated her birthday at 401 California Street El Paso. Born in Paris Tennessee, she remains keen on daily news and simple life pleasures.
The Highway Commission expects to spend 29.3 million dollars on highway improvements in 1939 and has at least 25 million planned for 1940. The 1940 program will be trimmed by lower federal funds, though Congress in January may authorize additional sums.
Charles Joseph Gaffney a ten year old resident of San Antonio has been summoned for jury service four times in six years. He owns four lots in a suburb and was excused due to age after saying he studied hard to become a juror and believed he would make a good one.
A Texarkana auto supply store worker admitted hiding $30 in a wall for safekeeping but claimed it vanished. He later blamed a rat that supposedly hid $1 and $5 bills, suggesting the rodent was the thief.
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration reports Texas topped all states with 25.345 million dollars in farmer subsidies, followed by Iowa at 15.412 million and Illinois at 7.975 million.
Mrs. C. P. Pritchard of Jones County near Stamford reports her nine month old daughter fell into a bucket of water on the porch and drowned while the mother was occupied with chores.
Texas remains top state for six-man football growth per R. J. Kidd athletic director of the Texas Interscholastic League. The six-man game arrived in Texas in 1937, while North Dakota trails with about 120 teams.
Federal Home Loan Bank Board reports that the first three quarters of 1989 saw 10,012 new home loans totaling 19,855,330 by 121 insured savings and loan associations in the state, up from 7,200 loans worth 15,560,570 in the first nine months of 1988.
A tender inquiry asks if love fills a heart far away with a flower sent as a Christmas gesture. The poem hints at longing and a gentle, distant devotion conveyed through a simple seasonal symbol.
University of Texas geologists place the geographic center of Texas near Brady, while the population center is near McGregor in McLennan County.
Federal agencies will launch a campaign against hookworm infestation in East Texas and eastern Oklahoma. C. M. Evans, regional Farm Security Administration director, said the work would be done in cooperation with the WPA and the National Youth Administration.
Texas commemorates the 146th anniversary of Stephen F. Austin birth known as Father of Texas. Austin was born November 8 1798 in Austinville Virginia and lies buried in the State Cemetery at Austin with a bronze statue marking the grave.
A Texas family from Wink, John Godsey Sr and his three sons John Jr Joe and Eugene begin as freshmen at Sul Ross State College with plans to complete four years and graduate together.
The Civil Aeronautics Authority announced approval of three additional colleges in Texas for participation in its student flight training program. The colleges are Austin College Sherman East Texas State Teachers College Commerce and Mary Hardin Baylor College Belton.
A new turkey meat hamburger is reported in Gonzales County Texas. The dish uses equal parts white and dark turkey meat ground and pressed, then cooked in a pressure cooker and served on buns with cranberry sauce and lettuce. The item is described as gaining popularity across the state.
Fossil finds in a caliche pit near Ingle side San Patricio county include a huge land turtle about three feet across the middle. Excavation is led by Dr. E H Sellards of the University of Texas. Other remains include mastodons dinosaurs sloths and horses. Age estimated at about 25 000 years.
Frankston's Anderson County hosted the eleventh annual possum dinner drawing a crowd estimated between 5,000 and 8,000. Attendees included guests from Oklahoma Arkansas Mississippi Mexico California Illinois New York and Maine.
The annual report shows distributions in depleted areas during the past fiscal year totaling 20 000 bob whites 533 wild turkeys 194 white tailed deer 33 antelope and 38 429 582 fish.
Tyler historian and geologist Dr. Albert Woldert reports a vast rock crystal salt deposit in Smith County near Bullard. He notes the salt was found unintentionally during an oil drilling test, with drillers hitting salt at 1,200 feet and drilling 800 more feet without reaching the bottom, described as clear crystal with no dirt or silt veins.
About 100000 tons of scrap iron will be exported to England from Port Houston in the next 12 months based on current orders and continued shipments to Houston.
Pecan experts describe the John Garner named for Vice-President Garner as valuable for non scaling shells and 61 percent meat. The variety, good size and true paper shell was introduced in 1935 at a Uvalde show where Garner offered a prize for the best seedling.
Under city legal staff oversight Fort Worth revises obsolete ordinances dating to 1908. One rule banned feeding animals on Main Street and nearby streets while a traffic code required buggy and horse drivers to signal turns with their whips.
State Department of Public Safety figures show Amarillo as the safest Texas city for traffic deaths while Austin is deemed most dangerous. The statewide 10 month death toll reached 1,228, lifting the statewide rate to 9.9, higher than any large city according to state police.
Local cattleman R L Doe Brown spotted a doe deer hanging on a wire fence about 18 miles west of Pearsall. The animal had died within hours while attempting to leap the fence and was caught in the wire.
Wyman O. McInnis of the Cox and McGinnis ranch reeled in a 271 pound catfish on a 15 pound line. He reportedly landed two fish at once with the larger swallowing a smaller one, its tail protruding from the mouth as the pair was hauled from the stream.
Hempstead news profiles Lillie Drennen who runs the Lillie Drennen Truck Line, Texas’s only licensed woman driver with a commercial permit. Started March 28, 1928, the operation began with an old Model T and now uses a 1939 Chevrolet with a trailer between Hempstead and Houston, improving service quality and expanding business.
The Big Bend of Southwest Texas spans 28,897 square miles and includes Terrell Pecos Reeves Culberson Hudspeth El Paso Presidio Jeff Davis and Brewster counties. It is larger than New Hampshire Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island and Delaware combined with Brewster County alone bigger than Rhode Island and Delaware. Brewster County population in 1930 was 6,624 at about 1.1 people per square mile.
Miss Vivian Oriiz of 226 East Fest Street reports her dog Fido loves pecans. The animal buries pecans, digs them up, cracks the hull, and chews the meat before swallowing it.
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