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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1936
Page
4
The Liquor Control Board reports state taxes and license fees totaling 5 726 796 84 in a single year. Grant E Loving of San Benito shipped 400 boxes of valley grapefruit to Fernston Co of Stockholm Sweden.
Deer hunters near Llano enjoyed fair luck as season opened with 150 deer brought in for cold storage in the days following opening.
The Texas Old Age Assistance Commission in Austin estimates 150,000 Texans are eligible for pensions under the current pension law and projects about 160,000 may qualify.
A. Rowland says an Associated Press dispatch killed three wildcats and an 8-point buck in a one day hunt thirty miles north of Kerrville.
The 285000 structure to house General Sam Houston relics in Huntsville is nearing completion. The museum project, titled General Sam Houston Memorial Museum, aims to showcase Houston’s artifacts in a dedicated building.
The late Mrs. R. W. Haselwood of Nacogdoches left her brick home and 1,000 to the First Methodist Church of Nacogdoches. Pastor Rev. C. W. Lokey will occupy the home.
Mrs. Sdldie Carnett of Hutchins Texas allegedly 110 years old won a $25 prize in a corn cob pipe smoking contest at the Texas Centennial Exposition. She was born in Missouri.
Texas remains the nation’s top beef cattle state with many packing houses removing millions of hides, yet the state buys 99 percent of its shoes from Eastern factories, highlighting a domestic footwear dependency despite abundant local resources.
Members of the San Jacinto Centennial Association unveiled a marker at Lorenzo de Zavala's old homestead near the San Jacinto battlefield. Zavala was a famed Texas patriot and the Republic of Texas first vice president.
Athens dispatch reports Nath Adams of East Texas consuming 40 bananas in a special Athens grocery exhibition. Spectators purchased the bananas as he finished, and he declared he liked them for no bones.
Mrs. Anne E. Lunn, daughter of San Jacinto veteran Thomas Williamson, now lives in Houston at 90. She recalls living in Texas under three flags the Republic, Confederacy and the United States.
Victor Searraffia and Vicente Gregori Espasa from Argentina pedaled a tan bicycle 8000 miles from Buenos Aires to New York City. They began January 1, 1934, traversing jungles snowstorms and intense heat on their cross continental trek toward the United States.
A deposit of sepiolite used to make meerchaum pipes was found near Uvalde. Tests will determine if Texas mineral matches the Turkish material, the other major commercial source, per the Texas Planning Board mineral resources committee.
In October the Dallas post office destroyed 6 527 badly addressed letters. 3 519 letters with bad addressing were returned to writers who included a return address in the upper left corner. Checks and money orders in 164 letters were returned to owners.
Members of the Forty fifth Legislature include lawyers and 58 others across diverse fields such as newspaper men 38 real estate 4 cotton buyer 1 barber 1 salesmen 4 peace officer 1 and many more. The list shows varied professions from physicians and dentists to ranching and advertising reflecting a broad professional mix.
About 70 convicts at the state license plant are filling an order for 400000 1987 auto plates destined for Texas. The operation uses inmate labor under the state program.
Fred Timm Jr of 4444 Travis Street Dallas owns a 30 year old parrot. The bird laughs whistles sings and talks in English and Spanish having learned Spanish in Yucatan.
Several hundred East Texans attended Frankston's eighth annual old fashioned possum and sweet potato dinner held at Jacksonville on November 25. Old timers debated whether possum made sweet potatoes popular or vice versa.
Theodore Meineke age 86 died November 9 at his home 2201 Driscoll Street Houston. He had visited outside Harris County only twice in life. His father was a Texas-based tailor who made Confederate uniforms and his mother hailed from Luxembourg.
D. P. Trent, Regional Director of Resettlement, notes farm tenancy in Texas has grown from 37.6 percent in 1880 to 57 percent in 1935. Tenants now operate 57 percent of Texas farms and 54 percent of harvested cropland, controlling 40 percent of farm value.
Mrs. William Giles of Houston seeks donations to cover transport costs for talking books for rural blind residents. WPA provided machines with Texas quota 238. transportation not covered by WPA. State library supplies records. books include novels biographies history classics and the Bible.
H G Lucas of Brownwood J L Rainey of San Angelo and T O Hurst of Winchell top the cash prize winners at the annual pecan show and convention held in San Angelo.
Researchers report a Texas refinery in Port Arthur is producing synthetic graphite from coke within its crude oil processing units. The development marks a novel use of existing refinery byproducts to create graphitic material.
A 1500 pound longhorn steer, relic of trail driving, traveled in a trailer through Sierra Blanca. The lean and wiry animal was transported after being fought out of Mexico through Laredo.
Fort Sam Houston reports more than 4500 turkeys served as the main item in the Thanksgiving meal for about 41,000 CCC enrollees across camps in the Eighth Corps Area.
The C. and M. Produce Company near LaPryor has planted about 4,000 acres in spinach this year, believed to be the largest spinach crop planted by a single company in the world.
Mexican laborers on Sheriff R. T. Daniel's Edinburg ranch capture diamondback rattlesnakes, sometimes 700 pounds weekly, to sell live to W. A. "Snake" King of Brownsville for about 20 cents per pound, a hazardous but lucrative job as snakes threaten cattle.
A devotional poem speaks of Christmas bells and bright candles guiding loved ones to join in song. Faith stands at the door inviting young and old to return to the fold as hearts lift toward Bethlehem and reach out to those who weep with a message of divine welcome.
A monument honoring Texas first college and founder Dr. Martin Reuther was unveiled at Rutersville six miles north of LaGrange. The Lutheran school, Rutersville college, predated the Civil War and later merged with Methodist colleges from which Southwestern University at Georgetown was organized.
Ted H. Zerble of Houston owns 400 firearms from around the world. The collection includes Civil War relics, American Spanish War pieces, buffalo guns, dueling pistols and Waterloo era weapons. Zerble has collected weapons for 20 years and values the set at $10,000.
Uncle Jim Dickey, owner of a Padre Island bait stand at Point Isabel, netted a live octopus about two feet across. He says this is the first known living specimen caught in this Gulf area and he also sighted a large octopus at the fishing spot.
The National Youth Administration reports an average of 10,061 youths in Texas have been employed part time on work projects over the last six months. The average NYA wage cost is $10.53 per youth per month. Lyndon B. Johnson, state director, notes most work on roadside park building soil conservation and survey projects.
C H Goodale of Pampa reports a cow produced a quart of milk last night and a gallon this morning. John Goss, another local farmer, says his canary from Missouri nine months ago began singing at 8 PM as Presidential election returns came in and kept singing until midnight.
Ninety nine aliens who took citizenship oaths before Federal Judge T M Kennerly of Houston were urged to be loyal and honest Americans. Kennerly stressed that most citizens obey laws while a small minority causes enforcement problems and urged alignment with law abiding citizens to avoid trouble.
About 200 farmers in Southwest Texas and adjacent Louisiana are experimenting with tung oil groves in search of a new money crop. The industry hopes to yield up to $50 per acre annually. Much tung oil is imported from the Orient, with China holding a long monopoly.
A lioness named Tiger at King’s Snake Farm near Brownsville gave birth to five cubs named Yvonne Annette Cecile Emilie and Maria. The event underscores Texas’ notable birth record for felines.
A well developed bunch of about 40 bananas grown by Rev and Mrs L C Beasley at the Methodist parsonage 516 East Losella Street Del Rio was shown in the Del Rio Chamber of Commerce window.
Hemp farming expands in the Rio Grande Valley Texas with a processing machine in Raymondville. The crop will be baled in 250 pound bundles and shipped by water from Port Isabel to East Coast manufacturers. Hemp fibers go into rugs burlap bagging linens and other strong goods. Minnesota Wisconsin and Illinois are the only other U S hemp producers.
Mrs. C. B. Townsend of the Port Neches Home Demonstration Club won a prize for a bedspread she crafted from sugar sacks. She tafted it with green candlewick thread.
The attorney general's department sold 2800 barrels of confiscated hot oil in Longview for 6 cents a barrel with proceeds to the general revenue fund. Assistant Attorney General Joe Sharp said the sale price reflects a growing confiscation program begun in May 1935.
Official returns show Roosevelt with about 630000 majority in Texas as Pollard leads Democrat electors with 734484 votes and Republican rival Weichsel gains 108711. Only Gillespie and Kendall counties go Republican. minor parties total 5032 statewide with 150 Communist votes in Cameron county.
Thirty five Texas 4 H Club boys attended the Fifteenth National 4 H Club Congress in Chicago. The trip was earned for outstanding achievements in agricultural club work.
W. D. Ray of Fort Worth made a down payment of 138 dollars in pennies for a new car. The coin stack weighed 94 pounds and filled a half bushel. He had saved the coins for eleven months.
Mrs. Melvina Ingle Chesher marked her 103rd birthday on November 14 at her son’s Jacksonville home. Born in Jasper Alabama, she credits moderation and steady work for her longevity. her brother A. J. Ingle, age 87, is among living relatives.
Rio Grande Valley pink grapefruit growers organize to control 2000 carloads from 200000 trees and set a price of 2 cents per pound, leveraging a local monopoly on the fruit.
Figures by the National Emergency Council show Texas received 1 019 420 273 of the New Deal money. Texas was among seven states to exceed 1 billion dollars and its per capita allocation was about 168 dollars.
Texas largest vegetable and fruit canning facility built at Mc Allen by Riona Products Corporation. The plant cost about $1,000,000, owner Lee Akin says. It will employ 150 to 175 people when fully operating.
A Texas granite monument 1514 feet high was erected in Brownwood to memorialize Noah T. Byars a patriot pioneer Baptist preacher and blacksmith. Byars signed the Texas Declaration of Independence in his Washington-on-the Brazos blacksmith shop on March 2 1836.
Ninety women labor in WPA sewing rooms in Nacogdoches county with an annual payroll near 27000 dollars. They produce about 55000 dollars worth of garments each year from government supplied materials. Employment is limited to widows or married women whose husbands cannot work.
Governor Allred plans to urge the Legislature at the coming session to levy sufficient taxes to retire the state's general fund deficit over the long term. He attributed the rising deficit to retirement of unemployment relief debt at about 2.7 million dollars annually.
R. C. Henderson of Uvalde becomes the second Texas hunter to bulldog a wild buck deer. He dropped from a tree and jumped onto the buck to hold its horns before stabbing it to death with a hunting knife. the first reported case was a West Texan who bulldogged a deer from a car running board two years earlier.
In Presidio County Texas Mexican farmers practice an ancient threshing technique described by Henry Daly. They trampling wheat with mules to separate grain, sift with a perforated tub, winnow on a windy day, and finish by hand cleaning to remove chaff.
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