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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1939
Page
3
Since 1933 the program has grown from a few assistants to widespread reach with 4-H activities across nearly all counties. Assistant county agents were hired to handle the expanding 4-H Club work as interest increased and programs broadened.
An old advertisement extols Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as an effective malaria remedy containing quinidine and iron. It claims rapid relief from chills and fever and is marketed as pleasant to take for all ages. The text shifts to Alabama 4-H Club data showing growth in enrollment and structure, detailing officer roles and yearly enrollment planning.
The Morgan county 4-H program highlights supervision by parents and a club agent with projects in swine beef dairy cattle poultry corn winter legumes and cotton. In 1938 eighteen members bought twenty one grade beef steers and sold them in Decatur for 1422.96 profit with an average of 67.76 per steer and 19.49 net per steer. County and 4-H yields for corn and cotton show gains, and a large annual rally draws about 1000 youths. A 4-H Camp at Cole Springs near Falkville serves as a unique state facility with a recent two day camp drawing 128 attendees.
Morgan County farm agent B G Hall highlights H H Evans of Falkville who built a beef cattle operation from 15 native cows and an Aberdeen Angus bull to 21 half breeds and 15 7 8 and 15 16 heifers valued at 1440. He sold steer calves and undesirable heifers for 1350, increasing inventory and income to 2790. Evans emphasizes improved pasture as key, fertilizing 50 acres in 1935 with triple super phosphate and limestone, seeding bluegrass orchard grass Italian ryegrass white clover and lespedeza. He grazes cattle eight months a year and hay for the rest. Other Morgan County farmers adopting beef cattle include L D Moore, W M Booth, F E B Burleson, E G Hamilton, J P Simpson, John B Sewell, W B Orr, A C Sample, T S Hall, C G Hardwick, W L Hardwick, M M Holliday, Sim L Howell, H E Owen, N A Key, J D Atkinson, R W Holland, C E Hutson, Ivan Hutson, C G Sanders, Cain Brothers, B P Collier, J J McCutcheon, Alvin R Kay, James Cooper.
The Enon Lawrence County revival ended with ten new members, eight baptized. Visits and family gatherings filled the community as Ozelle and Laverne Hensley joined Orval McCughren for Saturday night supper. Lorene Ledlow improves after a serious hand issue and Ruby McCaghren from Oakville spent time with relatives. Mrs J P Hensley bedridden with a sore leg and Mrs Wilber Jackson visited Mrs Robert Sandlin.
General Frank T. Hines, veterans' administrator, urged Veterans of Foreign Wars to condemn fascist and Nazi-aligned groups as un American. He spoke amid the 40th national encampment in Boston urging unity against extremist elements.
In a prepared address, Geh. Hines criticizes those advocating changes to the U S form of government. He urges opponents to first understand what the American system and its procedures truly stand for before proposing reforms.
An unusual incident in Omaha begins with a free haircut that sets off a police hunt for a public enemy as of late August. The fragment indicates urgent action by authorities in response to a daring or notable act.
Agricultural note by R. L. Carlson on boosting fall oats yields. Recommend sowing in September, using two to five hundred pounds of nitrate top-dressing in spring, treating oats for smut with formaldehyde, and proper storage and handling. Emphasizes Hastings Hundred as a leading variety and early planting to avoid failures.
An enthusiastic but unskilled barber college student gave a would be haircut to a unemployed patron. A passerby mistook the shaved head for Public Enemy No. 1 Irving Chapman and alerted police. Officers towed in the man overnight and later apologized for detaining him.
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