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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
6
About 300 automobile owners in Gillespie County have filed for New Certificates of Title since the October 1 effective date. The titles, issued after a state check and notary sworn statement, prove ownership and enable sales, trades, or liens on cars and trucks.
Mayor Maury Maverick faces a jury in San Antonio after a week of testimony in a poll tax conspiracy case. District Judge Bryce Ferguson seeks a charge acceptable to both sides as prosecutors and defense prepare three hours each for final arguments.
A federal matching grant of 550 975 dollars was approved to aid Texas old age pensions. Public Welfare Director Adam R Johnson said funds will arrive in time for December payments mailed by December 15. About 121 341 persons will receive checks averaging 8 75 dollars with a 6 dollar flat reduction from October.
The 1939 yearbook Food and Life from the U S Department of Agriculture presents nutrition as a complex field linking human and livestock diets. It argues dairy, fruit, and vegetable intake is insufficient for many Americans and calls farm, government, and labor cooperation to improve child nutrition.
In 1938 and 1939 more than 84 percent of farmers across the South favored cotton marketing quotas. In Texas 78 percent favored quotas last year.
Officials said there is no prospect of an early increase in the pension basis. The slight variation in the average amount results from changes implemented in re investigating about 5,000 cases per month.
Market data show hogs and cattle receipts with varied prices across weight classes and weights. A December 9 cotton voting poll details a marketing quota mechanism under AAA with 12,000,000 bales and fines for excess sales. a seed treatment method using mercury dust is described with cost and DIY machine guidance.
The amendments accelerate January 1, 1940 retirement benefits, extend coverage to over a million new people, and keep payroll taxes at one percent for three years. They remove the stop-date after 65, allow continued work with continued wage credits, deduct lump sums from monthly benefits, and adopt a formula based on average monthly pay. Next week details the benefit calculation formula.
Representative sales on the J. W. Rothmann & Son livestock market in San Antonio list hogs calves and sheep sold by buyers from towns including Willman Mason Fredericksburg Mason and Castell. Animals include hogs calves sheep and cows with prices ranging from about 3.25 to 7.50 per unit or per hundredweight.
Mason County Commissioners set a fifty cent bounty on fox pelts for December to curb the pest blamed for killing wild turkeys in the area. The measure may continue after December. Proposals to extend the bounty to Gillespie County were circulated but not presented to their court.
Mason County youth Mayfield Kothmann exhibits Lucky Boy II at the 40th International Livestock Show in Chicago. Judge George Gordon-Davis selects Rothmann's 1240 pound 16 month old Hereford as champion, marking the first Hereford win since 1932.
Remember a Picture stars Robert Taylor Greg Garson and Lew Ayers at the Palace showing Sunday and Monday December 10 and 11 with New York as a backdrop and a fox hunt love scene in a mud puddle. Heaven with a Boarded Wire Fence opens Tuesday December 12 at the Palace offering a dramatic tale of a hitch hike couple in love facing a weary future.
Betty Davis, famed actress, has won Academy recognition twice and is expected to be honored again for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth, praised as one of the finest screen performances of her career.
Errol Flynn stars as Robert Devereaux Earl of Essex in a Technicolor portrayal. The play showcases a dramatic tale of Elizabeth I with the Palace screening on Wednesday and Thursday December 13 and 14.
Farmers can find buyers or sellers through classified ads offering tools livestock seed and equipment. The ad section invites participation from growers seeking to trade surplus produce or gear and outlines simple posting guidelines.
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