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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1930
Page
6
The piece argues soil fertility hinges on livestock, especially dairy cows, to curb erosion and sustain yields. John A. Arey notes continuous cropping depletes soil nutrients, while pasturing improves soil health and provides grazing, with manure boosting soil structure and microbial life for long term productivity.
In Galveston on November 2 the longshoremen's strike ending contract was signed by Gulf district ILA secretary Frank Mellina. Union and shipper terms halt a stoppage that stalled 30 vessels across four Texas ports and set resumption of loading for Monday morning. Separate agreement with Sykes Brothers applies to West Indies and Cuban trade. Wages set at 65 cents per hour for southbound ships with inbound sugar shipments paid per bag. exact sugar-rate figures pending.
Seven hundred members of the International Longshoremen's Association were ordered back to work on Houston docks at 8 p.m. Monday after Sunday’s settlement at Galveston ending a general longshore strike that had shut four Texas ports.
Texas leads the nation in natural gas output for 1929, the Federal Bureau of Mines reports, surpassing Oklahoma for the first time. California ranks third while Louisiana and West Virginia follow as fourth and fifth.
Shanghai dispatch reports 100000 Chinese troops with gunboats and airpower pressing Communist and bandit forces from the Yangtse region. Government units advance into Kiangsi and Hunan while planes strike Reds near Nan chang and Tai yuan as missionaries’ safety is confirmed.
A Weslaco firm shipped bees to Santo Domingo Republic and distributed to France Spain Japan Canada Mexico and many honey producing states in the United States.
Uvalde reports indicate John N Garner of Uvalde minority leader in the U S House was re-elected today. Returns not complete, but a comfortable majority was anticipated. His opponent was Carlos G Watson of Brownsville, Republican nominee and assistant federal attorney.
Beeville to host a new tile manufacturing plant. Grande Saline builds a 66,000 volt transformer station to interconnect Southwestern Gas & Light and Texas Power & Light. Galveston to spend 2,855,000 on park school paving sewer work and lowland filling. Omaha Naples to burn natural gas this winter as line from Daingerfield is completed. Lone Star Gas completes compressor at Brad and builds a station at Joshua to ease winter peaks with another to draw gas from X-ray field in Erath County.
Franklin D. Roosevelt won the New York governorship by a margin exceeding half a million votes with five-sixths of returns counted. He led Republican Charles H. Tuttle by nearly 700,000 votes and carried the entire Democratic state ticket, surpassing Alfred E. Smith’s prior record. Tuttle conceded defeat early in the evening.
Texas collects around three million dollars monthly from gasoline taxes. About three quarters funds road construction and maintenance while one quarter supports public school upkeep.
Captain A W McKillip, 91, a Civil War veteran who stood near Lincoln's assassination site, died Saturday at his Kerr County home after living in Texas 59 years. A native of Pennsylvania, he moved from Galveston to Victoria County then Kerr County, had wealth from prudent investments, and traveled the world. He survived capture by Confederate forces and two wounds.
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