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Newspaper
Glen Rose Reporter
Location
Glen Rose, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1941
Page
4
The Glen Rose Reporter is published every Friday in Glen Rose Texas and entered at the post office as second class mail matter dating from September 30 1910 under the March 3 1879 act.
The piece mixes social critique with plans to boost peach production in the Southern states. It notes a 62.4 percent rise in indicated 1941 peach production to 22,031,000 bushels and announces a July 24 educational campaign to promote fresh peaches and home canning for year round use. The effort involves the Surplus Marketing Administration, the Department of Agriculture, and regional commerce groups.
Editor and wife spent a calm afternoon at J. M. Ratcliff’s rock house on the Stephenville highway six miles west of Glen Rose. Ratcliff runs an orchard with peaches plums and pears, grows berries, rents land row cropped, and features a Delco powered modern home along the scenic Glen Rose to Stephenville drive.
Local farmers offer okra tomatoes squash corn beans peas and cantaloupes to Glen Rose housewives and merchants with fair prices amid showers and good growing season.
The War Department asks Congress to extend National Guard Reserves and Selectees for the emergency. President Roosevelt warns Congress must act to prevent Army disintegration. The A-24 dive bomber begins deliveries while rifles and sub machines guns reach 1,500 daily. sixfold funding increase reported. Lend-Lease surveys London needs, with two generals speeding munitions to Britain. Surplus Marketing Agency buys 30 million pounds tobacco, 2.544 million bushels corn, 75,000 bales cotton for shipments abroad. Aluminum drive aims to add over 2,000 planes. 15 million net pounds usable expected. LaGuardia says state offices will route collected metals to smelters. Henderson urges more waste paper and cardboard for defense packing. Perkins notes retail prices up 1.7 percent in late June and 1.6 percent earlier. eggs, lard, butter, pork chops, tomatoes lead gains. Roosevelt contemplates rent and price-fix ceilings with stronger enforcement.
Bermudan onion seed growers in the Canary Islands fear war blockades will again limit Spain shipments. Officials hope seed orders from Spain reach South Texas by late August or early September to supply plantings in November and December. If short, growers will use surplus Teneriffe seed stored cold to prepare for planting in September and cope with possible reduced yields from prior season’s rain and sun shortages.
The Labor Department reports May manufacturing wages at 30.69 dollars, up 5 percent from April and 21 percent year over year. Farm wages hit eleven year high as of July 1, while Roosevelt seeks authority for year round daylight saving time to conserve power. The Federal Power Commission notes rainfall easing energy shortages in the Southeast with more rain needed.
Thousands of rural residents visiting A and M College were urged to dig up scrap aluminum for a defense related drive starting the week of July 21. Items include pots pans refrigerator trays and radio parts with volunteers and 4 H Club and Boy Scouts aiding in door to door campaigns statewide.
Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Foust who moved from the Post Oak community to Fort Worth are visiting in Glen Rose with her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Rogers. The Fousts are well known in Glen Rose and Somervell County.
Public citation commands defendants listed to appear at the next district court term in Glen Rose on Sept 1 1941 to answer in a land dispute suit filed July 14 1941 by W W Bridges F L Bridges and others asserting adverse possession and title to 45 acres across two tracts in Somervell County including land portions in the L A and M G Railway and E M Gray surveys. The petition seeks title possession and removal of a cloud on the title with judgment and general relief.
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