Texas Oil Industry Pays Out Vast Sums to Workers and Land Owners
A Dallas issued booklet from the Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association shows Texas oil workers receive 49.5 percent of the net production cost per barrel, with taxes, supplies, depreciation, and royalties shaping a $400 million annual flow to workers and landowners. It notes tax collectors gain $75 million and that the oil industry supports a permanent Texas industry employing a significant share of the state's population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association
Continental
Texas Petroleum Workers
Texas school lunch program feeds 260000 children in December
A Surplus Marketing Administration report shows 260,348 Texas children in 8,627 schools received free surplus foods in December aided by the Extension Service and other groups. The program reached 212 counties with 42 not yet participating, while farmers benefited from nearly 2.95 million pounds of surplus foods including eggs, flour, fruit, potatoes, pork, bacon, and lard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Texas
Surplus Marketing Administration
SMA
Texas Extension Service
Atvemua
Home management program boosts rest and efficiency in Texas
Louise Bryant leads extension efforts showing home management applies business principles to homemaking. In 1940, 1000+ families in 28 counties followed schedules, 980 kept home accounts, 690 budgeted funds, 1800 4 H members practiced personal accounting, aiding 5000+ families in 86 counties with timely information and better living. Savings from plans totaled 14001.10 in 22 counties. Mrs Walter Parker and her children were shopping in Harper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Texas A. and
M. College Extension Service
Louise Bryant
Bryant
Texas
Gillespie County Court Hones Budget and Appointments
Gillespie County Commissioners in regular session updated the budget with depository appointment to Fredericksburg National Bank for two years and filled a Justice of the Peace vacancy in Precinct 1. Dr. J. E. Peden was reappointed County Health Officer for two years. various fund balances were reported and endorsed. The court authorized halving state occupation tax collection by county for 1941 and approved small welfare aid for hospitalization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillespie County Commissioners Court
Fredericksburg National Bank
William Bruns
Justice of the Peace
Leo J. Blanchard
J. E. Peden
Commissioners Court
Peden
Texas State Board of Health
Justice of the Peace Act
Mergenthaler
Elgin
Court House
County of
Gillespie
Romy AP
Henry H. Holly
Johann Ludwig
James A. Lund
Gillespie County
Fredericksburg
General Fund
Eggs and Cooperation in Texas Poultry Markets
Texas farm families grow eggs under a guarantee with premiums of two to four cents a dozen for fresh infertile eggs. Hill Navarro Floyd counties report $1,385 gross per six months, Uvalde $200 yearly, and 4-H girls in Willbarger County earned $6,382 from poultry products. A Vernon 4-H marketing association forms after success, with notable contracts for milk fed fryers and eggs. Ben Bragg group averages $141.50 net yearly over 10 years from eggs and fryers. Three Cornell scientists outline a method to retain vitamin C in pasteurized milk by removing air, making de-acidified milk high in vitamin C equivalent to a slice of orange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Texas
Myrtle Murray
A. and
M. College Extension Service
Hill, Navarro
Floyd County Egg Marketing Associations
Uvalde County Egg Marketing Association
Willbarger County
Vernon
Murray
Ben Bragg
Hill County Egg Marketing Association
Bragg
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Lochte Storage & Commission Co
J. F. Wedekind’s
Texaco
Bill’s Lunch Room
FOOD
Walter Parker
Harper
Woerner
Woermer
South
Wm. Bruns
New World
New Netherland
Virginia
Europe
Lutheran Brotherhood
Mason
Werner Weber
Irte
Washington, D. C
Mr. Weber
Very Sincerely Yours, Chas. L. South
Texas Farmers’ Cooperatives
C. EF. Bowles
Bowles
Oop Pepin the Short
St. Denis
Paris
England
Cornell University
Bette Harmon
Columbia Network
Kate Hopkins
Angel of Mercy
Ford
Ford Tubven
Watacis
Advance Motor Company
Ford Sales & Serv
Fey
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