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Newspaper
Hearne Democrat
Location
Hearne, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1925
Page
6
The tenth annual report of the Texas State Fire Insurance Commission shows a drop in the average fire insurance rate in effect across Texas. It compares current rates to a forty year average and notes the commission was created to regulate fire insurance matters.
Wel Morn Patteson, superintendent of the Bradstreet Company in Dallas, notes state business totals from July through November reach 2705, with 95 negative for the prior period. The report compares current figures to earlier measures, highlighting period shifts.
A donation valued at one million dollars was announced December 20 by Dr Charles C Seleeman president of Southern Methodist University. The gift to the university was made by Mr and Mrs R Tarper Kirby of Austin and was routed through Dr W D Bradfield of the SMU school of theology.
The Thirty-ninth Texas Legislature will have two members under 23 years of age. Tom J. Renfro of Comanche county is 22 and will be the youngest member. Corry T. Sheats of Franklin county is also 22, four months older than Renfro.
Mexia voters approve a bond issue of 1 571 000 for good roads in Consolidated Road District No 4 comprising Road Districts 4 12 and 16. The district tally shows 659 for and 65 against, a winning margin above ten to one.
A New York sculptor works on a small model for Bell county boys who served in the World's War. Sponsored by the Women's Parliamentary Club of Temple the figure shows a soldier at arms with a wreath and space for an inscription at his feet.
J G Tarver of Alba Texas claims to be the world's biggest man. At 29 years old he stands eight feet five inches tall, weighs 460 pounds and wears an 81 inch hatband. He joined the 1924 Fall Scottish Rite class in Dallas in December and completed degrees from four to thirty second becoming a Shriner.
W Terrell Sledge of Kyle Hays County UT senior received the Rhodes scholarship from Texas in 1925 announced by Dr W B Bizzell chair of the Rhodes committee. He will receive his A B from UT in June and enter Oxford University in fall 1925.
Directors of the C. R. Miller Manufacturing Company announced contracts for the mill output will be shipped to Serbia Greece and South Africa. The Waco Miller Cotton Mill operates at full capacity with day and night shifts.
Charles E. Mitchell president of the National City Bank of New York told Dallas bankers at the Adolphus Hotel that Texas faces a great period of prosperity starting in 1925. He urged plans that avoid another cycle of overproduction and inflation.
Texas ranks second in handling water-borne commerce for the year ending June 1924, per United States Shipping Board figures. New York leads. Texas exports rose by about 500000 dollars versus 1923, while imports fell about 400000. Total imports reached 4517098 tons and exports 4794847 tons.
Worth had the lowest rate on fatalities from accidents of any city in the United States over 109000 population during 1928, according to statistics compiled by the Department of Commerce and announced by the Texas Department of Wealth. Fort Worth's percentage was 47.3. Jousten leads other cities in Texas in number of fatalities, with Dallas second and San Antonio third.
A special bond and improvement district election in Cotulla carried unanimously. It creates a 75000 dollar fund for the preliminary survey of the Cotulla irrigation project on the Nueces River eight miles west of Cotulla. The plan covers about 150000 acres as surveyed last summer along the river bottom near Cotulla.
Fort Worth voters approved a new city charter on December 11 to establish a city manager form of government. The first City Council election is slated for April 7, 1925, after which nine council members will choose a city manager as chief executive. Total ballots were under 13,000 with 7,076 for and 5,530 against.
Mrs Mary Couts Burnett aged 68 widow of cattleman S Burk Burnett died December 16 at her Fort Worth home. Her estate valued above four million dollars was left to a trust for Texas Christian University. A library named for her is nearing completion on campus funded by her gift, one of the state’s largest for education.
Work began in December on the Red Bluff irrigation project in Reeves County. A dam across the Pecos River will impound water to irrigate about 200000 acres. The dam site moved from New Mexico to Texas to simplify boundaries. The district will consolidate Pecos River irrigation districts in Texas and cost nearly 3 million dollars, likely with U S government aid.
Immense benefit to North Texas farming is predicted from the December cold spell, says M. C. Counts, Tarrant County agricultural agent. He notes grasshoppers, boll weevils, boll worms, and plant aphis caused major damage last season, and most of these pests are expected to be killed before hibernation, leaving fields largely free of pests for the coming growing season.
The State Board of Health reports a 13 percent drop in malaria cases in 1924 aided by a $10,000 legislative grant for mosquito control. Combined with $55,000 from seventy cities, the program now protects about 900,000 people, or 60 percent of Texas urban residents, a growth since 1920 when three units formed with the International Health Service.
R A Gilliam of Dallas president of the Texas Forestry Association offers to underwrite prizes for a boys forestry club contest planned across Texas. J O Steeke, State Forester, confirms the plan requiring 300 to 400 dollars yearly. Eligible youths ages 10 to 19 would tend an acre of timber on their father’s farm, with prizes for six classes of timber stands after a year. The program aims to promote farm forestry among timber owning Texas farmers, funded by a legislative appropriation.
Formal opening of Worth Mills in Fort Worth on December 15 announced. Five hundred women and girls will be employed once machinery is installed and operations run at full capacity. Harding-Tillotson Company and other major investors hold stock and act as selling agents, per Rudy Copeland.
Dallas to host two military trainings camps next summer. Maj. Gen. C P Summerall informed Mayor Blaylock. Fair Park offered for army use. Expected attendance 2,000 to 8,000 men. Infantry Reserve mobilizes July 21 to August 5 and the training camp runs July 28 to August 27 with about 800 students.
The Bureau of Internal Revenue spent 382,642 to operate two Texas collection districts as the government collected 36,863,757 in the fiscal year 1924. Texas districts handled 28,295,285 income tax and 8,568,472 in miscellaneous taxes. The Texas operation costs were 187,319 for the first district and 195,323 for the second. Prohibition enforcement in Texas cost 96,730, including 71,696 on salaries and 2,309 for evidence and miscellaneous items.
The state’s bonded indebtedness is estimated at 338 million dollars with nearly a third voted by municipalities. Road districts rank second, counties third, and school levee drainage and reclamation districts share in the burden. Thirty and forty year bonds prevail, with serial maturities also sought.
Governor Neff selected Fort Worth duo Miss Gladys Yoakum Wright and W. J. Marsh as the writers of the best Texas State song from 887 submissions. If the Legislature adopts it, they win the $1,000 prize. The winner’s words and music will be released to Texas newspapers.
U S Census Bureau reports 12,796,216 running bales of American cotton ginned before December 12, with Texas counting 4,574,551 of those. State totals include Alabama 960,542, Oklahoma 1,569,791, Georgia 1,012,802, Mississippi 1,101,475 and others, while overall last year’s tally was 9,549,015 running bales.
Representative Lanham urged a government helium policy during naval appropriation debates. The plan would spend about 1,000,000 this year to produce helium from Texas gas fields for the army, navy, and Bureau of Mines. Lanham cited Fort Worth’s plant cutting costs to about 50 cents per cubic foot, vs 1,500 dollars in 1917, and urged government control of supplies for future needs. The Shenandoah cost 216,000 to fill, and Petrolia, Texas, is the current extraction site.
The House Committee on Mines is expected to report the Sheppard bill approving a 550000 dollar annual appropriation for five years to develop potash fields in West Texas. USGS chief Dr George Otis Smith testified there is commercial potash across a vast alkaline area west of Fort Worth to above Amarillo. If potash is found the government leases land, drills tests, and the owner repays the testing costs.
The annual report shows total state assets of 78 million with 40 million cash and 80 million in bonds. Available school, university and related permanent funds total hundreds of millions. cash on hand largely allocated to general revenue, school fund, highway fund and university building fund. A general revenue deficit exceeding 2 million exists but is expected to be cleared by February with strict legislative economy to restore cash balance by year end.
I. W. Alexander of Albany Texas has purchased Diamond a Hereford bull once valued at 10000 for breeding at a price of 2000.
A national vote by a religious magazine ranks twenty five influential preachers in the United States. J George WwW and Truett of Dallas Texas are listed among the leaders reflecting strong Texas representation in the clergy prominence survey.
Post offices report two fresh $10 counterfeit notes circulating in Texas. One fake bears the Federal Reserve Bank of New York designation while the other imitates the First National Bank of Superior Wisconsin.
State officers confirm a 1924 population gain of 45000 for Texas. November figures, not complete, show births near 9000, about 2000 above the average month.
Official state records show 500 sets of twins and over a dozen sets of triplets were born in Texas in 1924. In the first half of the year Dallas led with thirty twin births, followed by El Paso with nineteen.
The Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors recommends 5,061,700 for Texas river and harbor projects for the year ending June 30, 1926, in its annual report to Congress dated December 1. This compares with a previous year's recommendation of 4,177,300.
Figures from the State Railroad Commission show 68 killed and 224 injured at Texas railroad highway crossings in the nine months ending September 30, totaling 292 casualties. Most accidents resulted from vehicleTrain collisions, with drivers attempting to beat trains, stalling on tracks, or colliding with locomotive sides.
Texas wool contracts for about half of the 1925 Spring long wool at an average 50 cents per pound. Ozona leader T A Kincaid says the 1924 Spring crop weighed about 18 million pounds, with some estimates showing 12 million contracted so far. Contracts began last summer near 40 to 45 cents and rose to about 57 cents, with prices for prime fleeces now higher. Many sheepmen have not contracted yet and wait until February or March, holding their stock.
The Texas Council of Safety in Austin urged concerted citizen action to reduce street and highway deaths. It invites cooperation from civic groups churches police Boy Scouts and schools to run comprehensive education campaigns and establish safety councils in towns lacking them.
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