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Newspaper
Jal Flare
Location
Jal, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1940
Page
3
The Jal Flare is a weekly Jal New Mexico newspaper published by Long Publications. It lists the Jal News Stand as the business office and notes entry as second class matter on November 15, 1939 at the Jal New Mexico post office under the act of March 3 1879.
The church notes urge loyalty, timely attendance, and welcoming visitors during Easter services. The Texas oil brief reports 1.386 million barrels daily refining capacity, high drilling costs, and pumpers comprising most wells. It also cites 28,600 miles of gas mains and shifts in cash income from agriculture to Minerals between 1929 and 1938.
Homemaker cooks thrifty meals using an electric deep well cooker. The plan features beef shanks, potatoes, onions, cole slaw, and a date and orange pudding, with steps for browning meat, arranging vegetables, and steaming the pudding mold for about two hours.
A large group of youngsters in Jal enjoyed an Easter egg hunt near the old clay pit west of town on Sunday afternoon hosted by Mrs. Ollie Ely and Mrs. Ann Stewart. Twenty boys and girls joined games and egg searches, then were served sandwiches eggs and cookies at the Ely home before more play. Attendees included Juanita Ely Dorothy Joiner Helen Carson Gene Woods and many others. Texas oil gas and profits statistics are noted alongside a Jal election proclamation for April 2 1940 naming a mayor and four councilmen to serve terms of 2 to 6 years with polling at the schoolhouse from 8 am to 6 pm.
The American Social Hygiene Association marks National Hygiene Day on February 1 urging engaged couples to consider medical exams before marriage. They emphasize exams curb syphilis and other health risks, noting a shift from ministerial visits to doctor visits. Mrs. K B Walker visited Monument residents over the weekend as local men fished with friends.
Texas hosts forty carbon black plants producing 425 million pounds annually, accounting for 82 percent of the nation’s total output.
In forty oil producing Texas counties property taxes on oil fields account for 68 percent of all local tax levies across cities counties school districts water districts levee districts and other independent subdivisions.
Texas oilmen drilled more than 176000 wells at a total outlay of 3.5 billion dollars. Over 52000 tests were dry holes, marking substantial losses for owners.
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