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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1943
Page
3
Local notes record visits and travel of London residents to Brady Brady hospital stays and family gatherings. Veterans like Raymond Kirkpatrick visit relatives while others recall Pearl Harbor battles. Farmers and families stockpile harvests as housewives can surplus vegetables.
Following recent rains Kimble County reports improved garden and field conditions. The correspondence notes lush gardens, fields, and crops across the region as readers share an optimistic outlook.
A light rain blesses crops and river rise to improve fishing and corn and feed yields. Local notes mention Rita Gephart visiting Lomagene Stewart, Lee Gephart injuring his toe, Aunt Beckie McCaleb visiting Mrs. Black, Tom Cowsert moving from the Flowers ranch, and Joe Maddux leasing the Junction ranch. We are sorry.
Mr Cowsert plans a move before watermelons ripen. Allen Davis and family visited Mr and Mrs Will Fairchilds Friday night. Melvin Hull Jr reports a fine crop at T C Daniel farm. Pete Schmidt Jr and W D Lomagene Stewart visited Saturday night. Bill Speck shears his sheep this week. Mrs Alzada Pearl returned from Gouldbush and Coleman after visiting daughters. Dan St Clair works to clean his crop and enjoys a very fine yield. Ernest Hardesty and family attended a show in London Wednesday night. Mr and Mrs W G Matthews did business in Junction Wednesday. Leta Liefeste visited Lomagene Stewart.
As tomatoes set fruit growers should combat tomato fruit worm. Millers move between patches laying eggs on terminal plant parts. Eggs hatch in 3 to 5 days and young worms feed on immature fruit damaging multiple tomatoes. early poison application advised.
Begin pest checks early, after fruit set or when tomatoes reach marble size. Apply calcium or lead arsenate dust or cryolite and sulfur mixtures to plants every five to seven days, continuing until about three weeks before ripening.
Mrs. B. P. Brummett of Childress County reports her Chester White sow Victory farrowed 50 pigs in 11 months and six days. She says Victory’s litters produced 175 dollars at weaning and includes a profitable breeding and meat hog. Victory’s progeny and grandchildren thrive as she supports war effort through efficient farming.
James H. Crisp son of Mr and Mrs Johnnie Crisp arrived home from the U S Navy after enlisting in March 1942 and serving in the Pacific since September 1942. He sustained a bayonet wound and other injuries and has been discharged but must report to San Antonio at stated times following substantial service since last September.
The piece argues large dairies closing push the nation toward family farms where farmers endure around the clock milking and chores. It claims war industry wages drive milk costs, suggesting if workers struck for higher pay, milk could reach a dollar a quart and blames nature and sabotage for production limits. It ends with a call to place strikers in the Army.
The Junction Eagle asks readers to revise and confirm information about boys and girls in service. Pictures ready to run await corrected details, and subscribers, including out-of-town readers, are urged to send updates on a post card to keep the weekly column informative.
Fragment discusses farms and real work imply workers gaining understanding through labor. No specific people places or organizations are identifiable in the excerpt.
More than a million Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will roam the woods this summer on a new scouting expedition to search for heavy scrap iron. Overnight camps will let them cover wider territory and haul light scrap to collection points for loading onto trucks.
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