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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1933
Page
6
The Eagle notes spring planting under way with corn and garden seeds being sown. Home demonstration work begins April 1 in Kimble County and runs through summer, with various locals contributing to farm and ranch life and continued emphasis on reliable seed and groceries.
Mr. and Mrs. Olin Ridenhower and daughters traveled to De Leon for the illness of Mrs. J Doss Miller mother of Mrs. Ridenhower. Mrs Miller died at age 82 and was buried in De Leon. Mrs Taran Bissett left Brady for a visit with Judge and Mrs A R Pool. Jim Bob Pool and Hugh Cox accompanied her home.
Eagle launches weekly Swap Column to boost trade in Kimble county with 25 word ads at five cents cash each. Ads must be swap offers and ready by Wednesday noon. Listings include properties and livestock swap options such as a goat ranch and sow with pigs for corn hay baled hay or lambs.
Robert Heath of Wesley Chapel in Houston county roasted his peanut crop and sold bagged nuts in town every Saturday. He doubled as a buyer of chicken settings using nickels and dimes. County agents in Marion and Fisher counties discuss home orchards and leather tanning from hides for repairs. Brady Cooperative Poultry Producers Association contracted 4500 turkeys eggs to northern buyers and envisions turkey egg breeding sales to distant markets yielding about four dollars per hen.
Mrs J K Siberius of Los Fresnos contributes a hooked rug for the University of Texas new home economics building. The piece reflects a tradition of early American rug making by Cameron county demonstrators. Emmett Nickel of Red Deer Community in Roberts county learned meat cutting from an Extension Service Specialist and has since helped neighbors butcher 40 hogs and 10 beeves.
The new law, enacted as emergency measure by the governor, repeals prior gas tax statutes and makes evasion a felony with fines from 100 to 5000 dollars, jail terms up to six months, and penitentiary terms up to two years. It also establishes a chemical standard for gasoline and tightens manufacture, transportation, and marketing provisions.
Officials order full records on gasoline kerosene naptha and blends with tax free fuels. Dealers must post tax separate from price and show paying firm name. Trucks and tank cars must carry manifests detailing cargo origin destination and tax paid.
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