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Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Location

Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

Date

Dec 05, 1948

Page

2

Oriental farming inefficiency contrasted with U S methods

Dr Ide P Trotter of Texas Extension Service outlines vast labor needs in Orient farms, where small plots and many workers prevail. He cites Japan's Konoshu station, 1600 government demonstration farms, and contrasts with U S county agent work and relief plans amid China India Pakistan Greece Turkey and Portugal conditions.

United States Japan Ide P. Trotter Texas Extension Service Orient Europe Louis Franke Extension Service Texas Daily Tokyo Trotter China India Pakistan Turkey Greece Portugal U. S. Department of Agriculture Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations America Franke Texas

Cotton Harvest In County Nears End

Unharvested cotton in the county, about ten percent of a crop seen at 100000 bales or more, will be gathered this month mostly by stripping. Grain sorghum is nearly all harvested and largely sold or in government loans while farm grain storage remains heavy for stock feed. Irrigation grows on pastures to yield early grass. lettuce harvest ended after a hard freeze with some carrots still salvaged for bulk sacks. Labor is normal with transient Mexican harvest hands returning home as machinery handles cleanup.

D. W. Sherrill Sherrill

Houston Church Leader To Speak At Taheka Harvest Day

Miss Velma Heath deaconess at Wesley Community House Houston will be main speaker at a Harvest day program at Taheka First Methodist church in Taheka Wednesday. The Lubbock district Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service sponsors the event which begins at 10 AM with the theme Advance By His Light. Lunch will be served for a small cost.

Velma Heath Wesley Community House Houston Taheka First Methodist Church Lubbock District Methodist Woman's Society of Christian Service

Big Whale Mortally Wounded In Battle With Three Sharks

A 100 foot whale fought three 15 foot sharks off Spring Lake New Jersey, ending with the whale mortally wounded beached near shore. Coast guardsmen towed attempt failed and the sharks finished the struggle in shallow water.

Spring Lake N. J New Jersey Coast Coast Guard

Automobile accident fatal to retired Dallas resident

John H. Ford a 69 year old Dallas Texas man died in Tulsa from injuries endured in a Sunday wreck near Calvin His wife Mary E Ford suffered minor injuries and was treated in hospital Ford had retired from Sinclair Oil Refining Co and lived in Dallas after leaving the company He worked previously across East Texas and in Tulsa Oklahoma City Drumright and Cushing born in Detroi la Ontario Canada

Tulsa John H. Ford Dallas Tex Calvin Mary E. Ford Lubbock Fords Ford Sinclair Oil Refining Co Sun Page East Texas Oklahoma City Drumright Cushing Detrolia Ontario Canada

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