Government set aside cuts hit pork supply in 1944
The War Food Administration's set aside order, effective Aug. 27, requires slaughterers to reserve nine percent of weekly pork carcasses as government bacon. With a 1944 pig crop near 89 million, civilian bacon remains limited as feed prices and low herd numbers constrain production. Prices, forecasts, and regional slaughter data show little relief soon.
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Agriculture Situation
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
U. S. Department of Agriculture
State Prison Board To Meet Monday In Austin
Gov. Coke R. Stevenson will consult with the board on filling three vacancies. Two vacancies exist and Llord Stone of Fort Worth withholds resignation until new members are named. Other vacancies come from the death of Paul Sanderson and the removal of Walter Dillard.
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State Prison Board
Mondame Austin
Coke R. Stevenson
Llord Stone
Fort Worth
Paul Sanderson
Trinity
Walter Dillard
New Braunsfels
Mexicans Celebrate All Souls Day In Cemeteries
Crowded cemeteries in Mexico City mark Day of the Dead with picnics and carnival attractions. Saloons and schools closed. theatres show Don Juan Tenorio as skull imagery and sugar skulls feature in celebrations. Children eat bread of the dead and play with toy coffins as officials appear on sheets.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Don Juan Tenorio
Don Juan
Hallowe'en
Lubbock News Briefs Include Meetings and Obits
Fiecet. m of the new Seen Lubbock chapter of the National Aeronautics Association will be held at 8 o'clock Monday night in the Chinieyo room Hilton hotel. Roene will conduct the Merbert D. McKeehnie, priorities analyst with the War Production board in El Paso, available for questions on priorities matters in the chamber of commerce Monday and Tuesday. Funeral services for Judge Hill Stewart, about 71, pioneer Lubbock lawyer who died in Houston Friday, were held Saturday afternoon at 4 in Houston. Mrs. Gledys Melden has assumed duties as instructor in home economics education at Texas Tech. Four Lubbock-area graduates were named in UT fall degree list. Cpl. Jack Baker, formerly of the Avalanche-Journal, is en route to Victoria, Kansas, to join a B-29 crew. Salvation Army drive in Lubbock nears half-way with $4,500 of $10,000. Lt. Marvin B. Hilburn Jr. promoted to first lieutenant in France. A 72nd district grand jury will report Monday. possible 14 felony investigations discussed. W. C. Bil Austin spoke to the Lubbock Association of Life Underwriters at their luncheon.
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Fiecet. m
New Seen Lubbock
National Aeronautics Association
Chinieyo
Hilton Hotel
Ro Ene
Merbert D. McKeehnie
War Production Board
el Paso
Chamber of Commerce
Hill Stewart
Lubbock
Houston
Stewart
Gledys Melden
Farm Security Administration
Lubbock County
Texas Tech
Cpl
Jack Baker
The
Avalanche-Journal
Blanche Baker
Cpl. Baker
Denver
Colo
Victoria
Kas
Bartlesville
Okla
Charles R. Bacon
Dan Blair
Burton S. Burks
Agriculture report notes mixed moisture and harvest trends
The department of agriculture reports moisture needed in central and eastern counties for fall plowing while peanut harvests advance in northern counties. Cotton harvest remains favorable in a full week of picking, with labor shortages for harvest hands in rolling areas. Cattle and sheep move to wheat pastures in the Panhandle as grain sorghum prospers in the South Plains. A Hilton hotel gathering featured Ben Allbright of Dallas and J. E. Yates presiding.
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Department of ‘Agriculture
Thern
Panhandle
South Plains
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War Food Administration
Rwitser
Midwest
Terry
Lynn
Hockley
Garza
Crosby
Floyd
Hale An Lamb
Hooker Electric CO
Hory
A. Youngly
Tao
Chiropractic
University of Texas
Mary Ellis Maedgen
William Walter Akers
Pat Stephen Drennan
Lockney
Mona Frederick Ees
Spur
Salvation Army
South Plavia
Lubbock Army Airfield
Marvin B. Hilburn, Jr
France
M. B. Hilburn
Ave. M
W. C
Bil) Austin
Port Arthur
Lubbock Association of Life Underwriters
Toyland
Oulje Queen Beer’s
Porker Brothers Games
Pit
Flinch
Reck
Wwe
Wards
Wbts
Reckbabe
Gesyl
Deeder
Child's
Dad
Sevel
Friedman-Shelby
Oxfords
Girl’s Oxfords
BABY
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