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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1950
Page
8
Classified listing offers a four wheel trailer without bed and 1929 Chevrolet parts for sale from Aug L Kuehn of Moulton Route 1 at Witting, plus a 75 pound capacity wooden ice box. Also a note on St Crispin and a feature on the USS Constitution aging as a floating museum in Boston Navy Yard.
A small poultry sale note lists one hundred baby chick cockerels priced at one dollar each during the current month.
Hallettsville Rotary announces three prize saddles for the State Championship High School Rodeo to be held June 15 to 17. Winners in tie-down calf roping, all around cowboy, and girls cutting horse contests will receive saddles built around roping tree and cutting horse tree posts with state championship tooling. Mullins reports over 50 entries on file before March 1 and invites Texas high school cowboys and cowgirls to sign up.
Basil Bell was elected president of the DeWitt-Lavaca University of Texas Ex-Students Club at Hallettsville where forty members attended. He succeeds Arnold G. Schwartz of Hallettsville. Officers elected include E. T. Summers Cuero first vice president W F E Bud Browning Yoakum second vice president Paul C Boethel third vice president and Max Wolters Shiner secretary. Easter Seals campaign runs March 9 through Easter Sunday to fund medical care and training for crippled children.
Dr George W Cox states typhoid fever peaks soon and urges cleaning premises to cut flies and other insects. He warns carriers can spread disease via water milk food or hands and stresses immunization and strict public health measures for safe milk water and food.
The Texas legislature ends a special session with Governor Shivers praising the body for completing its duties. Lawmakers levy an extra penny on cigarettes and raise the omnibus tax to fund state institutions and services.
Governor Allan Shivers reported that the Texas special session ended with $21,000,000 allotted for state hospital operations and a $5,000,000 annual building fund for seven years. New revenue will come from a one cent per pack cigarette tax increase and modest rises on beer wine whiskey natural resources and utilities. The measures aim to improve hospital care deter crime rural services and education while opposing federal tideland control.
Wilbert Hortsmann formerly of Three Rivers has been reassigned to Hallettsville to work with Charley Auten. Hortsmann, a native Texan, graduated from the highway patrol school at Camp Mabry in Austin in June 1949.
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