Five Year Plan Taught To Texas Farms
A statewide five year plan for Texas agriculture emphasizes voluntary, county driven farm and home improvements under the whole farm demonstration program. In 1938, 239 demonstrations across 97 counties show progress with landscaping, tree planting, yard leveling, and home renovations while boosting home food production and poultry flocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Texas Agriculture
Louise Bryant
Texas A. and M. College Extension Service
Increase Looms In Malnutrition
In Texas malnutrition threatens public health with an estimated 50 percent of school children affected. Dr. Geo W Cox cites poverty, diets, sleep, fatigue and heredity as factors and urges a balanced diet and educated food habits to combat the rising problem nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Geo. W. Cox
Six Medals Awarded To Pecos High Students
Six medals for scholastic and athletic achievement will be awarded at Pecos High School this year. Five winners will be chosen by student body vote, and one by faculty selection. Awards honor top scholastic record, school spirit, most valuable athlete (boy and girl), activity participant, and outstanding band member.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos High School
Oraha
Residents Return From Uvalde Visit
Mr and Mrs Bike Simmons returned from Uvalde after weeks visiting relatives and friends while Mr Simmons recovered from a recent illness. Miss Millie Shafer and Miss Rebeth Hendrick Pecos high school faculty visited Pas2 and Tornillo last weekend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bike Simmons
Uvalde
Ith
Mr. Simmons
Millie Shafer
Rebeth Hendrick
Pecos High School
Bent
Pas2
Tornillo
Mineral deficiencies in livestock feed threaten health
The article explains deficiency diseases in cattle and hogs caused by lacking minerals and vitamins. Green pastures and legume hay prevent issues, while dry feeds risk anemia. lime, bone meal, and mineral mixes help prevent and treat conditions like creeps, rickets, hollow horn, and bone hunger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural College
Gulf Coast
Senior Student Wins Interclass Contest
Virginia Wray, a senior, won the interclass essay contest in the annual school competitive events. Miss Warnock took second and Floyd Stephen placed third. all three are senior class members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia Wray
Miss Wray
Pat Warnock
Floyd Stephen
City council cancels bond election and reports street grading progress
An election planned for February 28 to issue bonds for waterworks extension was called off at this week’s city council meeting amid opposition concerns. The council also backs grading efforts inside the corporate limits to improve street access in all weather conditions. Alice Fitzgerald, daughter of Mr and Mrs Charlie Fitzgerald, was badly scalded when she fell into a tub of hot water but is recovering after prompt care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell No. 1
Alice
Charlie Fitzgerald
Traffic, death mystery, and oil news from Wink area
The article reports an alarming traffic situation and a death by burning of Ed Loveless in Wink with six people questioned by District Attorney Kerr. It also notes $75,000 in AAA cotton payments for Reeves and Ward counties, Red Bluff project talks, Winkler county road work, Pecos tourism plans, narcotics enforcement concerns in Texas, rising cotton ginnings, a new oil discovery near Pecos, and Pecos High volleyball and basketball teams advancing to district play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kermit
Ed Loveless
CWA
Wink
William L. Kerr
Loveless
Reeves
Ward
AAA
Ted Johnston
J. E. Starley
Red Bluff
Winkler County
Pecos
Imperial
Grandsfalls
Richardson Oils Inc
Marie -Elizabeth Brown Wildcat
Si Stinson
Humble Oil Company
Pecos High
Reeves County
Fort Stockton
Amendment to FHA Promises 90 Percent Home Loans in Pecos
E M Lavelle Fort Worth FHA chief evaluator explains at a Pecos dinner that a new amendment to the Federal Housing Act authorizes and guarantees loans up to 90 percent for home construction. The Wappopello dam project on the St Francis River Missouri could push farmers toward Pecos valley. Ben Smith reports farmers may follow from Missouri.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pecos
E. M. Lavelle
Fort Worth
FHA
Wappopello
St. Francis River
Missouri
Pecos Valley
Ben Smith
Chamber of Commerce
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Mooney
Billings
Folsom
Tom Mooney
San Quentin
Calif
Culbert Olson
Warren Billings
Folsom Prison
San Francisco
Burns
Robert Burns
Morgan Library
New York
Kearny
N. J
Richard D. Jones
Kilmarnock
T. C. Richardson
Breeder-Feeder Association
J. B. Wheatley
Public Safety Department
Captain Wheatley
Wheatley
Cation
Bill Winston
Texaco Station
Sunset Truck Lines, Inc
el Paso
San Angelo
Monahans
Odessa
Mccamey
Enterprise
Society
Tomers
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