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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1931
Page
5
The Lincoln Parish Farm Bureau led by J A Shealy and T C Alexander sponsors a series of farm meetings in Simsboro Antioch Chaudrant this week. Topics include taxes federal farm board cooperative marketing and farmers organizing with follow up to the Farmers Free Chautauqua suggestions.
The Louisiana Highway Commission will receive bids August 25 for 50 grading and gravel road projects totaling over 300 miles. Bids cover six bridge projects including Atchafalaya river crossings, one concrete road project of 5.9 miles, a 7 mile asphalt surface treatment, 21 miles of embankment surfacing, 197 miles of grad ing surfacing, and 102 miles of grading with drainage. Projects include Lincoln Parish 7 miles and Caldwell Parish 5.1 miles of grading and gravel, Union Parish 9.361 miles of grading and local iron ore surfacing.
New Orleans La Aug 4 Increased movement of wheat through New Orleans is expected from lower grain rates announced by the Frisco lines after a Missouri Pacific cut. An Interstate Commerce Commission order lets both roads cut export grain rates below local rates. Frisco drops the rate three to four cents per hundred weight, aiding shipments partly by barge to New Orleans.
A Cross Roads girl married Miss Jewel Hood of Cross Roads to Leonard Gustafson of Greenwood last Saturday night. Mrs Gustafson formerly hailed from Cross Roads community.
New Orleans August 4 June set a new low death rate says Dr W H Robin superintendent of the board of health The death rate was 14.19 per thousand for June compared with 16.35 for May and 15.35 for June 1930 The resident white death rate for June 9.22 was the lowest ever reported for that month Excessive heat has not caused a single death in New Orleans this year per Dr Bekin
Lincoln Parish schools Superintendent H L Campbell returned Friday from a two day visit with his boyhood family at Pioneer Louisiana. He praised the cotton and corn on his father’s land as the best in years and carried home a sack of Louisiana grown apples noted as top quality.
Ten Lincoln Parish farmers joined J A Shealy farm agent and regional leaders to tour Shreveport packing and cold storage facilities open for Hog Day. Officials said annual hog slaughter averages 200 per week, with most hogs shipped from Texas and Oklahoma. Meat purchases total about five million dollars yearly. Hogs cure in thirty days in summer, at two cents per pound.
Dr George S Sexton president of Centenary College and Harry D Wilson Louisiana commissioner of agriculture spoke at the Ruston Kiwanis Club luncheon with Fred Williamson editor Monroe Morning World as honored guests. They closed the Farmers Free Chautauqua sessions at Louisiana Tech praising farmers and outlooks for agriculture this fall.
New Orleans and Louisiana plan to receive bids on September 15 for a 19 million dollar bridge project spanning the Mississippi River just above New Orleans. The state allocates 7 thousand dollars toward construction with the remaining 12 million to be covered by railroad guarantees and contracts involving Southern Pacific and Texas Pacific. The agreements promise railroads added benefits within New Orleans, expanding prior privileges.
Louisiana State University will begin awarding a PhD degree at the next session, announced by Dr. James M. Smith president of the institution. The plan details and scope await formal approval and department alignment.
Manteo July 31 The 344th anniversary of Virginia Dare birth will be marked at Fort Raleigh on Roanoke Island during Dare county homecoming August 15 to 24 With Josephus Daniels secretary of the navy and Senator Morrison Cameron of NC scheduled to speak The celebration expects 25000 visitors The route includes the fully paved Virginia Dare Trail except for 14 miles and a ceremony to honor Dare at Kill Devil Hill conducted by D B Fearing and the Roanoke Island Memorial Association
Congressman Riley J. Wilson spoke on present day farm marketing problems at the West Carroll barbecue in Oak Grove. Attended by about two thousand from East and West Carroll, Madison, Morehouse, Richland and Franklin parishes, he urged extending installment payments to the Pecoral Land Bank for drought affected farmers and noted progress on flood control in Washington despite other disagreements. The barbecue featured a double header baseball game in the afternoon.
At Simsboro Monday night under J A Shealy and P C Alexander parish farm bureau leaders the meeting secured four new members with about twenty five attendees. Four more joined or planned to join as discussions on cooperative marketing and buying for farm organizations continued. upcoming meetings are planned for Choudrant Antioch Dubach and other communities this week.
New Orleans Aug 4 Latisi noe ranked third in 1980 in the jare sielion of seedling and wild pecis, exceeded only by Pexas sond Oklahoms Production a 1980 totalled $675,000 pounds as compariil with $, 867,000 pounds in 124.
State highway advisory board last Thursday approved highway contracts totaling about 60 million dollars. Included are 200 thousand for ties to the state penitentiary at Angola and major bridge work across five parishes.
In Sacramento California an elephant aged fourteen underwent an eye examination by an optometrist to assess potential vision aids. The circus manager and staff watched as the eye tests revealed hazy vision due to aging, with the ophthalmic device suggesting possible corrective eyewear. The report notes the unusual assignment and documents the use of an ophthalmoscope style instrument to evaluate the pachyderm’s sight.
Several bolls of open cotton were brought to The Leader office Monday morning from the farm of Lamar Cargill in the Antioch community. These bolls were perfectly developed with fleecy white ness, seen as a hopeful sign for a banner field this year.
The closing session featured a pageant The Pot of Gold directed by Miss Mary Mims with parish clubs reenacting factors toward happiness Autioch Wesley Chapel Hilly Greenville Greenwood Sibley Simshoro Hico Choudrant Nobles Cross Rons Ton Harry D Wilson spoke on Cotton and Agriculture in Louisiana A Ruston Municipal Band concert opened the session plus a group singing period and a Hilly Community Club program.
Morris M. McKnight of Ruston, now with Monroe Grocery Co. in Ouachita, is profiled as a weekly magazine contest winner for a feature answer about the cause of low mood. The column mocks office life and the magazine’s influence, listing contest details and prize hints.
The report shows over 1,833,000 gallons of liquor seized in the past year with 21,375 distilleries, 27,500 beer fermenters, and 8,260 automobiles seized. Indicated punishments include 29,400 violators jailed for a total of over 6,980 years and fines totaling 4,511,000.
Sophia Stone announces that Mrs. Lammar Cargill of Antioch will represent Lincoln Parish in the women s street dress contest at the Women s Short Course at Louisiana State University Baton Rouge next week. Other parish women from community clubs are expected to attend and will be named later. The event gathers farmers and farm women for scientific and practical farming and home economics instruction conducted by extension specialists from several states. The programs run Monday through Thursday under the leadership of extension department officials and agricultural entomologist C O Hopkins who oversees preparations for a large attendance and a top program in years.
J A Shealy a parish farm agent vaccinating dairy cattle for black leg in and around Simsboro this week. Precautions urged to prevent spread. farmers asked to inspect herds and ensure all animals are vaccinated. Alexander of Lincoln Parish Farm Bureau notes calves aged one to two are susceptible, with recent deaths in Simsboro area. The disease appears rapidly, calves die in two to three days. some farmers culled afflicted stock. Older cattle seem immune.
One of the best growths of the Loreta variety of soy beans is on display in the office of J A Shealy parish scene by the June Budlin here. Two bushels of these beans raised by B L Matron of Chotdrant weighed exactly five pounds and stood four feet high. This demonstrates how crops can be grand in North Louisiana.
Marketing of the largest Irish potato crop in Louisiana is underway by June 28 ships delivered 4456 warloads. When the shipments arrive and potatoes reach markets the crop will be roughly 100 percent over prior years according to Minden Metal.
Twenty seven hundred growers at Peesis Williparker in CEopel year 1 cotton lined bags. Directors of the National Pecun Marketing Association favor forming a cooperative in the Southern states, plan action at June meetings in Jackson Mississippi. See Mrs. Charles Broctor of Chicago testified in her divorce suit that on Christmas Day 1928 her husband went out to buy her a present and never returned.
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