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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1949
Page
1
A San Saba County editorial discusses 1950 cotton acreage allotments and fears for peanut farming. It reports a Richland Springs meeting to address potential cuts and promotes local commerce, urging community support for farms, merchants, and public institutions. Ace Howell and spouse visited Austin for personal reasons.
Roger W. Babson's Business and Financial Outlook for 1950 will appear in The News on Dec. 29. Babson, a pioneer in business statistics, has an 80 percent accuracy in 1949 and an 87 percent average over 14 years. His 1948 forecast predicted 1949 volume would fall, peak prices had been reached, no tax cuts in 1949, and pension efforts by tractor leaders.
Public Buildings Administration in Washington seeks bids for a San Saba postoffice site. Bids to sale or donation open at 8 am Tuesday Jan 3 at the local post office. Corner lot 100 by 170 feet or interior lot 120 by 170 feet considered with similar area. Mrs J F Dofflemyer of Fort Worth visited San Saba en route home after visiting her daughter and family in Brady.
San Saba merchants plan a holiday on December 26 to observe Christmas after a Sunday. Stores will close Monday since Christmas falls on Sunday this year. An agreement to observe a 50 day holiday was reached when a petition circulated last year to designate city-wide holidays for 1949.
East Texas House members who had been unpledged announced on Saturday their unanimous support for Rep. Reuben E. Senterfitt in the 1951 House speakership race. Rep. Jack Wisener of Wells said the pledge followed a Friday night meeting. Senterfitt faces Rep. Joe Kilgore of McAllen for the Fifty-Second Legislature post.
Ponie Irish Films REAVIS, HOPKINS RECEIVE Booster Club MVP and Most Improved Player honors at the 1949 Armadillo football banquet attended by about 250 people. Coach Chrane and assistants were recognized. SMU backfield coach Rusty Russell spoke about the SMU Notre Dame film and game highlights showing the Irish defeat by Ponies 27 to 20.
County Agent A. B. Ford invites poultrymen to a 7 30 p m meeting at the Richland Springs school house. Kasmier Hatchery of Bryan will explain a plan to buy hatching eggs at 60 cents above market, with future buys at 15 cents above market. The scheme targets Hi-Line hybrid eggs for laying flocks and broilers amid acreage reductions and quotas.
Four cash prizes will be awarded this year in the Jaycee Christmas Decoration Contest with three for residential decorating and one for business house decorating. The contest closes on Christmas Eve night. Prizes are 15, 10, and 5 dollars for the residential winners and 15 dollars for the business classification. Ace Howell was in Fort Worth Sunday and Monday on business.
The pecan capital of the world receives a San Saba Day at the 1950 Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show with Jan 28 designated in honor. San Saba may name a Cowgirl Sweetheart to ride in the grand entry and be introduced to the rodeo crowd. The San Saba Armadillo band is invited to perform in front of the Will Rogers Memorial Coliseum, with band members admitted in uniform and given aisle seating.
Lohn FFA Chapter representing McCulloch county won first place in the district chapter conducting contest held Monday. Lohn will represent the district in area contests before March 8. San Saba placed second and Lometa third with J A Marshal of Georgetown judging. Team members for San Saba included Keith Dickson Jack Dickison Raymond Oliver Larry Brown Sammy Smith John Wiley McNair Richard Thornton Max Mahan Bobby Joe Perry and Gene Johnson.
At the December Jaycee meeting about 150 members selected six new directors from 24 nominees. Elected were Herbert Clark Jr, Carl Taylor, Bobbie Joe Pridgeon, John Bogard, Penny Johnson, and E L Byrd. They will begin January, replacing six outgoing directors as term expirations noted.
Double funeral services were conducted at Lameta Baptist for Mr. and Mrs. George F. Griffith of Brownwood who perished when their Piper J-3 Cub crashed near the Clark Bristow place in Red Bluff Lampasas County. The couple had flown to visit relatives and were en route home when the stall and crash occurred at about 200 feet. Mrs. Griffith is believed killed instantly, her husband dying in a Lampasas hospital two hours later. Their daughter and son were with grandparents during the trip.
San Saba County Commission Co sales reached 35029.22 dollars this week, after buyers Tanner Faris and Alton O'Banen purchased the firm earlier this month from Charles Boyd of Lometa. Stocker calves ranged 0.20 to 0.254, cows and bulls sold at varied cents per pound, and yearlings brought 16 to 23 cents with top hogs at 15.12 cents.
Santa Claus and his four reindeer will visit San Saba Wednesday from about 10 to 11 30 a m. Local school children will greet him with carols sung by Girl Scouts from six troops on the courthouse steps. Mrs Margaret Hopkins directs the event. Santa plans to hand out candy and gum and asks for reindeer grass if anyone knows where to find it.
Mrs. R P Pafford of San Saba won a nine foot Crosley refrigerator in a ceremony at the San Saba Butane Co. Contest drew about 60 entrants. winner chosen by the written reason rather than expression. Mr. and Mrs. Pafford, Sunset Heights, have eight children and he works as a laborer.
Pfe. Taylor L. Holland son of Mr and Mrs Mark Holland arrived home Monday to spend Christmas and New Years with his parents. He has just returned from Guam where he was stationed for the past fifteen months.
San Saba students start Christmas and New Year holidays with a grammar school pageant and high school assembly on Wednesday afternoon. Grammar students meet at 1 30 p m in the gym for the choral club and speech class pageant followed by a gift exchange. High school plans include a Christmas tree and gift exchange in the auditorium with the senior class leading. classes resume Monday January 2.
San Saba's Golden Armadillos opened District 22 A basketball with a 31 24 win over Mason Cowpokes. Eddie Edwards and Johnny Keller tied for top scoring with 13 each as Armadillos led 18 11 at halftime and pulled away to 29 19 with two minutes left.
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