New Price Support Program Announced for Texas War Crops
Texas producers will receive higher price supports under the Food for Freedom program. Increases apply to dry beans dry peas peanuts and flaxseed with incentive payments for Irish potatoes and designated truck crops for the fresh market. Loans and purchases will support these prices.
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College Station
Texas
Usda Board
War Food Administration
State War Board
U. S
Minneapolis
Texas Farm Land Values on Uptrend
Texas farm real estate values show a rise from 1941 to 1942 but remain below the 1920s peak. The Department of Agriculture notes current Texas values at about 109 percent of the 1912-14 base, up from 105 percent in 1942 and 98 percent in 1941, with a long rise since 1933 after a low in 1933.
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Washington
Texas
Department of Agriculture
Incentive Payments Tied to Acreage in Farm Goal Range
Incentive payments of 50 dollars per acre apply to acreage between 90 and 110 percent of the farm goal. Approved Texas truck crops include carrots snap beans lima beans beets tomatoes cabbage onions and green peas.
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Texas
Grocers Call for End to Broad Rationing
The National Association of Retail Grocers urged removal of most processed foods from the ration list. They asked that red stamps govern meat only and that canned meats, fish, cheese, butter, oils, and fats be moved to a separate group. The eight vegetables and nine fruits listed include corn beans spinach beets peas tomato ketchup and several fruit juices and products.
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Chicago
National Association of Retail Grocers
Prentiss Brown
OPA
Texas Poem and Public Figures Echo 1920s Rhetoric
The piece weaves a Call for virtuous leadership with quotes from Longfellow style exhortations. It notes a legislative injunction against loan sharks and reflects on storms and lightning statistics. It mentions public taxes paid by beauty shop workers and hints at gendered taxation.
House Votes Down Crop Insurance
The House approved 93 to 65 to end government insurance for wheat and cotton. The crop insurance program was removed from the 1944 agriculture appropriations bill by the Appropriations Committee. An attempt by Rep Pace of Georgia to restore it failed on a standing vote.
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Washington
House
Appropriations Committee
Pace
Georgia
Barbers’ Surplus Taxed Funds Debate Held in Legislature
A surplus of 300000 from barber regulation faces a House vote with opponents arguing it would be confiscated. Advocates say the money should stay for its intended purpose or be refunded to contributors. The debate questions reallocating current barber assessments into the general fund and risking discount warrants.
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House of Representatives
Lake of Geneva Largest Swiss Water Body
The Lake of Geneva is the largest lake in Switzerland by area. It lies between the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, and Valais with its surface fed by rivers and fed by the Rhone River as its outflow.
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Lake of
Geneva
Switzerland
Divorce Petition Issued in Grayson County Texas
Citation issued to Johnnie Shreves for answering Tom Shreves in a divorce case filed February 26 1943. Court requires appearance by May 24 1943 before Judge in Sherman Texas. Case No 49538 cites cruel treatment as grounds for divorce.
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State OF Texas
Johnnie Shreves
A. D
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
S. V. Earnest
R. C. Steed
Safe use of poisonous sprays on Victory gardens
College Station experts say poisonous insecticides can protect vegetables if used with precautions. Chemicals such as arsenates, cryolite, nicotine sulfate and fungicides can be effective if crops are washed after harvest and not sprayed too close to picking. Some root crops and crops with edible tops require careful timing and washing.
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Gregg
Flies Crippled Plane 840 Miles to Get Back in Fight
Lt Earl Kimball an Army Air Forces pilot from Olustee Oklahoma flew a fighter 840 miles across North Africa with seven feet of wing missing seeking repair to return to combat. He was forced down cut off wing tip in a collision and after long flight he asked to fly 1400 miles to England but French authorities arranged for a new wing to be built.
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Washington
Earl K. Kimball
Army Air Forces
Olustee
Okla
North Africa
Charles J. Cochrane
War Department
Cochrane
Kimball
England
How She Stopped Him From Staying Late at Club
A playful exchange reveals a wife tricked her husband by calling out a different name. The man entered late and she remarked Is that you Jack, confusing him since her husband is Robert.
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Jack
Robert
Nondeferable Draft List Likely Won’t Grow
Washington reports additions to the nondeferable draft list are unlikely as able bodied men 18 to 38 are drawn by ordinary draft flows. McNutt says only essential farmers, irreplaceable nonfarm workers, ministers, and certain officials will remain draft proof, while paternity deferment fades by July 1.
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Washington
Paul V. McNutt
McNutt
Joke Pair About Venus de Milo Eating
A playful exchange features George and Mary joking about Venus de Milo. George quips that she could eat by hand, and Mary asks why, prompting George to answer that she would eat by hand because she cannot use utensils.
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George
Venus de Milo
Mary
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