War's Effects Force Change in South Cotton Output
AAA officials warn cotton faces its most serious farm problem as war and weak foreign trade shrink exports. With many Southern farms relying on cotton for income, officials urge reduced cotton acreage, expanded food and feed crops, and new defense industries to provide non farm work, while outlining regions able and unable to shift away from cotton.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Cotton Belt
South
AAA
Mississippi Delta
Black Prairies
Texas
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Carolinas
Farmers Planting More Trees Shrubs in 1940
COLLEGE STATION The Extension Service of A and M College reports that farm families in 1940 planted nearly twice as many trees as in 1939 for windbreaks shade and home backgrounds. Tree plantings rose from 53 677 to 223 985 with lawns sodded up 25 percent.
Social Hygiene Day Aimed Nationwide February 5 1941
Texas Health official Dr. Geo W Cox urged immediate civilian mobilization against venereal disease as Social Hygiene Day grows nationwide. The 1941 theme Social Hygiene and National Defense calls for intensified peacetime prevention across five thousand communities with federal state and local health groups and other agencies. He noted that a healthy population underpins defense and cited Army gains from past precautions while reporting millions of man-days lost to infection.
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Austin
Texas
Geo. W. Cox
America
Dr. Cox
Patterson urges unity to avert production loss from strikes
Assistant Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson warns Chicago workers and employers that one day of plant shutdowns imperil military supply. He calls for “taking out” not walking out, stresses industrial peace and unity to aid Britain, and praises English labor for democracy’s defense.
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Chicago
Robert P. Patterson
Chicago Federation of Labor
NBC Red
Great Britain
War Department
United States
England
Sherman Attorney Named Special Tax Deputy
J. S. Kone of Sherman was appointed by the Commissioners Court as a special tax deputy to collect delinquent taxes. He will earn $125 a month starting Jan 1 and work under court direction. Last year the deputy reported to the district attorney, who had planned to assign R. S. Walton as tax deputy but will use him as a trial assistant.
Providing Variety In Home Killed Meat
Texas farm families can extend meat storage with curing, canning, and freezing. Grace I. Neely of Texas A and M College Extension urges diverse preparations from pork to beef and goat chili, noting demand for chevon chili shipped to eastern states. Information available from the Extension Service in College Station.
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Texas
Menard County
A. and M. College Extension Service
College Station
Too Much for Him On the Pacific liner deck
A captain consoles a despondent passenger at dusk as the moon rises, the sick traveler reacting with sharp wit and fatigue in this compact maritime vignette. The exchange highlights tension between despair and humor aboard a liner.
All-Vegetable Laxative BLACK-DRAUGHT Adverts
An advertisement promotes BLACK-DRAUGHT a laxative described as a gentle but thorough all vegetable remedy. It claims relief from constipation headaches and sluggishness with bedtime use and promises 25 to 40 doses for 25 cents.
Texas Highway System Tops Twenty Two Thousand Miles
The State Highway Department reports a 22 832 mile main system in Texas, up 558 miles in the last year. Only 36 miles were added at designation. construction and maintenance for 1940 cost 40 210 347 dollars from federal and state funds. Cash on hand January 1 1941 stood at 8 192 384 dollars with obligations and future programs totaling 32 102 276 dollars.
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Austin
State Highway Department
Highway Commission
Highway Department
Experience to Spare and the Prospective Mistress
A dialogue shows a prospective mistress challenging an applicant for a position about experience. The applicant retorts that having 13 places in six months amounts to ample experience, highlighting rapid job changes as the core exchange. The tone reflects witty, early 20th century linguistic humor.
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Mobileil
G. C. Stateville
Whitewright Lumber Co
A. Y. Creager CO
M. & P. Bank Building
Sherman, Texas
London
Britain
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Johnson
Jackson
Kone
Him
Barbee & Bassett
Insurance Agency
Glen Earnheart
Whitewright, Texas
Gomer May
L. LaRoe & Co
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