Flood control terraces spread water across 250 acres in Grape Creek area
In Tom Green County D. T. and Zack Jones farms use dykes and five weep holes to spread floodwater over five terrace intervals. Cooperating landowners cut runoff to about 1000 acres, aiding erosion and flood control. Stinnett and Hutchinson County growers expand terracing, with barley, spring wheat, and cane in test plots as soil conservation gains momentum in Texas.
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San Angelo
D. T
Zack Jones
Grape Creek
R. M. Milhollin
Soil Conservation Service Project
Tom Green County
Milhollin
Jones Place
Jones Farm
Soil Conservation Service
Clyde L. Carruth
Kirk
Detroit Bomber aims to conserve rainfall and soil
Bentley reports terracing in 220 of 254 counties with nine million acres terraced over 20 years. He conservatively estimates seven million acres are terraced or contoured, noting potential duplication from reterracing. Mrs. E L Crockett and Mary Ada depart Sunday for a two week visit with a Colorado sister.
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Bentley
E. L. Crockett
Mary Ada
Colorado
Roads of the Southwest Exhibit at Texas Centennial
Henry Ford builds the Roads of the Southwest for the Ford Exposition in Dallas opening June 6. Reproductions of historic and modern trails including Butterfield, Chisholm, Santa Fe, Pan American, and Magazine Street will be shown with exact road surfaces. Visitors will travel these routes in Ford V-8s across sections from Dallas to Fort Worth and beyond.
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Pat
Southwest
Enry Ford
Dallas
Est
San Anne
Fort Pike
Chisattle
Butterfield
Fléans
David-Yuma
Antonio
Kinnes High Cas
Fort Worth
Texas
Red River
Colbert’s Ferry
el Paso
Fort Yuma
San Francisco
California
Carlsbad Caverns
Laredo
Texas-Mexico
Mexico City
Yuma Road
Colorado Desert
Yuma
Arizona
el Centro
Florida
Everyone has a vice and I read the newspaper
Bruce Barton notes his habit of reading three newspapers morning and night. He jokes about not spending time on long articles but loving small items andquirky stories such as scientific grafts, a rooster becoming hen like, tadpoles turning frogs, fines to a county commissioner, and a man dying after trying to dodge an installation salesman. He echoes Talleyrand wanting to die with a newspaper in hand.
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Tist
Kentucky
Talleyrand
Jim
Examples Are Best Sermons About Family and Change
Two acquaintances discuss a once wealthy man now humbled by life and his children gaining independence. The tale suggests surrendering control over children reduces parental misery and that example carries more weight than talk.
Mayo Couple Welcome Baby Boy Born May Nineteenth
Mr and Mrs Dick Mayo announce the birth of a baby boy on May nineteen at their home. The newborn adds joy to the family as relatives share in the welcome.
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Dick Mayo
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Stinnett
D. B. Kirk
Holt
Hutchinson County
M. R. Bentley
Extension Agricultural Engineer
West Texas
Detroit Bomber
Errec
New York
Joe Louis
Jim Braddock
Louis
Independence
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Mexico
Zebulon Pike
Santa At
Los Angeles
Ornia
New Orleans
Magazine Street
Bruce Barton
the Enterprise Cooking School
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