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Page 4.
THE BATTALION
Tuesday, July 7, 1953
Credit Bill OK’d
(Continued from Page 1)
whole nation will fel the effects.”
“A few months ago,” Johnson
said, “he (Benson) was describing
farm progi-ams as ‘disaster insur
ance.’ Now we have the disaster
and it turns out that what he was
talking about was ‘burial insur
ance’—just enough to liquidate the
remaining assets and provide a
coach ticket out of the disaster
area. I call upon the secretary of
agriculture to reconsider his state
ment.”
The Texan said the moves made
so far by Benson to help the
drouth area were wholly inade
quate.
Benson had outlined these moves
to the House group. They include
a plan to make government-owned
feed available at a reduced price,
as well as aiding in“ the marketing
of thin cattle and lower quality
beef. Along this line, the depart
ment has announced a program for
purchasing 200 million pounds of
beef for the Army.
The government has also obtain
ed the co-operation of the railroads
in cutting freight rates on feed
moved into the drouth area and
livestock shipped out, Benson said.
In his Senate speech Johnson
Eaid:
“It may come as a surprise to
the secretary to learn that he has
the authority to launch a $118
Million program. . . . He could
move now—without further con
gressional action—to stabilize the
market.”
This authority, said Johnson,
comes from a 1935 act setting up
a fund composed of 30 per cent of
the nation’s annual customs re
ceipts to encourage domestic con
sumption and export of farm com
modities.
There is $472 Million in this
fund now and the law permits
use
of up to one-fourth
or $118 Million, to any
of this
one com
modity if it is perishable, John
son said.
“It may be that the secretary
of agriculture is unaware of this
authority,” he said. “If so, I in
vite him to check the statute books
and act. If he knows of this pro
vision, I believe the people of the
Southwest are entitled to an ex
planation.”
The minority leader said Ben
son’s already-announced program
“is good as far as it goes. But
it doesn’t go very far.”
This calls for spending about
$8 Million for drouth relief.
The senator commented that
buying up 200 million pounds of
“low-grade beef” for the Army
will not stabilize the market.
“We might as well try to fill
the Rio Grahde with an eye-drop
per and a bucket of water,” he
said.
As to the $8 Million fund, that
amounts to 60 cents a head di
vided among thfe cattle in Texas,
Johnson said.
“How much hay can be bought
for 60 cents?” he asked.
Benson told the House commit
tee Monday emergency credit is
needed soon because the situation
in the Southwest is growing in
creasingly worse.
Benson and his aides recently
inspected some of the parched ter
ritory, which extends through sec
tions of Texas, Oklahoma, Colo
rado, Arkansas, New Mexico and
Kansas.
“The spirit of the people is all
that could be asked for,” he re
ported. “There are few problems
down there that a good soaking
rain would not help. But it is
going to take time to build up the
moisture in the subsoil. It will
take more than a year of normal
rain.”
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until 10 a.m. Monday, July 13, 1953, The
right is reserved to reject any and all
bids and to waive any and all technical
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Texas, College Station, Texas for further
information.
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bicycle parts. Sealed bids will 'be re
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reserved to reject any and all bids anl
to waive any and all technicatlities. Ad
dress Auditor, A&M College of Texa:
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formation.
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North Gate. Call 4-1217
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Stated meeting Thursday,
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6EWING machines. Pruitt’s Fabric Shop.
CAGED BUT COOL—This man^s
best friend is waiting for a
friendly man who will pay his
$3 fine. He was arrested for
vagrancy and lodged in the
Paris, Tex., dog pound, where he
took to a tub to drown his sor-
June Visitors
Number 2,663
A total of 2,663 visitors were
on the A&M campus during
June. The largest group was
the 4-H club state contest, num
bering 1200.
Conferences and short courses
held during June included the
Commercial Nurserymen, Texas
Conference for Veterinarians,
FFA Chapter from Gonzales
high school; 4-H club round-up
members and leaders; Poultry
short courses; division meeting
of telephone officers and em
ployes of the Southwestern
States Telephone Co., County
School Superintendents, Admin
istrators and Instructional Su
pervisors, Veterinarians and Ani
mal Husbandry Specialists, an
nual 4-H club state contest, Cot
ton Oil Mill Operators and the
Rural Church conference.
A.H. Student Learn
By Actual Practice
A. H. 406 students practiced vac
cination, dehorning, and castrating
beef cattle last Tuesday afternoon
at the Beef Cattle Center.
During the first part of the aft->
ernoon F. I. Dahlberg, professor
of animal husbandry, emphasized
the importance of keeping live
stock healthy. Albert Blanken
ship, beef cattle herdsman, then
demonstrated and assisted the stu
dents in the different operations.
A&M Agronomist Estimate l
Circu
Xo 9<
f Eoc
Money Crops Grown In Te
^er~"9()T
Agronomists of Texas A&M Col
lege estimate that 130 varieties of
farm crops are produced from the
state’s cultivated and grass lands,
and forests.
Forestry is not the least ampn^
sources of farm income although,
unlike that of other agricultural
products, its cycle from sprouting
to harvesting is not completed until
after many years. But the process
of forest maintenance and renew
al under the vigilance of the Texas
Forest Service is so systematized
that when suitably aged trees are
marketed others are maturing to
keep the sequence of yields un
broken.
This rotation, especially in the
proved commercial timber area of
east and northeast Texas, is ob
tained largely through three basic
factors fostered by the TFS. These
are: Prevention of “wild” fires in
woodlands; cutting timber so that
forests may, where possible, re
place themselves from their own
seed sources; and replanting with
adapted nursery seedlings. The
latter requires the fullest coopera
tion of owners and forest lands.
Tree planting in Texas is rather
widespread. Species and utility
are determined mostly by climate,
moisture, and soils, particularly in
the plains country of West Texas.
For a number of years farm and
ranch families in that region have
planted adapted seedlings in vary
ing numbers annually to establish
windbreaks and shelterbelts, or to
extend existing growths. The cur
rent trend is wholly toward plant
ing but their ultimate contribu
tion to the resources of the vast
area they cross is a long-range
guess. This year, for example, 43
Ochilti’ee County families obtained
12,000 fledgling trees for strip
planting. Similar activity has been
noted in Randall and Scurry coun
ties.
In the East Texas, or piney-woods,
area the major problems are pro
tecting the standing timber against
Minor League
(Continued from Page
Walter Jacobs, John Mackin, Cubs;
Hank Mills, Alton Williamson and
Walter Manning, Indians; Walter
Hill and Bill Thornton, Dodgers;
and Chile Smith and Wayne Smith,
Pirates.
Games are played each Tuesday
and Thursday afternnon on the
College Hills and Southside dia
monds. The minor league is made
up of boys eight to 12 years of
age who are unable to make a Lit
tle League team.
Condensed Statement of Condition
FIRST STATE BANK & TRUST COMPANY
Bryan, Texas
At the close of business June 30, 1953
ASSETS
Cash and Due from Banks $2,293,354.08
U. S. Government Obligations 2,551,700.00
Municipal Bonds i 50,750.00
Loans and Discounts 1,670,864.70
Banking House and Fixtures 64,297.14
Stock of Federal Reserve Bank 6,000.00
Other Real Estate : 2.00
TOTAL ASSETS I $6,636,967.92
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $ 100,000.00
Surplus . 100,000.00
Undivided Profits 215,703.16
Reserve for Taxes J___J 1
21,132.03
DEPOSITS:
Individual . . $5,178,914.92
U. S. Government 49,684.58
Banks . 76,993.93
Other Public Funds 894,539.30
TOTAL DEPOSITS _
6,200,132.73
TOTAL LIABILITIES
$6,636,967.92
FIRST STATE BANK & TRUST COMPANY
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
OFFICERS
W. J. Coulter, President
W. S. Higgs, Vice President Curtis Mathis, Assistant Cashier
J. N. Dulaney, Vice President L. E. Nedbalek, Assistant Cashier
Pat Newton, Cashier Williard E. Williams, Assistant Cashier
O. W. Kelly, Assistant Cashier Ross Dean, Assistant Cashier
fire and other external damages,
and replacing trees harvested year
ly. This region of pines and hard
woods, comprising 10 and a half
million acres in 36 counties, is Na
ture’s gift to Texas resources. For
rupre than a century these wood
lands have supplied Texas and oth
er states with building materials,
poles, furniture, handles and boxes,
and in more recent years paper.
While natural seeding offsets a
large portion of the timber cutting
through the years, landowners have
been more active in planting seed
lings on cutover areas and sub
marginal land. The major source
of seedlings is the Indian Mound
nursery of the Texas Forest Serv
ice in Cherokee County with a
yearly production of approximate
ly 15,000,000. This year Agricul
tural Agents Truitt Powell and W.
A. Messer, Jr. of Cass and Marion
counties, respectively, have worked
jointly with timber consuming in
dustries, civic clubs, and other in
terested groups to assure setting
out of 6,000,000(M) seedlings in
the two counties during the 1953-
54 planting season. According to
Powell, the plan provides that
farmers buying 2,000 seedlings will
receive 1,000 free. Interest in
planting is being made to get ad
ditional acreage in pine. “Much
of the land in this area,” he ex
plains, “is well suited to production
of pine.”
Messer reports that the Inter
national Paper Company had dona-
Active Duty Order
Given June Grad
Lt. Winfred E. Grimes Jr., June
A&M graduate, of Copperas Cove,
received his orders for active duty
Monday.
Grimes will first report to Lack-
land Air Force Base in San Anto
nio the morning of August 13, for
personnel processing. He will be
further assigned to the 3306th Pi
lot Training Squadron, Bainbridge
Air Force Base, Georgia to attend
Pilot Training Class 54-F. He will
report to this station August 29.
At the present time Grimes is
employed in Lovington, New Mexi
co.
ted 10,000 seedlings for demonstra
tion in Marion County. J. H.
Beale of Liberty community, a for
estry demonstrator, received
enough to plant one acre. With
one demonstration of slash pine 11
years old and another with four
years growth now on his place, he
believes the value of his land has
increased at least $100 an acre.
Westward from the “piney
woods” belt are lengthy stretches
of trees and shrubs of minor or
doubtful commercial value cover
ing millions of acres of land. They
include the post oak belt; east and
west cross timber; cedar breaks;
mesquite and, in the extreme I
southwestern tip of the state, the
“mountain forests” with growths
of pinion pine, western yellow pine, ]
Douglas fir, oak, ash, Spanish wal- j
nut, juniper and mesquite. This
broad sweep of tree and brush land
gives Texas almost 800 species of
woody planes iiv a larger area of
tree growth than any other state.
Eighty miles west of the east I
Texas “piney woods” belt are small
islands of loblolly pine nestled in
the southern portion of the post
oak belt, mainly in Bastrop, Fay
ette and Caldwell counties. Cov
ering about 85,000 acres, and
known as the “lost pines,” this
growth’s origin long has puzzled
forestry experts. According to
Texas Forest Service scientists,
however, the most plausible ex
planation is that in some remote
geologic period the “lost pine” re
gion was a part of the east Texas
pine belt. This is supported by the
existence of smaller islands of pine
and individual trees found between
this area and the parent growth
tto
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eastward.
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tin was constructed
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