The Hamlin Herald from Hamlin, Texas • Page 2

THE nAMLTN HERALD, HAMLIN, JONES COUNTY, TEXAS Mrs. Bill Shira Talks Weaker Market Prevails During Week For Most Livestock, Writes Gouldy On Partnership at Gathering of TA MAM LI NSJsilHBRALr Established in November, 1905 Published Wednesday Mornings at the Herald Building, Hamlin, Jones County, Texas Members of the Hamlin KIc RECALLING Other Years it Being newt Items taken trom eld filet Vout Home Town Newspaper. The Herald. nentary Parent Teacher Ar.s?:.? on met In regular session nr Grain fed steers and yearlings were Again very slow, and bids 50 cents or more lower prevailed on most of the fed steers, declares Publisher Thursday afternoon in the Primary School eafetorium. June Jones.

Willard Rev. Tiner, pastor of the Ted Gouldy, spec'al market reporter for The Herald, In his Bookkeeper Overa Jones Sunset "tirc gave the TEXAS weekly market summary for this nvocation. was Kt I CUTIH fP1 T957 Office Supplies Pressman Mrs. Etta Bond Paul Be van. week.

His release cortinues: TWENTY YEARS AGO. Goings on in the Hamlin com given by students of the fouitr. Hamlin Cub Scouts Reorganized Monday Hamlin Cub Scouts were reorganized last Monday everfing at the Primary School building, Cub master L. McClung called tbt meeting to order. Den III led the group in the salute to the flag.

There were enough boys present to form three new dens with boys left over, It was found. Anyone wishing to be a den mother is asked to contact McClung. After the pack meeting the Cubs went to the Hamlin West Lake with their den mothers to see the Indian dance put on by ihe Boy Scouts, The Cubs and their leaders express to Scoutmaster Weldon Johnson and his Boy Scouts their sincere thanks for an enjoyable evening. The Herald has rubber stamps Feeder cattle shared the slow nd ffith grades. Their musical The weakness in the hog trade stemmed directly from the resumption of heavier marketings in the Northern livestock centers.

The some 80.000 hogs reported at 12 major markets was some 13,000 above a week earlier. mum The offering of sheep and lambs at Fort Worth last Monday was again met by strong demand and steady to strong prices. However, once again the offering contained mostly medium and lower grades and strictly choice kinds were absent. Some good to low choice fat and weak market with the finish program was on "Texas." ed cattle. Business was conducted by the munity 20 years ago are reflected in the following news briefs, reproduced from the issue ef The Hamlin Herald dated October 8.

1937: Thin stockers were steady, and association president, Mrs. M. L. Smith. Thought for the day was the cow trade was active and fully Entered at Post Office at Hamlin, Texas, for transmission through the mails as Secord Class matter according to an Act of Congress on March 3, 1879.

Any erroneous reflection upon the character of any person or firm appearing in thes columns will be correctly, gladly and prompt ly, upon its boinjj brought to the attention of iho management. SI SCRIPTION RATES In Jones, Fisher, Nolan, Taylor, Shackelford, Stonewall and Haskell Counties, One Year, in advance Six Months, in advance $1.50 Klsewhere One Year, in advance Six Months, in advance steady to strong. Bulls ruled given by Mrs. W. S.

Seals. Harley Sadler, famotn West steady to weak. Slaughter calves Speaker for the meeting wns Texas showman, will bring his were generally steady. Irs. Dill Shirs.

She spoke on theater group to Hamlin Friday Comparative prices Included: Partnership and Saturday nights for two per Good and choice fed steers and Next meeting of the TA unit lambs cashed at $20 to $21, and formances under auspices of the both wooled and clipped lambs yearlings, $18 to $22.50, and medium and lower grades, $13 to $18. will be November 7, with Rev. Edmund W. Robb, pastor of the Mamilin Fire Department. OIL INDUSTRY MEANS MUCH TO HAMLIN AREA sold at $21, and something strict A membership drive Is being First Methodist Church, as guest ly choice was quotable higher.

peaker. Cull to medium lambs drew 812 Fat cows netted $13.50 to $13.50, and canners and cutters drew $8.50 to $13.50. Bulls mostly were conducted for the Hamlin Parent Teacher Association under the di rection of the president, Mrs. Q. cashed at $11 to $16.

to $19. Stocker and feeder lambs ranged from $16 on some common stuff to $20.50 on the better feed Martin. Good and choice slaughter Mrs. J. D.

Greenway and son, ers, something fancy Quotable FLOWERS ALWAYS ARE APPROPRIATE calves brought $18 to $20, a few baby beef heavyweights to $21 4 4 Larry Don, left Tuesday frr their higher. home at Pecos after spending two and better. Common and medium Yearling and aged muttors were virtually lacking. A few old week here with relatives and friends. 4 'W.

butcher sorts cashed at $13 to $17.50, and culls $10 to $13. Stock slaughter ewes drew $7.50 to $8.50 No matter the occasion, good taste and thought fulness are expressed in a gift of Flowers. Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Witt of er steer calves of good choice Lubbock spent the past week end and some breeders drew $10 to $16, with better young ewes quotable well above that.

in the home of their son, I. R. grades brought $19 to $23.75, and heifer calves drew $21 down. Stocker steer yearlings cashed at Witt, and family. Mattie Lee McCracken and Dcl $20.50 down, and feeder steers Current report of the U.

S. Department of Agriculture received Phon 1046 Just South cl H. M. Tir Slot bert Rountree were united in mar cashed at $18.50 downward. Replacement cows ranged from $12 to $14.50.

riage September 19. at Fort Worth this week reveals Hamlin High School Pied Pipers the light marketings of livestock and the Aspermont High School plastics, fertilizers, insecticides and a host of other products some 2,400 in all covering every activity from aviation to zoology. Even the new synthetic fibers dacron, orlon, etc. are derived from oil. When America's first well was drilled, back in 1859, we were a third rate power, a horse and buggy nation, with most of our energy furnished by men, animals and crude machines run by steam.

Today we are an acknowledged world power, and most of the energy we use comes from petroleum or petroleum products. After World War Lord Curzon said the Allies had floated to victory on a sea of oil. After World War II, Admiral Nimitz said we had won it with "oil, bullets and beans." More recently the industry again displayed Its preparedness and patriotism when it went all out to supply Europe's oil needs, in addition to domestic demand, after immobilization of the Suez Canal. On its record, the oil business merits tribute. And so, this Oil Progress Wekk, we join the rest of the nation in a salute to the American petroleum industry to its people, its products In August, 1957, are reflected in Hamlin community owes much of its economic stability through the past several years to the oil industry.

In fact, it has meant bread and butter to scores of residents of the community land owners, producers, drillers, veil servicing concerns, gathering system and pipeline employees. The Simple phrase "Fill 'er up, please'' has become an accepted part of the American vay of life. But backing up the men who service the request to "Fill 'er up'' is a fasei rating industry of some 1,600,000 men and women, working at more than 2,000 different trades, crafts, skills and professions the huge American oil industry. Next week has been designated by the men crrd women of the oil business as Oil Progress Week, They define it as "that period of the year when the oil Industry reports to the nation, Without doubt, there is a great deal to re perl The contributions made by the petroleum Industry to almost every phase of American life are nothing short of astounding We rot only we our mobility to petroleum, In the form of gasoline and lubricants, we also are Indebted lor such contributions as cosmetics, Western sources are blaming Hornets engaged In a scoreless tie the 19 per cent drop In red meat production as compared with Aug LET US UN7AM6U football game Friday night. the higher support prices on feed grains, and especially the $1.10 ust.

1956. "You Can't I Have Everything support level on corn produced by The report shows August, 1957. is featured at the Ferguson The HOUSE FINANCING MAKE CLEAR, GLAD TO DO IT PLEASE COME HERE farmers who did not comply with acreage allotments, with part of slaughter of cattle was 24 per cent lower, calf slaughter 14 per ter In which Don Ameche and Alice Faye are starred. the break fn feeder cattle prices i cent lower, hog slaughter four per cent lower and sheep slaugh in the past few weeks, according to word received at Fort Worth TEX YEARS AGO. Among items of Interest in the ter 48 per cent under August, 1956.

this week. Hamlin area 10 years ago were Their contention is that many These perentages hAve been the following, taken from the Issue of the non compilers will not put accurately reflected in the number reported at markets In the of The Hamlin Herald dated Octo com in the loan and head South ber 10, 1947: Texas area. A series of thefts has been re for the winter. On the theory that it will save work and be a better bet perhaps than feeding ported in recent weeks by Hamlin sswBeeBMsasBwwSjWMwesweewesweBeisswe a OS BEING DISCONTENT. There are two kinds of discon business concern, according to the corn to high priced feeder city and county officers.

cattle. tent in this world the discontent and its progress. tfncloiiPnslil About half of the cotton crop Certainly feeder prices are at ROtKWElLE that wrings its hard, and the dis least $2 lower than they were four content that works. The first in the Hamlin territory has been gathered, it is estimated by local Rinnerg and buyers. Some 1,652 or five weeks ago, however, most observers here are Inclined to loses what it has, and the second credit the sag In fat steer prices fr1 eUlJ p'NGi FBtD smith Monxjtr bales had been ginned by Hamlin's two gins, and the Neinda gin had with the weakness In feeder what it wants.

Graham. NOW BOOKING cattle prices. processed about 1J 10 bales at mid week. McCautley gin had turned out 267 bales. Fed steers and feeder steers and yearlings are currently selling about in line with a year ago at Fire of undetermined origin Fort Worth.

Other classes of Sunday night did damage estimated at several hundred dollars to CLEARING OUT ALL cattle and calves enjoy a $2 to $5 spread above prices of a year ago the Irwin Motor Company. Fire MERCURYS at Fort Worth. man held the loss to a minimum by their quick action. Words of Wisdom Law. Let reverence for the law be breathed by every mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap; let it be taught in schools, seminaries and colleges; let it be written in primers, spelling books and almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpits and proclaimed fn legislative halls and enforced in courts of justice.

Abraram Lincoln. Contentment. True contentment depends not upon what we have. A rub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. Colton.

Discretion. Open your purse and your mouth cautiously; and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least In repute, be great. Zimmerman. Top butcher hogs cashed at Spur High School's Buildup weak to 25 cents or more lower defeated the Pied Pipers Friday prices at Fort Worth Monday night 34 to 13 In a football til? Choice butcher hogs scored $18.50 played on the local grid. to $18.75, and medium to good Simpson's Fine Foods advertised Pied Piper Feed Mill Div.

of F. B. Moore Grain Co. Phone 168 Hamlin butchers sold at $17 to $18. Sows the following grocery prices: Fol held steady at $18 downward.

ger's coffee, two pound jar, 89c; potatoes, 10 pounds, 39c i Tokay grapes, 5c pound; chuck roast, 44c pound; Fet milk, two cans for 25c. Small Businesses' Are ital More than 2,300 small business enterprises have gone under in Texas during the last three years, according to Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, and such establishments failed at 1 the rate of 4 1 per momh in the first six months cf 1957. In the nation 10,000 small businesses have gene bankrupt so far this year, Senator Johnson stated. The national weekly average of business iailures has increased to 272.

That is far cbeve the average of any year since World War II. Week after week, the largest percentage of bankruptcies Is reported among companies with liabilities ol between $5,000 end $10,000. These are small firms by any standard ef measurement. Unlets we can halt this trend and reverse It, we are going to be in serious trouble. Senator Johnson pointed out that the Senate small business committee Is holding hearings over the country while Congress is in recess in an effort to develop legislation that will give tax relief to small business.

A hearing is scheduled in Dallas in December, Th president did not send Congress a bill providing tax relief for small business during this year's session," Johnson said. TH embers of the majority party in Congress Introduced several bills along this line, but the secretary of the treasury testified against ach of them. The result was no tax relief for small business." FIVE YKAR AGO. Local happenirgs in the Hamlin territory five years ago Included the following condensed from the LMSA isue of The Hamlin Herald dated October 10, 1952: Paul Bryan, veteran lumberman at Hamlin, sustained a broken shoulder Saturday afternoon In the upbet of hie pick up near Breckenndge as he and his wife were going on a fishing trip to STOP! LOOK! READ THE HAMLIN THEATERS offer another NEW IDEA in presenting pic turei so our patrons can enjoy more movies at BARGAIN PRICESl Join the Hamlin Theaters New Club Plan After 10 Adult Tickets have been purchased, TWO FREE ADMISSIONS ALLOWEDI If you don't have a CLUB PLAN CARD, for one at either the Hamlin Drive In or the Ferguson Theater. And each time you attend a showing be sure and GET IT STAMPED.

Take care of your card. It's worth money to you plus a Valuable Prize to Be Given Away v. Each Month REMEMBER ONLY AT YOUR MOTION FICTURE THEATERS CAN YOU GET THE FULL SIZE. POWER AND COLOR OF MOTION PICTURES! Possum Kingdom Lake. Hamlin area people were given a taste of winter Tuesday night when the temperature skidded be Only a few days left! Buy from stock! Save hundreds! Get into the big car class at a small car price.

Save hundreds of dollars on brand new models. Big Dream Car Design will stay in style for Every '57 car must go to make room for '58 Mercurys. Huge allowances easy terms. Hurry in today I S7 MERCURY Don't mis the big television hit, THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW Sunday evening, 9:00 to 10:00, Station KPAR, Channel 12 EEantlin Motor Co. low freezing lorg enough to form a little ice around about The cold blast came as a surprise to residents.

Second major fire of 1952 Sat urday destroyed the residence of Emtst Watson In North Hamlin, Loss was placed at about $4,000. At ft. Friends Are Best Asset fiSE YEAR AGO. Of Interest In the Hamlin com. munity year ago were the news briefs below, reprinted from the Editorial of the Week WHAT PRICE DOLLAR? August took another smal nip out of the dollar when living costs went up a fraction of a cent for the twelfth month In a row.

How many cents are there now in the dollar? It all depends on where you start, A familiar starting place is 1939. If the dollar was 100 cents, it Is 49.1 cents today and down a little over a tenth ef a cent since July 21 cents since the first of the year. But In 1939 war and the threat of war was just bringing us out of the great depression. That was the year Hitler's Germany invaded Poland, starting the second War. The Labor Dtparimwii' Bureau of Labor Statistics figures the consumer price index in terms of 1947 4' average the relatively stable eriod Just before the Korean war.

On the price index, commodities which cost 100 cents in that period now cost 121 cents. If the 1947 49 dollar contained 100 cents of purchasing power, it should now be rated at 82.6 cents. Anyway you figure it, the value of the dollar has gone down steadily in this generation or, to put it another way, the cost of living has gone steadily up, with the gradual increase continuing. The increase in living cost bears most heavily and most unjustly on those with fixed incomeselderly, retired citizens, for instance, depending on savings, insurance ayments or social security. Bat the trend is ultimately ominous to everyone since it reflects upon the integrity of the dollar, tneldnig to weaken the confidence in future values which i jstams business) and industry.

The Tort Worth Treas. Issue of The Hamlin Herald dated October 1L 1956: Jimmy Kidd, 194S graduate of Hamlin High School and principal Shop These Small Advertisers of Morton High School, will be principal speaker at the second annual HHS homecoming this week end. Bids are being called for oil leases of the city property at the FOR PROMPT SERVICE AND COURTESY! tt'i convenient ond tlme sovlng to check these little odvertisen ond thefr services to call for quick service, to have deliveries made, to check ot a glance the telephone numbers ond addresses. They ore your frinds ond neighbors, who will appreciate your telling them you sow their ods in Your Home Town Paper. South Lake, according to mem' bers the City Council No plans re berrg made to hire another life a continuous struggle for our basic reeds food, clothing, shelter, self preservation end the perpetuation cj OUP amily tree.

We eek conditions about us, for example, our jhorne. our job and cur status in the community, that contribute to our pride and self esteem. Eut there is cr more human desire that r.eeds no explanation in its relation to our cosmic urge. That is the eternal quest lor fraternal love and friendship. We do not mean frusinesi friends arid financial success Mr.

Carnegie gives you a master's, degree for that In his text, "How to Win etc. or you can study the biographies oi the captains of Industry and political tycoons. We want friends who permit us to rise above cur limitations, end "who know all about us and like us the same." True friends are the of all Ci our best thoughts about all humanity, Ve choose our friends teyalty, sincerity, courtesy and ambition; men whj hav "their ys en the stars and their fe! the ground." city engineer to succeed John Lea. who resigned recently. Dr.

Will House, former pas tor, will be featured speaker at the fiftieth anniversary celebra. tion of the First Methodist Church Sunday morning. THE HERALD Oxygen Equipped AmbutonceService Anvwher Anytime PHONE 71 BURIAL INSURANCE Hamlin Funeral Home Mr, end Mr Bill Fettat, Owntn KN ABEL JEWELERS Quolity Woteh, Clock ond Jawtlry Repolf FAST, EFFICIENT SERVICI 231 fautk CaaHat Aveaiia BUNCH OF EMPTIES. "It looks like nin.M "Not hert in Ctlifornai." "Ivook tho clouds up there "They don't mean a thing. Th.

Phon 241 are jut emptiei coming back from Florida." 1.