Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 1939 Page: 3 of 4
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BENAVIDES FACTS, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1939
Salt Water Trout
c Are Caught In
New Orleans
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A. and I. College
Clears Week
For Action
Salt water from the 110-mile
distant Gulf of Mexico flowed
through New Orleans city water
mains Friday for the second time
in more than 40 years and speck-
led trout were being caught at the
foot of Canal Street for the first
time in memory.
Due to prolonged drouth thru
entire watershed, the Mississip-
^pi has reached an almost record
low and gulf tides flowed into the
long delta channel. The city’s
water supply is taken from the
river. Authorities said the salt
content is yet below government
requirements. The mains were
saline for a time in 1936.
The ordinary tawny river, which
rushes millions of tons of yellow
clay and black soil past New
jjji Orleans annually, has turned a
placid, gulf blue, its surface drop-
ping far below the levee tops that
line its banks for hundreds of
miles northward.
River men believed the river
would drop still lower unless un-
expected rains come in the water-
shed, strething from the Yellow-
stone to Pittsburgh. Veteran
river men "claim they’ve never be-
fore seen the river at an absolute
calm, with scarcely a ripple of
movement.
The low stage, at some points
breaking records set in 1895, has
severely handicapped barge and
steamer traffic, stopped night
service and forced carriers to
lighten their loads on boats opei’at-
ing as far north as Cairo, 111.
Larger boats have been tied
Tip, and some docks north of here
have been rendered useless by
low water.
At Vicksburg and Natchez the
river has reached an all-time low,
^ and along almost the entire route
, trt the confluence of the Ohio is
at zero or sub-zero readings. At
Vicksburg the present reading is
6 and one-half feet below zero,
50 feet under flood stage.
R. A. Dyke, chief of the local
Weather Bureau, said recent rains
( in the Ohio Valley had given the
river a slight rise but he expected
tie river to drop again before
the week end. The maximum low
has been reached here because of
tidal fluctuations which govern
the level to Angola, about 150 riv-
er miles north of here.
Demands for Red Cross Service Greatest In Twenty Years
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Under the AAA, farmers shift
soil-conserving crops that build
I^PIp a production reserve for emer-
gencies—an ever-normal granary
of soil fertility.
Beware Coughs
from common colds
That Hang On
Creomulsion relieves promptly be-
cause it goes right to the seat of the
soothe and heal raw, tender, inflam-
ed bronchial mucous membranes.
No matter how many medicines you
have tried, tell your druggist to sell
you a bottle of Creomulsion with the
understanding that you are to like
the way it quickly allays the cough
or you are to have your money back.
CREOMULSION
for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis
KINGSVILLE, Nov. 6.—Names
or the ten students in the first
unit of the Civil Aeronautics
Authority’s pilot training program
&t Texas A & I were announced
today by the local committee in
charge of applications here.
Selected for the course were
fi\ e students from Kingsville, P.
D. Vaughn, M. L. Korgas, J. T.
Russell, J. H. Fugate, and William
Moore. Others named are Julius
Bussey, Ft. Worth; O. D. Kirk
land, Alice; Charles Milliken, Bee'
ville; Earle Shellenberger, Corpus
Christ!; and L. D. Edwards, Wes-
laco.
Ten alternates will be named
as soon as medical examinations
can be completed; and the 20 men
w'll begin the ground school
course immediately. Flight in
struction will start in about two
weeks under the direction of Rod-
ney More, veteran pilot from Cor-
pus Christi, and will be given at
the Kingsville Airport.
First classes in ground school
will deal with the history of avia-
tion and theory of flight. Other
subjects included in the ground
course required of all students are
aircraft instruments, parachutes,
aircraft motors, civil air regula-
ti ns, meteorology, and naviga-
tion. Regular college credit count-
ing toward a degree will be grant
ed students completing the course,
and flying students will receive
a private pilot’s license at the
end of the training.
A laboratory fee of $40 will be
charged each student. All other
expense incident of the flight
training will be borne by the
federal government through the
CAA. All college students of so-
phomore or higher classification
were eligible to apply for the
training.
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Deadline Date
January First For
AAA Applications
Potential victims of pneumonia,
and families concerned, hold one
of the keys to reduction of the
death rate from this disease, ac-
cording to Dr. Geo. W. Cox, State
Health Officer. It is estimated
that each year 25,000 Texans
s: ffer an attack of pneumonia.
As a means of prevention, peo-
ple should guard against the com-
-■non cold, neglect of which often No extension of the January 1,
leads to pneumonia as a compli- 1940 deadline for accepting ap-
cation. i plications for payment under the
Persons who develop pneumonia 1938 Agricultural Conseivation
will have the best chance for re-; Program can be made, E. N.
covery by knowing the symptoms Holmgreen, state AAA adminis-
cf the disease and placing them-
BABY CLOTHES, FLAGS AND FOUNDER, ALL SPELL RED CROSS—
At top, left, Red Cross volunteer packs infant’s layette for European war
victims; right, No. 1 Roll Call got under way at Washington, D. C., when
Legion honor guard raised flags; lower, Mrs. Peter DeGraw, 90-year-old
Washingtonian and only surviving founder of American Red Cross 58
years ago, reminisces with Secretary of War Woi-dring, two of the first
citizens to Join their local chapter.
Half Million Workers Ready
for Membership Drive
T
HE American Red Cross embarks
on its greatest membership Roll
Call in two decades November 11
when a half million volunteers work-
ing in virtually every community in
the nation, will seek increased mem-
bership strength to meet growing
demands for Red Cross services,
Chairman Norman H. Davis has an-
nounced.
Increased membership support
has been prompted by an urgent
need for extending Red Cross serv-
ices not only in this country, but as
a result of appeals from Red Cross
societies in war-stricken European
nations, Mr. Davis said.
“Although the Red Cross must
meet the cries from war-stricken
Europe, we of America must not
slacken our effort to reduce the
peace-time forms of human suffer-
ing found in this country," Mr.
Davis declared.
“The 5,700,000 American men
and women who enrolled as mem-
bers of the Red Cross last year en-
abled the organization to meet the
needs of sufferers in 157 disasters
during the year, as well as to train
hundreds of thousands in First Aid,
Life Saving and health education."
Eat Vegetables
All Winter For
A Spring Tonic
One reason children used to be
given sulphur and molasses or sas-
safras tea in the spring to “tone
up" their blood was because they
got so few green vegetables dur-
ing the winter months. That’s an
opinion advanced by Jennie Camp,
specialise in home production plan-
ning for the A. and M. College
Extension Service.
“The prospects are that we may
have to do something equivalent
io restoring to grandmother's
remedies next spring unless we
begin to do something about green
vegetables immediately," she
warns. And continued drouth in
much of Texas is not helping any.
“There are a few things that
all of us can do no matter where
we live and other things that
those of us who live in certain
sections of the state will find
worthwhile. Gardeners in south,
east, or central Texas will be justi-
fied in taking a risk on planting-
some vegetables in protected
spots in the , open garden if rains
come soon," the specialist contin-
ues.
Where the weather will not
permit planting vegetables in the
open garden, a frame garden may
provide quick maturing vegetables
like mustard and tender greens,
spinach, lettuce, parsley, radishes,
and onions. The specialist says
it is wise to get an extra supply
of seeds and plant them thick be-
cause seed germina.ion is poor
this time of the the year.
“If you’ll soak the seed over
night in warm water, they’ll germ-
inate faster,” Miss Camp says.
“You’ll need to. drain off the
water and dry the seed out by
mixing with sand in order to sep-
arate them for planting. If seed
are planted in shallow trenches
and the soil packed around them
by tramping, the moisture won’t
dry out so fast and you’ll get a
better and quicker stand of
plants.”
Reader’s Digest, you may have a
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THE EDITOR
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Readers Asked
To Submit Human
Interest Items
selves under treatment promptly
after onset of illness. Typial be-
ginning symptoms include a sev-
trator, has announced.
This deadline applies to origin-
al and supplemental applications
and to adjustment applications,
ere chill and fever, stabbing pain Holmgreen said, with three ex-
in the chest, cough with rust-col-! ceptions being allowed,
ered or blood tinged sputum,, nau- (l) Art adjustment application
sea and vomiting, loss of appetite, resulting in a decreased payment
Sudden onset of symptoms as
described should cause the pa-
tient and members of the family
tx' suspect the possibility of pneu-
monia. Rusty sputum, usually a
may be submitted at any time.
(2) An adjustment application
may be filed by any person shown
on the original application within
30 days after the check or checks
JOURNALISM
This field offers un-
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A complete practical
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BYRNE
Commercial College
1708^4 Commerce Street
Dallas, Texas
sign of inflamation in the lungs, issucd undei. the 01.iginal applica.
naturally gives rise to the ques- tions are delivered This wm be
allowed even though the date of
the filling of such adjustment ap-
... • j plications is more than 30 days
tory which serves as a pneumonia X, ,, . . . , „ T J
! atter the closing date of January
1, 1940.
tion as to the cause of sickness.
Examination of the sputum in a
hospital or public health labora-
typing center, frequently shows
the presence and type of the pneu-
monia germ, and makes clear the
exact nature of illness.
Science has found effective
means of combatting pneumonia,
through the use of proper serum
and medicine. To be most ef-
fective, these treatments must be
given early and after the exact
cause of the inflammation has been
determined.
During 1938, pneumonia deaths
numbering 4,129 were recorded
in Texas and it is necessary for
all people to arm themselves with
knowledge and to cooperate in
measures to decrease the pneu-
monia death toll.
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Recently set by the state Agri-
cultural Conservation Association
committee were the March 1, 1940
deadline for making application
for 1939 cotton price adjustment
payments and the July 1, 1940
deadline for signing applications
for 1939 agricultural conservation
payments.
Station KTSA of San Antonio
invited the editor and readers of
this weekly newspaper to submit
human interest and .feature stories
for the "new Columbia Broadcast-
ing System program, “The Pursuit
of Happiness,” heard each Sunday
over KTSA at 3:30 p. m.
“The Pursuit of Happiness” is
dedicated to the brighter side of
American life and loes not deal
with either the war or issues
growing out of the war. Instead,
this new program tuns aside from
the stream and grave events and
brings listeners reminders that to-
day we Americans still enjoy our
constitutional rights of life, liber-
ty and “the pursuit of happiness.”
Burgess Meredith, one of the most
brilliant of America’s actors, is
master of ceremonies, and such
personages as Raymond Massey,
Frederic March and others are
featured on the program.
Included on each program are
news or feature stories dealing
with “the pursuit of happiness,”
stories of sacrifice for another
person, of reward for unselfish-
ness, reunion of long - separated
relatives and the like. Stories
submitted by the editors and
readers of this paper, if used,
would give national publicity to
this community.
Readers are invited to submit
their stories to the editor, who
will send them along to KTSA.
Since 1933 the number of forc-
ed farm sales has declined sub-
stantially. During the 12 months
ended March 15, 1933, there were
54.1 such sales per thousand
farms. By the year ending March
15, 1937 forced sales had dropped
to 22.4 per thousand farms.
Before the last World War, the
United States supplied 65 percent
of all cotton consumed in the
world. Today the American farm-
er supplies about 42 percent.
About one-fourth of the food
stamps issued by the Federal Sur-
plus Commodities Corporation are
being used to buy butter and an-
other one-fourth to buy eggs.
Approximately ninety-five per
cent of the cropland in Texas was
covered by the 1938 AAA pro-
gram.
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Beaman, J. L. C. Benavides Facts (Benavides, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, November 10, 1939, newspaper, November 10, 1939; Alice, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth884597/m1/3/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Duval County Library.