The Clarendon Press, October 25, Page 4
Western cotton markets
becoming more active
Western cotton markets were slowly becoming more active,
according to the Agricultural Marketing Service. USDA.
Although the bulk of current ginnings was being delivered
against previously made commitments, larger supplies of "free"
cotton were becoming available. Demand for most qualities of
current ginnings was good. Supplies were not adequate to fill
demand.
In most locations, growers offered early ginned uncommitted
cotton freely. Buyers were active bidders on most lots offered. In
Central Arizona. mixed lots of mostly grade 31 staples 34 and 35
brought around 82.00 to 83.00 cents per pound.
Southeastern New Mexico growers sold a small volume of
Acala cotton at 85.00 cents per pound, basis grade 31 staple 37,
3.5 to 4.9 mike. Around Pecos. Texas a small volume was sold at
80.00 cents per pound, basis grade 41 staple 34, 3.5 to 4.9 mike.
In Austin, Texas mixed lots of grades 41.32 and 42. staples 31.
32 and 33 brought around 65.00 to 70.00 cents per pound. At
Dallas. mixed lots of grades S1, 42 and 52. staples 31 and 32
brought around 59.00 to 62.00 cents per pound. Most early
harvested lots in the Lubbock area brought 60.00 to 68.00 cents
per pound.
Below grade lots in the Austin area brought up to 40.00 cents
per pound. Contracting of the 1974 crop continued at most
locations. Harvesting activities were rapidly increasing in the
San Joaquin Valley of California andm Arizona. Harvesting
operations were slowed or stopped by rain over much of Central
and South Texas. Some observers felt that it would be next week
before harvesting could resume in some areas. Elsewhere in the
Western Region, harvesting was in the early stages.
The Assembly of God Youth group is having a fried pie sale
Saturday, October 26, starting at 12:00. Pies will cost 20 cents
each. To order, call 874-2195.
LION BERYL CLINTON presents a plaque of barbed wire to
Curly Hays, speaker at TueKday night's Lions Club Banquet. The
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wire arrangement was made by K. K. Day of Clarendon. [Press
Photo]
The Lions Club Banquet held Tuesday night
enjoyable. Everyone certainly enjoyed the food,
entertainment.
Teeh students home for the Clarendon-Memphis
, weekend were Mr. and Mrs. Everett Monroe, Ted
Lowe. Tommy Shields. and Charlie and Becky
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Land were also home for the
game Friday night.
Janie [Martin] MeElroy of El Paso was home this
with her lovely baby daughter, Windi. Janie is the
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Martin. Granddad Martin had a
look on his face while showing off little Windi!!
Rip and Jane Gilkey were up bright and early
morning to fly to Fayettville, Arkansas, to see son Jim!
yards for a UT touchdown. After the game and talking to
the UT players, the couple winged their way back to
Avis and C. L. Benin have been busy as beavers
couple of weeks. They've been redoing parts of a house
recently purchased "up on the hill." If you ever
carpenter, handyman or painter, contact these
promise--they do a great job!!
See you at the Clarendon.Claude game Friday
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Babies in their cradles lie,
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hey who was forever telling about 'Petah (Peter) the Indian boy Hush, make not a single sound[
Kt Caps an who was bu-u-uned (burned) up because he played with fire. Hush-a-bye, goodnight,,
Fire was then a much greater hazard than it is now, for wood Hush-a-bye, goodnight!' i
' by Creslan. All Sizes. / 2 fires were used indoors for both cooking and heating. Children I borrowed a beautiful china doll from our landlady2
Clarendon, Texas were impressed in every way possible to stay away from the occasion and i shall never forget the careful way I han¢
W • fires, after all the cautioning my mother did about breaking h
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and in many other ways. g P' minute of it!
' My sister and I came in for much cautioning concerning fire, At the endof that winter we loaded up our belongitt
along with all the other children; but herein this mountain m°vedtoGranQuiveratofileaclaimonaquarter, sectiott i
]thepattern, " ! community a tragedy occurred which forever taught me to leave close to an uncle and aunt. Of my life there I have !
fire making to my elders. " spoken, and shall probably do so again l
Tv,o little neighbor boys slipped matches and a sack of their i
[a Clan SlC. " NeoD]e 1 of dad s Bull Durham and cigarette papers and took them to the loft The the loft barnwas to filled sffloke, with corn in the husk. one There was by also a great , "-------'-'---'---'-----" 3 or 4 Piece
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shucked corn for the animals.
The boys, through carelessness or clumsiness, set fire. to the
dry husks, and in minutes the whole loft was aflame. They were
cuf off from the ladder and there was no way out[
Tlmir ereams brought the parents running, but with no
running water and only two people to fight the fire, there was
little they could do. The little boys died in the flames.
This was the second highly emotional situation that happened
in the year we lived there, and for one so young as I the tragedies
had a profound effect. For one as bold as I they were probably
good, if tragic, lessons--ones that stood me in good stead.
At Fort Stanton some IS miles away where my grandparents
lived there was and still is, a Marine tubercular hospital. There
were also some big hog feeding pens where they boiled the waste
from the hospital and fed it to hogs.
Dad went there in the early fall to buy hogs to run on the
acorns in the shinnery on our land. We all went aiopg to visit
Mother's family.
When Dad went out to the hog pen to buy his shoats, we went
to see the big pens of hogs. I remember quite well that in one
large pen there was a huge boar which had killed a man just a
few days previously. My Uncle Clyde, trying to "Show out",
shinnied over the fence and across the pen in a flash, scaring the
living daylights out of Granny and Mother.
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Dad bought 20 hogs and turned them loose in the shinnery on 1
the mountain. Before long they were fat as butter and Dad
butchered them and took them to Carrizozo to sell.
Dad was gone to market, Mother, Geraldine and I
stayed alone in our mountain,cabin. Way in the middle of the !
night a man "Hitlloo-oo-edl at the front gate. Mother was
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scared stiff, but she answered.
As it turned out the man was a cousin from Capitan. Mother _,_,I=oe Assortment
was glad and relieved to see him. I remember that he was very
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cold and he crawled between the feather bed and mattress that
Mother Mother fixed f°r him" We were glad °f a chance t° sleep with I for a change. ,, ses
As soon as winter set in we had to move out of the mountain
cleft for the snow got so deep in tho narrow valley that we could
not get out. Dad went back and forth on horseback to attend to |
the animals, and many times his feet would drag in the snow.
One family had tried to winter up there and a child had'died of
pneumonia when the-could not get out to a doctor.
We had two rooms in a house with another family. There I
spent the first Christmas I can remember. We hung our i ! *" JT'
stockings on the door facing, in lieu of a fireplace, and went to A '!
bed at the foot of our parents bed (we had only one), andwaited ./ " Solidsor Prin
for Santa to come. x
The next morning I had a doll and buggy, a monkey on a string
and candy, fruit and gum. I shall never forget the monkey on a . Sizes 30 to 48
string, we village so I
I had started to school when first moved into the F;\\;t 8 to 1$
that there would be enough children to get a school there, but 1
got interested in the pictures in my book and whistled out loud g • $498 to
and the boys laughed at me. I cried and the teacher sent me
home. Mother didn't send me back, for she thought I was much
too young to go anyway. • II
But I was in a Christmas program at school. We had a pageant |
in which about a dozet little girls rocked their dolls and sang to
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