Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Wednesday, January 18, 1939
CCC Cage Team Wins From Paris Junior College Wednesday
Also Defeats Bogata In Game Played At That Place
A local basketball team, composed of enrollees in the Mt. Pleasant CCC camp, made a name for itself Tuesday night and qualified as stiff competition for any team, when it played two games at Bogata, winning both of them. Their opponents were the Bogata high school and the Paris Junior College quintet.
In the first game, with Bogata, the CCC boys ran up a total of 38 points while their opponents made 32. Forrester was high point man for the enrollees, with 8 to his credit; Seaman was high for Bogata, with 7 points.
In the second game, the camp won by a score of 30 to 27, with Domnic high for the enrollees, making 10 points, and Duckworth for the Paris Junior College, with 6.
Players and positions for the Mt. Pleasant team were as follows:
Domino 'Reed' Henry and Honeycutt, forwards: Womack, Bailey and Yeager, centers; Hamell, Forrester, McKnight and Harper, guards.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
January 4, 1939
Soil Conservation Notes
By D. E. Cook, Camp Technician
The cooperators of the CCC camp this month have planted oats for strip crops and have protected 414 acres of cultivated land. These oats have been planted on terraces to hold them until they have time to settle.
Oats have also been planted just in front of the terrace channels in order to hold the silt out of the terrace channels. Oats have been planted to control erosion on fields that do not need terraces.
This month, there have been 4.4 miles of terraces constructed by fifteen cooperators of the Mt. Pleasant CCC camp. This 4.4 miles of terraces in combination with strip cropping protected 119 acres of cultivated land. Also there have been 2,320 linear feet of terrace outlet channels constructed and 2,770 square yards of Bermuda seed have been used for protection of terrace outlets.
The CCC camp this month, with the help of the cooperators, has sodded 267 acres of pasture land with Bermuda grass. Also on this same acreage 2,700 square yards of gully banks have been slipped and sodded. Not only have the cooperators been cooperating in the sodding of pastures and gullies, but they have helped the enrollees grub brush on 361 acres. This grubbing will permit the cooperators to mow their pastures to control weeds and sprouts.
CCC enrollees constructed nine miles of fence and removed 5.5 miles. These fences were constructed to protect strip crops from grazing and to divide pastures so that a program of rotated grazing can be put into effect. H.D. Bone, Camp Superintendent of the Mt. Pleasant CCC camp, stated that the cooperating farmers can help in the construction of good fences by furnishing good material for the enrollees to work with. Large, well-braced corner and brace posts are necessary to construct a strong fence, as the life of the fence depends on how long the corner posts stay in place. Strong and study line posts cut in even six feet length, contribute to uniformity and strength of the fence.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
February 1, 1939
Enrollees In The CCC Complete Training Course
BY A. L. THOMPSON,
Soil Conservation Service
Twenty new enrollees< of the Mt. Pleasant CCC camp have just completed a two-week's orientation course which has given them an appreciation for the CCC and its purpose and equipped them with the information necessary to get the very most out of their CCC life as they fight their battles against erosion.
The purpose of the course was to acquaint the new enrollees with the mechanism of a camp unit, how it worked, relation between the technical service and the army, and what part was to be played by the enrollees. With this purpose in mind an outline was prepared for the course which, in eleven lessons of one hour each, gave the boys a working knowledge of the camp unit and an appreciation for erosion control.
There was instilled in the boys a feverish desire to enter the battle against erosion, the same desire that is created in any person when he realizes the seriousness of erosion. It took very little data, substantially proven, accompanied by a little serious thought to make the boys realize the seriousness of erosion.
The fact that the CCC was organized for the enrollees and their families in need and not to create jobs for their administrators, does and should make an enrollee more willing to do his best. This fact was revealed to the boys as well as other facts concerning the supervisory personnel and their responsibilities.
These questions were asked several times. "What is the farmer's participation in our work?" "What does it cost the farmer?" The questions were answered by a review of cooperative agreements which stated specifically the obligations of the government and the cooperating farmers with the fact that the prosperity of our nation, is dependent upon the farmers conserving the top seven or eight inches of our soil for agricultural production.
Every new enrollee is ambitious, he either wants an easier job, more responsibility or more pay, the same as a boy in civilian life. In the course of orientation they were shown how, by applying themselves, they could get better positions in and out of the CCC. They were told about all the jobs in the organization and the requirements of the boy filling the job. The procedure for taking a civil service examination was given. There are rules and regulations in all work that an employee should be familiar with in order to do this job properly. The rules and regulations that a boy would unconsciously violate were brought to mind. Safety, being a very important thing in any program, was stressed at every opportunity along with the limits and importance of first aid and the importance of treating minor injuries to prevent infection.
The educational program of the CCC was discussed in detail. The boys were reminded that the educational program is purely voluntary with no awards, degrees, or diplomas, but with the one greatest reward, "knowledge." The boys were enrolled in the course they desired with no enforcement from the educational adviser.
While the boys were retained in camp for their two weeks training period they were given a routine of work, education, and recreation, and in the last three days of the training period they made three educational tours over the camp work area, accompanied by the camp superintendent and a number of the technical staff.
The first trip was to show the boys some results of erosion and impress upon them more fully the seriousness of erosion. The second trip was to visit the work crews on the job and walk over the farm to see how each acre was being treated according to its need and adaptabilities. The third trip was taken over the project work area to see the re-
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Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
February 12, 1939
CCC and SCS Teams Both Win Games at Avinger On Friday
Defeat Quintets From Marshall CCC Camp Units
Two Mt. Pleasant basketball teams, one composed of enrollees at the CCC camp, and the other composed of members of the technical department of the Soil Conservation Service, were winners in games played at Avinger Friday night. Their opponents were teams of the same classifications from the CCC camp at Marshall, who sent challenges recently to the Mt. Pleasant groups.
In the first game, played between the two teams from the technical service, Mt. Pleasant won by a score of 15 to 12 with Casey of Mt. Pleasant high point man with a total of 8. Players were:
Mt. Pleasant - Jenkins, Casey, Parker, Seigler, Thompson and Martin; for Marshall - Bolton, Lanford, Jones, Netters, Maxfield, Carlton and Copeland.
In the second game between the CCC teams, the local quint won by a score of 32 to 30, with Domino high with a total of 14 points. The players were:
Mt. Pleasant - Yeager, Henry, Domino, Harper, Howell, Driscoll; tor Marshall - Adams, Ayres, Wilson, Bryant and Harris.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Wednesday, March 1, 1939
CCC Enrollees Paid Salaries In Silver Here on Wednesday
Allows Merchants To Check Amounts Spent Here
The enrollees of the Mt. Pleasant camp of the Civilian Conservation Corps had the unusual experience Wednesday of being paid their monthly salaries in silver, instead of in the regular manner.
According to Lt. A.E. Millot, commanding officer at the camp, the average monthly salary of each enrollee is $30. $25 of this amount is sent home to the parents of each one and the remaining five dollars is handed to the boy himself.
Wednesday morning each enrollee drew his five dollars in silver and with nearly two hundred enlisted in the local service about a thousand dollars was paid out in this way.
When asked why this method of payment was chosen Lt. Millot explained that it was for the purpose of allowing the local merchants to see what percentage of each enrollee's salary is spent in this city. An unusual amount of silver circulating among the business houses here can easily be detected, Lt. Millot said.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Thursday, March 2, 1939
New Technician At Local CCC Camp Is Named Thursday
Elton D. Cook Takes New Position At Spur, Texas
Elton D. Cook, for many months technician at the local: CCC camp here, engaged in the soil conservation movement in the county, left Thursday morning for Spur, Texas, where he has been transferred by the ECW. His duties there will be similar to those in which he was in charge in this county.
Homer Hays, local SCS agronomist, has been assigned to the place left vacant by Mr. Cook, and took over his duties Thursday. Two other men in the same service are expected to be transferred here soon, an announcement said.
Though Mr. Hays is one of the most competent men in the SCS service, it is decidedly unfortunate that Mt. Pleasant should lose Mr. Cook, who has been active, not only in his own line of work, but in the civic affairs of the community as well. He was well known and highly respected by local business men and farmers both, giving untiringly of his time to any worthwhile project.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
March 15, 1939
Enrollees At Local CCC Camp Placed Under Quarantine
Order Is Result Of' An Outbreak Of Chicken-pox:
Lt. F.R. Patterson, second in command at the local CCC camp, in an interview with a representative of this newspaper Wednesday afternoon, stated that all enrollees of the camp have been placed under quarantine as the result of an outbreak of what was at first believed to be smallpox but which was later learned to be chickenpox.
Two cases of the disease were announced by Dr. Fulton, camp physician, and each of the afflicted enrollees have been placed in a hospital at Ft. Sill, Okla.
According to Lt. Patterson, the quarantine order restricts the enrollees to the camp and to the field. They can carry on their regular routine of duties but are not allowed in town or at any other place except the two places listed above.
The duration of the quarantine depends upon whether or not new cases of chicken pox develop among the boys, Lt. Patterson said.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Sunday, April 2, 1939
CCC Camp Observes Establishment Of Work Six Years Ago
Luncheon at Noon on Saturday For Personnel
The local CCC camp observed the sixth anniversary, of the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps with a luncheon Saturday at noon for the enrollees and members of their families. The NYA girls across the street also attended. Besides members of the camp personnel, there were about 150 visitors for the luncheon.
At the luncheon, the principal speaker was former Representative. Traylor Russell, who enumerated some of the benefits to Titus County as a result of the work that has been and is being done by the Camp. Other speakers were: H.D. Bone, camp superintendent, Lt. E.A. Millot, camp commander, and O.H. Hays, camp conservationist.
The public is invited by camp officials and enrollees to make an inspection of the camp area Sunday and attend a showing of photographic slides of soil conservation work, which have been furnished this camp through the courtesy of Congressman Wright Patman.
The Mt. Pleasant camp is one of twenty-three engaged in applying complete and coordinated programs of soil and water conservation on farms under supervision of the Soil Conservation Service. This camp has completed on under way a program on 125 farms comprising a total of 23,550 acres situated within a radius of fourteen miles from the camp.
The week end program was a part of a gigantic observance all over the county in commemoration of six years of major achievement in the field of conservation.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Sunday, April 2, 1939
Activities Of Local CCC Camp Benefits For Local Farmers
Pointed Out On Sixth Anniversary Of Program
In connection with the observance on April 5 of the sixth anniversary of the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Homer Hays, camp conservationist of the Mt. Pleasant camp, announced today that 125 farmers located in the camp work area, have installed or are in the process of establishing complete soil and water conservation farming systems on 23,550 acres of land.
Mr. Hays said that these farmers have retired from cultivation approximately 2,091 acres of land. Some of it was so badly eroded that it could not be profitably used for the production of clean-tilled crops. Other acres retired were located on slopes too steep for safe cultivation and some of the land was composed of soils too easily eroded by rainfall runoff to be left without a protective covering of vegetation.
As a result of this land retirement, pasture area on the 125 farms has been increased from 8,018 to 10,109 acres, thereby installing erosion control and more profitable utilization of the land.
Mr. Hays also pointed out that farmers have utilized idle as well as retired land through the establishment of hay producing meadows, meadow area on the 125 farms having increased from 268 acres to 406 acres. Some of these meadows have been established along natural drains by removing brush, weeds and sprouts and sodding and seeding with lespedeza and clover. Many of the meadows serve the three purposes of controlling erosion, producing a hay crop and providing for feed.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Wednesday, April 5, 1939
New Enrollments at Local CCC Camp Are Reported By Millot
Many Will Be Sent To Camps in Arizona and New Mexico
Lt. A. E. Millot, Commanding Officer of the local CCC camp, made an announcement Wednesday afternoon to the effect that a new enrollment of men into the CCC service is being made this week.
On Wednesday, Lt. Millot said, forty youths were enrolled from Bowie County; twenty-four from Franklin County, and eight colored from Titus County, with 165 enrollees coming here from Bogata and Winnsboro. On Thursday 103 are scheduled to be sent to San Simon, Arizona, and 89 to Tucson. Ariz.
On April 6th (Thursday) fifty will be enrolled from Titus County and twenty-four from Camp County, in addition to 75 who will be shipped here from Bogata and 18 from Daingerfield.
Out of this latter group a total of 190 will be sent to Lordsburg, N. M., and 95 will be retained at the local camp, Lt. Millot said.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Sunday, July 9, 1939
CCC Recruits Sent To Camps By Train Saturday Evening
Six Pullmans Filled With Northeast Texas Boys
Two hundred Northeast Texas boys, recruited for CCC service, were sent from here Saturday evening by the Cotton Belt Train No. 5. Six Pullmans were chartered to accommodate the boys, 135 of whom were sent to the Denver, Colo., area, and 65 were assigned to a camp at Ranchester, Wyoming. Ten of the recruits will remain in the Mt. Pleasant camp to bring up the personnel to its regular quota.
About 170 of the new boys were assigned to the local camp Friday night, and had to sleep in the open, as the quarters were filled almost to capacity before their arrival.
The boys recruited from Titus and several adjoining counties to fill the depleted ranks of the service, since many of the boys had served all the time in camps that they were allowed, and others were needed to fill their places.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
July 11, 1939
New Commanding Officer Named For The Local CCC Camp
Lt. Chas. S. Bushnell Takes Charge Tuesday
An announcement was made here Tuesday morning of the appointment of Lt. Charles S. Bushnell as commanding officer of the Mt. Pleasant CCC camp, to succeed Lt. A. E. Millott, who has had active charge of the camp for about a year. Lt. Miilott resigned recently to accept an executive position with, a bottling company at Gilmer.
Lt. Bushnell comes to Mt. Pleasant from Veterans Camp at Denton where he has been for several years. He arrived Tuesday morning and vas accompanied with his wife and daughter who will also make their home here.
Recently a statement was issued to the effect that the different CCC camps throughout the country would be withdrawn from army supervision in the near future and would be placed under civilian control. This statement has been verified by Lt. Bushnell, who has already signed a contract to be civilian commander as soon as the change is made.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
July 13, 1939
Set Up CCC Camp Miles Away From Any Settlement
FAIRBANKS. Alaska-Cut off from civilization by miles of virgin wilderness, a "farthest north" CCC outpost is being established by 200 Civilian Conservation Corps youths in Mount McKinley National Park, Alaska.
Known as Camp Denali, the post is 350 miles from Seward, Alaska, and 120 miles from Fairbanks. The closest settlement of any kind is the village of Nenana, 50 miles away on the Tanana River.
Boys in the camp are working on three main projects-landscaping for a projected hotel, stringing telephone wires to the Toklat River 50 miles from camp, and building a winter patrol cabin some 80 miles deeper in the interior.
The only luxury of civilization missed most, according to Kenneth McCord, assistant leader, is music. The camp radio can get no reception.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
June 18, 1939
Soil Conservation District Saturday
Present Plans Are to Include Four Counties
A temporary organization of four counties to include a soil conservation district was formed Saturday at the office of the County Agent in the court house. The counties involved are Camp, Franklin, Morris and Titus, but it is not expected that all of Franklin and Camp counties will be included, as portions of them are nearer to Winnsboro, where another district is being formed, with the CCC Camp at that place as a nucleus.
The boundaries of the district cannot be definitely decided until the lawn owners themselves show their interest by signing petitions asking to be included in the district, and a hearing is held by the State Board.
There were a number of land owners present at Saturday's meeting from Camp and Morris Counties, and all present was enthusiastic over the prospects of being included in an organization that will do a great deal for the conservation of the soil through assistance of federal and state agencies, and each one volunteered to take a petition back home and get his neighbors to sign.
W.G. Ralph of the local demonstration project explained just what advantages a farmer may receive from the formation of a district, and the meeting was presided over by Raymond Brown, County Chairman.
From remarks made at the meeting, it is expected that hundreds of signatures will be secured to petitions for the formation of a district during the next few weeks to be presented to the State Board whenever that body is ready to receive applications, which will be some time yet, as the members are now traveling in Oklahoma and Arkansas studying operations in those States, which have had this plan in operation for a year or more in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture, which will also assist the Texas land owners as soon as districts can be formed.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
August 3, 1939
Openings Exist For Many Applicants Enrollment in CCC
Registrations To Be Accepted Next Week
According to Mrs. Jessie Johnson, Titus County WPA Supervisor, a large number of openings are available for boys who wish to enter CCC training and who are eligible for the work.
Mrs. Johnson has informed this office to the effect that the quota for the month of September will be based upon the number of applications that are made during the month of August and so far only sixty-five applications have been made.
This number should be increased greatly in Titus County if all the needy boys are to be cared for.
Eligibility of applicants is based upon the age requirement of 17 to 23 years and their actual need for work.
Registrations will be taken at the local office next Monday and Wednesday, Mrs. Johnson has stated.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Tuesday, August 29, 1939
Soil Conservation District Needed To Include This County
Land Owners Should Begin Action At Once
By Raymond Brown
Titus County should be included in a soil conservation district to operate under a new Texas law that was passed by the last Legislature. I am afraid that many land owners, and other, do not realize that it is possible to lose the work of the Soil Conservation Service and CCC camp that we now have unless public interest is aroused and the citizenship get to work for the creation of a district under the new set-up. The present Soil Conservation area on Harts Creek and the CCC camp was established here, and other places, to demonstrate methods and the value of soil and water conservation. This new program is the follow-up plan and is intended to reach all farmers who want the work. Petitions from all parts of Texas and other states are going in to State Board every day with the view of getting new localities designated as a soil conservation district, and it stands to reason that paid workers and CCC camps will be given to the localities that get busy and make an effort to secure the service.
Two thousand people attended a public hearing meeting at New Boston, on Friday of last week. I and about ten others from Titus County attended this meeting. At this meeting, the people of Bowie County told the State Board in an impressive way they are after the creation of a district. Not a person in the 2,000 raised an objection. Similar hearings have been held at Hughes Springs, Sulphur Springs, Paris and other parts of the State. So it can be seen Titus County is surrounded by points that are active and working. None of these points have a soil conservation service or CCC camp and they possibly realize the advantages as much as the people of Titus County. It is true, the amount of work the government does will depend on the funds that are made available and no one knows how much funds will be available, especially on an enlarged program, but it is certain that the services will go to those who are interested and work for it.
Titus County has been fortunate in having the work of the Soil Conservation Service and CCC camp. I hope to see the service continue under the new program. From now on, the government, under the Texas law, will expect land-owners to say by public election whether they want a soil conservation district or not. There is a petition in to the State Board covering Titus County, asking for a hearing to see whether or not an election is justified. The date of the hearing will be announced at an early date. The people of Titus County should turn out to this hearing and let the State Board know that they want an election and will vote favorably when an election is ordered.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Tuesday, August 29, 1939
Soil Conservation District Hearing Is On Friday, Sept. 15
Large Attendance Is Necessary For Meeting
The hearing by the State Board on the desirability of the formation of a soil conservation district to include Titus, Camp, Franklin, and Morris Counties has been tentatively set for Friday, September 15th.
In order to make a favorable impression with the board and insure the formation of the district, it will be necessary that a big crowd be present on this occasion. There are so many applications being made for the formation of these districts that it is possible that only those sections where the most interest is shown will be selected at present, and the others will have to wait for some time for designations.
At present, it is thought that the hearing will be held at the fair grounds, where a large crowd can be accommodated. The Chamber of Commerce will discuss the hearing at its meeting Monday night, and will make plans for entertaining the visitors who are expected to be present.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
Wednesday, September 5, 1939
Interest Needed In Soil Conservation District Work Here
CCC Camp Sure to Be Moved If Action Not Taken
A light crowd was present Monday night for the Chamber of Commerce meeting, owing to the Labor Day holiday, for discussion of the prospects for the formation of a soil conservation district.
Although it is absolutely necessary that such a district be formed to secure technical advise from federal and state agencies in regard to the conservation of soil, nothing definite has been accomplished toward securing the hearing to outline the boundaries of a district.
The State Board has been requested to set a time for the hearing, but that has not been done, so it was decided to contact Mr. Martin of Nacogdoches as soon as possible and have him set a date for such a hearing, after which details for the meeting can be worked out.
The time for action is short, because other sections are also asking that districts be created, and unless the land owners of Titus County show more interest in the proposition, there is danger that such a district will not be formed here, and that the CCC camp will be moved to another territory where there will be work for the boys to do.
At Monday night's meeting, a letter was read from the Craddock Food Company, in which the amount of money paid Titus County farmers for cucumbers was announced. The growers were said to have realized more than usual from their crop the past season.
It was announced that plans are being made to start a rat eradication campaign over the county as soon as cold weather arrives.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
September 12, 1939
Farmers Will Work To Get Big Crowd to Soil Hearing Here
Conservation Assn. Meets Monday Evening
At a meeting of the Titus County Soil Conservation Association Monday night, the forty or more fanners present decided to do everything, possible, to, secure a large attendance at the hearing by the State beard for a conservation district to be held on Friday, September 29.
All of those present have received substantial benefit from the operations of the Hart's Creek demonstration or from work done by the CCC enrollees and the soil conservation employees on cooperative agreements, and they want to see this service extended to everybody in this and adjoining counties, because it will improve farming conditions as a whole in this section. They voted to extend an invitation to Congressman Wright Patman to be present at the hearing and make an address.
At this meeting, improvement of terraces was also discussed, and plans were made for planting bur clover, strip crops this fall and for the purchase of phosphate to improve the yield. A number of the cooperators reported that they had made a nice profit from their clover plots during the past year.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
October 1, 1939
CCC Not Military According to News Report Saturday
An announcement was made here Saturday by Mrs. Jessie Johnson, Titus County Administrator for the State Department of Public Welfare, concerning a rumor that has been prevalent that all enrollees in the service would be the first to be called into the army should the United States be dragged into war.
The attention of the people of Titus County is called to a radio broadcast over the Texas State Network on October 5th, from 3:15 until 3:30 o'clock. It will be in the nature of an interview authorized by the State Director and will give an account of the aims, activities and achievements of the CCC.
Those who suspect the CCC of being semi-military will have their fears allayed, as the constructive work and the character of the work accomplished will be explained. Facts touching upon the coming October enrollment will also be emphasized.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
September 24, 1939
CCC Enrollment To Start Again On October 1st
Mrs. Jessie Johnson County Welfare Worker states that she has been advised by the State officials that there will be a CCC enrollment about 1st of October. Greater care than ever will be exercised in the selection of young men for Corps, priority being shown those from the most needy families. Applicants who have records of delinquencies will not be considered for the CCC or neither a correctional or a penal institution.
We would like for all boys who are selected to understand that they are to make a voluntary allotment. This allotment is for the dependents and not to be returned to the enrollee. Upon the authority of the President of the U.S.A. the members of the CCC will not be automatically enlisted in the army, the Camp Commanders are no longer reserve officers they are all civilian employees and do not wear army uniforms.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
October 11, 1939
Movement of CCC Enrollees To Take Place This Week
Total Of 527 Boys To Go To New Mexico
An announcement was made Wednesday morning of a series of movements of new enrollees into the Civilian Conservation Corps, who were gathered together from different counties in Northeast Texas through the efforts of Mrs. Jessie Johnson, local director of the Texas Welfare Association.
According to Mrs. Johnson the movements will consist of three contingents of enrollees. On October 12th a total of 177 boys will be entrained here on October 13 there will be 220 more and on October 14 the contingent will consist of 130 boys. And will leave on Cotton Belt train No. 5 at night, in special cars, bound for points in New Mexico and Arizona.
The above movements represent the quota allowed from Titus and adjoining counties during the fall months.
Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, Mt. Pleasant, Texas
December 17, 1939
Soil Conservation Association Elects Officers in Annual Meet
Past Year's Work Is. Reviewed, Plans Outlined
The Mt. Pleasant Soil Conservation Association held its annual meeting at the CCC camp Saturday at noon, with about seventy persons present. After he lunch, new officers and directors were elected. The following were unanimously chosen:
Raymond Brown, president.
John B. Stephens, vice-president.
Fred Witt, secretary-treasurer.
Griff Rutherford and John Hall, directors.
The advisory committee was chosen as follows:
Millard Fleming, W.B. Meeks, J.M. Copeland, L.M. Cargile, O.S. Maxton, A.P. King, Virgil Hughes, F.T. Ward, Leonard Justiss, W.E. McClintock, G.W. Mebane, Rufus Payne, F.J. McGillis, H.M. Bell, W.O. Scott, W.N. Glover, Oscar Gandy, C.A. Dalton, E.L. Flood, H.L. Hess, G.L. Keith, Fred Traylor, C.T. Neugent, A.B. Young, W.V. Mason, Joe Justiss, Luke Wilson, Dr. A.L. Coke, David C. Myers, Finis Culver, Mrs. John Hall, Mrs. A.P. King, Mrs. Raymond Brown, Mrs. F.J. McGillis, Mrs. Sam Wilks, J.W. McCown, Miss Susie Brabham, Charley Brown, Weldon Morris, Ted Spencer, Miss Evelyn Morgan.
Homer Hays made a report on, the accomplishments of the association since the work was started five years ago. Mr. Hays report is as follows:
414 agreements comprising 47,989 acres.
4,368 acres steep and eroded land retired from cultivation and sodded to permanent pasture.
336 acres retired from cultivation and sodded to meadow for terrace outlet protection.
237 acres steep or eroded land retired from cultivation and planted to woods.
2,100 acres seeded to adapted clovers and grasses.
950 acres meadow established 943,600 trees have been planted on 370 acres for forest and wildlife food and cover.
11,000 acres shrubbed of brush to permit sodding and mowing; 3,368 acres of pasture were mowed by cooperators in 1939.
Nine natural springs have been developed into watering throughs for livestock.
216 miles of fence have been constructed by the SCS and CCC as a result of land use changes.
406 miles of terraces have been constructed, protecting 6,752 acres.
114,000 linear feet terrace outlet channels have been excavated and sodded.
5,268 acres of cultivated land was protected by strip crops in 1939 and 3,194 acres were planted to erosion resisting crops.
120 early giant southern bur clover seed plots have been established from which seed are to be harvested to plant additional acreage for green manure crops next year. The acreage now planted is 343 acres.
In 1939 cooperators with the SCS sold 7,580 pounds of clover seed harvested on their farms for $678.00.
The objectives of the Association for 1940 were voted as follows:
Secure a Soil Conservation District, (a) Cooperators aid in educational work, (b) Encourage each eligible voters to go to the polls and vote it and when an election is held.
Each member of the Association explain the Soil Conservation program on his farm to neighboring farmers and encourage them to adopt a soil conservation program.
Each cooperator to plant a seed plot of early giant bur clover from which to save seed and plant cover crops.
Cooperators in a body, visit the State Sweet Potato Experiment Station at Gilmer and the State and Federal Experiment Stations near Tyler, Texas
Cooperators in a body, visit the State Experiment Station at Hope, Ark., (thirty miles east of Texarkana) during March or April. (Pasture development).
Buy or make a cotton mattress during 1940.
All Cooperators mow as much as possible of their open pasture land for weed control.
Each cooperator in earning his AAA Soil Building Units in 1940 select those soil building practices that will be of the most lasting benefit to his farm.
To hold regular monthly meetings during 1940.
To hold an annual luncheon meeting at the end of next year.
