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While motorists made a twelve-mile detour to another bridge, the Texas Rangers under mighty Captain Tom Hickman answered Governor Murray's criticism that "all they can do is cuss and shoot craps" with a public demonstration of their marksmanship. Captain Hickman shooting from the hip hit 18 out of 20 matches at 50 ft. Ranger Goss, firing his pistol upside down, split a playing card...
...secretary sped 200 mi. by motor from Austin to Houston, dashed into a banquet of Texas attorneys, presented the measure to Governor Sterling who signed it amid cheers. Next day the Federal Court suspended its injunction until Aug. 3 when another hearing would be held. At Denison Captain Hickman and his men cleared away the cumbersome barricades from the free bridge, opened it to traffic...
...prices, however, did not deter the tycoons of southwestern wheat production from harvesting crops larger than ever. By far the biggest wheat farmer in Texas is Hickman Price, oldtime newsman (New York Sun, Nashville Democrat) who three years ago gave up a $50,000 per year job with Fox Film to apply modern industrial methods to husbandry in the Panhandle. Last year smart, efficient Mr. Price harvested 17,000 acres in Deaf Smith, Castro and Swisher counties. Last week he was getting in a 500,000-bu. crop from 23,000 acres. Next year he plans to expand...
...Farmer Price uses 25 combines, all painted a glittering silver and labelled HICKMAN PRICE. Fifty tractors do the heavy hauling. A crew of 250, including mechanics and factory "troubleshooters" keep this mechanical army moving by day, cleaned, serviced, repaired by night. Their sleeping quarters are wheeled about with them from one section of the farm to another. Five motorcycles carry special messengers back and forth across the miles of wheat land with reports to Mr. Price on the progress of the harvest. One hundred trucks haul the wheat to Kress where Mr. Price sells it direct to the big city...
...rival of Hickman Price in winter wheat acreage is James Jelinek who was waiting last week to harvest his 28,800-acre kingdom near Alliance, Neb. Mr. Jelinek uses 20 tractors, 14 combines, 12 trucks, 40 men. His harvest is 620,000 bu. He has his private elevator on the Burlington track...