Free Scenic Views Offered by Standard Oil of Texas
Standard Oil of Texas announces a free color photo program for motorists and families. Thousands of full color reproductions of Southwestern scenery will be distributed through service stations and garages with no purchase required. The first picture features Carlsbad Caverns and distribution is aided by Mandard Service men with National Park officials backing the project.
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Standard Oil Company of Texas
T. A. Beard
Standard Oil
Carlsbad Caverns
Southwestern
Standard Oil Company
National Park Service
Conservation course offered at Ross College summer session
Ross college announces a six week summer course on Conservation of Human and Natural Resources from June 7 to July 16. Twenty three speakers from federal and state agencies and the college will lecture. Three semester hours credit available in economics agriculture government or geology. Visitors welcome.
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Ross College
A. J. Bierschwab
Mitchell Ranch Expands Grass Growth Despite Low Rain
Marfa Texas May 20 Mitchell Ranch near Marfa shows grass growth outpacing cattle intake under a revised plan to cut stocking rates. Since 1935 he reduced animal units per section and dammed water to flood four sections, boosting forage, calf weights, and soil conservation amid below average rainfall.
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Marfa
Texas
Clay Mitchell Ranch
Highland Section
Mitchell
Pre-Drouth
Rein Mitchell
Ranch House
Mitchel
Solitaire Fan Plays 1.30 Games A Night for 35 Years
C F Mattmiller of Silver Lake Kansas has averaged 1.30 solitaire games per night for 35 years, a habit noted in a local feature about long running pastimes.
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C. F. Mattmiller
Silver Lake
Kan
Best Painting Of St. Helena Canyon Prize Announced
Sul Ross College summer art colony awards a $100 prize for the best painting of St. Helena Canyon in Big Bend National Park. Dr. H. W. Morelock, Sul Ross president, notes the award funded by H. R. Smith of San Antonio and to be given August 24. The winning work will hang in the Big Bend Historical Museum on Sul Ross campus.
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St. Helena Canyon
Big Bend National Park
Sul Ross College
H. W. Morelock
Sul Ross
H. R. Smith
San Antonio
Bend Park
Rio Grande
Texas
Old Mexico
Big Bend
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