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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1962
Page
3
Colt .45s reading club closes Aug 31 with 89 registered children, over half finished. Certificates awarded Sept 1 at Channelview Library. certificate recipients will attend Colt .45s game vs New York Mets at 1:30 PM. Adults pay 1.50. Channelview Library circulated 45,943 books and added 934 borrowers in the year.
Tulsa AP reports U S oil production increased modestly last week led by gains in Oklahoma where Oil and Gas Journal shows daily average up 22,675 barrels to 7,247,300. Louisiana rose 3,425 to 1,208,500 and Texas up 1,725 to 2,531,650 barrels per day.
A 1950s to 1960s Labor Department report predicts a sharp shift to machines in cotton harvests, with about 47,000 fewer workers needed this year and up to 94 percent of cotton field work mechanized by 1964 in some regions. It notes higher productivity, regional declines, and ongoing displacement especially in the Southeast, while many displaced workers seek migration or welfare aid.
Rock Hudson, top box office draw, headlines The Spiral Road at the Brunson in a drama of jungle medicine and moral struggle. Burl Ives supports, Gena Rowlands shines as Hudson’s bride in a film partly shot in Dutch Guiana. Based on Jan de Hartog novel. Filming spans jungle locales and Dutch colonial settings.
Plans for the Southwest Screwworm Eradication Program do not include releasing sterile flies in Chambers County now. W S Edwards, county chairman, notes benefits already seen in South Texas and says final eradication is the payoff. Cold weather and overwintering area management will guide release scope and border controls. Producers should maintain fly prevention and report 10 worm samples per wound for ID.
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