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First Cotton Bale To Aid Crippled Kids
Harlingen Texas Elks receive the first 1955 cotton bale grown in Hidalgo County. Springs Cotton Mills of Fort Mill South Carolina will process the bale into sheets and pillow cases at no charge for presentation to the Tex as Elks Crippled Children's Institute at Ottine. Will Wallace of Edinburg and Jerry Block of Sharyland grew the bale which was shipped via Harlingen Chamber of Commerce efforts. Lone Star Brewing donated support and high bidder paid $3.13 per pound to raise funds totaling about $3,180. The bale was shipped to the South Carolina mill, with an Elks member presenting it to officials there.
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Harlingen, Tei
Texas
Springs
Elliott
White Springs
South Carolina
Harlingen Elks Lodge
Jetter
Will Wallace
Edinburg
Jerry. Block
Sharyland
Elks
Harlingen
Elks-Gub
Ottine
George . Russell
the Elks
Rio Grande’ Valley