How To Reduce Mosquito Breeding Places In Harris County
Rayford G Kay explains how excessive rain increases mosquito problems in Harris County. The piece outlines life stages, disease risks, and the need to eliminate standing water around homes and farms. It lists insecticides for dairy, beef, and horse applications, cautions on vegetation spraying, and suggests consulting USDA bulletin No. 854 for home and premise control guidance.
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Rayford G. Kay
Marrig
Harris County
Texas
USDA
Descendants Of Former Presidents At Opening
In Boston a 22 story state office building dedication drew descendants of three presidents and a JFK cousin. Four presidential trees were planted honoring Massachusetts leaders Calvin Coolidge John Adams and John Quincy Adams and John F Kennedy cousin Hubert Fitzgerald attended with Joan Coolidge and others.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Joan Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Quincy Adams
Charles Francis Adams
John Adams
Hubert Fitzgerald
John F. Kennedy
Turpin Named To Executive Post At HORC Refinery
Frank G. Turpin, Operations Manager at Humble Oil Baton Rouge Refinery, named Administrative Manager of Humble’s Baytown Refinery effective July 1. He replaces George McCullough, who becomes Labor Relations Coordinator. Turpin and his family plan to relocate to Baytown after school ends, after a year’s stay in 1961 during which he supervised the Fuels Division.
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Frank G. Turpin
Baton Rouge
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Baytown
George McCullough
Humble
Turpin
Hope
Turpins
Grace Methodist Church
Ashwood
Bluefield
West Virginia
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Navy
Junior Achievement
United Givers Fund
Chamber of Commerce
Boy Scouts
PTA
Teachable Elephant Noted for Memory and Quick Learning
An observer highlights the elephant as highly teachable with strong memory and rapid skill acquisition, noting its brain size is not large but its recall and learning abilities are impressive.
Board Head Gets Extra Corp Post
C E Reistle Jr will retire June 1 as Humble 627 Refining board chairman and chief executive and has been elected a director of Extra Corp. Extra, based in New York, makes printing equipment auto parts and more with last year sales over 254.6 million and net profit 12.4 million. Reistle plans to stay in Houston and pursue personal and investment interests. The report also notes Mandarin and English are the two most spoken languages worldwide.
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Houston
C. E. Reistle Jr
Humble 627 & Refining. Co
Extra Corp
Extra
New York City
Eltra
Prestolite Company
Mergenthaler Linotype Company
C&d Batteries
Marshalltown ‘Manufacturing
Inc. Stanley G. Flagg & Co. Inc
Equilease
Reistle
Who's Who
Gordon W. Wattles
J. A. Keller
Reistie
Baytonian Among Top Ten At UH
Miss Jacklyn Ann Shires daughter of Mrs. Jim Church of 24271 Kentucky and a 1963 graduate of Robert E Lee High School has been named among the University of Houston top ten students. The group was honored at Awards Day in Cullen Auditorium for scholarship and activity involvement. Jackie a junior math major is an honors student member of Delta Gamma Sorority and the Women's Student Association. The essay mentions the pyramids and the Sphynx as the remaining Wonders of the Ancient World.
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Jacklyn ‘Ann Shires
Jim ‘Church
Kentucky
Robert E. Lee High School
University of Houston
Cul Jen
Jackie
Delta Gamma Sorority
The
Women’s Student Association
Barret Lealoca and the First Texas Oil Venture
Dallas historian Frank Tolbert chronicles Barrett Lealoca and the early Texas oil effort near Nacogdoches in 1866. The piece uses Lealoca correspondence and papers to reveal vast optimism and subsequent disappointments in forming a Texas oil company.
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Barret Lealoca
Gas “Associat
Texas
Nacogdoches
Frank x. Tolbert
Dallas
Barret
Texas Oil Company
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Germany
Philco
Rat Olor Company
Phileg
Phus
Philco Disributors, Inc
Aew
Lemeek
Sear Tame Crees
HORC
Baytown, Texas
Culpepper's
Baytonian
Jacklyn Ann Shires
Discount Center
Ane
A. Norge Dryer
Rnee-Acti
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