Free Arbor Day Kits for Texas Teachers Available
The Texas Forest Service offers free Arbor Day program kits to public and parochial school teachers and principals in Texas. Each kit includes two pecan tree seeds planting instructions a suggested Arbor Day program and program materials. Distribution starts this month and kits are limited one per teacher on a first come first served basis.
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Texas Forest Service
Texas A&m University System
College Station
Texas
Cotton Grades Drop as Mike Stays High on Plains Harvest
Plains Cotton Growers reports early 1969 quality for High Plains cotton shows lower grades and staples than 1968 while micronaire remains high. Weather events such as hail, heavy rain, and Oct freeze reduced staple length. 40,000 bales analyzed versus 800,000 through December 6 last year.
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Plains Cotton Growers, Inc
High Plains
USDA
Brownfield
Lamesa
Levelland
Lubbock
Textile Research Center
Texas Tech
Andromeda Strain novel at Kendrick Library
A science fiction tale about Project Wildfire and a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism unfolds in The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton. The book follows four scientists in a secret Nevada lab racing to identify an antidote as an epidemic threat looms. Crichton, a Harvard trained writer, offers documentary style science and NASA parallels.
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Michael Crichton
Kendrick Memorial Library
Earth
Wildfire
Nevada Desert
Arizona
NASA
Crichton
Chicago
Harvard College
Harvard Medical School
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Littleton M. Hill
Seagraves
Irvin H. Hill
USMC
Vietnam
Thomas V. Allen
Marine Corps Reserve
Lance Corporal Hill
Ervin Fuller
East Sons
Bel Air
Columbia Carbon
Fuller
Plant 66
A. 8
Askew
Carbon
Columbia
First Baptist Church
Masonic Lodge
L. J. Richardson Jr
W. A
Dub) Leigen
South Plains Council
Boy Scouts of America
Harold Drummorth
Richardson
Mini’’ Peignoir
Ganta
U.S
Chris’mas
Bruce
19Th Street
Lubbock, Texas
Bankamericard
Sunbeam
Terry County Lumber
Burma
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