Crossing Corn and Grass Odd Hybrid Gives Clue to Origin of Corn
Henry A Wallace explains experiments by F C Mangelsdorf at Texas station crossing gama grass with corn to test ancestry. The hybrid shows 28 chromosomes between corn and gamagrass, with teosinte as a possible relative, while real commercial value remains nil. The piece notes Job's tears as another possible distant relative and urges further pollen-cross experiments.
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Henry A. Wallace Wallaces
Iowa
Towa
Mexico
Connecticut
Sue
Mangiledort
Lowa
Mangelsdorf
Texas Experiment Station
Job
Mangisdorf
Interscholastic League Officers Named in Brazes
Officers of the Interscholastic League are named to lead activities at Brazes. Principal Tavis Elementary appoints teachers for speech, debate, declamation, athletics, music, memory contest, and other events.
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Brazes
Ernen Brown
Tavis Elemenia
Ir Genersl
Ax Jolow W
Millican Club Plans December Home Project Program
Millican news reports Miss Lucy Givens led the Millican club meeting at Mrs. Robert Fuqua’s home with nine members present. Plans were made for a December home orchard order and a December 1 hog canning demonstration at Mrs. K. T. Williams Jr.’s home for the club.
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Lucy Givens
Millican Club
Robert Fuqua
Miss Givens
Mra
J. W. Burrows
Aubrey Fuqua
Goose Creek
Chas. McGregor
Houston
Renkin Pottecte
San Marcos
Mr. Howard
Ennis
Mill
Thanksgiving Homecomings and Wedding Shower Reflections
The article recalls Thanksgiving hospitality in Millican with Ben Harrington at his mother's home and Mary Eunice Seale receiving wedding gifts. It notes road work on a new highway, many homes housing laborers, and hopes to chronicle more homecomings. A large wedding shower event featured many guests and a formal bride’s book.
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Ben Harrington
Alice Arrington
Mil
Wedding Shower For Miss Mary Eunice Seale At Haygood Home
Mrs J W Haygood and Mrs Brad Haygood hosted a country wedding shower Friday for Miss Mary Eunice Seale. The event featured gifts in a small basket and a surprise reveal of the wedding date November 21 1931 as guests gathered to help with a quilt.
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J. W. Haygood
Brad Haygood
Mary Eunice Seale
Beidre-To-Be
C. B. Franklin
Hearne
Noonie
Maude Buckhaults
Ballinger Claims Low Westtex Water Rates
Ballinger asserts it offers West Texas's lowest water prices with a 5,000 gallon minimum of $1 and 20 cents for each additional 1,000 gallons. The rate has remained unchanged for over 20 years.
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Ballinger
Texas
Prospect Sunday School Seeks Support and Training
A Prospect school community hosts a Sunday School with nine years of activity and no formal church. Local boys prepare basketball and equipment. a November 28 box supper features music by the Cargill band and a talk on home living by County Agent Benson. An auction will raise funds as students perform a Thanksgiving program. later, D J McDonald hosts hogging and canning demonstrations December 3–4 supervised by Benson and Miss Lucy Givens.
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Mesvers
Manning
Terry
Sylvester
Timmons
Prospect School
Cargill
C. L. Benson
D. J. McDonald
Community Dinner at Steep Hollow Cemetery Meeting
Sunday November 29 there will be a cemetery meeting at 10 a m for the Steep Hollow community. Dinner will be served on the grounds.
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Steep Hollow
White House Cotton Plan Aims to Stabilize Market
The Farm Board announced an emergency agreement to lock up 6.6 million bales of cotton for a year to blunt a glut from a large crop. Banks and the American Cotton Cooperative Association will hold about 3.5 million bales until July 31, 1982, unless prices hit 12.5 cents a pound earlier.
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Washington
Farm Board
Nathan Adams
Dalles
American Cotton Co-operative Association
Doctor Rea to Visit Bryan LaSalle Hotel for One Day
Prominent American physician Dr Rea, internal medicine specialist, will tour Bryan LaSalle Hotel on Thursday December 10 from 10 AM to 4 PM. He offers non surgical treatment for stomach liver bowel and related diseases, free consultation, and affordable medicines, advising couples and families to attend together.
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Rea
DRS
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