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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1963
Page
2
County agents issue warnings on fire safety with gasoline and pesticides. They urge careful handling of tractors and machinery on highways and insist operators read manuals and use guards. Emphasis on proper storage and labeling to protect children and prevent injuries.
A rural group near Somerville overcame a chronic water shortage by forming the Somerville Rural Water Association. FHA financing enabled a $240 loan guaranteed by the Farmers Home Administration, enabling two miles of line to serve 37 homes and provide fire hydrants and reliable water by December 1, 1962.
Texas 236A corn hybrid shows drought and heat tolerance with strong standability and reduced lodging. Wescan cantaloupe offers resistance to downy and powdery mildews, sulfur-treatment tolerance, and high yields with firm salmon flesh maturing in 8 to 90 days. evaluated by commercial growers statewide.
Auction reports show cattle counts 355 head including 180 cows and four goats with steers good to choice at 2.00-2.22 per pound, fat cows 10-15.50, calves up to 35.00 for down stocker calves, heifers 25.00, stocker steers 2.00-35.00, cows and calves 120.00-200.00, hogs varying from 9.00-14.60 per hundredweight, sows 9.00-13.60, boars 5.90-6.70, feeders 10.00-10.75, pigs 5.00-6.25.
Texas A and M Extension Sociologist Reagan Brown says 132 communities will receive a total of 6300 in awards in the next weeks through the Texas Community Improvement Program. Branchville Davila Gause and Griffin Chapel are among communities completing record books to qualify as participants. The 4-H Awards Program and May Day activities are set for May 4 in Rockdale with the banquet dropped this year by leaders and Council members.
Milam County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service office manager Alva E B Sanders outlined the 1944 wheat program voting slated for May 1 1982. The plan includes marketing quotas and a noncertificated wheat option for livestock feed at reduced price support, plus substitution of allotment acres for feed grain base acres if a feed grain diversion program is in effect.
A screwworm infestation near Liberty was detected in late March prompting rapid action. Officials said early reporting allowed emergency measures and dispersal of sexually sterile screwworm flies to prevent spread to other areas.
Four Texas A M College of Engineering students were awarded 25 Alcoa Foundation scholarships presented at a April 9 luncheon by KK RR Sage. The Alcoa Foundation supports religious, charitable, scientific, literary and educational causes and distributes funds across five states. Texas A M received a share exceeding $12,000 this year.
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