Milam County Watermelon Prospects Amid Shifting Truck Crops
Milam County agents report 201.2 acres of early summer watermelons for harvest with good stands and advanced vine growth in Hanover Milano Rockdale Minerva areas. Marketing expected first half of June. Other notes cite broader national acreages, irrigation shifts, and a trend toward livestock and grass as truck crops face market, disease, and labor pressures.
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Oklahoma
Armame
North Gerelina
Alabama
Arkansas
Louisima
Mississippi
California
South Cerelina
Georgia
Texas
Milam County
Hanover
Milano
Rockdale
Minerva
Alcoa
Milano - Rockdale
Cotton Report Indicates Replanting and Field Work Progress
The report notes some replanting and hoeing, with plowing and resect control ongoing. Wages for chopping in the Somer ite wemity ranged around 45 to 50 cents per hour. Plants show excellent growth. market activity is stagnant with CCC purchases lagging and new crops not yet developed.
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Winter Garden
CCC
Texas cotton crop yields and income dip in 1962
Texas cotton producers earned 809 million dollars from the 1962 crop while total income and production declined slightly from 1961 totals. Final census figures show 4,726,000 bales produced from 6.5 million acres at 348 pounds per acre with machine harvesting and higher fertilizer use cited as cost-reducing factors. National cotton and cottonseed income totaled 2,653 million dollars.
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College Station
Texas
Fred C. Elliott
Bureau of Census
High Plains
California
Arizona
Trans - Pecos
Elliott
Three Yoe Seniors Honored At Party
Sam Lawhon Linda Miller and Nelda Parker Yoe High School seniors were honored by their parents Saturday night. The event featured a hayride a wiener roast and a dance with the graduation theme carried throughout.
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Sam Lawhon
Linda Miller
Nelda Parker
Yoe High School
Weiner
Texan sights to see on a holiday roam
A compact guide lists Texas attractions from Guadalupe Peak to the San Jacinto Monument and Gulf beaches. It highlights the Alamo, Palo Duro Canyon, East Texas oil fields, and the Texas Longhorn Cavern as major natural and historic sites.
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Texas
Bag Bend
Guadalupe Peak
Palo Dero Canyon
East Texas
San Jacinto Monument
Gulf
Alamo
Texas Longhorn
Kamara visits Cameron hatchery and Texas farm events
EIGE Mohamed B Kamara of Free Town Sierra Leone tours Hornung Brothers Hatchery in Cameron and visits Idea Hatchery and local 4H clubs. He attends school chapel talks in Rockdale Cameron and May 24 state judging to crown top rural Texas community. Agricultural price listings and livestock rates appear in a later section.
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Mohamed B. Kamara
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Africa
Cameron
Lewis Elsey
Kamara
Maysfield
Gause
Cavilla
Aycock High School
Rockdale
O. J. Thomas High School
Texas
Tix
Cartel numbered 517 auctions hogs and donkeys
At last weeks live stock sale cartel number 517 reported 225 hogs and two donkeys offered among the lots. Prices pad featured good and choice fed steers in the market commentary.
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Cartel
Hearing aid wind noise stopper and wireless device debut
New inventions promise to cut wind noise about 90 percent in hearing glasses and behind the ear aids with an install price of 1.50. A wire free hearing device eliminates cords buttons and battery box. Mr. Treadway holds a hearing clinic at 102 W Main Cameron on May 28 from 10 am to 1 pm with free tests and 20 percent battery savings.
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Treadway
W. Main
Cameron
Thorndale Poes and Children Visit in Mexico
Mr and Mrs Erwin Pie with children and Mr and Mrs Cliff Moffett of Dallas traveled to the valley early in the week and then drove into Old Mexico. Various local residents including Mrs W W Smith, Mrs Byrdie Sandiford, and Mr and Mrs Allen Conn visited family and friends in Waco Crockett Weslaco and Brownfield over the weekend and week.
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Erwin Pie
Cliff Moffett
Dallas
Valley
Old Mexico
Ollie Simmons
Weslaco
W. W. Smith
Crockett
James Smith
Byrdie Sandiford
Allen Conn
Lula Partiow
Waco
Last Rites Held For Lorene Matula
Funeral services for Lorene Matula were held at St. Monica's Church with Rev. Geiser and Rev. McCallum officiating. Burial followed in St. Monica Cemetery. She was born November 3 1906 in Holland and died May 21 at her home. she is survived by her mother Gussie Matula and brothers Ted Matula of Cameron and Ludwig Matula of Gause.
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Lorene Matula
St. Monica's Catholic Church
John Geiser
Paul McCallum
St. Monica Cemetery
Holland
Gussie Matula
Ted Matula
Cameron
Ludwig Matula
Gause
Marek - Burns Funeral
Joe Schrieber
Rudolph Richter
Ralph Michalka
Charlie Matula
Albert Matula
Lewis Mat
Funeral services for Mrs Fare Fagg Kept in local obituary notices
Funeral services for Mrs Willie Fagg 82 were held May 15 at Marek Burns Funeral Home. She died May 13 in a Giddings hospital. Rev Bob Colton and Rev H Russell officiated. Burial was in North Elm. Born July 12, 1882 in Alabama, she was a former Milam County resident. Surviving: one son Jim Schiller North Kingstown RI, one daughter Mrs Ruby Massey Dime Box, one sister Mrs Melvin Weems Cameron, six grandchildren, two great grandchildren. Pallbearers: John e Dan Buddy Fuller Ray Richards Grady Allen Case Walden.
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Willie Fag
Marek - Burns Funeral Home
Fagg
Giddings
Bob Colton
Waco
H. Russell
North Elm
Alabama
Milam County
Jim Schiller
North Kingstown
R. 1
Mra Ruby Massey
Dime Box
Mra
Melvin Weems
Cameron
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Py J.D. Moore
Cotton Report
Erat
Magara
Niagars
Buckholts
Buckholts High School
Barbara Smith
Sandra Gresak
Kathy Wallace
Rita Baggett
Mary Jean Massingill
Carolyn von Gonten
Mary Aramillo
Patsy Zavre
Mary Frances Ruzicka
FHA
Betty Hanke
William Arthur
Eugene Moran
Moraws
Courthouse Square
Methodist Fellowship Hall
Eige
John E. Snell
Mr. Treadway
Thorndale Poes
Mexico
Horace McDaniel
L. C. Blackman
Ben Nicholson
Edith Martin
Robert
Mrs. Fare
John Svetlik
Frank Svetlik
Anton Svetlik
Ernest Fuchs II
W P Matyastik
William Vogelsang
Ideal Hatchery & Poultry Farm
West Main
Ona
Chevrolet
Burkes-Howard Chevrolet CO
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