Farm Market Trends Slaughter Prices Slip at Major Markets
United Press International reports mixed cattle futures and market shifts with slaughter steers mostly steady to lower, heifers softer, cows up, hogs down sharply, and lambs firm to higher at key terminals. Carrot pork prices weaken while wholesale beef and dairy prices show modest changes as grain markets wobble and futures retreat.
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United Press International
Midwest
Kansas City
East St. Louis
St. Paul
Iowa
Minnesota
Chicago
Chicago Mercantile Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
Cotton Harvest and Ginning Up in Panhandle Texas
USDA census shows Panhandle cotton harvest and ginning accelerating while quality slips due to November freeze. Sample receipts held near 4,000 daily. weekly classed 24,000 samples with season total 51,000. Staple length improves, white grades fall, spotted and tinged grades rise. micronaire lower. Prices move up with higher mike readings. cottonseed fetches $63-$67 per ton at gin points.
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Panhandle
USDA
Consumer and Marketing Service
Memphis
Texas
K. E. Voelkel
Cotton Research Committee of Texas
Mike
Ted
Wall Street Forecast Sees Short Term Market Pressure
James Dines Co warns near term market trends are unfavourable with blue chips autos steels and rubbers slipping while gold and silver rebound signals caution. Walter Mintz of Shearson Hamill notes possible tax hikes and economy cooling add uncertainty. Alexander Hamilton Institute urges selective buying during weakness.
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New York
UPI
James Dines — Co
Blue Chins
Motors
Walter Mintz
Shearson, Hamnull & Co
Mintz
Alexander Hamilton Institute
Cotton Mechanization Conference Set in Dallas
The National Cotton Council will sponsor a Beltwide Cotton Production Mechanization Conference in Dallas on December 12-13 to review the latest research and cost reduction practices. Committee meetings on various cotton growing techniques will follow.
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Dallas
UPT
National Cotton Council
Dallas Dan
Texans face rising cigarette taxes and political shifts
A historical note laments Texas cigarette taxes stepping to 11 cents per pack from 5 cents in 1959. It links tax hikes to political strategies in Austin and calls for anti tax activism while hinting at future party opportunities amid national election shakeups.
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Texas Smokers League
Texas Freedom To Smoke
Texas
Washington
Austin
Republican Party
Farm property values rise for Texas farmers
COLLEGE STATION The upward trend in farm property values continues to increase the assets of Texas farmers. Boyd Andrews Texas A&M University Extension resource development specialist notes farm property prices rose an average of 17 percent from 1963 to 1965. Andrews sourced data from a 26 county study spanning the state's 17 type of farming areas.
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College Station
Texas
Boyd Andrews
Texas A&m University Extension
Andrews
Venezuelan slum children make dangerous home fireworks
Caracas reports that Venezuelan children in urban slums celebrate Christmas with improvised Roman candles made from hollow bamboo filled with gunpowder and rocks. The homemade devices explode unpredictably posing serious risk to youth.
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Caracas
Venezuela
UPI
Patterson Patterson soybean yields encourage farmers in 1966
The Patterson short season soybean, bred by the High Plains Research Foundation, was planted widely in 1966 with reported irrigated yields from 30 to 44 bushels per acre and dryland yields around 30 to 35 bushels. Growers praised early maturity and ease of harvest, noting good yields after wheat and resilience to weather risks.
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Hereford
Littlefield
Morton
Plainview
Farwell
Idalou
Lockney
Dimmitt
Flordada
Tulsa
Hale Center
Boise City
Oklo
Farnsworth
Sunray
Halfway
Sumner
Paris
Texas
Jasper
St. Joseph
Patterson
E. W. Jones
Floydada
C. E. Harris Tulia
Bob Vergeel
Robert E. Kirch4off
H. Chatham
Painview
Barwise
Bert Williams
Hubert L. Gohlke
Farmers report yields and delays in Oklahoma harvest
Norman R. Hiner of Boise City Oklahoma yielded 35 bushels of beans and harvested on October 6. He noted the crop could have been gathered two weeks earlier but rain delayed the work. Many farmers used Treflan for weed control during the season.
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Norman R. Hiner
Boise City
Oklahoma
Dr. Collister Resigns Hi Plains Trustee Post
Dr Bar H Collister executive vice president and trustee of the Hi Plains Research Foundation steps down effective January 1 1967 to become executive vice president of World Seeds Inc based in Salinas California. He will oversee research sales and seed distribution in a worldwide operation developing crops to address global food needs including a wheat rye cross touted as a potential high yield cash crop for local farmers and ranchers with possible yields near 200 bushels per acre and high protein content. Soybeans sunflowers and other crops will be included in the program.
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Bar! H. Collister
High Plains Research Foundation
World Seeds Inc
Salinas
California
Dr. Collister
World Seeds
Irx
Boat Owners Council cites 39 million pleasure boaters in US
The Boat Owners Council of America reports 39 million pleasure boaters across the United States, reflecting broad recreational boating engagement and industry impact nationwide.
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The
Boat Owners Council of America
United States
On This Day December 6 1966 Almanac Highlights
Almanac notes historic events and quotes for December 6. Notable items include the 1917 Halifax munitions explosion deaths, Roosevelt's 1941 note to Tokyo, Eisenhower meeting the Pope in 1959, and poet Joyce Kilmer born in 1886.
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United Press International
Mars
Jupiter
Joyce Kilmer
Halifax
Nova Scotia
Roosevelt
Tokyo
Hirohito
Japan
Eisenhower
Vatican
Lyndon Johnson’s World War II Service and Senate Rise
The article recounts Lyndon B. Johnson voting for the 1941 war declaration, volunteering for Navy active duty and earning the Silver Star, Roosevelt’s 1942 order recalling Congress, Johnson’s 1948 Senate win by a razor 87 vote margin over Coke Stevenson, and his air campaign using a helicopter.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Congress
Japan
Germany
Navy
South Pacific
Roosevelt
Washington
Johnson
House of Representatives
Senate
Coke Stevenson
Texas
Texan in the White House
In 1956 southern Democrats sought L B Johnson for the presidential nomination but failed. In 1957 he steered the first civil rights bill in 80 years into law. In 1960 he pursued the nomination, but John F. Kennedy ran a strong campaign and Johnson accepted the vice presidential offer.
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Johnson
Senate
Massachusetts
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Johnson's Era Shines With Civil Rights Act and Prosperity
President Johnson commands broad popularity as the nation benefits from the 1964 Civil Rights Act and a booming economy driven by a tax cut. The era of the New Frontier is marked by unprecedented public support and strong legislative achievements.
Texas in the White House and the Great Society
Lyndon B. Johnson as president pursued his Great Society program after 1964, as the 89th Congress pushed 88 anti poverty proposals while international issues loomed and a future 9th Congress threatened more opposition.
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Johnson
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