Fort Worth Hosts Annual 4-H Horse Show August 7-10
Fort Worth will host the annual 4-H Horse Show August 7-10 drawing about 1 000 members and leaders from across Texas. The event features 20 classes with 240 contestants and a new mounted precision drill team competition involving top 10 to 12 riders. Major committees and show management are named led by Billy Watt Jr and Tom Davison with county 4-H leaders assisting.
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College Station
Worth
Will Rogers Co
Yeates
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Fort Worth
Texas
Conti
Billy Watt, Jr
Barton Broome
Ofry Allen
J.W. Secoaiedly
Billy Miller
Cas“Tripp
Eates
Tom Davison
Area
Cotton future bright says Texas CPI trustees
Charles Stenholm of Stamford Texas told CPI trustees that the rolling plains delegation is optimistic about cotton. He noted more acreage will be planted and markets expanding as cotton research and promotion reach record levels. CPI budget for 1968 is eight million dollars with 1 per cent farmer payments. The group reviewed 1968 activity and outlined 1969 program guidelines while tours of textile facilities were organized.
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Charlotte
Rolling Plains
Board of Trustees of Cotton Producers Institute
Charles Stenholm
Stamford
Texas
CPI
Stenholm
Aubrey Lockett
Vernon
American Textile Manufacturers Institute
Crown
Springs Mills
Cannon Mills
Swink
Salisbury
George Buck
Memphis
Council
U. S
Almanac Today June 11 1968 History Highlights
On this day in history Warren Harding was named dark horse Republican candidate in 1920. Charles Lindbergh greeted by Coolidge in 1927 after his transatlantic flight. Ben Hogan won the 1950 U.S. Open Golf Championship 16 months after a car crash. Federalized guards stood by as George Wallace allowed two negroes to enroll at Alabama in 1963. Cervantes quote reflects a thought for the day.
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Ohio
Warren Harding
Chicago
Charles Lindbergh
Calvin Coolidge
Atlantic
Paris
Ben Hogan
National Guard
George Wallace
University of Alabama
Micuel de Cervantes
Flow of Rural People To City On Agenda
Regional Farmers Home Administration meeting set for June 2028 in St Louis will discuss monitoring the flow of rural residents to urban centers. Cappleman and state officials outline agency efforts to loan about 1.3 billion dollars to create rural jobs, housing, and facilities while strengthening the rural economy.
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Farmers Home Administration
St. Louis
Cappleman
Texas
John O. Barnes
I. D. Smith
Arnold H. Paul
J. C. Hayes
J. D. McKenzie
W. E. Lawson
America
Texas brush control under new attack plans
West Texas ranchers prepare a vigorous new assault on mesquite and other brush as the Texas Agricultural Extension Service and Soil Conservation Service expand a brush control program. C. E. Fisher of Lubbock heads the effort with a seven member staff and new plant scientists and engineers to boost range improvement.
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Stamford, Tex
UPI
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Soil Conversation Service
Texas
West Texas
W. G
Bill) Swenson
Stamford
C. E. Fisher
Lubbock
South Plains
Fisher
Stag Creek Community Builds Pride Through Improvement Programs
Reagan Brown of Texas A M University notes Stag Creek in Comanche County has sustained 15 years of community improvement work. Residents remodeled homes added facilities and expanded farming practices while hosting foreign students and strengthening rural urban ties through the Texas Community Improvement Program.
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College Station
Stag Creek
Comanche County
Brown
Countty
Texas
Exotic birds and animals fill Conway farmer’s acreage
A. J. Britten on a 1000 acre Conway Texas farm dedicates several hundred acres to a menagerie of exotic birds buffaloes monkeys and other animals. The yard houses peacocks chukars partridges macaws cockatoos and jacobins with a Chinese golden pheasant on display among cages and storage sheds.
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conWay. Tex
UPI
A. J. Britten
Conway
Britten
India
Britten Farms Home To Wide Range Of Exotic Animals
The farm holds eleven buffaloes from the federal government in Oklahoma in a field east of Britten’s house. Polly the gentle cow allows pats. The yard also includes six noudad sheep, Whiteface cattle, Longhorn cattle, over 20 Shetland ponies, Asian sheep, and several European white deer, with earlier plans for foxes, skunks, and bobcats reduced as care demands rose. Britten says he collects animals because he likes to look at them.
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Britten
Oklahoma
Polly
Lake Mead and Hoover Dam Highlighted in World Almanac
The World Almanac notes Lake Mead in Nevada as the hemisphere’s largest man made reservoir formed by Hoover Dam, the tallest concrete dam at 72% feet. Completed in 1936 for $175 million, Mead serves as a major recreation area drawing about 4.1 million visitors in 1967.
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Hemisphere
Lake Mead
Nev
Hoover (Boulder) Dam
Orld Almanac
Bluebonnet Queen To Attend Opening Santa Rosa Rodeo
Miss Helen Dale Biggs Bluebonnet Queen of Texas will lead the opening parade for the 23rd Santa Rosa Roundup in Vernon on June 12 at 3 00 pm She will be introduced at each rodeo night She is a Hollins College senior daughter of John and Electra Biggs of Santa Rosa Ranch Vernon Her mother sculptress Electra Waggoner Biggs has crafted busts of Eisenhower Churchill Mary Martin and Will Rogers Coliseum statue Her father John Biggs is W T Waggoner Estate manager and Santa Rosa Roundup president Tickets Box 21 Vernon (817) 112 6268. The rodeo runs June 12 15 with nightly shows at 8 30 pm.
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Helen Dale Biggs
Texas
Santa Rosa
Vernoff
Ench
Miss Biggs
Hollins College
John Biggs
Santa Rosa Ranch
Vernon
Electra Waggoner Biggs
Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Mary Martin
Will Rogers Coliseum
Fort Suds
Poners Collesium
Fort Or
W. T. Waggoner Estate
Cattlemens Association
Santa Rosa Rounduy
Santa Rosa Roundup Associaton
Southwest
Biggs
Tex
John Connally
Hockaday School
Queens Court
Tyler
Calline
Britain seeks resumption of Nigerian war talks
Commonwealth Minister Lord Shepherd conferred with Biafra negotiator Louis Mbanefo in London to restart peace talks. Medical authorities issued appeals for the safe return of 16 hour old Michael Rattre who vanished from Hackney Hospital Monday night.
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London
Britain
Lord Shepherd
Commonwealth
Louis Mbanefo
Biafra
State of
UPD
Michael Rattre
Hackney Hospital
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Advertising Council
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Childress Index
Childress Labor
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