Pasture Improvements From Rainy Week Benefit Ranchers
Unusually fine rains this past week boost native pasture ranges. Temporary pastures can be used for grazing, allowing ranchers to keep all livestock off pastures until frost.
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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1961
Page
2
Unusually fine rains this past week boost native pasture ranges. Temporary pastures can be used for grazing, allowing ranchers to keep all livestock off pastures until frost.
A Bosque Soil Conservation District study on the Bruce Parks ranch shows deferment of pastures from now to frost increases seed production, vigor, and cover. An illustration from a 4.2 inch June 1959 rain finds fields with cover lose little moisture and produce more grass. Cover and grass together yield more beef and profit. Check your Record renewal date.
A page of church announcements from several denominations across Clifton and surrounding areas. It includes service times for Our Savior’s Lutheran, Clifton Fundamental Baptist, Immanuel Lutheran (Missouri Synod), Church of Christ led by James Montgomery, Trinity Lutheran, Church of Christ, St James Episcopal in Meridian, Fairview Baptist, and notices of meetings, Sunday School, and special services.
Funeral services for Arthur Thomas Duncan aged 60 6 months 13 days were held at Clifton Funeral Home Chapel with Reverends Woodruff and Etheredge officiating. He died July 11 in Galveston after long illness, survived by wife A T Duncan two stepdaughters and several relatives. Interment at Clifton Memorial Park. attended by relatives from Vinton Waco Dallas Corpus Christi and other cities.
Ernest E. Powell of Vernon, brother of Mrs. J. A. Jeanes of Clifton, ends a 44 year career as a newspaper circulation man. He worked for the Wichita Falls Times and Record News for nearly 20 years and previously for the Fort Worth Star Telegram and Daily Oklahoman. Powell will stay active with an express agency and travel more. He and his wife Helen, who taught at Vernon High, have two children, Major Craig S. Powell and Mrs. Cecil Rhode. Powell’s retirement follows a long tenure starting in 1917 and relocation to Vernon in 1931.
Mrs. Dick Henry aged 55 died Tuesday morning July 18 at Clifton hospital after a heart attack at home. Funeral services were held July 19 at Mosheim Baptist Church with Rev. Robert O. Rachurg officiating and interment in Valley Mills Cemetery. The notice lists visiting relatives and local residents paying respects and other Clifton area social updates.
Mrs. Pete Dobbins of Stamford and Mrs. Grace Wilson of Spur attended a Clifton O. E. S. fish fry at the home of Mr. and Mrs. David Rowe. Mr. and Mrs. Marshal Mitchell visited Lake Whitney event. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Petzold and son Joe were guests in Weatherford with Mr. and Mrs. G. B. Sheppard and Mrs. Omie Reed on July 16.
Father Thomas J. Taaffe leads a 9 30 A M Catholic Mass every Sunday in City Hall continuing the parish service in the civic building within town limits.
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