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Newspaper
Comanche Chief
Location
Comanche, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1955
Page
10
Cuba bought about 25 percent of U S rice exports in eight months of 1954, bolstering Texas Gulf region prosperity. In 1953 Cuba purchased 556 million pounds of clean U S rice, about 57 percent of Texas production that year.
A letter from Mrs. Ed Rush notes renewing the Chief for another year and enjoying weekly papers. It lists holiday visits to Gustine Texas and many relatives in Hominy Oklahoma Cleveland Muleshoe Fort Worth Comanche and other towns with Rush family members and friends.
A sermon warns against clinging to deadly habits and urges breaking ties with poison and vice. It uses vivid anecdotes of a cobra kept as a pet and a smoker’s cough to illustrate how people cling to harmful pleasures despite risks, urging conversion and restraint.
The January issue highlights Dr. Burton, a principal geneticist with the U S Department of Agriculture, who collaborates with the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station to breed grasses for the Southeast. It notes Bermuda’s rise, Burton’s Breeds like Suwannee and Tift Midland, and future aims toward Bahia grasses and hybrid millets for improved forage and cold tolerance.
Dr. Glenn W. Burton of Alabama has been named 1954 Man of the Year in Service to Southern Agriculture by The Progressive Farmer for introducing Coastal Bermuda pasture in the South. The award is announced in the magazine.
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