PAR CALENDAR Hints At Holiday Club Events And Plans
Big plans unfold for the PAR club holiday season with a December 2 dance at the club sponsored by PAR. Five will donate music, the Robertsons provide hors d oeuvres, and private club prices will be reduced. On November 14 fourteen women posted scores in the Low Net event and 18 hole champs and flights awarded. A white elephant gift party is planned for December luncheon.
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Esablishment
Robertsons
De-Lores Sharp
Lena Taylor
Doris Maxwell
Jeth Hallmark
Margaret Campbell
Bettie Brazier
Dorotha Locke
Alzera Weaver
Upper Leon Soil and Water District Leaders Highlight Conservation
The Upper Leon Soil and Water Conservation District in Texas promotes conservation beyond rural users. Directors serve without pay, aside from $10 per meeting, and are elected from five zones for five year terms in a memorandum with the Soil Conservation Service.
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Upper Leon
Up per Leon SWCD Appoints Norman Moore to Board Seat
Norman Moore is named to the Up per Leon Soil and Water Conservation District Board to fill an unexpired term, elected in 1970 for a five year term, and currently serves as vice chairman. He farms about 570 acres near Sidney, a mixed livestock and peanut operation, with 70 bushels per acre from 100 acres of dryland peanuts in 1970. Moore and his wife Bess live one mile north of Sidney with two children Roxann and Kevin.
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Norman Moore
Upper Leon
Norman
Bess
Sidney
Roxann
Kevin
Soil Survey Nears Completion in Comanche County
About 35 000 acres remain to complete the soil survey of Comanche County. Conducted by Soil Conservation Service scientists, the survey maps soils on aerial photographs and analyzes features such as erosion, water holding capacity, permeability, pH, fertility, and predicted yields for fields. It also covers housing sites, roads, landfills, and other uses, with data available at the local SCS office.
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Joe Moore
SCS
Comanche County
Soil Conservation Service
J T Wilkerson Runs a 227 Acre Farm Near De Leon
J T Wilkerson, director for zone 3 of the Upper Leon Soil and Water Conservation District, serves as secretary. He and his wife Edna Murriel farm about two miles south of De Leon on 227 acres, with 65 acres in peanuts. The land fights wind and water erosion using strip and cover crops with residue returned to soil. Brush is mostly cleared, coastal bermuda grass dominates pastures, and he dries lands while irrigating some peanuts from wells with good results.
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Joe Criswell
Sudan
Bermuda
Lovegrass
J. T. Wilkerson
Upper Leon
Wilkerson
Gene Gilbreath Named Farm Family of the Year Leader
Gene Gilbreath, zone 1 director, operates a Edna Hill farm and leases extra land. He was elected in 1964 and reappointed in 1969 for a five year term. He has chaired the district and earned regional honors including Outstanding Young Farmer in Comanche County 1961 and conservationist honor 1968.
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Gene Gilbreath
Zone 1
Edna Hill
Texas Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts
Gilbreath
Comanche County
Comanche Jaycees
Dublin Chamber of Commerce
Leon - Bosque
Gilbreth
Texas Farmers Home Administration
Maxine
David
Farm manager blends native grasses with peanuts farming in Gorman area
E F Harrison, director of zone 5 in the Upper Leon Soil and Water Conservation District, operates a 3850 acre farm five miles east of Gorman with Marlyn. native grass covers about 3000 acres while goats control oak sprouts and coastal bermuda grass rests pastures along 400 acres of bottomland. He practices fertilization weed control and proper grazing. peanuts form a major crop with strip cropping residue management and a cover crop after harvest.
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F. Harrison
Upper Leon
Bermuda
Bermer
Air Force Opens New Return-to-Duty Opportunities
The United States Air Force announces opportunities for former service members with under six years of active duty to rejoin in specialties such as electronics intelligence information engineering avionics and education. Recent pay raises full benefits and early retirement add strong incentives with individual counseling offered by local recruiters.
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United States Air Force
Air Force
Stewards Of The Soil Highlighted By Water Board
The Water Conservation Board marks Soil Stewardship Week with a May breakfast at Lake Eanes Park. Attendees from De Leon Rising Star Dublin Gustine Sidney and Comanche heard Hiram Smith Jr. of De Leon stress layman responsibility. J. T. Wilkerson and Norman Moore were pictured with him.
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Upper Leon
Hiram Smith, Jr
Norman Moore
Forest area drives U S paper consumption per person
A rough calculation links the nation’s use of 550 pounds of paper per person to the net annual growth of roughly three quarters of an acre of commercial forest. The statement connects forest growth to papermaking demand and overall resource use.
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U.S
Deer and Turkey Hunt Near Winchell District
Herbert Goodson David Goodson Franklin Hall and Elton McCullough joined Brown wicd men for deer and wild turkey hunting near Winchell. Each participant reportedly bagged a deer and a turkey. Ward Driskill and Gail Dudley visited him. he is seriously ill in a Temple hospital Sunday afternoon.
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Wichell
Herbert Goodson
David Goodson
Franklin Hall
Elton McCullough
Brownwicd
Winchell
Ward Driskill
Eltas Dudley
Gail P. Dudley
Temple Hospital
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Jance
Ladies Golf Association
Bell Gore
Joe Gore
E. F. Harrison
Soil & Water Conservation District
J.B. Criswell
J.T. Wilkerson
de Leon
Comanche
E.F. Harrison
Dublin
S.C.D
Hiram Smith
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