Purple Gallinule a Marsh Bird With Tasty Breast and Season
One of the least known game birds in our area is the Purple Gallinule, a marsh dweller also called the cool. The rail family includes four other birds like King, Clapper, Virginia and Sora Rails. The Purple Gallinule is described vividly in color and habitat, shown to frequent marshes bayous ponds and rice fields. The piece notes its abundance in fall and winter and mentions an early shooting season, migration from Texas through spring, nesting in rice fields and the impact on farmers. It also covers its nesting behavior, and the harvest implications for rice harvests with gunner access as fields are worked.
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Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Anahuac National Wildife Refuge
Deer Park Grid Drills Open Under New Coach Grisham
Deer Park opens 1969 football practice Monday under new head coach Bothy Grisham with about 148 candidates. Varsity could include 34 players, junior varsity 48, and freshmen 68. daily two drills plus a 7:30 p.m. session. Scrimmage set at Texas City Aug. 29 and a home game against Lamar Consolidated Aug. 29. Grisham names 13 lettermen, two starters from 1969, with Bo Lively and Jett Turner competing for quarterback. New trainer Bob Smith joins staff along with Wesley Frosch heading freshman program.
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Deer Park
Bothy Grisham
Grisham
Tam
Coogs Look to Replace Mullins as Open Practices Begin
Four sophomore quarterbacks will compete to replace Gary Mullins as the Houston Cougars open Football practice on August 24. Mullins, a quick transferring veteran from San Angelo, guided the team to nine straight wins last season before departing.
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Gary Mulling
University of Houston
Cougars
Mulling
Exper Soph
San Angelo
Exams Set For Deepwater Deer Park Junior High Gridders
Seventh and eighth grade football players at Deepwater and Deer Park Junior Highs are slated for physicals Tuesday August 25 at Deer Park Junior High. Reports say exams run from 310 to 680 AM with students needing a completed physical examination form on file to participate in interscholastic league sports.
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Deepwater
Deer Park
Areata
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Chester Rogers
Esr Park
Texas City
Dear’ Park Hoeta Lamar
Rosesberg
Clyde Abshier
Pullbeck Monster
Corky Cottrell
Jett ‘Turner
Turner
Lively
Chartie Hamm
Jett Wilcoma
Bo Moottomery
Grisnam
Deer
Bob Smith
Odessa Permian
Wesley Frosia
Frosch
Port Neches
Gristam Oaths Sareity
Jess Harwell
Bowden Cook
Oper
Western Auto Store
Center ST
Coogs
Mullins
Stomore
Wits
Elmo Wright
Brazoria
Craig Rob‘nson
Austin
Ted Heiskell
Pampa
Deepwater Junior High
Queens
Seabrook
Cedar Bayou
Webster Horace Maze
Deer Park Amy
Highlands
Ais Deer Park Junior High
San Jacinto
Webster
Horace Mann
Oklahoma State
Amy
Mississippi St
Pam
Oregon State
Ole Miss
Wyoming
Wake Forest
Florida State
Pam Dee
Shai Mechanical Contractors
E27
Center
Billy Falent
Gulf
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