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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1956
Page
3
Rural voters in Texas backed Democrat Will Wilson for attorney general in the July primary, carrying 206 of 254 counties. He won over 49 percent in a four way race with a 185000 vote lead and total 673000 votes, signaling strong agricultural support.
Forty veniremen were summoned for the divorce hearing in Columbus District Court on Sept. 5. Names listed include Walter Byres Walter Cervenka Jr Leon Pinchback Alois Davidson and others. The case styled Dorothy Dyer versus Jesse Dy faced selection amid procedural delays and declined entries.
The University of Texas Bureau of Business Research reports Texas farmers earned 12 percent less in January–June 1956 than the same period in 1955, totaling 571,925,009 versus 648,920,000. Nine of 17 commodities fell, led by flaxseed 83 percent and wheat 75 percent, while peanuts and poultry rose. A note mentions an Elgin Watch Art from Joe D. Luna's Dry Store in Eagle Lake and foreclosures on several items.
The proposed Eagle Lake Texas ordinance regulates storage transport and handling of gasoline and other volatile liquids at retail and wholesale sites within city limits. It sets tank size limits fuel handling rules fire zone restraints and penalties with a saving clause and notes prohibitions on unattended unloading and spillage management. It also includes confirmation of stilbestrol absence in beef from cattle fattened with the growth hormone like chemical based on FDA and USDA tests.
Doyle Moore county agent urges farmers to protect a very short corn crop and stock livestock feed by thorough bin cleaning, proper insecticide spraying, and using approved grain protectants rather than chlordane. If infested at harvest, use labeled fumigants in tightly closed storage. Texas cotton growers face tar spot elimination campaign led by F C Elliott.
Mr and Mrs Clyde L Phillipe announce the birth of Cynthia Lou an eight pound fourteen ounce daughter born at Laughlin Hospital at 3 40 pm Monday August 20 Welcoming relatives include Robert Clyde and Susan Elaine Grandparents are A C Cox of Freeport and Clyde Phillips Sr of Vanderbilt A Elgin Watch from Joe D Lana Drug Store as a gift
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