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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1956
Page
5
The WHO Club gathered at Glueck Home with President Brumbelow presiding on January 3 at 7 p.m. Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. Mrs. Lee provided refreshments, and a report noted 140 donations for Tums with care to cancer charities.
Eagle Lake Volunteer Firemen met for a regular practice session last Monday evening. Next Monday they will hold the monthly business meeting and all firemen are urged to attend. With dry weather grass fire risk rises. advised to prevent fires at all times.
Myra Joyce Obenhaus of Texas City, granddaughter of Mrs. R. H. Obenhaus of Eagle Lake, is recovering well from injuries in a recent automobile accident. Physicians have informed her she can return to work immediately.
Farm operators who did not grow rice in the last five years must file a 1956 rice acreage allotment application with the County ASC by February 1 1956. Applications received by the Columbus Texas ASC office will be considered. Details required include farm serial number owner name and address farm tillable rice land irrigable capacity applicant rice experience and rice growing equipment.
The Berean Class of Colly Memorial Methodist Church held its January 11 meeting in the Educational Building with 13 members and guests present. After a covered dish supper, a short business session discussed the March Spaghetti Supper at the Community Center. Mrs. Harrison Walker gave the devotional and offered the closing prayer.
Four cars damaged in two separate crashes on Colorado County highways last weekend. Ora Lee Smith 24 of Columbus Megro Woman received a ticket for driving without a license after rear bumpers hooked fenders with Dan Rinn 69 also of Columbus on Farm Road 109. The collision occurred about 3 20 p m Thursday as Smith attempted to pass the Rinn car. Earlier a 1956 Ford and a 1955 Chevrolet were involved in a separate mishap near a Sheridan street intersection about 5 50 p m Saturday as Shell Oil supervisor George Albert Loner started onto the highway. Sundbeck 22 of Austin, a highway department surveyor, tried to pass behind the Rinn car and rear ends collided. Damages were about 200 for the Ford and 100 for the Chevrolet.
Weekend guests of Mr and Mrs Deane D Fletcher and family were Mr and Mrs Alvis Kennedy and daughter Carmen Lynn from Frank ltin.
Rice growers will vote January 27 on marketing quotas as proclaimed by Secretary Benson due to an unusually large 1954 US rice crop and a drop in exports. The August 1, 1955 carryover pushes the 1955-56 supply 49.6 percent above normal, with current totals 36 percent over the quota, guiding actions for the 1956 crop.
The marketing year projects a supply of 83.6 million hundredweight from 1955’s 53.6 million crop, a 29.9 million carryover, and imports of 0.1 million. Domestic use is 27.8 million and exports 23 million, leaving a record 32.7 million hundredweight to roll into the 1956-57 year starting August 4, 1956.
Mrs Oscar Miller receives a free ticket to Rice Theatre on Sunday or Monday January 22 23 to see The Private War of Major Reason. Clip and present at box office on either date.
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