Ten Commandments of Home Mosquito Control
The Texas Department of Health Resources outlines practical steps to reduce mosquito breeding and bites amid spring rains. Readiness commands avoid standing water, discard tires, screen barrels, repair leaks, drain gutters, and use fish in ponds. Repellents and insecticides help when outdoors or indoors.
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Texas Department of Health Resources
Texas
Texas Department of Health Resources’ General Sanitation Division
Mexico
Rio Grande Valley
Frantzens Return From France Monaco Trip
Mr and Mrs R L Frantzen returned June 10 from a tour of southern France and Monaco joining a Dallas Tulsa group. They flew to Nice visited the Riviera and Monte Carlo. A fireball is a bright meteor with surviving fragments called meteorites.
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R. L. Frantzen
France
Monaco
Dallas
Tulsa
Nice
French Riviera
Monte Carlo
Picking Own Fruit Popular At Pioneer Orchards
Cliff Wilson and his brother Talmadge run Pioneer Orchards three miles southwest of Fredericksburg off Highway 290. Their 150 acre site has 6,000 trees with bearing three year old stock and younger trees. Visitors can pick nectarines peaches plums and grapes with hay bale picnics under live oaks and cold drinks at a stone house check-in point. The brothers retired colonels expect growth in Fredericksburg fruit growth and operate additional apple orchards elsewhere.
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Cliff Wilson
Talmadge
Pioneer Orchards
Fredericksburg
U.S. Highway 290
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Wilson
Loring
Wilsons
Cliff
Talmadge Wilson
Fredericksburg Firemen Respond To Weekend Field Fires
Fire calls came in pairs for Fredericksburg Volunteer Firemen in the past week after a lull. Saturday at 3 52 p m crews battled a field fire near a new home on Cliff Wilson place east of town and at 5 45 p m a second field fire on Jung Lane ten miles northeast. Neither incident caused damage. Tuesday at 11 21 a m a grass fire near James Eckhardt’s on Friendship Lane and Creek Streets produced no damage. At 11 52 a m the Louis Diaz home on 506 North Pecan reported an overheated cookstove vent causing insulation to smoulder. firefighters cut a hole to remove it, with no wood burned and no extensive damage.
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Fredericksburg
Cliff Wilson
U.S. Highway 290
Jung Lane
Friendship Lane
Creek Streets
James Eckhardt
Louis Diaz
North Pecan
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