Rodeo season opens with record prize money rising fast
Denver reports the Rodeo Cowboys Association aims for a record year with 45 first-half rodeos paying $884,889, up from 39 last year. Leaders like Bob Ragsdale pace calf roping and steer wrestling as rodeo popularity grows beyond pro circuits and into junior events.
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Denver
Rodeo Cowboys Association
Bob Ragsdale
Phil Lyne
George West
Texas
Lyne
Ragsdale
Association
Chowchilla
Calif
Handling Ticks With Care and Prevention Tips
Gentle guidance on tick encounters urges careful removal to avoid leaving the head. Advice covers suffocating the tick to force its head out, prevention after outdoor activity, and notes Rocky Mountain spotted fever with fifteen East Texas cases reported in 1972.
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East
Texas
Bears edge regional meet with third place finish
In Conroe Gladewater placed third at the Region III UIL track meet as West Orange won with 74 points. Kilgore 56, Gladewater 48, Bridge City 36, Henderson and Hearne tied at 30. Nine events earned district qualifiers for the state meet in Austin May 4-5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conroe
Gladewater
Bears
Texas
West Orange
Kilgore
Bridge City
Henderson and
Hearne
Brenham
Chapel Hill
Pine Tree
Humble
Klein and Navasota
Liberty
Carthage
Little Cypress
A&m Consolidated
Livingston
LaPorte
Columbus
Jasper
West Columbia
Edna
Sweeny
LaGrange
Spring
Prairieland
Santa Fe
Bruins
Bobby Bernard
Terry Thompson
East Texas
Dennis King
Waymond Sibley
Mike Lawrence
Joe Kirkpatrick
Donald Henson
Jim Brannen
GHS
Robert Harris
Ronnie Keyes
Henderson
Chad Dean
Brad Blair
Johnny Mauldin
Lindsay Sneed
Austin
Texas Beef Conference Set for Amarillo April 26 27
The first annual Texas Beef Conference in Amarillo will cover politics and beef consumer concerns with speakers including Tom Foley Virginia Knauer Tom Herrick and Bill Donnell. Technical topics span cattle diseases hormones and nutrition with experts from Texas A&M Texas Tech UC Davis Cornell and West Texas State University.
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Amarillo
Cal Parrott
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Tom Foley
U.S. House of Representatives
Virginia Knauer
Nixon
Tom Herrick
Texas Cattle Feeders’ Association
Bill Donnell
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers’ Association
High Plains
John E. Hutchison
Amarillo Civic Center
Representative Foley
Herrick and
Donnell
Hutchison
Glen Lofgreen
University of California
American Society of Animal Science
John Coleman
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
R Hollis Kleet
Texas Tech University Center
Willard J. Visek
Cornell University
H. H. Cole
Charles E Devhle
The
Academy of Veterinary Consultants
Ross Cooley
Plains Nutrition Council
Ine Rex McAnelly
Southwestern T-Bone Club
Charles Smallwood
West Texas State University
Anson R. Bertrand
College of Agricultural Sciences
Texas Tech University
Jarvis Miller
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Gladewater Mirror
New York
Volunteers of America
VOA
Hugh Mixon
Gladewater High School
Bill Waters
Bob Hill
Hill, Mixon
Jack James
Beverly Brumley
Hawkins
Mary Ann Smith
Mineola
Malcom Stone
E. J. Lambert
Winnsboro
Perrin
Sulphur Springs
Primitive Baptist Church
Hugh Minshew
L. D. Gibbons
Dallas
William A. Smith
Tyler
O. C. Smith
Quitman
Gladewaters
Thompson
Chester Green
Jesse Cheeks
Cubes
Squibb
Broxodent
Kodak
Bayer
Contac
Colgate
Hallmark
Emeraude
Cologne
Living Bible
Texas Beef
Sponsors
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station of
Texas A&m University
Texas Tech University, and
First Baptist Church
Dean and Upshur, Gladewater
B.F. Risinger, Jr
Stan Blevins
Tom Mosley
State Farm
J. A. Browning
W. Upshur
State Farm Insurance Companies
Bloomington, Niners
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