Sand artist creates varied sand products in East Texas
East Texas hobbyist Woodrow Shippey collects about 125 sand shades within 1.5 miles of his Gilmer highway home. He layers sands in jars and decanters, paints sand designs on boards, and makes belated be spectacled Bugs Bunny and Peter Rabbit works, often giving away pieces.
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Blacksand Ellis County
Shippey
Gilmer Highway
Spring Hill
Bugs Bunny
Peter Rabbit
White Sands
N. M
Woodrow Shippey
Longview
Old-Time Crank Phones Hold Fast in Rural West Virginia
In Macksville West Virginia the North Fork Mutual Telephone Co operates a manual switchboard from a home, with Gladys Richards and two assistants serving 300 subscribers. Subscribers buy crank phones for about 27 dollars and pay 15 dollars yearly. lines are party lines, repairs are self-managed, and the crew chats with callers. The region faces modernization as federal loans fund dial systems and a Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks network to replace manual exchanges by 1975.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Petterson
Associated Press
Mouth
Seneca
W.va
Macksville
U.S. Navy
North Fork
South Branch
Potomac River
North Fork Mutual Telephone Co
Macksville Exchange
Gladys Richards
North Fork Mutual
Mountain State
Daybrook Telephone Co
Monongalia County
Creseville Mutual Telephone Co
Here
Spruce Knob
Seneca Rocks
Circleville
Dial Systems
Fertilizer Shortage Spurs Updated Domestic Market Outlook
Texas extension agent O D Taylor warns a year or more of nitrogen fertilizer scarcity ahead. Higher farm prices, export demand, phased price control changes, and limited nitrogen production drive tight supply. phosphate keeps adequate for now. Soil testing urged to craft efficient plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. D. Taylor
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Taylor
U. S
Billboards Urge Risk of Alcoholism in East Texas
The message Youve Got to Know When to Say When appears on billboards in Gregg Smith and Harrison Counties. Posters designed by NIAAA, provided to East Texas Council on Alcoholism, with space donated by East Texas Outdoor Advertising Company. Sam Miller highlights free confidential services and available films and literature from the Longview office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregg
Smith
Harrison
National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism
NIAAA
East Texas Council On Alcoholism
East Texas Outdoor Advertising Company
United Fund
East Texas
Sam Miller
Non-Profit
Council
Alcoholism Information Center
Longview
Miller
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Shippey Real
Sandman
By Cherie Hopkins
Orrline
Muses New York
Muses
L’ensemble du Sacre Coeur
Otto Kahn
James E. Burden
Convent of the Sacred Heart
Terpsichore
Calliope
Euterpe
Thalia
Central
Ralph Patrick
Ashland
Matodors
Ralph E. Patrick
Patrick
Ashland Oil Inc
Ashland Oil
Burma
Duane Labranche
John Joseph
The
Daughters of Charity
Lake Merced
Mary's Help Hospital
Quitman Street Church OF Christ
Gladewater, Texas
Sallie
W. Upshur
Big Sandy
Shady Grove
Gladewater
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