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Newspaper
Gladewater Mirror
Location
Gladewater, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1975
Page
6
The Gladewater Mirror features Sharon Dyess prose with a long list of summer desserts. Recipes include Peppermint Pie Fudge Cake Lemon Freeze Four Fruit Sherbet Lemon Frost Pie Creamy Strawberry Pie Pineapple Pie and more guidance for crusts fillings and freezing. The column blends kitchen tips with a light digression on summer waning and a quip about keeping visitors out of the kitchen.
Agriculture Commissioner John C. White reports a 706000 acre drop in Texas cotton helping drive the national 1973 decline. Texas planted about 4.6 million acres, down 12 percent, while national cotton acreage fell 26 percent to 10.2 million. Heavy hail and storms damaged fields forcing farmers to switch crops.
In a Jefferson County alternative school, about 300 kindergartners through sixth-graders at two sites use drill based instruction and a phonetic reading program. Results show many students gained one to two years in basic skills in six months, with sixth graders the only group not exceeding national norms.
The piece outlines mid century methods to dry flowers for decoration, including air drying and silica gel, with tips from Barbara Laking Elizabeth McDermot and Georgia S. Vance. It mentions wire work, three dimensional forms, and Colonial Williamsburg inspiration, plus a Portland note on wood chip oversupply affecting Weyerhaeuser Lumber Co and regional mills.
Earl Henry Parker of Gilmer received a 12 year prison term after pleading guilty to delivering heroin at the 115th District Court trial opening. State narcotics agent Ricky Silvertooth testified Parker sold five capsules for 60 dollars on May 9 and motioned to pull over. Parker claimed only two pills for 24 dollars and cited his ill girlfriend.
Reader asks if plants hear thoughts. The column cites Luther Burbank who reportedly imagined plant traits and spoke to plants to influence growth, claiming success in thornless cacti and other varieties. Submit questions to Psychic World care of the paper.
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