Wye Oak ChecksUp Reveals Remarkable 400 Year Life
Maryland official Earl Yingling reports the Wye Oak in Wye Mills is in good health despite its age. The state’s emblematic white oak shows a 29 foot eight inch trunk, 102 foot height, 158 foot limb span, and recent growth after pruning. The trunk is hollow but the tree continues to grow and thrives in its small state park.
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WYE Mills
Earl J. Yingling
Yingling
Maryland
Wye
Education Bulletin 679 rollout meeting in Kilgore
Perry Cox of the Texas Education Agency will host a Bulletin 679 briefing in Kilgore Region VII on March 28 from 1 30 to 4 00 pm to discuss the new accounting system required for Texas public schools by 1973 74. Regional districts already implementing include Alto Carthage Leveretts Chapel Timpson Trinidad and Tyler.
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Perry Cox
Texas Education Agency
Region VII Education Service Center
Kilgore
Texas
Alto
Carthage
Leveretts Chapel
Timpson
Trinidad
Tyler
Oldest and Biggest Oak Faces Future Storm Threat
After the 1958 hurricane the aging Wye Oak loses limbs and may be felled by future storms. Yingling oversees yearly exams, vets treatments with specialists, and solicits bids from tree firms. A replacement stands by in Annapolis, while a second large white oak exists at W.L. Shaw’s yard. The article also urges replacing blacktop with crushed stone to improve rainwater infiltration.
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Annapolis
W.L. Shaw
Crawfish Festival Breaux Bridge Promotes Boiled Contest
Advertising copy highlights a two day Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge Louisiana on April 29 30. It details a Crawfish Eating Contest with a two hour limit and a ten dollar entry fee plus notes on enjoyment and memories of crawfish dining.
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Breaux Bridge
Did You Know About Nonprofessional Crime Hit Rates
Commerce magazine cites a National Federation of Independent Business field survey showing non professionals cause 44 percent of crime losses against small business in one month. Reported theft 15 percent, shoplifting 11 percent, vandalism 8 percent, burglary 6 percent, robbery 3 percent.
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Commerce Magazine
National Federation of Independent Business
Bowling Standings Show Bottle Shop Leading Twilight League
The Bottle Shop stays first with 75 wins 25 losses in the Twilight League. Apex and others follow with various records as the page notes high series 507 Fay Roberts and high game 182 Jean Williams. Team honors go to The Bottle Shop 1807 in series and 645 in game while Tone Courson 228 tops the game for Apex.
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Bottle Shop
East Texas Lumber
Impalas
Kilgore Mrs
Hughs
Jessie's Gals
Borman Sales
Oak Manor
Fay Roberts
Jean Williams
Liz Berry
Apex
Tone Courson
Louise van Wormer
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Canton
Diboll
Elysian Fields
Eustace
Gladewater
Hawkins
Henderson
Hudson
Joaquin
Karnack
Laneville
Lindale
Martins Mill
Mineola
Myrtle Springs
Ore City
Overton
Palestine
Rusk
Sabine
Tucker
Union Hill
Van
West Rusk
Wills Point
Missionary Call
Nashville, Tenn
World Missions Agency of the Presbyterian Church US
Southern
United States
Charles
New York
Italy
Licia Albanese
Giuseppe di Stefano
Carnegie Hall
St Peter's College
Jersey City
N J
Metropolitan Opera
Miss Albanese
Parma
di Stefano
Reggio Emilia
San Antonio
Breckenridge Park
Ennis
Breaux Bridge la
East Texas Farm & Ranch Club
Charles R. Richards
Noble Foundation
Ardmore
Okla
Richards
Thomas Davis
First United Methodist Church of
Ussr
Bluebonnet Club
Davis
East Germany
Czechosovakia
Soviet Union
Texas Conference Board of
Christian Social Concerns
National Board of Christian Social Concerns
United Methodist Church
Carl Soul
Division of World Peace
Mt Vernon
Switzerland
Paul Crume
Crume
CRISP
Instant Folger's Coffee
Ihomaten
PUREX
Boz
PEPSI
Steakhouse
Viva Towels
Othe
Kool and
Peg
HIC
Hunt
U.S.D.A
Southern Belle
Oleo
Hamburger
Chuck Roast
East Pacific
Mommy
Aoe
SSG Bank
The
First State Bank
Qgladewater, Tex
Mis Cooper
Lome
Thelma Herndon
Jean Belser
Lis Spradlin
Eula Deaton
Shirley Harris
Davidson Ford
Camp
Bell's
Record Shop
MecKaig
Caliborne
Merle Norman
Margaret's
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