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Newspaper
Grand Saline Sun
Location
Grand Saline, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1963
Page
2
A brief calculation compares weekly pay to capital invested at six percent to measure a job's value. For $50 weekly income the implied value is $43,333, for $75 weekly about $64,999, and for $100 weekly around $86,866. The piece suggests higher production increases value and hints at appreciating one’s current job.
Texas remained the nation’s top oil and gas producer in 1962 with an estimated production value of 3.95 billion dollars, far ahead of Louisiana and California. Crude oil accounted for 2.8 billion of Texas output, while Louisiana crude was 1.52 billion. American oil contributed about 60 percent of the U.S. mineral production value that year, amid a global rise in crude production to 8.879 billion barrels. The report notes excess capacity and price pressures in world markets.
Uncle Dan reports on Leap Year wedding chatter, women voters and flight to independence, jokes about panties from Russia, a cigarette bill promise, Huey Long coat and tie fiasco, and Senator Margaret Chase Smith as an after dinner speaker at a Maine Republican banquet.
A collage of light quotations from readers and notices including jokes about taxes and public life, plus a brief card of thanks. Entries express humor, commentary, and condolences, with scattered names and locations from various U.S. towns.
A reader asks how to handle a neighbor who started a fight at a football game and a cheerleader fights with her, while another laments a spouse's long illness during menopause and a harrowing car purchase from an untrustworthy dealer. The advice column urges kindness with boundaries and directs to the Better Business Bureau for car troubles.
A compact chronicle lists key December milestones from 1917 to 1945. It notes Father Flanagan founding Boys Town near Omaha in 1917, Minerva becoming York’s first daily, a 1907 Christmas seal sale, the Ford Foundation giving a vast gift in 1986, Garnet Carter promoting miniature golf by 1928, roadside golf popularity by 1930, and Congress recognizing the Pledge of Allegiance in 1945.
Final enrollment in the Texas 65 Health Insurance campaign reached 50,046 according to Tracy Locke advertising agency. Original estimate of 85,000 was exceeded by more than 50 percent. next enrollment period planned for late 1964.
Cain and family of Tyler and Dallas visited Thanksgiving with relatives in Lancaster and Grand Saline. Several locals, including Edith Ross, Maurine White, Larry Ray, Jacks, and the Rush family, attended funerals and church events. Helpers and visitors from Tyler, Dallas, and Marshall gathered for church, slides of the Holy Land, and social visits, with fly casting noted as practiced.
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