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Newspaper
Grand Saline Sun
Location
Grand Saline, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1961
Page
2
A past feature of questions and answers about Letters To The Editor in Elba Alabama’s Clipper is recounted with humorous exchanges. The dialogue touches on color ink poems sermons recipes and jokes about city officials and readership reactions.
A reader letter mocks Treasury official talk of cutting inheritance taxes for estates above ten million dollars as an incentive to free enterprise. It recalls past tariff debates, jokes about government aid, Congress, and Christmas travel, and questions pedestrian safety claims for 1961.
In a Dec 2 1961 letter from Dallas to The Sun, a reader notes a missed issue and discovers his subscription had lapsed since Oct 22 of last year. He encloses a new payment for another year and asks for this week’s copy.
See Texas First surveys Texas as ideal vacation land with low fishing fees and welcoming highways. It notes Lamar County’s early settlement and a marker at the site, plus stories of personal memories, Will iam Goyens, and Amichel exploration, highlighting parks and prehistoric traces along the Rio Grande.
Holly Springs reports a week of mixed news with Mr E R Sides injured on horseback and hospitalized in Athens. A well attended singing drew people from nearby towns and Dallas and invites all county youths to a January 6 1962 event led by Martha Graham and Barbara Bolin with Ritthie Ritchie in song.
William Melton Tryon, second missionary from the American Baptist Home Mission Society to Texas, led church and state efforts and served as chaplain to the Republic of Texas Congress. He proposed Baylor over a named university, joined the charter committee, and became the first permanent president of Baylor University’s Board of Trustees.
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