Cotton Farmers To Vote Dec 12 In Van Zandt County
A 1962 notice announces a countywide cotton referendum set for Tuesday December 12 with eight polling sites from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm. Locations include Wills Point T P C A Building Edgewood Edgewood Feed and Seed Grand Saline Stephens Feed Store Van Hilliards Store Canton ASCS Office Phalba Adrian McAbee's Store Martins Mill J J Gar.
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van Zandt
Wills Point
Edgewood
Edgewood Feed and Seed
Grand Saline
Phalba
Adrian McAbee
Martins Mill
J. J. Gar
Local Bowlers Win Mineola Tournament
The Moreland Market team of Grand Saline won the City Bowling Tournament at Melon Lanes Mineola on December 2 and 3 with 8040 for the three game series. Dan Henderson of Grand Saline led singles with 589, while Thomas Campbell topped the Moreland team with 557. Thirteen teams competed in the event.
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Moreland Market
Grand Saline
Melon Lanes
Mineola
Dan Henderson
Moreland
Thomas Campbell
Floyd Stewart
Bud Savage
Mike Maciel
Don Pitchie
Clyde Moreland
4 H Christmas Party Set for Van Texas Saturday
The Van and Jones 4 H Clubs host a 7 00 p m Christmas party Saturday December 9 at the Pure Oil Recreation Room in Van Texas for all Van Zandt County 4 H members and parents. Members should bring a gift for a needy family such as canned goods clothing fruits and nuts. Refreshments and a good time are planned.
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Pure Oil Recreation Room
Van
Texas
van Zandt County
4-H
Jones 4-H
The Worrier's Guide Advice Column
Jan Webster answers readers with humor and common sense about friendship advice and romantic entanglements. Worried readers discuss meddling friends and cross border marriage questions, with counsel to skip toxic habits and seek legal and spiritual guidance.
Funeral Rites Held For Garland Pugh in Canton
Funeral rites for Garland R. Pugh 55 were held in Haven of Memories Chapel Canton with Elder FP G Roper of Dallas officiating Burial was in Haven of Memories Cemetery Bartley Funeral Home directed the service Pugh a native of Van Zandt County and hospital technician died Sunday night in a Terrell hospital after a five month illness He moved back to Sand Flat near Grand Saline a few months ago Survivors include his wife two daughters brother Leon Pugh four sisters and four grandchildren Pallbearers were Gordon Whitaker Albert Nicholson David Nicholson Howard Darnell Farris Darnell and Gene Ellis.
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Garland R. Pugh
Haven of Memories
Canton
FP. G. Roper
Dallas
Purial
Bartley Funeral Home
Mr. Pugh
van Zandt County
Terrell Hospital
Cincinnati
Ohio
Sand Flat
Grand Saline
Seventh Day Adventist Church
Bessie Pugh
Dorothie Henson
Kathryn Bloomer
el Paso
Leon Pugh
Casper Wye
Dora Surrell
San Diego
Calif
Nora McKibben
Cecil Ellis
Bill Peel
Van
Gordon Whitaker
Albert Nicholson
David Nicholson
Howard Dartnell
Farris Darnell
Gene Ellis
Services Held At Corinth For Pent 1 Clower
Funeral services for Lent L. Clower 91 were held at Corinth Baptist Church with Rev B C Beard officiating. Burial followed in Corinth Cemetery under Bartley Funeral Home. A retired farmer long in the Grand Saline area he died Sunday in a Mineola rest home. Survivors include two sons a daughter a sister five grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren. Pallbearers were Cotton Malone R A Davis Ray Davis Malcolm Smith Dean Parker and Wink Cox.
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L. Clower
Corinth Baptist Church
B. C. Beard
Corinth Cemetery
Bartley Funeral Home
Clower
Grand Saline
Mineola
Homer Clower
Dallas
Curtis Clower
Katie Chamness
Fallrock
Calif
Hettie Smith
Cotton Malone
R. A. Davis
Ray Davis
Malcolm Smith
Dean Parker
Wink Cox
Rural Carriers Meet With Wills Point in Van Zandt County
The Grand Saline Sun reports a meeting of rural carriers and auxiliaries in Wills Point with hosts and attendees from Ben Wheeler Canton Fruitvale and Canton. Officers and committees were elected to oversee farmer dealings with national farm programs. The article notes cotton allotments for 1962 and the importance of turnout in a nationwide referendum on marketing quotas and price supports.
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Hennah
Grand Saline
Texas
Grand Saline Sun
Chinensis
Starison
P&i
Dyde Manning Jr
Ben Wheeler
Linton
Albert Sneed
Davidson
Tion
Wayne Vick
Mittee
John Veazey
Aux Neighbors
Miliary
Albert
Wayne
National Farm Pro- Vick
Grams
United States
van Zandt County
van Zandt
Rural Letter Carriers Association of van Zandt Co
Wills Point
Hosta
Percy Blackwell
Raymond Neill
Fruitvale
L. F. Pruitt
W. S. Mills
Canton
Special Service At Pentecostal Church Saturday
Rev E J Heirholzer of Kilgore will be the main speaker at a special service at the Central Pentecostal Church Saturday night Dec 9 The pastor Rev Aly Waymire says visiting ministers will pray for the sick He invites the public to come early for a seat. Coney Island once was among Dutch landings but for over 200 years regarded as wasteland.
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E. J. Heirholzer
Kilgore
Central Pentecostal Church
Central Pentecostal
Aly Waymire
Coney Island
Fishing Without License Remains Major Game Violation
J B Phillips of the Game and Fish Commission reports October totals show fishing without a license as the leading game law violation. Wardens charged 114 persons for fishing without a license and 23 hunters for hunting without a license, with 295 arrests overall and fines plus costs totaling 7987.01 dollars. Five hunters were fined 50 to 200 dollars and had licenses revoked. Statues of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn mark Hannibal Missouri, Mark Twain’s boyhood home.
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J. B. Phillips
Game and Fish Commission
Tom Sawyer
Huckleberry Finn
Hannibal, Mo
Mark Twain
New Jersey Man Dies Here From Heart Attack
H B Meeks 59 of Eaton town New Jersey was found dead Sunday morning in a local motel from a heart attack the physician said he died about 6 am Bartley Funeral Home arranged local funeral rites and the body was sent to New York City for services in New Jersey He was a retired electrical engineer formerly with Bendix Corporation en route from Eaton town to Coronado California to visit a sister and is survived by a brother in Eaton town First Baptist WMA Has All Day Session at the home of Mrs J L Lowe for a regular meeting with devotional and discussion on The Responsibility of the American Home and the program theme Try giving yourself away What When Why How
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H. B. Meeks
Eatontown
New Jersey
Bartley Funeral Home
New York City
Meeks
Bendix Corporation
Coronado
California
First Baptist Wma
Women’s Missionary Association of the
First Baptist Church
J. L. Lowe
Athena Club program on fraud in business world
Grand Saline Athena Club heard Tom Dunwoody of the Better Business Bureau of Tyler discuss fraud in advertising charity groups and door to door peddling at the November meeting. Hosts Mrs Robbye Roberson and co hostess Mrs Gordon Adamson welcomed nineteen members and two guests after the session.
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J. Ray Rucker
Slick Highway Wreck Near Edgewood Injures Passenger
A one car crash on rain slick Highway 80 east of Edgewood at 10:45 Tuesday left a female passenger seriously injured after being thrown from the 1955 car that slid 247 feet into a ditch. The driver Carl Bjorklund 65 and his wife Ruth Esther Bjorkson suffered a concussion and head abrasions. she was hospitalized at Corby-Germany Hospital. Patrolman Lloyd Johnson cited seat belt nonuse as a factor and noted the couple were en route to Florida after selling property in Dallas.
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Edgewood
Lloyd Johnson
Carl Henry Bjorklund
Ruth Esther Bjorkson
Corby-Germany
Bjorklund
Dallas
Florida
Johnson
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Redding Foods
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Keep-U-Neat Cleaners
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