A Chamber of Commerce For Grand Saline
A Publishers Musing urges all Grand Saline businesses to unite in a Chamber of Commerce to foster growth and community involvement. It argues for reactivating the Industrial Foundation, proactive industry outreach, and collective effort to create a strong business environment.
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Chamber of Commerce
Grand Saline
Conservation calls Grand Saline to reuse and curb waste
Jere Brinkley urges Grand Saline residents to address non returnable bottles and garbage disposal. He recalls Fort Worth activists who asked stores to cooperate, listing non cooperating managers, and argues for reuse and neighborly action to keep the city beautiful.
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Grand Saline
Fort Worth
Rome
Grand _ Saline
Jere Brinkley
Gift giving varies across European traditions
The article notes that most European countries give gifts on St Nick’s Day December 6 Christmas Eve or Epiphany January 6. It adds that only English and American traditions favor Christmas Day itself for gift giving.
Uncle Dan from Doolie on farm aid and policy shifts
A reader relays Ed Doolittle's view that post election Republicans push a broad not growing opium plan like a soil bank. He cites payments to farmers not to grow crops and similar ideas abroad, jabbing at US subsidies, hunting and fishing land use, and US farm programs expanding into golf courses and rabbit hunting land.
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Ed Doolittle
Country Store
United States
Middle East
Turkey
Uncle Sam
Kodak
Japan
Detroit
Clem Webster
Soil Bank
Clem
Department of Agriculture
USDA
Zeke Grubb
Local visits and holiday gatherings across Texas and New Mexico
Locals recount holiday visits among families in California Texas Dallas Winnsboro Tyler Austin Longview and Ruidoso. Military fellow PFC Wallace Jarmon from Ft. Carson spent December 1 to 17 at home with his parents. A light note at the end laments USDA plans and calls Uncle Sam’s pocketbook endangered.
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Bob Humphrey
California
Jim Barron
Dallas
Johnny Morgan
Winnsboro
Herold Tipps
Violet McCorkle
Jonah King
May Thomas
Ruidoso
N. Mex
Pat Smithhart
Tyler
Virginia Cox
Howard Parmley
Karen
Austin
Pfc
Wallace Wayne Jarmon
Ft. Carson
Colorado
Dale Jarmon
Julia Poe
Longview
Bertie Miller
Zeke
USDA
Sam
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