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Newspaper
Grand Saline Sun
Location
Grand Saline, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1961
Page
10
The Sun Office in Grand Saline Texas publishes weekly at 119 Main Street. It notes second class matter status, post office handling, subscription rates of 3.06 within Van Zandt County 4.08 outside, and tax inclusions. It reserves the right to edit or reject submissions and promises corrections on notice.
In a country store tale Zeke Grubb’s preacher recounts a week of nerves and a Sunday sermon about drinking and gambling as a disease. Parishioners joke about pledges, loose offerings, and a phantom Emergency Committee as Ed Doolittle pitches a novel offering plate device.
Army PFC Larry B. Brown, son of Mrs Loreta M Roberts of Ben Wheeler, arrived in Germany and joined the 547th Engineer Battalion. A combat construction specialist in Company A at Darmstadt, he entered the Army in 1960 after basic training at Fort Hood and was last stationed at Fort Sill. The 18-year-old attended Big Spring High School.
The Texas Education Agency reports a 1961-62 snapshot with 2,720 disabled Texans employed via Vocational Rehabilitation and $4.5 million annual gain in purchasing power. Public junior college enrollment nears 37,275 while 85,102 high school graduates in 1961, 57% planning college. Texas leads in vocational enrollment and funds public schools with $18.36 million from the Permanent School Fund.
More than 2,700 Texas teachers attended 225 demonstrations at TEA conferences in San Angelo Denton Beaumont and Corpus Christi on electronic laboratories educational TV teaching machines and new aids. In 1961 almost 18 000 non English speaking children enrolled in pre school summer classes to build basic English vocabulary. State board standards enable advanced standing for gifted students in 22 high schools. Texas led the nation with 37 477 people in Civil Defense adult education.
Local notices detail numerous Christmas and holiday visits among families in Odessa Arkansas Midland Dallas Mesquite Grand Saline and other Texas locales. Families include Elliots Readers Shermans Stevens Pettiet Daniels Skinner Campbell Johnson Rash and Joslin with friends and relatives from California Florida Illinois and Louisiana.
Local families in Pal Rit report Christmas dinners and holiday visits. Ray mond Luther of Fort Polk and several relatives shared meals with kin. A Christmas tree was lit at the Community House Friday night and residents recalled the festive turnout.
Mr and Mrs Brooks Connover and their young son Bill from Uvalde are visiting Mrs Morgan Fail this week.
Van Zandt County reports total sales of 22,450 in U. S. Savings Bonds and sales for the year reach 229,193 representing 16.4 percent of the 1961 county goal. Chairman C. L. Stanford notes nationwide eleven‑month Texas sales top 144,386,615 and November E bonds sales at 11,963,137.
Visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Bell during the holidays included Mr. and Mrs. David King of Dallas and Mr. and Mrs. Jepson of Dallas.
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