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Newspaper
Grand Saline Sun
Location
Grand Saline, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1963
Page
3
Farm economist John McHaney predicts small shifts in farm prices, production, and marketings for 1963. He notes incomes per capita and per farm should rise, output may edge up modestly, livestock output up while crops stay steady, and domestic demand remains strong though European Common Market policies loom.
Corinth correspondent reports a busy holiday period with church attendance up as the young people led Sunday school. Rev Crow and family dined with Mr and Mrs Herbert Sloan. Edd Watson of Fort Worth visited his mother Mrs Anna Watson and attended church. Families from Canton Grand Isle Dallas Franklin Tyler joined celebrations at several local homes.
Floresville to close for John Connally governors campaign and inaugural events as crowds gather at the Connally ranch and bands from four Wilson County towns join the celebration. Dozens travel by buses and auto to Austin while stores shut in honor of the native son.
Athens sale reports steady demand with stocker steers at 30 per hundred. 149 shippers offered 515 head of cattle and 302 hogs to 74 buyers including 10 packers and 3 butcher buyers. Cattle ranged 21 to 25 for mediums and yearlings 20 to 25. stocker cows 85 to 160 per head. hogs top 16.50.
A Southern Institute report says fertilized pastures raise carrying capacity from 1 cow per 3–6 acres to about 1 cow per acre. Virginia’s pastures show 9 percent fertilized, Georgia 30 percent, Kentucky 8, Mississippi 8, Texas 5. Improved pastures outperform unfertilized ones in both good and bad years, with costs to raise a calf from unimproved pasture estimated at $91.
Funeral services for Mrs. J. B. Roberts 80 were held at First Baptist Church Wills Point with Rev A T Cox and Rev Herbert Garrett officiating. She was born January 5 1882 in Kentucky and died December 28 in Wills Point. Survivors include her husband four sons two daughters four sisters and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Interment was Haven of Memories Cemetery under Eubank Funeral Home direction.
County bond sales totaled $22,500 for November, meeting 1962 goals set by C. L. Stanford, chairman of the county savings bonds committee. Texas sales reached 10 percent of the state goal, with Stanford urging savings gifts this Christmas as a national program. The article notes the first Olympic Games recorded in 776 B. C. in Greece.
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