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Newspaper
Grand Saline Sun
Location
Grand Saline, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1963
Page
2
A critique notes proposed three year federal grants and loans totaling over 500 million annually, with estimates reaching 20 billion, while opponents warn grants may discourage initiative and the cabinet level urban affairs proposal faces House hesitation amid broader fiscal worries.
Grains of progress emerge as cattle feeders and swine producers face heavy losses. Industry leaders endorse higher meat consumption and retailer cooperation to move the surplus, signaling a practical non governmental approach to stabilize markets.
A columnist riffs on government waste and overcomplex titles in Washington. He mocks a congressman’s claim of four White House plumbers, notes vast stockpiles, and jokes about an oversized Pentagon appointment. He ends praising simple, grassroots journalism and a country store kerosene price shift.
Market notes 194 shippers offered 689 cattle and 142 hogs to 68 buyers including 12 packers and 2 butcher buyers. Prices span butchers calves dairy stockers cows and hog types with ranges from 9.00 to 25.50 per unit and hogs from 11.00 to 19.00 per hundredweight depending on grade size and class.
About 100 boys and girls from 4-H Clubs in Van Zandt County will attend a summer camp at Lake Trinidad near Athens from July 15 to 17. About 20 adults will join a training meeting Tuesday to learn more about 4-H and observe 4-H in action. Tex as Power & Light furnishes camp facilities at the 700 acre lake with cabins dining hall weather play and recreation areas. Patronize local merchants whose bargains are advertised in the Sun.
A reader asks how to choose between two suitors and whether to marry young. Jan Webster cautions delaying marriage, suggests college or work first, and notes jealousy as a risk. Readers also seek skin care guidance and ways to manage a flirtatious cousin during summer.
The state draft quota for August is 552 men for Texas boards. Colonel Morris S. Schwartz, state Selective Service director, announced the figure and noted the August call is part of a 12,000 man national Army quota. Pre induction exams for 1500 men are planned, with local board quotas already distributed. All registrants must be 18 on registering. those 22 by August 1 may be drafted unless exempt.
Clyde Fowler notes large church attendance at Calvary with Sunday services. Families from Ty ler Texarkana Mineola and Dallas visited local residents over the weekend including the Dickerson Clements Dicker son Fowler and Gober households.
A July 8 1963 letter from Willis G Creagle of 215 Summit St Lawton Oklahoma sends five dollars for a weekly paper. He values the hometown news noting familiarities and memories of those who have passed away and reflects on aging while signing love to Alf and others.
Billie W. Waymire signal man first class USN son of Mr and Mrs Robert M Waymire Route 2 Gran S line is serving aboard the tank landing ship USS Sumner County a Pacific Fleet Amphibious Force unit on a three month deployment in the Northern Pacific This marks the Sumner Countys third deployment in less than a year From August to November 1962 she was in the Hawaiian area providing services for Oahu based Army and Marine Corps units Returning to her homeport San Diego for a brief Christmas leave period Sumner County was back at Pearl Harbor in January The ship returned again in March spending five weeks leave and upkeep period in San Diego before resuming sea duty
Sunday visits include Ola Dickerson mother and Jarold Dickerson and family. Weldon King and Roy Lee of Mineral Wells visited relatives Rev W C Fowler Friday night. Mr and Mrs Jarold Dickerson and family visited Tabe Marshall Sunday. Jackie Clark hosted friends with home made ice cream Saturday night. Rev Ed Barrett visited Rev and Mrs W C Fowler and Clyde Wednesday night.
More than 150000 holders of GI policy type RS have two months left to qualify for a special dividend by exchanging to W term or converting to permanent coverage. The program expires September 13, 1963, per Edward P. Onstor of the Veterans Administration Dallas regional office. Afterward, RS holders may convert or exchange but lose dividend eligibility. Only RS policies issued to Korean War veterans are affected.
Airman First Class Delmer H. Hamblen of Grand Saline entered the Western folk music category in the Air Force World-Wide Talent Contest at Edwards AFB California. He is a radar repairman at Tyndall AFB Florida and previously won at his base contest. Hamblen, a Grand Saline High School graduate, is married to Barbara Harris of St Louis. Judges included Pat O Brien Troy Denehue and Consie Stevens.
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