Myra Kennedy Observes Quiet Caribbean Journey and Markets
A reflective account describes a calm Atlantic scene at El Prado del Mar and a Barranquillia market tour with avocados mangos oranges and strange fruits. The writer notes customs delays British ships dockside and a rough return flight to Tibú, contrasting US foods and peace corps experiences with local life and end of a long year.
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el Prado del Mar
Barranquillia
Bia
Shakspeare
Tibu
USA Abel
USA
Peace Corps
DDT Debate Ranges From Bans To Beneficial Use
A position paper argues DDT has aided public health and agriculture while bans are urged in Sweden and Wisconsin. Industry spokesmen say DDT accounts for a small share of production, notes continued declines and foreign health use, and asserts DDT should be kept as a servant of society despite criticism.
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Sweden
U. S
Wisconsin
United States
Chemical Industry
Cw Loe ‘Ay
Khrushchev boast on burying U S economy misfired
Roscoe Drummond argues the Soviet economy lags behind the United States and the gap is not shrinking. In 1967 Russia’s GNP reached 361 billion dollars, 46 percent of the U S total, with weak progress in electric power and meat output compared to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Khrushchev
U. S
Roscoe Drummond
Russia
Ag Teacher Attends Meat Judging Short Course
Stanley Approwns, local vocational agriculture teacher, attended a Meat Judging Short Course at Texas A&M University on June 24 to learn modern beef pork and lamb judging from the consumer view. The course covered carcass grading, retail cuts, beef ribs and chucks, cutting demos, and practice contests mirroring FPA meat judging events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Apprown
Texas Agm University
FPA
Worry talk at the country store lecture over future and past
Uncle Dan relays Clem Webster’s remarks during a country store session critiquing worry myths. Clem cites a university report that 92 percent of worry is useless, breaks down worries by category, suggests focusing on the positive, and mocks past and present anxieties while noting local anecdotes about community life and aging.
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Land
Bodefea
Ed Doolitle
Clem Webster
Clem
Washington
Able
Zeke Grubbs
Wimmen
Zeke
Manhattan Island
Brooklyn
Jem
Fellers
Tne
Senior Citizens Club
Letters to the Editor Signoff and Community Note
Editor’s note introduces a letter from Mrs Flora G Barnett dated June 8 1969 to Mr Woodrow Joslin. She includes a $5 check to help keep the Boggs lot clean and expresses pride in Grand Saline Sun and the town’s growth while affirming Grand Saline as home.
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Woodrow Joslin
Nett
Boggs Lot
Grand Saline
Flora’g. Barnett
Federal Land Bank Association declares dividend
The Kaufman Canton Federation of 400 farmer rancher stockholders will receive $8645.00 as a dividend. Manager Wilson Tarpley announced the dividend checks would be mailed immediately. The Kaufman Canton Association serves Kaufman and Van Zandt counties and is part of 73 Texas farmer rancher owned associations served by the Federal Land Bank of Houston. Directors include Wilson Tarpley presiding, Felix Blythe, D. B. Hendrixson, Carl R. Curtis, Wallace Hanna, and J. Bee McAlister.
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Mena
Kaufman c. Federal Land Bank
Wilson Tarpley
John Tarpley
Kaufman-Canton Association
Texas
Federal Land Bank of Houston
Kaufman
van Zandt
JV. Wilson
Pre
Weekend visitors from local families gather in town
Locals welcomed weekend guests including Bud and Hattie Herron, A. T. King and Mike, Sherman and Nolen Herron, Charles Steele family with children, Nolen Herron of Dallas, Billy Duke and children from Mesquite, Rena Duke of Edgewood, Wallace Fisher and Dallas family visited Mrs. Fisher’s parents C. A. and Mayfield, and William Russell of Lubbock visited J. Es Persons.
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Bud Herron
Hattie Herron
A. T. King
Mike
Sherman Herron
Charles Steele
Nolen Herron
Dallas
Billy Duke
Mesquite
Rena Duke
Edgewood
Wallace Fisher
William Russell
Lubbock
J. Es Persons
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Bde Dickerson
Mrs
Lucy “Whatley
Lord Lew
Jimmy Shields
Joe
Lide
Myra Kennedy
Evangelical Methodist
God
Evangelical Methodist Church
National Council of Churches of the World Council of Churches
Christian Fellowship
Dedona
Ryanuelilas Meanwrise Umerch
Kuykendall & Richardson
Salt City Co
Pacific
Dan
Doolie
Carey
Uncle Dan
Federal Land Bank Association
Sweco
Southwestern Electric Power Company
Your Electric Company
People
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