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Newspaper
Grand Saline Sun
Location
Grand Saline, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1971
Page
2
A news release notes oil companies researching nuclear fuels have produced Pyrolite carbon for artificial heart valves. It argues opponents of change hinder progress, while scientific advances benefit heart patients and extend lives through new materials.
A housewife comparing 1960 and a recent shopping list notes that nonfood items now inflate the bill. Paper towels, napkins, bug spray, fabric softener, shampoo and bandages, light bulbs, and a thermos raise costs beyond groceries. Despite higher spending, consumers embrace conveniences from mass distribution.
Pepper is in Wood Memorial Hospital. Mike Green of Lufkin visited family. Dallas visitors stayed with Mrs. Tipps and family. Calif and Sue visitors joined Mrs. Rhodes and Owens family. Tyler and Canton trips noted. Silver Lake Vacation Bible School group held a Friday picnic at Friendship Community Center with 18 children and seven adults.
In a letter from a rural reader, Uncle Dan laments college life as pretentious and mocks commencement speeches. He cites Clem Webster and Zeke Grubb arguing graduates lack practical worth and that speeches offer hollow wisdom. Ed Doolittle adds fear for employment amid rising welfare claims and poverty.
Miss Karyn Fisher daughter of Mr and Mrs Billy J Fisher presented in her first piano recital Monday evening June 7 at her teacher Mrs Taylor F Rhodes home. She has studied six and a half years and has participated in the National Piano Auditions Bach Festival Kilgore College and East Texas University Piano Festival. Her program included Bach Haydn Chopin Brahms and MacDowell pieces. An informal reception followed with 25 guests including grandparents Rev F M Beauchamp and Mrs Beauchamp of Shreveport Louisiana and friends Susie Cathey Tracy Stevens and Allison Stevens.
Mineola to host a record rodeo July 8 9 10 with Miss Ford Country Miss Sandy Lankford of Graham opening parade and performance. Shrine units Mounted Patrol and Honde Unit join the event at Firemen's Rodeo Arena starting 830 p m nightly. Registration July 7 8 am to 6 pm at Buck's Saddle Shop entry 15 added money 250 seats expanded to 900.
Readers request city action to clean a gutter and repair the street in front of 235 North Spring Street. They note elderly residents and a high water bill, asking Grand Saline for street maintenance assistance and gutter cleanup. A second letter thanks a contributor, with a payment promised through February 26.
Miss Mary Braly of Ft Worth spent from Thursday to Sunday with Mrs M J Spears and did some fishing. E E Bailey of Ft Worth spent several days last week on his farm and with the Spears family. Mr and Mrs Cecil White of Dallas visited her parents Mr and Mrs Arthur Isaac Sunday. Mary Ella and Jim Read of Dallas spent time Sunday with their grandparents, sharing accounts of the Paris air show and other European trips. Lizzie Nelson of Soloma Calif visited her brother Leo Morris in Grand Saline with his wife and their children, and all enjoyed a Six Flags Over Texas trip in Arlington.
The Grand Saline Chamber details its purpose to boost agricultural industrial and civic welfare and invites citizens to join. The note cites lighting completed at the baseball park with support from Southwestern Light Co and mentions a June 21 director meeting and Celebration Days July 1 2 3 with a big drawing on July 83rd.
Tax Man Sam urges brides to change their names with Social Security after marriage to avoid tax return confusion. Without a name change the IRS may mismatch the spouse and trigger questions about whose number is on the return. The guidance targets brides marrying this year and emphasizes early processing of the name change.
Mr and Mrs Wilbur Shaw and daughters Kay and Susan of North Little Rock Ark vacationed with Shaw's mother and grandmother Mrs Jimmie Shaw. They visited sister Eunice Hudgens in Dallas. Also Mr and Mrs John Mac Farlane and sons Lane and Bruce from Shreveport La visited Dora Hendley Fulmer, Mrs Bob Adams and Becky of Marshall, and Mrs Nelson Picton with two children of Houston. Mr and Mrs Alex Little of Decatur joined a fishing trip Friday and Saturday. Harvey Harvis and children of Dallas visited his sister and Bobby Dollarhyde family here Sunday.
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