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Newspaper
Grand Saline Sun
Location
Grand Saline, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1965
Page
2
Myra Kennedy urges Grand Saline residents to back a June 29 bond election. She questions city planning from a new City Hall to library access and fire engine readiness, urging dialogue with neighbors and voters to seize the opportunity.
Local leaders embrace an awake and alert stance as they push to develop watershed recreation areas. Secretary Freeman notes a rising need for such spaces and pledges federal help to sponsors, aiming to attract industry and new plants to the area.
Butcher calves range from 25 to 28 dollars in good to choice, standard to good calves 21 to 25, fat cows 13.50 to 15, canners and cutters 9 to 13.50, bulls 15 to 17.50. Stocker calves and yearlings show 18 to 24 in various grades with stocker cows 50 to 140 per head and 100 to 175 per pair. Hogs priced by grade from 20 to 24 for heavies, sows 18 to 20, feeders 18 to 21, pigs 6 to 15 each. Patronize local merchants whose bargains are advertised in the Sun.
A Morton Salt Company letter writes of the World of Morton quarterly, detailing its aim to showcase Morton people, products and places. A reader thanks for Sun subscription renewal, mentions address change, reunion memories, and observed local improvements in Grand Saline during Easter.
A humorous letter from Beatrice Prather notes how daylight saving and political figures spark confusion about time. She recalls Roosevelt and Wilson, mocks Ed Doolittle, and jokes that many folks are miserable, especially editors and wives, while praising Lubbock’s tidiness and charm.
Mary Class of the First Baptist Church met Thursday evening June 17 at the Koonce home with co host Mrs Ruby Lee Campbell. Myrtie Griffin chaired a brief business session reviewing future class work. The program theme was Living for Others and Mrs Clara Campbell gave the devotional Love and Faith from Romans chapter 12. Eleven members answered roll call with sketches of their favorite Bible characters followed by benediction and refreshments.
A note suggests tying a fishing bobber to a chair to keep it afloat if the chair is dropped into water. It also mentions using a fingernail file to free jammed shells in automatic shotguns, describing a makeshift tool.
Last fall I captured East Texas landscape showing fall colors against blue skies and harvest moon. The author muses that nature cycles repeat, minds shift, and people can steer through changes with faith, humor, and plans, ending with an invitation to enjoy East Texas Rose Blossom time and attend church.
FRUITVALE welcomes Rev and Mrs S I Mc Neill and son Jerry to the area. Jim Creagle passed away Friday and was buried at Creagleville Saturday. Families from Irving Mesquite El Paso Terrell Grand Saline Lancaster and Ft Sill are noted visiting relatives and celebrating a 47th anniversary. A baby girl was born to Mr and Mrs Raymond Jones of Ft Sill Oklahoma.
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