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Newspaper
Grand Saline Sun
Location
Grand Saline, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1963
Page
2
The Sun editors praise the staff and community for its 1962 award, credit local advertising for funding the paper, and urge wider local and neighboring support to push Grand Saline from second to first place in 1963.
The eleventh annual Spring Flower Show by the Tyler Council of Garden Clubs runs March 23–24 at the Garden Center Building Tyler. Hours are 2:00–9:00 p.m. Saturday and 1:00–6:00 p.m. Sunday. Admission open to the public.
Chevrolet Super Sports offer romantic adventure with bucket seats plush interiors and trim options across Impala Corvair Monza Spyder and Corvette Sting Ray in coupe or convertible forms. The lineup highlights Comfortist steering wheels 150 horsepower air cooled engines and four speed shifts inviting buyers to visit showrooms.
In a country store roundup Ed Doolittle rails against advice from his wife and laughs at corn grown to music. The piece riffs on Illinois expert George E. Smith claiming 6 to 10 percent corn yield gains from musical fertilizer while railing against government farm aid and Billy Sol Estes, ending with Ed’s tongue in cheek stance against government aid and corn grown to music.
Mrs. R. H. Moon sends a $4.08 money order to renew the Grand Saline Sun, apologizing for the delay and expressing how reading the paper feels like a visit home. She notes reading the issue before starting her work and thanks the editor.
Grand Saline Young Farmers Chapter will host Don Parks and Gene Hale of Armour Agricultural Chemicals at 7 30 p m Tuesday March 26 in the Vocational Agriculture room. They will discuss fertilizer application and optimal per acre usage. Public invited by Mr Taylor Rhodes vocational agriculture teacher.
Upset Sister asks how to cope with fatigue and marital strain while living apart. Jan Webster urges quitting the job or reducing expenses to stabilize the marriage and stresses practical steps. Worried seeks assurance about marriage after a past tragedy and is advised to delay until confidence grows. Sick widow faces gossip ruining employment and is told to write a formal letter to explain.
Market figures show 169 cattle shipments to 86 buyers with 710 cattle and 380 hogs sold. Prices ranged by class from butcher calves 21.50 to 23.75 dollars and fat cows 14.00 to 16.50, to stocker calves 26.00 to 38.20 and sows 9.00 to 13.00, with hogs 190 to 240 pounds at 14.00 to 14.60 and feeders 10.00 to 13.50.
Lee Roy Burden, step son of Mrs. Mae Burden of Grand Saline, died in Columbia South Carolina on March 12 after a period of illness. He was buried there on March 14. Survivors include wife Mrs. Helen Burden of Columbia, step mother Mrs. Mae Burden, brother Buster Burden of Mineola, and sisters Mrs. Odie Bell Wilson of California and Mrs. Ella V. Rust of Irving.
Weekend anglers at Lake Tawakoni reported rising activity with warm weather. L B and Jim Caviness caught ten bass averaging around 3 pounds near Hale's Retreat along with 35 crappie. Other anglers including Eldon Ray LaFon and Richard Farr limited on crappie. Catfish totals topped fifty pounds for Mays and Johnson, while Nelson and Wilhite added over 25 pounds of channel and yellow catfish with crappie.
Alba officially began natural gas service on Thursday March 14 at 10 a.m. in a gas turn-on ceremony attended by town officials and Lone Star Gas representatives. Mayor James B. Dudley opened the valve at the Lone Star city gate on Highway 69, with about 200 new customers expected. The gas comes via a 56 mile tap line from the Pan American plant near Sulphur Springs to Dallas, with a daily capacity of 60 million cubic feet.
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