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Newspaper
Grand Saline Sun
Location
Grand Saline, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1963
Page
2
The article highlights a shift in high school commencements as E. R. Moore Company offers 32 new gown colors and thousands of seniors in over 200 schools adopt the options like Aztec Copper and Royal Purple. It notes past changes in 1911 and presents 1963 as a continuation of American youth embracing fresh traditions.
Heavy rains over the weekend dampened fishing while the week opened. Activity picked up Tuesday and Wednesday as fair weather returned. The Caddo Fishing Barge noted several nice crappie catches with limits and weights up to 1% pounds. Bill Whittle of Point reported a 7 pound channel cat near Fish Point.
Uncle Dan laments a proposed shift by the Education Department to a new arithmetic system by 1965. He mocks base seven, a “Totem System,” and a circle’s roundness, predicting terms like intersection and union replacing addition and subtraction. He jokes about universal mindsets to keep pace with space and lists imagined phone numbers for agencies.
Market report lists 166 shippers offering 633 cattle and 206 hogs to 94 buyers including 9 packers and 3 butcher buyers. Prices span from stocker calves at 19 to 33 dollars to cows and calves at 125 to 240 per pair with hogs from 4 to 15 per head depending on grade and weight.
The Student Publication Committee at North Texas State University elected four editors and two business managers for 1963 64 including Cam pus Chat summer editor Dave Dunnigan and business manager Ronald Sloan from Grand Saline. Larry Phillips will edit next fall with Jessie McCord as business manager. Kay Lanier and Gaylan DuBose were named editors of Yucca and Avesta respectively. A Paraguay firefly known as the railway beetle flashes red at the ends and green along the sides.
A readers letters column from The Worrier's Guide features Jan Webster advice on mother-in-law control a frustrated husband who misses a Las Vegas trip and a mother figure in law overstepping boundaries. It also includes a church tax dispute and a puzzled reader about discipline versus punishment. The English Houses of Parliament note appears as a closing non sequitur.
Van Zandt County received six to nine inches of rain during the week of April 22 27 with most falling Saturday afternoon causing creeks to overflow and ponds to nearly fill. Robert Thompson of Old Bethel noted his new pond half full before the downpour and the spillway water could fill three ponds the size of his.
In Grand Saline farmers report heavy rains and high winds washing plastic off tomato beds. Estimates show losses from 20 to 40 percent on exposed plants, while protected crops under plastic fared better. Pecan trees require spraying now and again in two weeks using Zineb and Levin for disease control. Farmers share anecdotes on predicting rain and coping with wet soil and root aeration challenges.
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