Salt Festival aims to crown Grand Saline’s fifth element
In a retrospective editorial the towns around Grand Saline celebrate salt’s long history from the 1840s to Morton Salt’s 1929 mine shaft, urging a new Salt Festival to boost tourism, local business, and community pride with arts, rodeo, and entertainment to attract visitors each June.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Saline
Quitman
Gilmer
Athens
Winnsboro
John Jordan
Allen T. McGee
Marshall
Dallas
Morton Salt Company
Mortons
Salt Festival Kickoff Marks Chamber Honors Members
The Chamber of Commerce recognizes Alf Roberson and others as members and notes Brookshire Food Store opened September 1970 as W.T. Brookshire’s 33rd store. John Penn manages the Brookshire unit. Tickets for a Monday luncheon and Salt Festival events are on sale including a color portable TV prize and a Jack Greene Jeannie Seely show. The Salt House will be run by the Chamber during the festival week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist
Erin Bar-B-Cue
Jack Greene
Jeannie Seely
Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Salt House
Chamber of Commerce
Museum and Hospitality Center
Beall
Wood Refinishing Clinic Led by Charles Stayton at Edgewood High
Extension forestry specialist Charles Stayton will conduct a Wood Refinishing Clinic on Tuesday June 10 from 7 to 9 a.m. at Edgewood High School. Topics include sanding bleaching staining filling and finishing coats with shellac varnish oil and synthetic resins. Instruction covers renewing old finishes and determining furniture value for refinishing. Bring small pieces for guidance. Fee is $1 per person. Stayton, with Texas A&M Extension, oversees the Overton Agricultural Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Stayton
Edgewood High School
Stayton
Texas A&m University Agricultural Research and Extension Center
Overton
Bryarly Graduates From Medical School
Richard Bryarly Jr. will graduate from the University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston on May 31 and receive the Herman Barnett Memorial Award for anesthesiology and surgery. He will be listed in the 1975 Who's Who in American Colleges and Universities. He held Navy Health Professions Scholarship and summer research fellowship. He served as secretary treasurer, vice president, and student senate rep for classes and belonged to Mu Delta and Phi Chi. He had an externship in Naombi Kenya East Africa in 1974.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Bryarly, Jr
Mary Margaret Kuykendall
Grand Saline
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston
Herman Barnett
Ral
U.S
Navy Health Professions
Mu Delta Honorary Medical Service Fraternity
Phi Chi Medical Fraternity
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Saline Sun
Thureday
Main Street
Texas
van Zandt Co
Hll
Woody" Woodall
HL. Woodall
Chamber of Comme
Wood Clinic
Kerri Willingham
Cyd Shoemake
Reta
Bryarly
Naombi
Kenya
East Africa
D.J. Automotive
Price
Peerless Tires
D. J. Automotive
Mineola
West Broad ST
Don Dacus
Barney Johnson
James Dacus
Majestic Theatre
California
John Wayne
Philadelphia Naval Hospital
Morton-Norwich
Morton-Norwich Products, Inc
John W. Simmons
Bud Milam
Highway 80
Main St. Grand Saline
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