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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1975
Page
4
Local churches list weekly schedules including First Baptist Harper, St James Lutheran and United Presbyterian, with service times and group activities. Additional employment ads offer mechanic positions with benefits, plus financial planning and church conference notices.
Sunday Mass at 8 and 9 30 with evening Mass at 7 30 and a confirmation class Special St Ann Society meeting after Mass School of religion for elementary and high school pupils Also a for sale notice for a 14 by 68 Henslee mobile home on Harper Road Estates with contact numbers London Palmer or Jack Baethge Realtors welcome Subscriptions rates for the Herald listed
February marks official start for cotton planting in the Rio Grande Valley. A 50 percent cut in acres compared with 1974 is projected, offset by gains in grain sorghum. Regional estimates show 40 percent in Coastal Bend and Upper Gulf Coast, 50 percent in Southern Blacklands, with overall statewide reductions amid a bleak cotton outlook.
The letter thanks chairmen for mobilizing members to write to the President and Senators about cattle industry issues. It notes about 10,000 letters to the President and over 2,000 to Senators Bentsen and Tower, plus reports a series of January meetings across Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida. It discusses opposition to proposed land use and meat board checkoffs, possible fate of federal arms legislation, and urges counties to write against it. The piece closes with the president’s signoff and a news release from Senator Bentsen.
Senator Lloyd Bentsen says the Department of Agriculture misleads on beef import projections and urges an immediate explanation. He warns rising imports threaten consumer prices, domestic cattlemen, and potential shortages, citing 1975 projections of 1.15 billion pounds, far above 1974 levels. He calls to reimpose Nixon era quotas and notes voluntary restraints are ineffective.
The caller insists on sending an officer to her home after claiming a mailman is perched in a tree in the yard, describing the bulldog with a long stick. The fragment suggests a humorous or odd incident prompting police involvement.
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