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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1954
Page
5
A collection of practical queries and answers covers labeling tin, antifreeze, grapefruit flavor, dry shampoo, cleaning red tiles, peeling apples, preserving flower odor, mixing paint, flouring food for frying, and mustard foot baths. Reader notes show several families from Ballinger Shiner Flatonia Houston Victoria Schulenburg Yoakum visiting local homes over Christmas.
Elmore R. Torn, a longtime promoter of the custom, urges eating dried black-eyed peas with hog jowl on New Year’s Day to bring luck. He notes the practice, once regional to the South, has spread nationwide as a wish for peace in 1954 and broader freedom. He invites all to join in goodwill observance.
The Flori culture Department at Texas A and M College will offer floriculture field classes in spring 1954 for shrubs trees and vines. Led by assistant professor L J Tolle Jr the program requires no special preparation and welcomes questions. Four sessions are set for April 2 9 23 and 30 from 2 to 4 PM with outdoor talks tours and plant examinations at campus and local nurseries.
Norris W. Parker of the Texas Insurance Advisory Association notes fires in 1952 destroyed at least five million dollars worth of farm buildings and crops in Texas with 1953 possibly higher. Nationally farm fires cost farmers about one hundred million dollars last year. Three safeguards urged: careful construction and maintenance, simple extinguishing equipment, and organized community fire brigades.
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