Drouth Aid Expanded for Cotton Farmers by USDA
The USDA increases 1972 cotton payment yields to 90 percent of 1971 yield when drought cuts yields. Actions extend emergency livestock feed through Dec 31 1971, permit use of farm conveyance for feed delivery, speed up feed grain orders, and broaden cost sharing for emergency tillage and livestock water ponds.
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Drouth
Secretary of Agriculture
Clifford M. Hardin
Grouth
ASCS
Kansas City
ASC
Today in History July 27 1971 highlights and birthdays
July 27 1971 marks the 208th day of the year with 157 remaining. Notable events include the 1953 Korean War armistice signing at Panmunjom, the 1789 establishment of the Foreign Affairs Department precursor, and Wright’s 1909 flight record at Ft Myer. Birth: Leo Durocher is 65. Thought by Nietzsche on newsworthiness.
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Associated Press
Penmunjom
Schenectady
N.Y
U.S. Congress
State Department
Department of Foreign Affairs
Orville Wright
Ft. Myer
Britain
Egypt
Suez Canal
Austria
Chicago
Richard M. Nixon
White House
John J. McCloy
Nikita Khrushchev
Black Sea
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar
Leo Durocher
Chicago Cubs
Nietzsche
Balmorhea Rig Count Rises Amid Texas New Mexico Oil Activity
The Permian Basin Empire reports 158 rotary rigs active Friday, up from 148 a week earlier and down from 170 a year ago. District 8 in Midland leads with 80 rigs, while Lea and Eddy counties show 18 and nine rigs respectively. Pecos County has 19, and Southeast New Mexico counts 32. The county tally highlights Martin County with 20 rigs. In local notes, Little Miss Cherry Elliott celebrated her twelfth birthday with a party and Balmorhea community updates.
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Permian Basin
West Texas
New Mexico
Reed Drilling Tools
Martin County
Pecos
Lea County
Ector
Eddy
Texas Railroad Commission
Midland
Lubbock
Miss Cherry Elliott
Tissie Elliott
Linda Herring
Jan Kerley
Kathy Thrall
Peggy Moore
Debbie Bottoms
Mollie Cate
Tamie Newman
Indian Lodge
Ft. Davis
Balmorhea State Park
Elliott
Kilgore Claims No 1 Small City Status With Oil Field Pride
Kilgore News Herald extols Kilgore as America s No 1 small city in a 180 page oil progress edition marking the East Texas Oil Field s 41st anniversary. It notes 14 907 producing wells and 72 674 524 barrels in 1970 versus 47 241 096 in 1960, plus debt freedom, rising bank deposits, and new developments in Kilgore including a new bank home a science building and housing projects. The paper also highlights awards won by Kilgore s News Herald in 1971 for general excellence in Texas and regional press associations.
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Kilgore
Tex
America
Oil, Progress
National Congress On
East Texas
Texas
Green and Rusk
Winson Gardner
The
News Herald
Texas Press Association
Barstow Community Notes From July Meetings and Local Visits
Barstow Chapter 822 CES met July 20 at the Masonic Hall with a patriotic program by Theresa Walker. The chapter marked its July anniversary, noting its institutions in 1930. Members and families are reported visiting relatives in Levelland Odessa and Houston. Local birthdays, deliveries, and school activities are mentioned, along with visits from Taft and Kerrville. Pvt James Warren Goode at Fort Leonard Wood receives mail, as DeWayne Hulsey visits from Odessa.
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Barstow
CES
Masonic Hall
Theresa Walker
Eula Echols
Ola Jenson
James Warren Goode
USA
Fort Leonard Wood
Missouri
Quiz questions on elements, colleges, and Jefferson library
A quiz item questions the number of known chemical elements, notes the proposed hahnium as 105th, asks for the oldest state supported women’s college, and identifies Jefferson’s 7000 volume library as the nucleus of the Library of Congress. The Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus is cited.
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United States
Mississippi State College For Women
Columbus
Miss
U.S
Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson
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Suez Canal Front
Anwar Sadat
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Kingland
Rudolph Hoefs
Bill Barnam
Ft. Stockton
Dick Beetle
Anna
Andrew Scott
Andrew
Duncan Kingston
Andrews Borden Brewster
Chaves Cochran Coke Crane Crockett Culberson Dawson Ector
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Martin
Mitchell Nolan Pecos
Reagan Reeves Roosevelt Runnels Schleicher Scurry
Stonewall Sutton
Terry Ward Winkler Yoakum
McAllen
Kilgore National Bank
Kilgore Junior College
Gibson’s Discount Center
Cherry Elliott
Molly Cate
By Gill Fox
J.H. Freeland
Larry Wilkins
Susie
Donald
Mike
Darlene Wilkins
Houston
W.E. Whitaker
Susy
Levelland
First Presbyterian Church
C.W. Wright
James Goode
Ismael Pena
Pamela
Elizabeth Cummings
Odessa
Bill Williams
Hermann Cunnings
Robbie
Todd McAnally
Robert McAnally
Melba Whitaker
East Texas State
Commerce
Walt Perryman
Jo Ann
Cindy
Carol
Taft
Floyd Hummel
Joe Perryman
McCamey
Wes Perryman
Court Reporter
Abilene
Perryman
Hummel
Inez D. Rogers
Kerrville
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J.J. Wester
DeWayne Hulsey
Gary Goode
James Hussey
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