Mexican science drives green revolution and birth control
Mexico City leads a green revolution and the contraceptive pill surge powered by the Institute for the Development of Seeds and Syntex. Emilio Gue tierre z Roldan Cesar Soto Reyes direct seed improvement while Syntex chief Dr Pierre Crabbe trains Mexican researchers and produces synthetic hormones. The effort spreads wheat corn and other crops globally. The pill story ties to Dr Russell Marker who discovered steroid hormone precursors from Mexican plants.
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Gobind Behari Lal
Mexico
Pecos
Mexico City
Productra Nacional de Semillas
Institute For the Development of Seeds
Emilio Guetierrez Roldan
Cesar Soto Reyes
Miguel Aleman
Rockefeller and
Ford Foundations
Roldan
Syntex Research Laboratories
Pierre Crabbe
Syntex
University of Pennsylvania
Russel F. Marker
Palo Alto
Calif
Crabbe
Toyah News Briefs Touch Tornado Toll and Local Events
Joe Scott released from hospital after leg surgery and back home in Toyah. Tornado damage affected Lubbock area relatives. several local families report losses and plan visits to help. Dick Compton returns home after minor surgery in Kermit. Toyah Home Demonstration closes for summer with plans for THDA and upcoming events in Odessa and Galveston.
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Joe Scott
Toyah
Lubbock
Lamar Taylor
Dick Compton
Kermit Hospital
R.R. Waight
Pat Goodnight
Odessa
THDA
Midland
Ben Cleveland
Galveston
Rain shortages grip Texas farms state by state
Texas farmers face near statewide moisture deficits as winds and heat limit rainfall. District reports show dryland cotton and wheat delays, pasture grazing varies, and haying and grain prospects depend on soon needed rainfall across Panhandle to South Texas with livestock in generally good condition but ranges drying out.
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College Station
Texas
John Hutchinson
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Hutchison
Panhandle
South Plains
Vernon
West Texas
el Paso
Monahans
Mason
Blackland
ACS Man Introduced to Midland ACS District 2 Unit
A new field ACS man was introduced at a noon meeting at Foster’s Restaurant. Charlie A. Miller will cover District 2 from Midland, replacing Greg Westerfield who moves to District 3 North in Amarillo. The Midland unit’s Ector Reeves Pecos Ward Crane and Upton Counties area will be served from Midland. Dr E W Schmidt presided. Memorials total $245 this year. District Annual Meeting set for June 17. location to be announced.
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Texas Acs
Charlie A. Miller
Greg Westerfield
E.W. Schmidt
Reeves-Loving Unit
American Cancer Society
Westerfield
Amarillo
Miller
Midland
Schmidt
ACS
Tive
Foster’s
District 2
Reeves
Pecos
Ward
Ector
Crane
Upton
Billie Neil Prewit
John Dearley
O.L. Lucas
Morrison
Smith
Quick Quiz Q and A on historic trivia
In a brief Q and A style feature, the text lists answers to questions about biblical figures, race perceptions, bird wing spans, and presidential kinship. It notes Luke as the “beloved physician” per Saint Paul, describes eye shape myths, cites the magnificent frigate bird wing span, and explains Franklin D Roosevelt as Theodore Roosevelt’s fifth cousin with his wife as a Theodore relation niece.
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Philippines
Iran
Wwe
Ann Duncan
W.K. Duncan
A.A. Anderson
van Horn
Wooster
Ohio
Julian Sanchez
Ortencia Nunez
Jessie Sanchez
Jose Machuca
Anna Contreras
Rachel Prieto
Daylene Yates
Sharon Willborn
Janie
New York
Columbia University
King’s College
King
George II of England
Raes
Trenton
Missouri
Jewett Norris
Que Are
Bavaria
ST. Maixent
France
Jamaica
Dist
Sinclair Products
Phillip A. Pearce
Arco Local
Petroleum
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Evangelists
Luke the
Saint Paul
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Newspaper Enterprise Association
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