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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1966
Page
3
Renwicke Cary is on vacation and will resume writing his Plaza column upon return. The notice confirms a temporary pause in the regular feature and sets expectations for readers awaiting forthcoming installments.
Reporter tours Lawrence Wood’s Lambert Ranch near Refugio Texas where he advances the Sabre a Sussex Brahman cross as part of a 20 year effort to develop polled cattle across Sussex Santa Gertrudis and Sabre. Wood notes cross breeding vigor and market appeal with rising Sussex prices.
The Charolais breed, a French draught animal, was among early imports to the region. Sussex cattle first arrived in 1883 with several shipments through 1910. Lawrence Wood recalls kin keeping a few on a Bay side ranch, but the breed faded into others. In 1849 R H Wood of San Antonio, and in 1850 Lawrence Wood, introduced cows and a bull, starting a lineage on Lambert Ranch.
A Texas cattle gathering led to the formation of the Sussex Cattle Association of America with Wood elected president. The group aims to register cattle in England's Herd Book and includes Dr. Tom Cartwright and Dr. C. J. Brown among 20 specialists. Sussex bulls are touted as potent while stressing fertility and production over mere conformity. Fred Eastwood, a respected Sussex figure, returned to England in 1963 to judge a Sussex show.
Sen Yarborough announced a $1,616,000 Rural Electrification Administration loan to the Central Texas Electric Cooperative of Fredericksburg. The funds finance extensive improvements across Gillespie Kendall Kerr Kimble Mason McCulloch Menard Real San Saba and Blanco counties. The loan was approved by the Rural Electrification Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Continental Airlines reports record six month net income of 6.347 million dollars, 1.95 per share, up 72 percent from 1965. President Robert F. Six notes the first six months exceed any full year prior to 1965 and the second quarter also set a company high with 3.913 million dollars, 1.2 per share, versus 1965.
Six musicians and singer Matt Monroe arrive from Los Angeles to perform at Frost Bros high school fashion show in the St Anthonys Hotel Anacacho Room Monday at 30 p m. Jamie Earl Browning leads Jamie and the Jury with four other members.
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