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Newspaper
San Saba News
Location
San Saba, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1948
Page
2
The Valley Spring Welfare Association, formed to be a permanent group, aims to clean up and maintain Valley Spring Cemetery. Inquiries or contributions may be sent to secretary Mrs. B. L. Greenhaw, Valley Spring, Texas, with contact details provided in the notice.
May greetings note visiting relatives in Cherokee as Mr. Darrell Sallee and family from Big Spring spend time with Pick and Mrs Sallee. Mrs. J E G Hillman visits Mullin and attends Goldthwaite graduation for James Torrance. Leon Barber Jr of San Marcos visits family. Billy Bowman and George Bowman are also mentioned among local connections.
Kay of Broken Bow and Sherry Reville of Austin visit relatives in San Saba. Nelson and Randolph families return from Crane. Marilyn Kuykendall, Shannon Hospital nursing student, graduates at San Angelo. BJ McEneely graduates Tulane University and works with Charity Hospital. Families travel to Houston Austin Dallas for visits. Home demonstration club met with bread and rolls demo. next meet June 16 with Mrs. Chas. McLerran.
The Commissioners Court of San Saba County Texas will sit as a board of equalization at 10 am on Friday June 18 1948 in the court house at San Saba Texas to hear appeals on property valuations and determine whether they should be raised or lowered. Arch Woods County Clerk.
In Harkeyville on May 1 1948 a precinct convention elected delegates for the county convention to be held May 4 at 11 a.m. Mrs. Chas Davidson was named secretary. Local residents and visitors from Richland Springs San Angelo Brownwood and San Saba are noted. The area has had good rains saving most small grain. farmers plow and hoe crops as grain heads. O B Harkey returned from Lubbock on business. visitors included Dick Luxter and family.
The Harkey household in Brookston welcomed relatives and friends from San Antonio Sweetwater Eastland and Austin for visits during a weeklong period. Local residents noted a busy hay season with mowers and balers active statewide and family celebrations like Helen Claire Harkey’s seventh birthday.
Rough Creek May 21 reports Sam Taylor to preach at the Rough Creek church on Sunday June 6. Mrs Roy Hatyking and daughter return from San Saba after the school term. Mr E E Paris and Mrs Leon Farr visit. H Farr stays longer. School closes May 21 with a Cherokee Creek picnic at W Tl Broyles’. Tom Young family and Fannie visit from South Texas for the event. town grateful for the million dollar rain.
Houston price data show a 1 percent rise from mid March to mid April bringing the index to 171 percent of the prewar base. April food costs climbed 2 percent from March while apparel and misc items edged up. Compared with April 1947 overall prices rose by about 8 percent with food and apparel up 10 percent, miscellaneous items 7 percent, and house furnishings 4 percent.
Livestock shipments from Texas stations rose 19 percent to 12 390 carloads in April according to the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research. Cattle shipments totaled 10 001 carloads, up 64 percent for the March to April rise. Hog shipments fell 60 percent Calves down 47 percent and sheep 23 percent. Compared to April 1947 live stock shipments were up 5 percent. Hog shipments up 82 percent sheep 18 percent and cattle and calves 2 percent. Interstate shipments plus Fort Worth up 24 percent from March to 8 percent above April 1947.
Advertising in Texas newspapers advanced 5 percent from March to April based on reports from 36 Texas papers to the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research. April advertising totaled 35,964,006 dollars, up 18 percent from a year earlier.
Readable fragment notes that adding machine paper is obtainable at The News office. No further details available from the fragment.
Ben H. Ray, secretary of the San Saba County ACA, announced the county has a contract for flying new aerial maps. The maps likely will not be ready until after January 1, 1949. Farmers may obtain clearer photos after cleanup of fence rows and terrace cultivation.
Unusual offer promises unlimited earnings with no investment required. Readers are invited to send name and address so a representative calls with full particulars about a once in a lifetime opportunity.
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