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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1976
Page
6
A Christmas Eve tale of Santa visiting a house and a clever mouse who asks to watch, prompting Santa to fill stockings. The mouse hints there is one more item to fit, and Santa, amused, considers the mouse’s request before finishing the task.
Lavaca County Sheriff Hilmer Woytek and Wysehrad School principal Mrs. Sally Kolos sponsored a Crime Prevention Poster Contest for grades 3 through 8. Baylor Golden Crescent Council of Governments coordinator led a burglary prevention program and students created posters showing prevention ideas with winners listed by grade and name.
James D. Kutac, former Seguin resident and Aldine Junior High band director, will become senior marching band director at Eisenhower High School north of Houston on January 13, 1977. He is a 1970 Seguin High School graduate with a 1974 music education degree from Texas Lutheran College and is married to Kathy Linder of Baytown. He is the nephew of the Strauss families of Shiner.
The Poinsettia is a tropical plant from Mexico and Central America in the spurge family. It bears red white or pink bracts and tiny inconspicuous flowers. It grows from eight hours of light starting Oct 15 to force red bracts by Christmas and can reach two to ten feet. It requires rich soil regular watering balanced fertilizer and occasional humic acid. Protect from 28 degree freezes and store in darkness to dormancy before replanting. The Paul Ecke Company in California leads hybridizing and holds many patents. The plant was introduced to the United States by John Robert Poinsett in 1825 and used by Aztecs for dye and fever remedy.
From 1659 to 1681 the Massachusetts general court treated Christmas celebrations as illegal. The Puritan ban echoed Oliver Cromwell era England.
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