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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1965
Page
2
County agents discuss time breeding to fall calving with advantages such as cooler calves and market timing and disadvantages like higher feed needs. Guidance covers creep feeding economics, water and pasture considerations, tree and shrub planting in fall, pruning timing, staking, and plant care for cold months.
At the annual achievement program certificates of completion were awarded to 4-H Club members in the Favorite Food Unit 1. Recipients include Catherine Valicek Virginia Berger Theresa Beal Susan Bender Barbara Moeller Mary Jane Simper Dorothy Thigpen Joan Valigura Shirley Smith Cathy Stephens Alice Bludau Barbara Klitsch Bernadette Henke Diane Schaefer Diane Lang.
A festive guide urges eating dry blackeye peas on New Year for luck, with hog jowl and corn pone details and a 1966 budget note. It covers Hoppin John prep, corn pone, and fig uses, plus serving ideas and simple fig recipes.
The AMA urges annual medical exams to detect illness early with more tests for those over fifty. It outlines history taking, physical checks, and lab tests, plus a six step aging plan emphasizing exercise, diet, weight control, rest, regular checkups, and active living.
The article extols green cabbage as a colorful, nutrient rich addition to holiday dishes. It advises selecting a fresh green head, cooking briefly to retain color, and suggests ham bacon peanuts green pepper chives and herbs for flavor. It notes cabbage is inexpensive low in calories and high in vitamin C.
G A Pop Mabry, longtime Humble public relations manager for the Southwest Region, announced plans to retire early in 1966 and start his own venture in Clear Lake City. His forty two year career began at Baytown Refinery in 1924 and continued in Houston from 1930. He directed plant publications, community relations, and marketing efforts and helped initiate the Southwest Conference football broadcasts.
Continental Trailways offers Shiner to Houston service at 9 15 a m and 6 39 p m. Shiner to San Antonio departures are 12 49 p m and 7 49 p m. Kerrville Bus Lines runs Shiner to Victoria at 2 15 p m and to Austin at 9 05 a m with last return 8 25 p m.
The Peach Creek Philosopher reflects on 1966 from a Johnson grass farm on Rt. 3. He jokes about predicting the next year, notes uncertainty like weather forecasts, and advises taking life one day and hour at a time while warning to beware of sand bars. JA signs off.
SHS Boys Basketball Yoakum edged Shiner 54-50 in double overtime on December 21 with key scoring from Mike Turek 15 Steve Glomb 14 and Billy Turek 12. Yoakum’s B team routed Shiner 66-39 as Arkadie 17 and Brosh 13 led. Visitors over Christmas weekend included multiple Roeder and Surovec families from Houston Liberty Tucson and El Campo.
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