Texas Gets King Sized Treatment In Compton Edition
Compton's 1963 edition highlights Texas as a former nation, its boundaries along the Red River and Rio Grande, the Texas Rangers, and annexation in 1845. It notes flags over Texas, size, rail mileage, oil discovery at Spindletop, crops and livestock strength, population 9,579,677 in 1960, and famous figures like Austin, Johnson, Garner, Rayburn, with map features and regional coverage.
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Texas
Compton
Red River
Rio Grande
Texas Rangers
The
Rangers
Department of Public Safety
Earth
Alonso de Penedz
Stephen Fuller Austin
Lower
Brazos River
Union Stock Yards Show Increase in 1962 Receipts
1962 at Union Stock Yards San Antonio showed a large rise in livestock receipts with 74 182 more head than 1961. Cattle and calves total 423 860 head, hogs 46 711, sheep and goats 153 628. Cattle auctions every Wednesday and Thursday. hogs on Wednesdays. sheep and goats first auction in October then every Tuesday.
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Union Stock Yards
San Antonio
South
Texas
Paraguay
Soil testing tips from Texas A M College Station official
W F Bennett ext soil chemist at Texas A M College Station says test soils now while conditions favor accurate results. Submit samples to labs in Lubbock Seymour or College Station and expect 1 2 week turnarounds.
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College Station
W. F. Bennett
Texas A&m College
Bennett
Lubbock
Seymour
Screwworm Program May Be Stopped in Southwest
The Southwest Screwworm Eradication Program could end March 31 if one million dollars remains unfunded toward the three million goal. Foundation President Charlie Scruggs said federal funds will halt without matching non-federal support, prompting an emergency appeal to livestock producers and sportsmen across five Southwestern states.
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Austin
Board of Trustees
The
Southwest Animal Health Research Foundation
Foundation
Charlie Scruggs
Scruggs
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi River
Convenience foods save time and money study and fly eradication efforts
Mary Francis Burmeister outlines how economy foods save time and money including juice coffee and canned goods. Lavaca County agent Jack Lindsey warns of sterile screwworm fly releases along the Navidad Brazos and Colorado rivers as part of the Southwest Screwworm Eradication Program with guidance for livestock owners on sampling wounds and submitting maggot samples to Mission laboratory.
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Economic Research Service
Navidad River
Lavaca County
Jack Lindsey
Southwest
Mission
Colorado, Brazos
Navidad
Gulf
Matagorda Peninsula
Mission Laboratory
Texas
Lindsey
Navasota Installs Texas First Direct Distance Dialing
Dr L O Coleman Grimes County Chamber of Commerce president dialed a number at 1 pm Saturday and connected with Sen John Tower's Washington office showing Navasota's new direct distance dialing system now in operation The Navasota Telephone Company unveiled the service becoming the first independent Texas company to do so.
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Navasota
L. O. Coleman
Grimes County Chamber of Commerce
John Tower
Washington
Tower
Coleman
Navasota Telephone Company
Texas
Miss Sally Janecek and William Watson to wed January 26
Miss Sally Ann Janecek and William Scott Watson will marry January 26 at Alamo Heights Methodist Church in San Antonio. The bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Laddie T. Janecek, announce the betrothal. Janecek is a graduate of Alamo Heights High School and attended the University of Texas. Watson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Martin Watson, a graduate of Alamo Heights High School and Southern Methodist University, member of Phi Delta Theta, and affiliated with the San Antonio German Club.
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Patsy Ann Dekeyzer
Robert W. Vincik
Beaumont
Charles J. Dekeyzer
Boyce
Louisiana
Stanislav Vincik
Lecompte
Mr. Vincik
Saint Francis Cathedral
Alexandria
Sally Ann Janecek
William Scott Watson
Alamo Heights Methodist Church
San Antonio
Laddie T. Janecek
Janecek
Alamo Heights High School
University of Texas
Mr. Watson
G. Martin Watson
Southern Methodist University
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Great Humorist Will Rogers on Life Insurance
The note cites Will Rogers on the returns of money and life insurance roles. It praises Pan-American Life Insurance Co as a strong, purely mutual company owned by policy owners. It argues life insurance prevents poverty and provides for old age amid uncertain life expectancy.
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Will Rogers
United States
Pan-American Life Insurance Co
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