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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1981
Page
2
With fair weather, Ericksdahl farmers worked in fields stripping cotton shredding stalks plowing and sowing wheat as wet conditions from recent rain and snow delay harvest and planting. Moisture is welcomed for future crops though time tight for wheat and pasture. many area households mark Christmas and New Year gatherings with relatives in Stamford Abilene and surrounding towns.
Leroy Schuchert entered Stamford Memorial Hospital December 19 as a medical patient and was dismissed December 24. His daughter and family from Odessa, Ronnie Harrison and children Melissa and Mark, visited over Christmas with his son-in-law and daughter in Stamford and with the Harrisons. Mrs. Oliver Smith hosted Christmas Eve guests Thacker Bollinger of Athens and Henry Rankin, recently moved from Denver City. The Olson family hosted Christmas Day dinner with Adolph Olson and daughter Frank Corbitt of Amarillo, plus David Olson and family from Lake Charles, Sheridan Olson, and Robert Nelson of Fort Worth. Myra, Emily, Adam and Eben Olson joined Mrs. Sheridan Olson in Hackensack, Minnesota for Christmas with her mother Mrs. J. L. Peterson. return expected soon.
November report shows farmers facing higher production costs while crop prices edged up 9 percent from 1979. Upland cotton averaged 70 cents per pound, down from October but above last year. wheat rose to 4.42 a bushel. grain sorghum at 6.02 per cwt. Livestock prices fell, livestock products index down 6 percent from 1979.
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