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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1957
Page
8
The column urges merchants to show appreciation to customers, noting Abilene inspired ideas like Back Scratch Day. It laments empty store doorways, promotes clean storefronts, and recalls rural mail box upkeep and youth programs. It also clarifies overlaps between school sports and chamber activities.
Stamford headlines a July Texas Cowboy Reunion with parade entries led by Mrs. Margery Bailey and Warren B Tayman. The schedule includes a 1 PM opening parade on July 4 with floats bands and riders, square dances nightly at city auditorium and a junior cowboys rodeo. Fire marshal C L Meeker reports May had no fires and expects two state inspectors.
Citizens will collect scrap rubber as part of a parade effort while the Annual Baptist Encampment opens in June at Hardin Simmons University Abilene with Dr W R White as encampment pastor preaching daily at 12 15 and 25 PM A men’s dinner is planned Friday night with Dr W W Melton from Texas Baptist General Convention as principal speaker about 500 attendees expected
The paper reports a statewide scrap rubber collection urged by Governor Coke Stevenson to aid tires and rationing, with a pen at the square for deposits and proceeds to a charity fund. It also notes old fiddlers contest for the Texas Cowboy Reunion with prizes of 35 dollars in war savings stamps and mentions local organizers Jim Stell and S E Meadows.
Texas Agriculture Commissioner John White estimates flood damage to crops at 50 million dollars as rains extend planting deadlines. Cotton and grain crops face delays while some areas report hurt mall grains from excess water. dryland cotton in the south requests more moisture. Rain totals in five months 1957 exceed all of 1956 with Dallas 36 inches Austin 21 San Antonio 19 Greenville 44.
Dear editor a long letter argues farmers will face endless surplus as Indiana scientists develop feed efficient cattle pills. The writer claims 11 percent gain and 9 percent feed reduction could swell meat and storage needs, urging scientists to slow production.
W. (Dub) Galloway opens an upholstery shop at 107 N. Webb Stamford offering seat covers and complete furniture upholstering service. He has long been associated with Stamford firms as a seat cover man.
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