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Newspaper
Stamford American
Location
Stamford, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1961
Page
2
A practical guide on choosing anchors for different bottoms and conditions, stressing scope, line length, and chain addition. It covers making inexpensive home anchors from concrete filled cans, using old weights, care for line maintenance, and safe handling to avoid snags and losses.
In a column urging Texans to vacation at home to boost the state economy, the piece highlights Texas lakes such as Possum Kingdom and Whitney, Big Bend, and Rio Grande River as fishing havens. It also notes a June Texas Game and Fish article on plastic worm bass bait and a 12-year-old girl setting a fish weight record in Arkansas stock pond.
A frontier saying notes a woman who pursues a husband is said to be dragging her rope in cowboy slang. The phrase reflects dated gender roles and regional vernacular.
In Cobb's Fishing Camp results Deluxe Cleaners and Mary's Cafe led 50-22 and 46-26 respectively. High team three games were Rice and Nichols 1803 and Huston Hardware 1798. Individual highs include Ola Williams 58 and 214 for men and Flo Rice 515 and 215 for women with Flo Rice posting the top single game 215.
Pvt. Melvin Lusk 18 son of Mrs J C Morton 408 E Davenport Stamford completed a five week postal operations course at the Adjutant General's School Fort Benjamin Harrison Ind on June 2 He entered the Army last December and finished basic at Fort Hood Tex Lusk attended Stamford High School.
A line camp earned the nickname boar's nest because its cowboy occupant focused on duties as a cowhand rather than housekeeping, illustrating frontier camp life and rough living conditions.
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