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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1967
Page
4
Wellington's annual Cemetery Association fund drive seeks support for maintenance and upkeep of the town's cemeteries. About 4000 dollars yearly are needed, with recent shortfalls. donations from individuals and organizations funded new westward cemetery and permanent improvements. The drive is quiet with no solicitors, urging immediate contributions.
The UT Bureau of Business Research predicts Texas will nearly reach 18 million residents by 1990 with strong factory growth boosting manufacturing value added to about 37.5 billion annually. Urban areas like Houston and Dallas–Fort Worth are set to surge beyond 3.3 million people by 1997, while agriculture and service industries also rise amid shifting demographics.
Texas workers in the Rio Grande Valley grow disillusioned with Texas Rangers and their old fashioned law enforcement. The piece notes that one quarter of Texas gasoline tax funds public education while the rest funds roads.
In a local comment column D. E. Scott mocks General De Gaulle for continuing to press the U.S. for the World War II debt while France owes billions. A grocery neighbor quips De Gaulle suffers delinquent-debtor syndrome, worsened by years overdue.
The fiscal year 1966 67 saw 134 098 114 pounds of commercial marine products taken off the Texas Gulf Coast valued at 52 613 036 dollars. The haul includes fish shrimp crabs oysters and squid. Mesquite wood is noted as a fine furniture wood.
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