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Newspaper
Wellington Leader
Location
Wellington, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1966
Page
9
The Salt Fork Soil Conservation District urges farmers to keep crop residues on fields to conserve soil moisture and reduce wind erosion. Residues lower soil temperature, reduce runoff, and protect against dust storms while potentially boosting yields. guidance and cost-share support are available from the Soil Conservation Service at the courthouse.
OSU economists advise tractors need about 500 hours per year to lower hourly overhead to economical levels. Plows planters harvesters and similar gear require roughly 100 hours annually. For small farms using equipment only a few days yearly, outsourcing to custom equipment is recommended to cut costs.
A sequence of property deeds from Wellington area listings includes Julia Emmert transferring a one sixth interest in section 79 block 12 to Ervin Emmert. E E Lister and wife to John Lister E2 of SW quarter section 46 block 16. Cemetery deed from City of Wellington to E E Baggett for south 1 foot of lot 10 block 14 in Wellington Cemetery addition. Eva Baumgardner to David M Baumgardner E2 of SE quarter section 80 block 21. Ethel Mae White executrix to Joe Tarver and wife tract out of N half of section 64 block 10. Beulah Thomas to W B Thomas and others W half section 75 block 14. Minnie Ethel Scott and others to Buford O Chandler lots 20 21 22 block 172 Wellington quit claim. Dora Oleta Howard and husband to Buford O Chandler lots 20 21 22 block 172 Wellington quit claim. Mary Opal Wood and husband to Buford O Chandler lots 20 21 22 block 172 Wellington. E H Harwell and wife to Ocie Scott one acre out of section 100 block 14. Humor note: Reno district attorney reports 22 escapees from Nevada State Prison this year with 18 recaptured and jokes about road signs reading Prisoners Escaping.
A Dallas published biographical booklet on Lyne T. Barret, credited with drilling Texas’s first oil well near Nacogdoches in 1866. The piece outlines Barret’s finance struggles, early optimism, failed second well, and limited later drilling, set against Beaumont and other southeastern Texas fields.
April Series E and H Savings Bond sales rose 9 percent over April 1965 both in Texas and nationwide, with Collingsworth County reporting 17 340 in April and 38 237 for the first four months of 1966 toward a 1066 goal. Treasury boosted limits to 20 000 for E Bonds and 30 000 for H Bonds to curb inflation and fund public debt, per chairman John T Forbis. Kathleen Yorke, 17, of Castleford England was sent home from a trouser factory for an op art skirt of four inches above the knee, upsetting foremen unable to concentrate.
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