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Local social notes list visits and weekends with families across Sherman Denison Dallas Ardmore and Okla figures include Mrs Oscar Lay Dr John Barkley Mr Royce Lay and others visiting relatives and friends over holidays and weekends.
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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1962
Page
2
Local social notes list visits and weekends with families across Sherman Denison Dallas Ardmore and Okla figures include Mrs Oscar Lay Dr John Barkley Mr Royce Lay and others visiting relatives and friends over holidays and weekends.
The Agriculture Department reported 1961 record matching farm output generated cash marketing receipts of 31.3 billion dollars in the first 11 months, up 21 percent from the same period last year. Notice also lists annual stockholders meetings for First National Bank Whitewright Texas and Planters National Bank Whitewright in liquidation on January 9 1962.
Texas farmers posted the highest all crop production total in 11 years despite Hurricane Carla. The season yielded a combined principal crop value of 1.6 billion dollars, record sorghum 45 bushels per acre, a large 84.87 million bushel wheat crop, and cotton bringing 864 million dollars from 4.75 million bales. Carla caused moderate to heavy damage in some cotton fields totaling 40,000 bales valued at 7 million dollars.
Texas Research Foundation backs Renner farming system demonstrations in North Texas to push cotton yields from 164 to about 550 pounds per acre by applying a three year rotation of grain sorghum wheat and cotton with full fertilization and soil residue return. The plan aims to raise income and reduce cotton root rot while diversifying crops beyond a single cotton economy.
The encyclopedia of theater music indexes 10 pages of song titles starting with the first person singular and notes exactly half as many tunes begin with You. The article contrasts this with a wartime British casualty figure of 750,000 killed in World War I.
Court citation issued in Grayson County to G W Ritchie and several heirs and spouses directing them to appear by 10 AM on the first Monday after 42 days from issuance to answer a petition filed December 15 1961 by Sadie Magee Burgess regarding title and possession of the west half of lot 11 block 2 Stoneman Addition Denison Texas. The notice was published in The Whitewright Sun December 28 1961 and January 4 11 18 1962.
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