Texas Food and Fiber Abundance Month Brag Highlighted
Texas agriculture is a $10 billion industry, employing 35 to 40 percent of the workforce on 143 million acres of farmland. Texas leads in cattle, beef, rice, sheep, wool, cotton, sorghum, peanuts, pecans, dairy, poultry, eggs, swine, corn, soybeans, honey, wheat, and more. The speaker notes broad diversity and self sufficiency as Thanksgiving reflects on Texas abundance and prosperity.
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Texas
Charles Baker
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Texas A&m University
Baker
United States
Weekend Guests and Newcomers Move Through Whitewright
Irving residents Mr and Mrs Granvalee Hansard and Sherman’s Mr Oscar Billiner. Pilot Point couple Mr and Mrs Elmer Thompson visit Harold Doss. Yallie McEloy joins Whitewright telephone crew from Caddo Mills. Mexia’s Charles Lewis, oil firm employee, visits Emmett Green Sr. In New Orleans, Mrs Carl Boney and children Ramonia and Mike visit their father husband.
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Granvalee Hansard
Irving
Oscar Billiner
Sherman
Elmer Thompson
Pilot Point
Harold Doss
Telephone Company
Yallie McEloy
Whitewright
Caddo Mills
Charles Lewis
Mexia
Emmett Green
Carl Boney
Ramonia
Mike
New Orleans
Whitewright Texas adopts cruising and vehicle loitering ban
City ordinances prohibit cruising or loitering outside vehicles and leaving unoccupied cars on private property without owner consent. Vehicles on city property may not exceed 72 hours without mayor or city clerk approval, or be impounded. Violations carry up to 200 dollars fine. Mayor Sonny Smith. Secretary Helen M Billner.
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Whitewright
Texas
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Stevie Spann
Snoopy
Bonnie Brown
Weldon Bartley
Billy Jester
Edith Jester
Robert Sale
Guy Davis
Arthur Brinkley
Sonny Smith
Helen M. Billner
Charlie Sessom
Dick Capps
Howard Hodge
Bud Roac
John Williams
James Melton
Clarence Ball
John Chesser
Rodney Rice
Steve Robinson
Ricky Newman
Victor Daniels
Artie Johnson
Randy Hunt
Claude Haston
Steve Fortner
Alonzo Ballard
Phillip Smith
Marvin Atterberry
The
Tigers
First National Bank
WERE
Jen
Whitewright Lumber Co
Carl
Monsanto
Gary Wortham
Terry Lewis
Jimmy Spann
Garry Glanton
David Gabriel
Jerry Hicks
Joe Ballard
Donald Golden
Allan Harper
Bobby House
Auto
Dawson
Propane Inc
the Tigers
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