Minimum Cotton Allotment Set At Four Acres In 1957
The Agriculture Department issued regulations establishing a four acre minimum cotton allotment for 1957 or the largest cotton acreage a farmer planted if under four acres. The rule limits state committees to 2 percent of total allotment for non small farms, with a 10 percent reserve option for hardship and new farms, except Texas may use up to 2 percent for non small farm uses.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
Texas
Hitchhikers Plan Home Either Walk Or Ride
Two fleas narrate a busy day and debate walking home or riding a dog as a humorous roadside dialogue. The tone captures a quirky, domestic moment between anthropomorphized insects.
Lay Speaker Russell Dunn to headline Methodist Lay Day
Russell Dunn, Sherman attorney and First Methodist lay worker, will speak at the annual Lay Day service Sunday October 21 at First Methodist Church Whitewright. Clint C. Hennig presides with a men’s and boys’ choir, singspiration and special music planned. Youth Fellowship Council meets 6:30 p.m. Sunday with adult counselors invited.
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First Methodist Church
Whitewright
Russell Dunn
Sherman
Dunn
First Methodist
Clint C. Hennig
State in line to lose bulk of Salk funds
Texas faces returning about 2.5 million dollars in federal Salk polio shot funds unless the public vaccination program quickens. The 1957 deadline is June 30 for using most of a 3.064 million dollar Texas allocation. only 540 thousand dollars has been spent and the program averages 80 thousand shots per month. Preliminary surveys show last year's railway tax bill totaled 1.12 billion dollars, about 3.068 million daily average.
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Austin
State Health Department
Texas
J. E. Peavy
Department
Funds Available for Salk Vaccine Purchases
New York. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis says 22 million dollars in federal funds remain to buy Salk vaccine for a planned series of three injections for 11,815,000 youngsters and expectant mothers, urging immediate use of the money. Also notes about Mexico's land being about 20 percent arable.
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New York
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
the Foundation
Mexico
Local anglers trade barbs on a fishing pun
An urban angler asks if there is fishing nearby and a native in a rowboat replies with a playful correction about the words fishin and ketchin. The exchange captures simple humor from a waterside scene.
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Hitchhikers
Whitewright Variety Store
Maggie Ball
Mary Lou Ayer
SALK
J. R. Wilson CO
Pat Wilson
Sincerley
Texas Public Schools
Matic
Service
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