Lure makers face wave of plastic bait boom across Texas
By VERN SANFORD the piece examines a shift in fishing tackle from wood to plastic lures in Texas. It highlights many firms such as Bomber Bait Company of Vesville and Whopper Stopper of Sherman, notes the growing lure market and the rise of multi color artificial worms and other plastic baits, and ponders whether local makers will shift to worm and eel products as the era changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highland
Texas
Bomber Bait Company
Vesville
Sherman
Corpus Christi
Pico
Padre Island Com
Cer
Houston
Schuker Company
el Campo
Austin
Olmaster Bait and Tackle
Antonio
Anyi
Nere
Verience
DeLong
Sandy
Hunt Season To Be Set By Texas Game Body
Texas Game and Fish Commission plans a mid summer meeting in Austin to define hunting and fishing rules in counties under its authority. Biologists will revise regulations including spike buck legality and dove season extensions. The commission also reviews next year’s budget and may authorize a waterfowl season bracket based on counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Game and Fish Commission
Austin
Commission
Texas
Howard Dodgen
Dodgen
Washington
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Card of Thanks for R. Salge’s illness and death
The Salge family expresses deep gratitude to friends and neighbors for kindness during illness and after the death of R. Salge. They especially thank relatives for assistance and Pastor Flathmann for visits and sympathy. They acknowledge flowers cards and food and convey heartfelt appreciation from Mrs. Lottie Salge and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Salge
Pastor Flathmann
Lottie Salge
Itp
New Mexico Family Visiting Wingate Homes
Mr and Mrs Jack Hall and family from Farmington New Mexico visit the homes of Mr and Mrs David Bryan and Mr and Mrs Rube Guin in Win gate during their trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Jack Hall
Farmington, New Mexico
David Bryan
Rube Guin
Wingate
Mrs Edna Colwell Visits Rotan Friends
Mrs Edna Colwell of Rotan arrived Tuesday for a short visit at the home of her daughter Mr and Mrs W F Lowe. The note adds a remark that an idea is the result of hard thinking which is hard labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna Colwell
Rotan
W. F. Lowe
Texas Tales of Battles Fossils and Heroes Across the State
The passage surveys Texas history and geology from Quanah Parker’s 1874 clash at Adobe Walls to Glen Rose dinosaur tracks near the Paluxy River. It notes a Bowie statue at Texarkana and LaFitte’s Grove near Galveston, plus the Odessa meteor crater and Enchanted Rock marker near Llano with Captain John C. Hays amid Comanche Indians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quanah Parker
Cynthia Ann Parker
Texas Panhandle
Bat Masterson
Bermuda Charlie
Borger
Cleburne
Glen Rose
Paluxy River
Texarkana
Texas
Lone Star State
James Bowie
Jim Bowie
Alamo
Llano
John C. Hays
Multer Named to FHA County Committee in West Texas
Alfred J. Multer of Olfen joins a three member Farmers Home Administration county committee serving Runnels and Coleman counties. Thomas Egan Jr. of Ballinger and A. T. Williams of Winters join Multer, with Egan to chair in 1961. Committee reviews loan eligibility and policy alignment with local farmer needs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alfred J. Multer
Farmers Home Administration
John H. Curry
Runnels
Coleman
Multer
Olfen
Olfen-Rowena
Thomas Egan, Jr
Rt. 1
Ballinger
A. T. Williams
Rt. 4
Winters
Egan
Malter
Joseph F. Droll
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By Vern Sanford
Dusseldorf
West Germany
Dusseldorfer Rhine Bridge
Leopoldville
Belgium
Congo
Gudrun Reuthe
Hanau
Heidi Splithoff
Heidi
LaFitte
Galveston
Jean LaFitte
Gulf of Mexico
Three Trees
Odessa
Outer
Space
Earth
FHA
Sam Houston
Rocky Creek
Old Baptist
Independence
Nancy Lea
Baylor
Judge Baylor
Munsey Big
Presto Steam & Dry Iron
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