The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 229, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 8, 1975 Page: 3 of 14
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Baytonian Enjoys Gardening All Year
“Now everybody’s trying to do
the same thing.”
“I «S ^3t m* rm
from 9 to 12 or 1. I usually
spend eight hours a day in ray
yard, ft’s a must! And
something to do every day."
The Herrings have been in
Baytown since 1919. “I’m 77
years old and not ashamed to
tell it!” die exclaimed.
She has crotans and coleuses
trees.
By DONNA STRAUSSER
around her pine
house in 1958 and I’ve been
gardening ever since," says
Mrs. Garrett Herring of 420
Gulf.
Mrs. Herring’s favorite
plants are caladiums and
tulips. "I like bulbs better than
seeds. That way you can be
sure of the production.”
ty in a little while.”
The gardener prizes good
landscaping so much that she
has offered her services to
several others.
“1 take cafe of four other
yards and then my daughter’s.
Five yards, really.”
"I just volunteer to take care
of my neighbor’s yards," she
said. "I plant things in their
yards, too. I just buy the plants
and pay for ‘em myself!”
She explained, “I plant
seasonal things and I have to
have vegetables, too, so I use
my neighbor’s yards.”
'1 do it so my corner will
look good,” she continued.
Photos by
Charlie Smith
‘I like bulbs
better than
“I've planted about 500
caladiums. I plant 1,200 tulips
every year in the fail. I believe
in mass production!”
THE FRONT of the Garrett Herring home is land-
scaped with caladiums/Mrs. Herring planted about
560 caladiums this year.
MRS. HERRING gives a tour of her front yard. The Herring home was built in
1958. Mrs. Herring has been gardening since thefc. • i
With Careful Attention
Silver Anniversary
Regular care of a mixer can cord occasionally with a damp the manufacturer of each in-
give it a longer service life, cloth when the mixer is un- dividual appliance should be
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she said that instructions from lubricated at home. *>
Members of Baytown Past presidents and charter principal functions are to
Assembly Social Order «t>f members will be honored at promote friendship among
Beauceaot will observe the the dinner. Sir Knights are in- members and to carry out
silver anniversary at 6:30 p. m vited to the dinner. benevolent and charitable
July 16 with a dinner in the The Beauceants are compos- functions in the community,
banquet room of Goose Creek ed of wives and widows of 7^ annual fund raising pro-
specialist.
“Regular cleaning can pre-
vent damage to the motor and
tiie possibility of electrical
shock,” said Mrs. Lillian
Chenoweth with the Texas
Agricultural Extension Set-
Adult Workshop
Slated By BLT
Masonic Temple, 900 Schilling. Knights Templar. Their -a the steak fry. This year
funds from the steak fry
1. provided two scholarships for
^ 5£5f«135Sr
11 / high school senior girl. Each
* year this is alternated between
the high schools. Also, a fSOQ
donation was sent to the
Library Lists
Mew Books
STEAMATIC
Sterling Municipal Library receives new
books each day. Here is a list of recent ac-
quisitions
The DDT Myth " by Rita Gray Beatty. Is the
pesticide DDT really the dangerous con-
taminate the Environmental Defense Fund and
the National Audubon Society have indicated it
as being? Has DDT merely become a scare word
for amateur environmental groups? Rita Gray
Beatty, a journalist and public relations person,
takes a look at evidence in favor of DDT. She
finds the anti-DDT campaign to be based on
faulty research, emotionalism and twerzealous
amateur ecologists.
•‘The Lure of Sunken Treasure" by Robert F.
Marx. If you have the soul of an adventurer and
have dreamed of rinding lost treasures from old
Spanish ships, this book of under-the-sea adven-
tures with archaelogists and treasure hunters
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American Indian. /
"The Marriage Gap" by psychologist Stanley
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marriage. If you want to know why some
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rather than Jove, honor and obey, this book may
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 229, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 8, 1975, newspaper, July 8, 1975; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104739/m1/3/: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.