The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1961 Page: 2 of 8
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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS
THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1961
CARSON COUNTY ABSTRACT CO.
Telephone 5201
222 Main, Panhandle, Texas
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
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One year subscription (in Carson and adjoining counties) .. $2.00
One year elsewhere in the United States
$2.50
Phone 2141
Groom, Texas
Al’s Texaco Service Station
AL HOMER, Proprietor
PHONE 3801
GROOM, TEXAS
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Oils—Grease—Diesel—At Wholesale!
GROOM LODGE
Tractor Tire Repair Service!
WE ARE OPEN 24 HOUR A DAY!
SPECIALS!
FROM EXTRA GOOD GRAIN FED CALVES
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GROOM, TEXAS
PHONE 3321
★ Heating
Wheeler-Evans Grain Company
* Cooking
★ Refrigeration
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GRAIN MERCHANTS
Irrigation
Federally Licensed
Producers Utilities Corporation
Phone 2661
Groom, Texas
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Phone 3161
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natural gas.
year ’round.
WHEELER-EVANS
GRAIN COMPANY
FIRESTONE TIRES—ACCESSORIES
WASH & LUBRICATION SERVICE
WE SOLICIT THE PATRONAGE OF
THE PRODUCERS OF THIS AREA
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POISON PAVES THE WAY FOR
ABUNDANT FOOD SUPPLIES
Half Beef. 150 to 180 lbs.____
Hind Quarters. 80 lbs. up____
Front Quarters, 75 lbs. up____
A. F. & A. M.
No. 1170
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A combination of this three-star service in your home
will eliminate your fuel problems.
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MEMBER PANHANDLE PRESS ASSOCIATION
AND THE TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
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Edited and published by MAX and HELEN WADE
Office Phone No. 3311—Residence Phone No. 3541
Entered as second class mail at the Post Office at Groom, Carson
County, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
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measure by your
car’s nerformance
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Blackwell Supply
JOHN DEERE IMPLEMENTS
SALES — SERVIOE
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never find a more satisfactory fuel than
It is clean, economical and dependable the
Realtors, Abstractors of Titles
Prompt, Dependable Service
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more fled to the United States in
the course of a national tragedy
that chemicals in common use to-
day could have prevented. Oddly
enough, it was the threat of a sim-
ilar calamity in Colorado 20 years
later—the loss of the potato crop
to beetle infestation—that brought
about the world’s first really large-
scale use of pesticide chemicals.
Incidentally, the paris green em-
ployed to save the Colorado pota-
toes has long been superseded by
chemicals that are both safer to
use and far more destructive of
■ pests.
HOMEN MEAT COMPANY
J. A. BROOKS, Manager
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More progress has been made in
the art of farming in the past 40
years than in the 40 centuries pre-
ceding — which goes about as far
back as we have found any rec-
ords.
Impressive, certainly, is the fact
that in the area of such major
crops as corn, wheat, tobacco, cot-
ton and peanuts our problem is how
to control surpluses. Even more
significant, to those who have ever
done any gardening, is the fact that
Despite the fact that ours are
the finest foods that any people
can buy and the further fact that,
without pesticides, the farmers of
the nation could not possibly pro-
duce the 135 million tons that 180
million people require each year,
there still are those who regard
al chemicals as “unnatural” and
fear that we may be poisoned by
the very defenders that stand be-
tween us and starvation.
But so rigorous are the controls
and the standards of acceptance of
pesticides set up by the Depart-
ment of Agriculture, the Food and
Drug Administration and the Pub-
lic Health Service, that it costs a
manufacturer from $500,000 to $2
million to screen, test and develop
a new product for the market! And
as the recent cranberry incident
testifies, equal rigidness is main-
tained in Government testing of
food going to market.
If you doubt that ours is the
best-fed nation on earth, consider
the dieting craze!
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FREEDOM’S BEST HELPER
INVENTED 75 YEARS AGO
LUMBER, BUILDERS HARDWARE, PLUMBING
SUPPLIES AND FIXTURES, MARTIN-SENOUR
PAINTS, CEMENT, SAND AND GRAVEL.
throughout America, vegetables
and fruit are plentiful, of high
quality, and available the year
round. And it may be a surprise to
some to know that ours is the only
nation on the globe where these
things are so. Nowhere else in the
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world, in fact, can the housewife
go to market confident of finding
fresh produce unblemished by
worms or bugs or blights of one
kind or another!
And one reason, above all others,
that this is so is the development
and universal use of highly spe-
cialized chemicals that protect our
food against being choked by
weeds, destroyed by greenbugs, in-
fested by insects, attacked by
countless plant diseases and con-
taminafed in storage by rats and
mice, or eaten by worms.
The classic example in consider-
ing what could happen without this
protection is the Potato Famine in
Ireland When this principal item
of Irish diet was all but wiped out
by a fungus disease in 1846 and
1847. Millions died and millions
if
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July 3, 1886 is a date that ranks
close to July 4, 1776. Seventy-five
years ago, just 110 years after the
Declaration of Independence, the
first successful typesetting ma-
chine, operating in the composing
room of Horace Greeley’s New
York Tribune, added a new eman-
cipation to the freedom enunciated
in the Declaration—liberation from
400 years of hand-setting of type
and the gift of wings to news!
Observing the still nameless ma-
chine in action under the nimble
fingers of its inventor, Ottmar Mer-
genthaler, Whitelaw Reid, then
publisher of the Tribune, exclaim-
ed in amazement: “It sets a line
of type!” Thus, to this day, the
machine that set most of the Trib-
une’s editorial page of July 3, 1886,
is known as the “Linotype.”
Since that day, more than 100,-
000 other Linotypes have gone to
work across the nation and in
every part of the world, casting
type for newspapers, magazines,
books, and practically every job-
printing need. Mergenthaler type
matrices — in 900 languages and
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dialects, plus a wide variety of
styles and sizes—have helped to in-
form and educate peoples in every
country on the globe.
It is only human and natural,
perhaps, that we look upon this
still amazing machine as the minor
miracle that gave America—all of
America—a truly free and vigor-
ous press; that paved the way for
the wire services that followed and
made it possible for the small town
editor to inform his public as ef-
fectively as the readers of the
great metropolitan dailies.
We would never deny that “the
(hand that rocks the cradle rules
the world.” But we believe the
fingers that operate the Linotype
guide the thoughts of the cradle-
rockers—and sooner or later the
cradle occupants.
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Hello Sucker . . .
A motorist overtook a young man
running rapidly down the highway.
He stopped and invited the perspir-
ing runner to get in. “An emer-
gency, I suppose?” the driver of
the car asked.
“No,” puffed the young man.
“I’m hitchhiking and I always run
like this when I need a ride. It
seldom fails.”
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KENNETH BLACK, W.M.
P.B. FARLEY, Secretary
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1961, newspaper, June 29, 1961; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1511547/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.