Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1989 Page: 6 of 26
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Services Held
for Gertrude
Barker
Services for Gertrude
Barker, 75, Grand Saline,
were held at 1:30 p.m. Tues-
day, Feb. 21, in the Eubank
Funeral Home chapel with the
Rev. George Murphy officiat-
ing.
Burial was in Small Ceme-
tery in Van Zandt County.
Mrs. Barker died Saturday,
Feb. 18, in a Lancaster hos-
pital afer a lengthy illness.
She was born March 18,
1913, in Ellis County. She at-
tended a Pentecostal church.
She was a homemaker and had
spent most of her life in Van
Zandt County except for sev-
eral years in Navarro County.
She was preceded in death by
two brothers, Earl Barker and
Hubert Barker; a sister, Anna
Belle Yarbrough and a son, S.
B. Barker.
Survivors include her hus-
band, Charlie J. Barker,
Grand Saline; two sons. Roy
Lee Barker, Ennis, and
Charles Roland Barker, Edge-
wood; five brothers, Coy
Barker and J. C. Barker, both
of Wills Point, Luther Barker
and Leroy Barker, both of
Emory, and Orby Lee Barker,
Grand Saline; four sisters,
Odell Nichols, Alba, Ruby
McBeth, Quinlan, Opal Car-
son. Wills Point, Alma Brink-
ley, Corsicana; seven grand-
children; and eight great-
grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Kevin
Barker, Roy Lynn Barker,
Benny Conn Jr., Larry Moore,
Jeff Moore and Harold White.
Renews Leader
Leland Robinson was a visi-
tor in the Leader office last
week to renew his subscription
to the Rains County Leader,
and also for Jessie Morris of
Plano.
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Adding plenty of organic
matter to your soil is one of the
keys to a successful garden.
Organic matter improves the
drainage and aeration of clay
soils and helps sandy soils hold
water and nutrients.
Spread a 2 to 4 inch iayer of
peat moss, hay, compost,
leaves, manure or even shred-
ded newspapers over the
garden surface and work it into
a dept of 6 to 8 inches. Before
working in the compost, add
the recommended rate of fer-
tilizer so that it will become
part of the soil mix.
Many gardeners prefer using
a shovel or spading fork when
working up the ground, but
others like using rototillers.
Here are tips to make the
tilling job easier:
* Till when soil is fairly dry
and friable. Tilling wet soil
leaves behind large clods and
causes mud to cling to tiller
blades, thus upsetting the
tiller’s balance.
* Leave an untilled row bet-
ween passes since wide turns
are easier to make than “about
faces.” This also keeps the
machine from pulling itself and
you toward the next row.
* Reduce engine speed when
breaking new ground or when
tilling heavy clay soils so the
tiller will dig better and bounce
less.
* Set the brake stake half the
desired depth when tilling
ground the first time around.
Then set it to full dept and go
over the ground a second time.
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homeowners and others get the
urge to “top” or “dehorn”
landscape trees with the
assumption that the trees will
be better off.
On the contrary, topping is
one of the worst practices that
can be employed against shade
trees. Topping refers to cutting
back branches to stubs and
sometimes all the way to the
trunk. This severely injures
trees and sets them up for at-
tack by diseases and insects.
Topping can even kill a tree
outright.
People top trees to reduce
their size (where power lines
may be in the way, for in-
stance). to save money on
competent tree care, and
because they think the practice
will help the tree.
Proper pruning, on the other
hand, involves removing
trashy side branches in the top
of the tree. This practice is not
nearly as noticeable as topping
and therfore often goes un-
noticed.
Severe topping causes a pro-
liferation of buds at the point
where the branch is cut. Shoots
then arise from these buds, for-
ming a dense mat at the end of
the branch. This dense growth
is shallowly attached and sub-
ject to easy breakage by wind
storms.
This new mass of growth
also puts a strain on a tree's
root system is weakened and
overall vigor is reduced, mak-
ing the tree more susceptible to
attack from insects, diseases
and other environmental condi-
tions. Sunscald can also be a
problem.
Topping also reduces a
tree’s life expectancy and
therefore affects its value in the
landscape. Knowledgeable ap-
praisers will severely reduce
the value of a topped or de-
horned tree.
Good pruning practices will
retain a tree’s natural form and
enable it to be a much greater
asset to the landowner. Con-
sidering how long it takes a
tree to reach full size, proper
pruning and care should be a
top priority for the home-
owner.
On Dean’s List
at Texas Tech
LUBBOCK--More than
2,000 Texas leach University
students qualified for the aca-
demic honors lists at the end of
the 1988 fall semester.
Students on the President’s
Honor List earned a perfect 4.0
(A) grade-point average while
enrolled in 12 or more semes-
ter hours of classwork. Stu-
dents finishing 12 or more
hours with a grade-point aver-
age of 3.5 to 3.9 qualified for
the Dean's Honor List.
Students making the honor
rolls included the following:
Lonnie Daniel Caroon of
Emory and Jesse Range of Em-
ory.
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Services for
Roy Harbison
Funeral services for Roy O.
Harbison, 90, were held at 1
p.m. Monday in Emory
Church of Christ with Delton
Alexander officiating.
Burial was in the Turner
Cemetery in Rains County un-
der direction of Wilson-Or-
wosky Funeral Home in Em-
ory.
Mr. Harbison died Friday in
a Sulphur Springs hospital af-
ter a sudden illness.
He was bom Aug. 13, 1898,
in Rains County to John W.
and Ida Anderson Harbison.
His wife. May Harbison, pre-
ceded him in death in 1988. He
was a retired farmer and a
member of Emory Church of
Christ.
Survivors include a son,
Charles Harbison, Hurst; 3
daughters, Vera May Jones,
Lamesa, Calif., Mackie Lee
Jarrett, Dallas, Martha Ral-
ston, Amarillo; a brother,
Heber Harbison, Granbury; 12
grandchildren; numerous
great-grandchildren and great-
great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Bud Bry-
ant, Ronnie Fenter, James
Liles, Lummie Porter, Estle
Willis and Herschel Bullard.
HOSPITAL
NOTES
Daisy Wade of Lone Oak
and Dawson Tollerson of Point
were admitted to Citizens Gen-
eral Hospital in Greenville
Feb. 21st.
★
Floyd Melton of Mt. Plea-
sant, formerly of Emory, was
admitted to Mother Frances
Hospital in Tyler Feb. 21.
★
Gerald Hunter of Emory
was admitted to Memorial
Hospital in Sulphur Springs
Feb. 19th.
★
Edward D. Hutchins of Alba
was admitted to Medical Cen-
ter in Tyler Feb. 23.
★
Luther B. Boatright was ad-
mitted to Citizens General
Hospital in Greenville Feb.
23rd.
★
Joe D. Richardson of Alba
was admitted to Tyler Medical
Center Feb. 25th.
On Baylor U.
Dean’s List
WACO-For the fall 1988
semester. 865 students at Bay
lor University were named to
the Dean’s Academic Honor
List.
To be named to the Dean's
List, a student must be an un-
dergraduate with a minimum
grade-point average of 3.7 and
be enrolled in a minimum of 15
semester hours.
Among those making the
Dean’s List was Jennifer R.
Melton of Emory, a sopho-
more.
Be Advised
Live your life so that if the
mail brings a letter from the In-
ternal Revenue Service you can
open it last.
Joan Chandler
Extension Agent
Home Economics
Serving
Camp, Delta, Franklin
& Rains Counties
RAINS COUNTY Lt><*DER
Emory, Texas Thursday, March 2,1989 Pag* 6
THE TRUTH ABOUT
STRESS SUPPLEMENTS
Stress is a “hot-button”
word these days, especially for
women who are trying to jug-
gle multiple roles as wives,
mothers, employees, commun-
ity leaders, athletes or stu-
dents.
Some manufacturers of sup-
plements would like us to be-
lieve that a pill is the answer to
stress. Stress tablets are based
on a formula originally de-
veloped for post-operative pa-
tients and victims of severe
trauma.
While the acute siress of sur-
gical procedures or injuries can
increase energy and nutrient
needs, psychological stresses
such as fear, anger and tension
fall into the category of normal
stresses of daily living and do
not substantially increase nutri-
ent needs.
Supplement marketers try to
convince the public that the
RDA for some nutrients is not
adequate to cope with day-to-
day stress. The adrenal glands
are involved in the stress reac-
tion, they say, and because the
adrenal glands have high
amounts of vitamin C, stress
requires supplements of this
vitamin. Clinical studies at this
time do not support this claim.
Individuals under stress
need supplementary B vita-
mins, say supplement manu-
facturers. Vitamin B6 (pyri-
doxine) is included in stress
formulas because it is thought
to raise serotonin levels, thus
improving mood. Recent
research shows neurologic
damage in women who take
high doses of B6 for months,
typically for the treatment of
PMS.
There is evidence to support
increasing potassium intake
during stress, but nutrition ex-
perts recommend doing this by
eating more fruits and vegeta-
bles and drinking fruit juices.
So what can you do when
you’re experiencing day-to-
day stress? Try taking these
steps:
•Eat regular meals in small
amounts, since stress can slow
the digestive process.
•Increase the amount of
fruits and vegetables in the
diet.
•Eat high-quality protein
foods to protect against muscle
breakdown.
•Drink plenty of fluids.
•Exercise to reduce anxiety
and to feel a sense of control.
•Use relaxation techniques
to counteract tension.
•Enjoy comforting foods
like baked custard or chicken
soup in moderation. Individual
comfort foods are more likely
to relieve stress than a pill!!
Women’s
Service Club
Makes 1989
A Year of
Looking Back
Because of sickness and bad
weather, another special day
for recalling fond memories of
the Women’s Service Club will
be scheduled iater.
The worthwhile projects that
have been accomplished by the
group of women the past forty-
five years are too numerous to
list.
The members have worked
very hard to improve their
community, so they feel like it
is time to slow down and enjoy
good fellowship and relaxa-
tion. Their principal project
now is the upkeep of the Rose
Community Center. At this
time the rent on the building is
sufficient for the expenses in
maintaining the building. The
members are pleased that they
are able to provide a comfort-
able place for group meetings.
If you are an ex-member or
would like to join us, be think-
ing about attending the special
meeting which will be an-
nounced later.
EMMA MILLER
Reporter
VERY IU
Billy Joe Davis is very ill in
the Veterans Hospital in Dal-
las. Mrs. Reba Skidmore of
Emory and daughter, Mrs.
Phyllis Monk, Mt. Pleasant,
visited him last week.
*****
Mrs. Grace Brimer was a
visitor in the Leader office to
renew her subscription to the
Rains County Leader. Grace is
doing well now after surgery
last fall in Colonial Hospital of
Terrell.
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Becknell, Kathleen Hill. Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1989, newspaper, March 2, 1989; Emory, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth765056/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rains County Library.