The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1970 Page: 2 of 14
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STARTS WED
DEC 31, 1969
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PHONE 568-2411
The Alvin Sun
E. “Gene" Bowen Publisher
A. W. Storrs - Managing Editor
Chevrolet Passenger
Cars, Trucks, and
Oldsmobiles included
in this event
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MARY TYLER MOORE
'CHANGE OF HABIT*
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BUILDERS
LOTS FOR SAIL
45 LOTS IN THE WAGON
WHEEL ADDITION
ONE MILE SOUTH OF FARM ROAD 511
ON MARKET ROAD IN PEARLAND
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ALVIN
* Water, Gas. Lights &
Phone Service
STONE
534-5531
2514 Tenewi
(KKINSON
— tile Congressional
of Honor — for his
of the past.
“The vacant land we see a-
long sides of the highway
doesn’t disturb me one bit.
It clearly shows that we have
a great deal of land still open
for potential farms and ran-
ches," he said.
Norwood Durr, Tourist; and
Thurman Kerr. Trade Exten-
sion.
Another facet of progress
and growth: As theclty’straf-
fic became heftier — in vol-
ume and in weight — tlie
See MARCHING. Pa«e 6
HE'S AN
EX MARINE TURNED
| PREACHER... IN
A WACKY AND
| WONDERFUL
ENTERTAINMENT
FOR THE WHOLE
k FAMILY!
depans without its personal,
share of ugliness and fright-
ening tragedy which has no-
thing to do withprogress,per-
haps. or is a substantial and
direct result of rapid change.
Six young men from the Al-
vin area, one a student at
Alvin Junior College and a
Vietnam veteran, and a teen-
ager from Houston, were ar-
rested and charged with pos-
session and sale of narcotics
after a raid on an Alvin apart-
ment. . .
And in the same vein, of-
ficers faced another challenge
when brawlers tackled a pa-
trolman. . .Progress does not
rest easily in a turbulant so-
ciety.
Commissioners ofBrazoria
County Drainage District
Thr»e. still concerned withthe
need, as they saw it, of gain-
ing federal help for widening
and improving Chocolate Ba-
you. agreed to seek State Le-
gislation to transform the
drainage district into a Con-
servation and Reclamation
Dist rict. . .
And another vital move to-
ward some'specific control in
a boom-type development
amt with the members of the
Alvin Planning Commission's
survey of the entire city. They
were preparing a land use
map for study in the question
of zoning the city. . .
Whatever pause there might
have been in the minds of
< itiz< ns during 1969, there was
little leisure of thought or ac-
tion for any individual in an of-
ficial capacity. For instance,
Coun y Commissioner Henry
Jordan was urging immediate
actio.i toward improving the
Alvin Express Loop in the hope
that iome of the traffic diffi-
culty s could be eased.
But a growing community
has ther needs than travel
routes to hasten the “march-
ing feet" in movement. . .
and some eyed the cultural
needs and knew that what we
njoved was not sufficient for
nust be
<S appare
-ontrol tl
Hubb.ir
reason t
may be
man altbv
proved.
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There is
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CONTACT-
Brian W. Merrill
& ASSOCIATES
15715 EL CAMINO REAL
Houston. Tetas 77058
(Clear Lake City) Dial 488-1489
Breed
is used initially, subsequent
breeding would be done with
another "British" variety
such as a Hereford.
The end result may give the
overall herd a "mixed” ap-
pearance, but beef production,
adaptability and resistance
would remain essentially the
same.
Vaughai. said almost al! the
estimated 98,000 cattle in this
county are mixed breeds.
"Only a small numberofherds
here are purebred cattle. Most
are hybrid varieties,” Vaugh-
an said.
Crossbred cattle have the
added attraction of being more
vigorous. "Hybrids of any
species, whether it be cattle
or chickens, are always more
vigorous and sturdier than
their purebred parents,”
Vaughan said.
The Brahmas have been
used in Texas for a great
many years both as purebred
stock and in cross breeding.
They are native primarily
of India and were first im-
ported to Texas in the late
1800’s by the King Ranchcon-
cern. That importation was
perilous at the time because
of the religious restrictions
placed on the animals by the
government of that country.
It was recognized at the
time of its first importation
as an animal ideally suited
to the Texas Gulf Coast.
The practice of mating out-
standing bulls with outstanding
cows, used by the earliest
beef cattle breeders, re-
mains the best means of im-
proving present-day beef
herds.
Individual ranchers, how-
ever. have no real firm guide-
lines to follow except for the
experienced "eyeball.”
Recent research has given
the rancher some better
means to predict the outcome
of matings but much of the
decision is still based on ex-
perience.
Tests have been conducted
with electronic probes to de-
termine bone structure and
meat quality characteristics,
but little practical results
have been noted.
Other than the "eyeball”
method of determining the
quality of calves, is the use
of production records. These
are time consuming and still
force a decision on the ran-
cher.
Production records of such
information as prior outstand-
ing production, regularity of
calving, and amount of weight
gained in a specific time,give
indications as to what kind of
breeding success can be pre-
dicted from a given animal.
In many cases ranchers re-
ly on some personal formula
based on records and the
"eyeball" method for choos-
ing breeding '-attle.
"I don't know if we'U ever
have a totally reliable stystem
for evaluating breeders."
Vaughan said.
In the past years, large cat-
tle were almost always chosen
for breeding purposes.
Recent tests, however, in-
dicate that the size of breed-
ers is not important for a-
chieving outstanding off-
spring.
The choice of smaller
breeders has another desir-
able characteristic for the
rancher - maintenance of pas-
ture and feed.
If a small animal can pro-
duce large and desirable off-
spring and eat less feed or
grass in the process it is to
the rancher’s benefit, Vaugh-
an said.
Because of the land in this
region being used more and
more for industrial and rest-
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WILL SACRIFICE FOR
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dential purposes, the trend to
smaller, land conserving, cat-
tle is becoming popular.
When raising beef cattle, the
amount of land, or more ac-
curately the amount of grass
on the land, is a majorfactor.
Beef is expensive to raise be-
cause the animal is not an
efficient eater.
It takes about 10-12 pounds
of feed to make a beef animal
gain one pound, while about
one and one-half pounds of
feed will make a chicken gain
a pound.
Hogs rank next to chickens
in the efficiency of food con-
sumption. All other common
farm animals outrank cattle.
As land becomes more
crowded in the future, the
popularity and economy of beet
will probably decrease. On the
land required to grow a 40C
pound calf some 8.000 pounds
of rice could be grown if ideal
conditions prevailed.
“The Chinese don't eat rice
necessarily because thev like
it. They eat it because its the
most efficient way to feet
many people on relatively
small plats of land," Vaughai
said.
Brazoria County is already
starting to feel the lane
“pinch." l arge agricultural
tracts have now become in-
dustrial sites. Freeways will
soon take up some more of the
available land. In other parts
of Texas, lakes have sub-
merged thousands of acres of
potential farms.
"About 13 years ago thou-
sands of acres in the-Pearland
area were used for cattle and
rice growing. That's not the
situation now and it never will
be again,” Vaughan says.
Vaughan says, however, that
farming and ranching are a
long way from being a thing
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catlaiwl
having the disease. Some cows
are not affected but act as
carrie rs.
"This is not to frighten the
farmer or rancher, but the
control of this disease is of
vital importance to the cattle
industry," Hubbard stresses.
Hubbard says the control of
the disease is important to
more people than just tl<
farmer or rancher because of
the number of people Involved
in "agri-business."
"Percentage-wise the
fanner or rancher is the least
in numbers when youconsider
all the people that would be af-
fected by a decline mtht cat-
tle industry. Truckers,butch-
ers. auction personnel, gro-
cers, and eventually the con-
sumer, would all be among
the people to suffer." Hub-
bard said.
Bankers would gain mm h
by supporting the program,
Hubbard says, because thiy
are so deeply invo. ved with
the cattle industry in the form
of capital loans.
Even with the prospect of
having to slaughter infected
animals after testing, Hut>-
bard estimates the monetary
loss to the slaughter cattle
raiser as minimal.
"Cattle that would normally
be slaughtered anyway could
be safely sold for consumer
purposes, allowing the ran. ti-
er to purchase a new un-di-
seased cow at about the same
EJut the face of the coin of
progress has two sides . .
.Alvin police, constables from
Galveston County and two un-
dercover men from La Mar-
que arrested an Alvin youth
for possession and sales of
narcotics. . .
And there were changes in
rhe city's officials. City Man-
ager w.E, Routh was looking
for a city tax assessor-col-
lector in March as Marvin
Hillhouse. who came here
from Odessa to replace C.K.
"Chuck” Reed, decided to go
“back home” and cleared the
way for the employment of M.
C. Davis.
Building permits issued
during the month of February
showed the heftiest total for
that 30-day period in many
years. . so progress was
hardly static i'and nobody said
it was).
But the routine mixed with
the unusual — always — and
Alvin’s rain gauge found
something of interest when it
recorded a heavy 6.64 inches
of rainfall to set a 10-year
record for February, another
March report indicated.
Wallace E. Jones was gui-
ding the Alvin Chamber of
Commerce, Agriculture and
Industry through whatever
channels it manuevered in the
progress path. He was ably
assisted by Paul Ferguson,
Don Lee, Virgil McDonald,
and Clyde Wooster as vice
presidents: A.L. Martin Jr. as
treasurer; and M.M. Brown,
A.N. Christianson, BobT Col-
lins, Nilo Esquivel, Virgil Mc-
Ginnes, D.P. O’Quinn. Warren
Stanton, Paul Thomas and W.
F. Zimmermann, mem be r s
of the Board of Directors.
Aiding them were Com-
mittee Chairmen Luke Ken-
nedy. Agriculture; John J.
Schroeder. Audit Committee;
George Garwood. Civic Af-
fairs, Ed Webb, Constitution
and By-Laws; Bill Greenfield,
Education: Ben Magness, In-
dustrial; Phil Law. Member-
ship. Finance and Public Re-
lations; Sam Rowe, Navigation
and Drainage; Gordon Daven-
port, Public Affairs; Dr. Beryl
Cline, Roads and Highways;
cost," Hubbard said.
"But the real losses would
be realized by the breeders of
registered fie rds. A diseased
regis’ered cow would tiav. to
oe destroyed and sold at
slaughter prices. The teal
value of these animals is their
worth as breeders - not for
slaughter.” Hubbard said.
He estimated that there .ire
at least 30 breeders of regis-
tered cattle in the tourty.
Hubbard said most ranchers
greet the program with mixed
feelings - none of them want
to have to destroy an initial
yet all wish to control the di-
sease.
Testing of cattle herds is
done under the supervision of
•in inspector of the Livestock
Commission without charge to
rhe rancher. Complete testing
is done in the field by mobile
crews which can provid:■ test-
ing results very quickly aft-r
obtaining blood samples.
At one time the disease w is
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any future. Sergay Goff was
named president of the Alvin
Library Board — newly re-
activitated to spur interest in
whatever needs for literature
this city faced. . .
And a record was set with
$-signs as 14 Brazoria Coun-
ty banks -- for the first time
in history— offered an inte-
rest rate on public funds in
their depository accounts. . .
At the end of January,there
was a total of $159,216.41 on
deposit in the city's General
Fund. . .
The B&S Realty Company
of Houston purchased a nine-
acre tract at the northeast
corner of Chocolate Bayou and
Hughes Ranch Road as a site
for a build-to-suit commer-
cial or warehouse facility. . .
And there was a new thea-
tre in Alvin. Towne Plaza, of-
fering the most advanced in
project and sound quality in
the Southwest, the owners
said.
March 1969
What dees progress cost’
Something, at least. Every-
where in 1969, prices and costs
and salaries were rising. . .
in the realm of officialdom,
it was no different. A bill
raising to $18,000 the salary
of the judge of Brazoria Coun-
ty’s Court of Domestic Rela-
tions was introduced in the
State Legislature. . .
Tragedy became more com-
monplace as the area marched
into ever-higher brackets of
total population. . a mid-air
collision between a Piper
Commanche and a Cessna 150
took the lives of four Hous-
ton men. .
An Alvin youth. James Kir-
kendall. was awarded the Army
Commendation Medal with
"V” Device for heroism in
Vietnam. . .A Rosharon sold-
ier, Clarence E. Sasser, re-
ceived this nation’s highest
honor
Medal
deeds in that war-torn coun
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of which this city sets as the
hub.
The Texas Highway Com-
mission at Austin gave its
stamp of approval t a the much-
publicized Houston-.Alvin ex-
pressway ... but the argu-
ment over a route cancelled
any harmony at all in efforts
to progress road-wise ... at
the moment, at least . . .
And February brought still
another threat when a truck
transport loaded with 8,000
gallons of gasoline caught fire
and firemen from two cities |
battled the blaze for three
hours. . .
It was "forward, march'”
again ir. February: A contract
was awarded forth, engineer-
ing, material procurement and
construction services for the
Amoco Chemicals Corporation
plastics complex at Choco-
late Bayou near Alvin. .
And xther pending changes
in the customs of an older,
less-bustling age came with a
bill from the State Legislature
which limited tc 43 hours a
week the work of Brazoria
County law enfer nientoffi -
ers.
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Storrs, A. W. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 1, 1970, newspaper, January 1, 1970; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1215207/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alvin Community College.