The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1956 Page: 6 of 12
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1956
THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS
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May the peace and happiness
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of the Yuletide be yours today.
‘Menn Chniatma
Al’s Texaco Service Station
AL HOMER, Proprietor
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Open every day till Christmas
Farmers Supply Association
‘Merry Christmas, God Bless Us’
sung by the student body.
BEST WISHES
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children.
farmers would do well to be alert
SANFORD JOHNSON CHEVROLET
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slide down.
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GREYHOUND
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Effective December 15, 1956
Telephone No. 2911, Groom, Texas
ELMO COURT
"Low-cost
luxury travel”
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B«GRE Y M
you and your
loved ones will
ure. A Merry
Holiday to all!
share in every
Christmas pleas-
harden during storage and that
distribute more easily and uni-
Splinters on the ladder of life
are unnoticed until one begins to
Before you complete plans for your next trip check
with your Greyhound agent. Ask him to tell you
about Greyhound’s low fares, convenient schedules
and comfortable coaches!
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
AT ST MARY’S SCHOOL
REED’S GULF
Service Station
John Reed, prop.
eveu happunedd
at OOhstmad
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We wish you a regu-
lar old-time Christ-
mas, like that in
days of yore, when
thoughts inspired
actions that resulted
in the performance
of good deeds to
friends and acquain-
tances.
tural chemist.
Higher analysis fertilizers con-
taining more nutrients and less
bulky inert matter, and soluble or
liquid fertilizers—all now on the
market—have reduced weight and
bulk and made both storage and
application of fertilizer materials
cheaper and easier for farmers and
home gardeners.
Industrial and State-Federal re-
search now being carried out will
undoubtedly lead to further im-
provements, says Thornton.
and sincerely, the old,
yet always new Wish,
you'll understand that were
wishing you "
With all our heart, a very *
. x Merry Christmas
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The
GROOM DRUG
students at St. Mary’s.
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SCHOOL BUS DRIVERS
SET SAFETY RECORD
If we just wish you, simply §
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Mrs. Cecil Inmon, Agent
66 CAFE
May happy Christmas bells ring out for you the
best of the season’s cheer and may the melodg’
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stay with you for many, many joyous days.
1 AUSTIN, Dec. 20—Texas’ 7,500 gen through leaching. It will also
school bus drivers who, in driving prevent excessive potash consump- 1
182,000,000 miles annually, consist- tion, now a problem in alfalfa and
ently set the state’s best safety, certain other crops in many parts
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record, drew a salute here today. 1 of the country.
! The Texas Railroads adopted a i Other improvements will change
resolutions lauding the diligence the physical makeup of fertilizer
and good judgment with which the i materials, making them easier to
drivers protect the lives of Texas i store and to apply. A start in this
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volved in the collision; that cars
and trucks were hit either behind
the school buses or in going around
them.
The Texas law requires that
when school buses are loading or
: discharging passengers all vehicles
approaching from either direction
come to a full stop.
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IMPROVED FERTILIZERS
ARE ON THE WAY
। formly in the field.
A lot more work needs to be
done in developing these better
the recognition it is due and that than older materials to cake and
it is a wonderful example for other
persons using the highways, the
resolution set out that a bus is
listed in an accident report only
on an average of once in every
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The piano accompanists are out of the soil so rapidly. This will ■
Elayne Kotara and Evelyn Conrad mean that enough fertilizer can
both of whom are eighth grade be applied in one operation to
COLLEGE STATION, — Fer-
tilizers are a lot better than they
used to be, but more improved
fertilizer materials can be ex-
pected in the future, reports M.
K. Thornton, extension agricul-
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school.
They annually travel 82,000,000
(million) miles, a distance equal
Pointing out that the school bus development of some granular
drivers’ record is seldom accorded products that have less tendency
announces a
NEW LOCAL AGENT
ranged the Christmas pageant and
entitled it Light of the World . । One of these improvements will
The finale will be Father Lord’s be the development of slower act-
" " Chrintmes Sed Plees ITe" ing or less soluble forms of chemi-!
cai fertilizer that will not leach I
The students at St. Mary’s ‘ to 3,280 times around the equator.
School are happy to again present I It was also noted that in more
to the interested public their an- than half of the accidents listed ‘
nual Christmas Program. They that the bus actually was not in-
equal to 16 times around the world farmers would do well to be alert
at the equator. | for new developments in this field
That record has held for the | because they will open opportuni-
last five years, during which the ties for increased efficiency of
school buses have traveled? 410,-| production and greater farm
000,000 (million) miles in trans- profits.
! porting children to and from
410,000 miles. That is a distance fertilizers, says Thornton. But
will begin their vocal and dramat-
ic • gymnastics at 7:30, Friday
evening, Dec. 21, in St. Mary’s
Auditorium.
The theme for this year’s pro-
gram is “Light of the World”.
After the greeting song the en-
tire student body will get the pro-
gram rolling by the choral rendi-
tion of a song entitled “Light of
the World” by Sister M. Floren-
1 tine. The Junior Choir will try
। their utmost to waft the Christ-
mas spirit over the audience with
a trio of Christmas carols.
) Other numbers on the program
include “Waltz of the Stars”, by
the upper grade girls; the dance
from Humperdinck’s “Hansel and
Gretel” by the primary pupils; and
“Frosty the Snowman” as a song
and drill with Frosty himself on
the scene.
The highlight of the program
will be the Nativity story present-
ed as a combination pageant
and tableau with Jimmy Conrad
as narrator. The eighth grade stu-
dents, in collaboration with the
music and program director of St.
Mary’s, have composed and ar-
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meet the demands of a long-sea- j
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need for repeated applications.
throughout the season. It. will re-
duce present heavy losses of nitro-
Phone 3271 Groom
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 1956, newspaper, December 20, 1956; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1487364/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.