The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 7, 1969 Page: 6 of 14
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6—THE CANTON HERALD
Thursday, August 7, 1969
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The following
We also carry a complete line of
CARPETS - - Commercial and Residential
Coleman Implement
Shaw Concre
Canton Insurance & Real Estate
LINOLEUM. FILE and FORMK A TOPS
Baker’s Pharm
Chambers & Phillips
FRIGIDAIRE APPLIANCES
Billie Rose Fl
Chick Chaney Gulf Service
Bob’s AG Food
Canton Auto Parts
Campbell Travel
Owners, invite everyone to contact
Canton Floor Co.
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Canton lor
Canton Horse Sale
G. W. Oil Con
Canton Radio S
Athens Federal Savings & Loan
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Phone 567-2581
Canton Reliance
Riley-Richardson Dry Goods
531 E. Dallas, Canton
Casey’s Trailer
Palace Drug Store
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by Lucille Wal son
County Home
Demonstration Agent
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economy last year, according to
a study just released by the
Texas Mid-Continent Oil and
Gas Association.
Value of production from oil
wells was $23.2 million and from
natural-gas wells $2.4 million,
based on the most recent U.S.
Ray Dobbs and Johnny Crawford,
their services.
Livestock Judging
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY * (i tation 1S
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them for further information on
VAN ZANDT COUNTY
OIL-GAS ROUNDUP
Van Zandt County oil and gas
wells pumped some $25.6
million into the county’s
CANTON’S FLOOR CO.
FOR
I HOMEMAKERS
Senior citizens offer an
almost $45 million market to
business today As the 19 million
women and men 65 or more
years old increase to 25 million
by 1985, purchasing power
grows, too.
Minnie Bell, extension
specialist for aging, expresses
concern over the psychology of
this age market.
What will senior citizens want
to buy'' What will be their wants
when the time comes to spend
one-fourth of life in retirement?
Since the cost of new housing
has increased nearly 20 percent
in the past year, value-
onscious homeowners remodel
to improve their surroundings.
Expenditures for home repair
md modernization are at
ecord highs. reports extension
Housing specialist Jane Berry.
Tight money has little effect on
remodeling decisions since
home improvement loans
generally are available at
banks, or charge accounts may
be used for materials, she adds.
Some families are becoming
"doit yourselfers " while others
re turning to cheap, unlicensed
handyman" operations in an
attempt to cut costs.
Why do grocers persist in
putting baked goods first in
stores? Bread, buns, coffee
cake and doughnuts to into the
bottom of the cart and heavier
items pile in afterwards.
There are two reasons for
placing bakery departments
first, Mrs. Gwendolyne Clyatt,
extension consumer marketing
specialist, explains.
Supermarket b a k e r y
departments carry several
brands of baked goods to allow a
complete selection. Because
driver-salesmen from the
J. D. Wilkerson
Austin—An official State
Health Department citation for
work proficiency has been
awarded to J. D. Wilkerson, Bureau of Mines figures
plant operations specialist for compiled by the association,
the Little Hope-Moore Water The county ranked 54th in the
Supply ( orporation, t anton. state in value of production.
Signed by the State Health.
Commissioner and authorities , Output from Van Zandt
of the Texas Water Utilities County is part of this country s
Association, the certificate of domestic oil supply which is
competency is awarded only to endangered by some of the
those utility plant operators who proposals now before
have successfully demonstrated ( ongress, commented Corbin
their skill and knowledge in J. Robertson, association
modern principles of plant president. "Attempts to destroy
management, percentage depletion provisions
To qualify for certification, a of our income tax laws and to
plant operator must have ac- nullify present controls over
cumulated a prescribed amount imported oil could discourage
of actual work experience. He further development of Texas
must also have attended both oil resources. Eventually oil
regional and statewide short markets now shared by the
schools at which the techniques county would be given over to
of water treatment and waste foreign producers.
water disposal are taught, and Last year, the, county
must have passed an produced 7.9 million barrels of
examination given by State crude oil and 18.7 billion cubic
Health Department sanitary feet of natural gas.
engineers Of this total, county an-
‘___________ downers and others with
Go to Church somewhere mineral interests received
Sunday! royalty payments of $3.2
--------million.
various companies stock and The state received $1.1 million
servicethedepartment.it needs and natural gas $169,000. A
to locate conveniently near the number of school districts in the
door. county lean heavily on oil
The second reason, explains production for ad valorem tax
Mrs. Clyatt, is a matter of support, such as Edgewood, 79.3
psychology. Shoppers buy per cent, Fruitvale, 75.1 per
implusively in the bakery cent and Van, 89.6 per cent,
department when they've just Drilling expenditures were an
entered the store and when the estimated $1.1 million. Of the 15
cart is nearly empty and the wells drilled in the county, three
purse is nearly full. were completed as oil wells and
In the bakery department one two as gas wells, according to
impulse purchase leads to Ira Rinehart’s Yearbook. The
another somewhere else in the ten dry holes cost $727,000.
store For example, a package There were five wildcats
of hamburger buns naturally drilled.
leads to the purchase of a pound Also adding to the county’s
or two of ground beef—a economy, the Oil and Gas
package of hotdog buns means Journal shows two
that hotdogs must also be petrochemical plants, three
dropped into the cart when the natural-gasoline processing
shopper gets to the meat plants with a daily capacity of
department. 90.7 million cubic feet.
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The Canton Herald (Canton, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 7, 1969, newspaper, August 7, 1969; Canton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1516750/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.