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Vol. 55 - No. 36
Edna, Jackson County, Texas, Thursday, June 1, 1961
12 Pages - 10c
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162 County Seniors Get
High School Diplomas
A total of 162 seniors received
diplomas of graduation from
. the various high schools i n
Jackson County at recent com-
mencement programs. The
Herald joins other county resi-
dents in extending congratula -
tions to the following grad-
uates:
EDNA HIGH
Linda Sue Berryhill, Victor
Louis Billings, Maik Anthony
Blanchard, Joyce Marie Brad -
dock, E. G. Clark, Thomas
Wayne Crisp, Jewell Marie Cur-
lee, Douglas Davis, James Ed-
ward Davis, Margaret Ann
Dewey, Delores Annette Fikes ,
Eyvone Ann Franka;
Anthony Raymond Gabrysch,
Alfred Wayne Gabrysch Jr.,
Lois *Lane Gayjp, Oralia Mar-
tinet Gomez, Tanya Diatme
Greene,
Charles HaTmon Greg
ory, Gary B. Gregory, David Laurel Dean Scruggs,
Dunagan Grimland, Virginia 1 Travis Simons 'III;
Rose Gwosdz, Joseph Dale
Hermes, Carol Ann Hicks, Ken-
neth J. Horak, William Ray
Horne;
James William Hutcher -
son, Richard Jarvis James, Al-
bert Emil Kallus, Jo Ann Kir-
by, Gary Lynne Knowles, Tom-
my Lynn Knudsen, Carolyn
Jane Lee, Robert E. Lee III,
James Donald Lopez, Marguer
ite Malsch, Barbara Ann Mar-
ek, Mary Lynn Martin, James
D. Mascheck, Catarino G. Ma-
ta Jr., Genevie Hattie Mateji-
cek, Cathryn June Miller;
Nancy Lee Miller, Norma
Jean Miller, Betty Elaine Mills,
Dennis Martin Morrow, Ronald
Lee Mudd, Michael Kent
Muegge, Manuel ,S. Pena, Jona-
thon Laurence Poole, Billy
Gene Raleigh; Florine Marie
Sbrusch. Carolyn Fay Schultz
Milam
Oscar Joseph Singleton, Jam-
es Alton Smith, Jerry Wayne
Stacy, Nolan Dean Stafford,
Carol Ann Tomme, Michael
Diana Towery, Martha Ann
Vackar, Wanda Sue Whitstine,
Charles Dwight Wilhelm, Peggy j
Joyce Williams, Shirley Ann
Yendrey and Alfred P. Zambra-I
no.
GANADO HIGH
Cassia Nell Hodges, J e r r y I
Bryan II, Frances Paulette
Dittrich, Eugene Brunkenhoef -
er, Carol Sue Calaway, Nancy
Ann Childers, Patricia Ann
Chytka, Frank Faltysek Jr.,
Sylvia Ann Hubenak, W y m a
Lea Tate, Ronnie Hooks, Jerry
Lynn Swank, Peggy Ann Web-
ernick;
Loretta Kaspar, Marjorie
Kuretseh, Betty Jean Sless ,j
Andrew Hlavaty, Magdalyn ]
Koester, Eugene Vyvial, Wall-!
ace Dale Ditto, Carlyn Falty -J
sek, Norman Scheel, Glenda'
NO. 1 FARMER — Eugene Hajek, sitting here
with his family of Janell, 5, Mrs. Frances Hajek,
and son, Billy, 12, recently was named the. “Out-
standing OdnservBtion Farmer of 1960” by the
Jackson Soil Conservation District, He farms
396 acres near YaJnde^bilt.
Here’s Success Story of County’s
Outstanding Conservation Farmer
Youth Program
Plans Advance
Interest and participation on tions working on the worthwhile meet in the City Auditorium bf
the part of many people in Ed ; program,
na is increasing in the new Ed- j Seale announces June 10 has
na Youth Program, reports | been tentatively set as regis-
Billy Seale, chairman of the; tration date, and all youths in-
committee made up of cgpre-! terested in taking part in any
sentatives of several organiza - of. the activities will be asked to
McClendon is *■« «BW
SSSSK" CkaiiM Of-
Eugene Hajek,
farmer, recently
Crain Tells Graduates
To Be Good Citizens
Sharon Cihal, * Charles T u p a , i th„ “Outstandine
S Dclphine Jendry, Katherine!
jMarek, Penelope Schrimscher ,
i Arthur Schomburg, „ Carolyn
iSrubar, Rosetta Stropek, John -
j nie Strelec, Georgia Ann S u -
pak and Georgia Mae Cook.
INDUSTRIAL HIGH
John Alexander, Lamar
Boyd, Ervin Griffith, Charles
Henning, Wilbert Janak, Dwight
.Joy, Lesley Koop, Mike Koop,
! Wesley Koop, Herman Kucera,
“You graduating seniors,, now age, and remembering , t h
become citizens of our .world,[strength this county has’
and each one of you is very [belief in God. _____
important in our future,” Dis - "If you have the opportunity Edward Maraggia Earl Mv-
trict Judge Frank Crain advis- to go to college, use it well;|ers Delbert Nickel Gilford Ro-
ed the Edna High graduating jtoirt^i college education is neith-beVson-
class at commencement servic j er n^cessary nor a guarantee of “ *
es last Thursday evening ! success,” he added. Su c c e s s
A capacity crowd in the EHSjmeans doing an important or
auditorium heard Judges Crain necessary job and doing it well
regardless of the pay; and most
people will be more concerned
with what kind of a person you
are and what you can do, the
judge told the seniors.
The Edna Cowboy Band play-
Judge* Crain
of Victoria congratulate the
seniors and the important part
played by the school personnel
and parents. He reminded t h e
66 graduates they were entering
a period of world problems and
should accept their part of the
responsibility, such as continu-
ing to learn (wherher in coll-
ege or on the job), taking an
interest in government and vot-
ing to learn 'whether in coll-
Ben Rodriguez, Daniel Sacky,
Sylvester Walleck, Norvel
White, William Whitworth a n d
Jeannette Anders, Carolyn Bow-
en, Linda Bryant, Bernice Chi
Vanderbilt
was j named
Conservation
j Farmer of 1960 in Jackson
County” by the J-acksan Soil
Conservation District. jH e r e’s
the story of the HajcK family:
Eugene Hajek was bjorn on a
farm in Lavaca County at Mid-
way. Gene, as he is known, at
the age of 16, moved! with his
father a nd mother, Mr. and
Mrs. Antone Hajek, and three
brothers to a farm a| Edna in
Ja-ckson County. Here] he farm-
ed with his father until he en-
tered the Navy on February 19,
1943. Gene served thjree years
in the Navy in the U.j S. A., on
the sea and in the Pacific. Aft-
er World War II he dime home
and assisted his father
astak Peggy Clements, Filar - j faminTon his “own .*
then the in-
ert the processional
vocation was given
Travis Simons III.
Carol Hicks delivered 'me sa’-
lutatory address and Virginia
Gwosdz the valedictory: and
the senior class sang “Y o u’ 11
Never Walk Alone."
Supt. Floyd D. Manry spoke
ene
Iyn
berg;
Jo Ann
Huseman, ............
by M 11 anijdra* Jean Lewis, Dorothy Orsag,
iJeannette Otto, Mary Rios. Pat
Sasse, Martha Sembera, Bar-
To-
on
well
the
as
25, is the
new Texas Highway Patrol-
man stationed in Edna, com-
ing here last week from Cuero
where he served with the pa-
trol the past two years.
Here he will be the T11P
partner of Patrolman Fred
Clements, who has been sta-
tioned here the past year and
a half, and with the patrol for
six years.
Patrolman McClendon call?
Austin home. He and his wife.
SSfc„M!-.S"Si?hr0 November 5, u*.
before the Hajeks moved here.
Due to very poor drainage this
farm was very difficult t o
work. During seasonable year
one 160-acre field plus many
low places in other fields could
not be cropped.
Gene became a cooperator of
the Jackson Soil Conservation
District and developed a Basic
Plan ind195f^eCOh^serf£-! LaVerne, their two daughters
ed his basic plan by applying a| *** ra° Ed"8
conservation cropping -system and hve 209 handra
of one year cotton, one year ..
corn, one year maize, followed
by a cover crop of summer Rnlfon Mmiorave
peas and one year of Hubarn | DO,lon> IVlUSgrave
clover as a cover crop.
He has constructed and main- m
tained drainage ditches on the Tltl**
395 acres. Gene has installed
seven drainage structures _ to| Dr Bill Bolton and A w.
Shoot 77 To Tie
Holder, Melvrene
Virginia Klaus, A n
as his wife the
charming Miss I. „a(tes
a farm girl from Shi
Gene a n d Frances
Gene did general farm
ranch work in Jacksdn
A son, Billy, was borin Septem-i
Gene and
bara Sumbera, Mary Lynn ro-r.- *
mas and Beatrice Zacek. jber 27, 1948. In 1949,
CARVER HIGH j farnHy started farm ng on a
Marvin Bishop., Alvirt Caesar, ;98'acre farm-
, . - .Mildred Caesar, Billy Ray Cal- Because Gene had done an
briefly, noting the conclusion of ife, Gerald Dennis, Archie Ben-Outstanding job of farming the . Henry Ray Mat ey. 2o, of
another good school year and|ard Gaskin, Jo Ann Gipson,]98-acre farm, the C. )H. Gurm-jj^^Porteq slightly improved
r, take the water from the drainsrMusgrave both shot a 77 to
Gene;in the fields into large drainage1 -* - -•--------•
Texan Days
Lukie Sanford of Ganado has
been named 1961 - 62 Chairman
of the Texana Scholarship
Foundation in Jackson County.
He succeeds Hugh Mitchell of
Lolita in the* top office.
Other new officers elected at
the recent meeting of the or •
ganization were Mr. Mitchell ,
, vice chairman; Mrs. Edwin
Hohensee of Cross Roads, sec-j
retary and Mrs. O. C. Strawnj
of Ganado, treasurer.
Already looking toward t h e
i next big celebration to raise
j fiunds for the tenth Texana
Scholarship, the directors se -
looted May 10, 11 and 12 as the
dates for the 1962 Texana Days
events.
The recent celebration, t h e
I eighth successful observance of
[the two-purpose program, rais-
ed
hind City Hall.
Details on the registration
and program will be published
in next week's Herald.
Many organizations are a lj-
ready operating successfully ,
he stated. Additional p u b 1 i t
support is still needed to as-
sure success for the youth pro
ject.
Plans are in the making for; a
youth bowling league, swim
ming lessons, handicraft, rifie-
ry and baton twirling. Other
projects may be added.
First Event
Probably the first project to
get underway in the over-a 11
summer plans will be the youth
bowling league, which will be-
gin next Tuesday at 1 p m. and
continue for 12 weeks.
ovely and!
Stock, |
ler. After
married , j
a d ■
County.
See SUCCESS STORY on 12
Nhi Seriously
Hurt in Wreck
tie led money for the ninth scholar-
as winners of the championship ship. It was awarded to Cassia
flight Sunday in the 1961 Edna Nell Hodges of Ganado.
Invitational Golf Tournament . The popular events of the
The tourney featured quite a !%! Texana Days celebration
few tie scores. included, the Melodra
Other flight winners and their barbecue and
H. E. Com-
inez
mt
By
Evans SM
the commencement as the high- [ William Guster, Johnie Harde
light. Then he introduced Judge j way, Leonard Hines, Helen
Cram :Brooks Jeffrey, Arzoie Oliver;
Special Awards Emory John Oliver, Clara
After the mam address, Prin- Mae Parson, Joyce Janet Rhod-
cipal Norman Rath presented er, Willie Lee Robinson, Bar-
the 'annual special awards t o ; bara Ann Sayles, Julious M
the following seniors. , iSodia, Javell Stovall, Thomas
Eleanor Brackenndge Medal Lee Stovall III, James Taylor
to highest ranking girl: Virgin- See COUNTY SENIORS on 12
ia Gwosdz. j ____- v
Thomas
Lee Coates Post
American Legion Citizenship
Awards: Nancy Miller and
lam Travis Simons III.
Journalism Awards: Laurel
;Dean Scruggs, Lariat editor ;
Nancy Miller and Lois Gayle,
Roundup co-editors.
.Commercial Award______Laurel
BACK THE ROYS
M*- The 1961 Little League and
Teen League baseball seasons
are underway. The public is
urged to attend the games and
support the projects.
skys were very much
ed in getting Qene
interest - ■ but still on the critical list in
hnd his jthe county hospital following a
family to move To the r 395-acrc j he;ad-on auto-track collision
farm and operate the farm as! Monday night about 8:30 five
miles west of Edna on H l g h-
aecepted . way ,e>®-
Gurinsky proposal aid moved j ,^PaY *rom ibis accident, loc-
to their present home in 1955. al officers reported a safe and
’ Tse on (ht. quiet holiday in this county,
ime o n e l Highway Patrolman Ralph
cd t hn i McClendon '
At that time the hoc
farm was a small fr
The Gurinskys furnish
material and Gene niade
house into a lovely three
room home. A daught
: Dean Scruggs.
Mr. Rath then presented the
awards voted by the class as
, !follows:
CLEANING OFF our scratch Outstanding student. Miss
pad: Miss Lois Gayle repre - I Qwosdz; Best all-around girl,
senting Edna at the Brenham Lois Gayle; Best all-around
[scores were:
First Flight Johnny
80.
Second Flight:
mander, 83.
Third Flight: Boots
91.
Fourth Flight: Herbert
ton and W. T. McNeil
100 scores.
the downtown
Davis, ern dance
Melodrama, t h e
trail drive and
parade and west-
Lolita Teacher To
Girn 1 Take TCU Course
ticMwith On Science Grant
All youths 10-14 are invited to
participate in the bowling lea-
gue. The cost will be $1.25 per
week, which includes the shoes,
three games per week, league
fees and awards and trophies.
A 50 cent registration fee gives
each youth a membership in the
American Junior Bowling Con-
gress,
Adult Sponsors
Individuals and businesses
are providing sponsorships for
a number of youth who cannot
afford the full amount. To date
more than 30 sponsorships have
been paid. Sponsorship for one
child is $12. with the youth to
pay the other 25 cents per
week. Jack Cole is in charge of
the bowling project, and any
who will sponsor a youth is
asked to contact Cole or Seale.
The committee is seeking Jo
support all phases of recreation
for youth in Edna, and sugges-
tions and volunteer help will be
appreciated.
Youths are asked to watch
for the details on registration
to appear in next week’s Her-
ald, and adults who want to as-
sist in the program are asked
to contact Chairman Seale
The committee hopes to have
all planning complete within a
;few days, and will publish the
full program personnel and
! schedule.
LoSSRSher. hTre
tourney will be published on
the sports page next week
3 Busloads Taking
t b ei Mcuenaon, investigating, said Field Tour Today
( b e the auto driven by Matley col-(
- bed-!abnost head-on wit h a! Three busloads, of Jackson
ler. Janell. semi-trailer truck driven by
was born to this family on Dec- Hennan BledsaW of El Campo,
ember 5,' 1955. 1
Cotton and corn
major crops grown on
ceived a grant to attend the I
third annual Summer Institute
for High School Teachers of
Science and Mathematics to be]
held at Texas Christian Unver-
sity June 5-July 14 The p r o-
gram is sponsored' by the Na-
tional Science Foundation.
Course work on the graduate-
County businessmen and women [ seminar level will be offered m
and their families were taking;four areas: physics, chemistry,
who was not injured. The wreck an agricultural field tour of 16] mathematics and biKlogy. A to-
ere the *s still under investigation. farms and ranches today. taY°^. grants were awarded,
this firm Matley was rushed to the] Buses left Ganado, Edna and; Gillis is one of 27 teachers
Jackson County - Mauritz Mem-;Vanderbilt at 8:30 this morning,chosen for the mathematics
—— Iorinl—Hospital—by SlaV*itr mnbu-!and—were to return aroUrid T section oi the Institute;
Mayfait recently, being escort-
ed by Stanley Elliott . . .D. C.
Lawrence of Houston, a former
Edna boy, completing a new
home across from his brother,
Don Larenee, in this city to
use on weekends and full time
when he retires in a couple of
years . . Atvin Miller and
John Harrington teaming up to
paint the Knopp house at Navi-
dad . . .Last week's two rains
coming so quickly Bill Combs,
Buddy Brock, Louis Tittizer, O.
B. Whitstine and Jimmy
hart hardly had time to
boy, Robert E. Lee III; Best
girl athlete, Barbara Marek:
and Best boy athlete, C. G.
Mata.
He next introduced the honor
graduates of the Class of 1961:
Miss Gwosdz, valedictorian ;
Miss Hicks, salutatorian ;
Milam Travis Simons III, high
ranking boy; and also the high
honor graduates, Margaret
Dewey, Lois Gayle, David
Grimland, Marguerite Malsch
,atid Mary Martin, Carolyn
Alr'[ Schultz and Laurel Dean
Set Dean Scruggs; and the honor
their wooden dams up at [ graduates, Eyvone Franka, Jon
the Edna Motor entrances to j Poole, Carolyn Lee, Robert E.
ay°$*rATW Wv. .^^"HLee III, C. G. Mata and
of KNAL of Victoria lining up; Naney Miller.
Hj.e^oood truck for todays Then -the -principal assisted
Field Day tour . . Stonewall Schooi Board president W. F.
Jackson a new member of the Germer in presenting the diplo-
Amencan Shorthorn Assn., old- mas (0 (be gg j?dna |{jgh Sen-
est purebred livestock organiza- jors.
tion in America . . .The Ernest The graduating class
Murphys in last week from
Ole Edna High,” then
sang
t h e
Midland for a visit with o 1 d Cowboy Band, directed by John
andshe’s*dabbT'ng with'custom ®ommer’ pWed the recession-
made hats and milinery sup- _
plies . . Earl Airhart and Rube
DeBord both in Burns Hospital
at Cuero, and both improving .
. . .Cecil Cox mighty proud to i
have the great movie, "Cimar-j
ron”, at Edna Theatre this
weekend and Monday and Tues-j
day . . .Miss Kay Moss being
employed in the district office;
of Mobil at Victoria, this sum-
mer. She’s a student at S a m'| GANADO — The annual Ga-
Houston and the daughter of nado Jaycee Splash Day, open-
Ganado Splash
Day Is June 4
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Moss .
Attending the graduation exer-
cises Of Carroll Southern a t
Texas A&M included his par -
ents, Mr. and Mrs R. J„ South
jng the swimming pool in t h e
Jaycee Park there, will be held
on June 4.
The public is invited to t h e
event, which will include a fine
ers, and Mrs. W- A, Souther s. j barbecue dinner-and supper.
Alvin Miller and d a u g h t e r. Plates will be a $1.50 donation,
Tommie, of Edna and Mr. and with all proceeds going toward
Mrs. W. J. Baker of Victoria . J paying off the debt on the pool
Virginia Koop opening V i r - > Other attractions will be free
ginia'a Beauty Salon at Vander- swimming, a turkey shoot, for-
bilt . . Marvin H. Hancock Jr.,
wt.o married the former Patrt-
c*b Branham of Edna, being
elected assistant - cashier and
manager of the credit depart-
ment of the Emptre State; Bank
of Dallas
were io return arouno 4 j section
laneb, and underwent surgery |o’clock. A barbecue dinner was The grants provide
for several bone fractures and;enjoyed at the Ganado Jaycee and living expenses for
severe lacerations.
'Park at noon.
Jackson Farmer
Fish - Rice - Maize
Tower Winer;
Dlakley Leads
Local Voting
William A. Blakley, the
Democrat candidate for the U.
S Senate seat, carried “Jackson
By NINA H. SCARBROUGH
Herald Staff Writer
This Francis Koop project
will be one of the interesting
slops made today by Jackson
citizens on the annual A g
Field Day Tour.
Tower Blakley
304
113
29
39
27
10
322
256
38
64
27
6
County by 713 to 522 for Re-
publican John G, Tower, while
coming in a close second in the
over-all race.
Monday, with only some 1,000
j.votes still out, the Texas Elec-
| tion Bureau gave the new Sena-
tor. John Tower 446,205 votes
to 439,080 for Blakley, a lead
of 7,125. At that time the win-
ner had 50.40 percent of the
vote and Blakley had 49.60 per
cent in the very close contest.
Blakley had a small edge in
, , . j four of the six voting boxes in
“You farm fish one year, rice; Large routes sell to hotels, ]Jackson County, was tied with
one year, and one year dry restaurants and fish dealers m Tower in the Lolita box. and
crops,” Koop explained. general, it was pointed out. second in the absentee box
"Some farmers in Arkansas During the summer the wateri here. Here's the way this coun-
have as much as 5,000 acres in level must be kept at a mini- ( voted.
fish farming while some others'mum of 12 inches, and the wat-jBox
have 1,000 acres and so on. Ler at all times must not be j,;dna,
plan to start out with 300 acres, I clear. In the event it becomes-; Qaiiado
Francis Dietrich Koop of! running 200 fish to the acre, (that way, fertilizer is used to’La Ward
/ " J Koop Settlement j.s embarking Channel catfish are recom [form a milky substance on the [Vanderbilt
MPMOjon what he terms a ”w i 1 d mended. My rice allotment is surface. j Lolita
dream”—fish farming. How - 300 acres, so I'll have 300 in When asked if. he will be re- Absentee
ever, possessing a Koop's ag - that, 300 in fish and 300 in ajquired to increase „ his labor. _
2k gressiveness and determination, dry crop such as maize. Koop said riot at the present]
IE!there is no doubt his initial ven- "The expensive part of such;time, but as the venture ex-
lureWill prove profitable in a project is the building oT theIpands ho will probably'have to.
time to come. ’ [levees and the excessive! “T00 maay. people are of the
The project was more or less amount of water needed. jopinion farming of any kind is]
hatched by a ehance conversa j "You have to utilize twice an easy job,” Koop declared,
tion with two men familiar with as much Water for fish as rice, and laid this to many articles
[fish fanping. However, thejand water must be at least 12 found in magazines which tend]
driving force behind the inches deep in the most shal- to “glamorize” farming.
(scheme was “red grass” which, low places. In some parts of! “Farming’is and will more or
j according to Koop, is a devas- the field it must be at least less always be an arduous task
tating menace to rice farmers three feet deep, | if you want to make a go of it,
because it starves it out. So he “I’ll be able to move water; and fish farming is no excep-
decided he was going to d o from field to field with little or tion. It will keep my nose to
something about it. no loss by using lift pumps the grindstone and will be an The Industrial Volunteer Fire
One dismal day last falN h e which I plan to assemble at expensive venture until such Department of Vanderbilt and
got into a conversation with a home. The pumps,, of course, time as I get it going w h i c h| La Ward are making plans for
dragline operator who declared wiil be shop made. ' [should be within the next twojthe annual July 4 barbecue and
he was going into fish farming. “We start with fingerlings or three years," Koop said. day of entertainment at the
Koop perked up his ears to hear;which we hope to raise to be He hopes to reap his -first.Community Park on the Lava-
more. His companion explained ’ two-pounders by harvest time, fish harvest in the fall of 1962. ca River,
that six or seven years ago which takes from eight to ten! “I have four ponds now for R O. Cherry, president of the
ric« farmers in Arkansas were months in some cases, I hope! breeding purposes and e l g h t department, reports the (lay’s
compelled to seek other revenue to- harvest my crop in about 12] pairs of fish in the pens f ojd activities will include the bar:
to supplement the'ir rice crops'to - 15 month-. spawning purposes at this time. I becue dinner, boat faces^-music*
because their acreage allot- "I have one set of ponds near (When the writer visited, h i m and singing and a Little'Lea-
ment had been slashed so bad- lv readv. or about 80 acres into rat his home he was in the pro gue baseball game.
...... - 1— -...... fish.) -! Detail' on the Ju
Industrial Fire
Dept Planting
lily 4 Event
r
tune teller, fish pond and
ducking machine.
The barbecue menu lists beef,*
rice salad, beans, pickles , i
onions, bread and soft drinks j
A large crowd is expected at
the Sunday celebration
JACKSON WILDLIFE — These two alligators,
both well over six feet in lengrth, were killed
Monday night, May 22, below the Texana River
bridge. Taking the big gators were, left to
right. Skipper Muncrief, Larry Hicks andv Bob
Muncrief. The men had seen them previously
while coon hunting, then went back after them
that night. One alligator measured 6’ 8” and the
other 6’ 7” in length.
cess of feeding these fish.
A talk with another man!which 1 hope to put fish very
convinced Koop he wanted first-shortly. The entire 300 acres
hand information. .so he, his should be ready by August or
wife and two sons. Weslev and.Sxddember
Toby, took out last winter for When queried as to when 1t is It wjil take some time
Lone Oak, Arkansas, which is harvest time, Koop said, “In UP the project after
July 4 cejebra-
publisfeed when
My fields must be laid out,]tion will
levees built *up, bar ditches!completed,
smoothed, and flumes installed The Industrial Firemen, tried
to set to hold the event on two week-
whichends last summer, but were
25 miles east of Little Rook and (the winter
.where fish farming originated. . "When harvest
Fish farmers at Lone Oak around all water
told Koop ttj,ey had doubled [into a bar ditch
their rice production by fish1 hope to have holding ponds by
farming, and, in addition to that time in which to hold the
that. Jia<f destroyed red grass fish to be sold on demand.
maintenance will be the princi- rained out both dates. In prev-
time rolls PflI work.” ious years the celebration has
is drained out' Mrs Koop, the former Sibyl:been well attended and popular
However, I Abel, is just as enthusiastic with the public
about the new venture • as her
husband and encourages him to
Proceeds from the ticket sale
go toward the expenses of the
JACKSON FARMER on a volunteer fire department.
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Evans, Chester. The Edna Herald (Edna, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 1, 1961, newspaper, June 1, 1961; Edna, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth764069/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jackson County Memorial Library.