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    1. [TXHUNT-L] Glasscock and Blakemore Receive Farmer Awards, 1965
    2. Sarah Swindell
    3. Glasscock and Blakemore Receive Farmer Awards J. W. Glasscock and Edwin Blakemore, both of Celeste, were two of the seven Hunt County farmers honored at a dinner meeting of the Hunt County Agricultural Improvement Club at Louie's Cafeteria Monday night. Those awarded either plaques of certificates were Sandy Cunningham, Greenville, certificate for cotton and vetch production and a plaque for the yield of 48.3 bushels of wheat per acre; Maynard Cheek, Jr., Farmersville, certificate for wheat and grain sorghum and a vetch production of 540 pounds per acre; Edwin Blakemore, Celeste, certificate of wheat and corn production; J. W. Glasscock, Celeste, certificate for wheat production and plaques for top yield entries in cotton at 371 pounds per acre and 3,675 pounds of grain sorghum per acre; Truman Mashburn, Commerce, certificate for wheat production and a plaque for top corn production of 61.87 bushels per acre; Bull Turner, certificate for top yield for his corn and cotton entries; and Billy Gene Dunn, certificate for high oat yield. Farmers Electric Coop donated the plaques and certificates to the club as part of its participation in the club's goal of encouraging better farming practices. (June 18, 1965, The Celeste Courier)

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