In Search Of Shad # 1366 January 15, 2015
Cooper Lake finally came up some and I was able to launch my boat one day last week. Junior Larkin and I fished out from the dam in thirty feet of water and caught about eighty pounds of blue catfish in four hours. Bait used was small drum, or gaspergou, and shad. We prefer to use shad but they are very hard to find. Sometimes they can be caught in White Rock Creek near Flag Pole Hill in Dallas but the last few trips have been...
Risk in cattle production
As a beef producer, you invest time and money in a project, either a cow/calf pair or steer production and run into risk by the time the product is finalized. Risk is any factor that can potentially make you lose money in a particular project. In a recent publication from Texas AgriLife Extension related to stress, Nykole Kafka indicated that farming and ranching can be stressful professions, and that stress can have a...
Dogs at the Manger, January 1, 2015, Number 1364
The madstone article from a few weeks ago is still bringing comments. Following is a response from Pattie Pettigrew in Houston. I’m going to write it straight from her letter. “My grandpa, Tom Hooten, and his brother, Leemie?, (Klondike Hootens) were on a load of hay and saw a bull they knew was rabid from his actions. They knew he would gore the horses to death so Uncle Leemie got on the horses and rode away while Grandpa distracted...
Hard To Walk In Ski Boots #1363 by Eddie Trapp 12/18/2014
During the 1986 deer season there was a huge buck roaming near Kensing. The first time I saw him Jean and I were riding around north of Vasco. We turned around at L.D. Malone’s grain tanks and stopped for a minute to look northeast out over several hundred acres of “green stuff.” Several deer were running across the field almost a mile from us. The late afternoon Sun seemed to illuminate the huge rack on the buck. It was the largest I...
Flu Policy at the SSISD
The flu bug is starting to be active in Hopkins County and Sulphur Springs. To date no campuses have been closed due to the flu. We get the latest news from the Sulphur Springs ISD from district Director of Communications Rusty Harden. [gview file=”http://www.ksstradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Flu-Letter-on-Letter-Head-2.pdf”]
Fred Akers, Roxton, And Coon Hunting #1362 December 11, 2014
This week things have been a little slow so let’s go back and see what was happening in 1986. From my ledger. Monday, December 1, 1986. Honey Grove Junior High came to town for a couple of basketball games. The Puppies are rebuilding this year and Mark Miller made our only two points in the entire seventh grade game. In the eighth grade game it was nip and tuck until the last couple of minutes when a Honey Grove player started hitting...
Giving a Bicycle for Christmas? Don’t Forget the Helmet!
Bicycles are always a popular gift at Christmas time, and many parents are shopping now for that perfect new bicycle for their child – maybe even their first bicycle. This is an excellent opportunity to teach children about the importance of wearing a helmet to protect their head. According to National Safe Kids, helmets can reduce the risk of severe brain injury by up to 88%, but only 45% of children wear bike helmets. Safe Kids...
Eighteen Coons by Eddie Trapp # 1360
From my ledger. Friday, November 21, 1986. Cooper played Kerens in area playoff game. Kerens ran the wishbone and their quarterback, Hornbuckle, runs a 4.4 in the forty. They ran option right, Hornbuckle kept the ball, and then cut back left against the grain. 6-0 Kerens. They set up to kick the extra point. The holder caught the ball, raised up, and threw slant end pass to left slotback. 8-0 Kerens. In second half we scored making it...
80-Year-Old Gentleman Builds Over 100 Toy Cars for Kids in Need
Frank Sears Has Joined the Nationwide Initiative to Send Christmas Gifts to 10 Million Hurting Children Worldwide SULPHUR SPRINGS, TX., Nov. 13, 2014 – Frank Sears says you are never too old to be used by God. What started as a simple project in 2000 to build a trophy for the winner of the Hopkins community stew cook-off, has now developed into Sears making hundreds of toy cars for children. “I had spare supplies from the trophy I was...
Little John by Eddie Trapp, November 13, 2014 # 1358
Last week I was telling about our two day trip through Arkansas and Oklahoma to look at the colorful leaves. A little after dark we arrived in Fort Smith and spent the night. This would be our northern point of the trip and we would begin our winding way home. If you travel through western Arkansas north toward Fort Smith you don’t have many highway choices. It’s basically Highway 71, take it or leave it. Not wanting to retrace our...
