Newman High School - Yucca Gloriosa Yearbook (Sweetwater, TX)

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MUSTANG ROUNDUP-Radio is the originating point for the popular programs, Mustang Roundup and After Hours, a disc iocltey program of popular music. LATEST NEWS-The Sweetwater Reporter comes through the presses ready tor delivery. The home town paper carries the latest news into 7,000 homes daily. Sweetwater -- a Good Place to Live A city's growth depends, to a large extent, upon its communications. Sweetwater is the hub of a vast communications system. The communications indus- try in Sweetwater is represented by a central office of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, a 250 watt radio station, KXOX, a daily newspaper, THE SWEETWATER REPORTER, which has a circula- tion of over 7,000, and a radar station which is operated by personnel of the United States Air Force. NUMBER, PLEASE -This attractive new building houses the multitude ot wires and switches which supply telephone communi- cations tor people in a 500 mile area. AIR DEFENSE IS OUR BUSlNESS -The motto ot the 683rd A.C. and W. Squadron stands as a reminder that the United States is ever alert.

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N l WORK OUT AT GYP, is 'ihe remarlr made by approxi- WELCOME TO SWEETWATER-The Flinilroie Company. maiely 450 people in Sweefwaier. Building materials is the newesi' indusiry in Sweeiwaier, employs about 250 people. business of Uniied Gypsum Company. The company is helping +o build a beiier Sweefwaier. 'Whal Sweeiwaier Makes, Makes Sweeiwaier' United Gypsum and Flintkote Company, manu- facturers of building materials such as sheet rock, Wall paneling, and insulating materials, employ about 700 persons in Sweetwater, making them the leaders in company employment. Approximately 1200 businesses, including indus try, wholesale, and retail establishments, are housed in Sweetwater. CHECKING OUT-Representing the whole- sale businesses in Sweeiwafer is Kimbells wholesale disiribuior of groceries and gro- cery proclucis. THIS WEEK ONLY-Wifh signs 'lelling of 'lhe coming sales, Sears, Roebucl: and Com- pany represenfs ihe reiail businesses in Sweeiwafer. The retail stores employ about 80 per cent of the working people of Sweei- wafer.

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KING COTTON-These are only a few of the 'thousands of bales of fine quality coHon produced in Nolan and surrounding coun- iies. Farmers bank heavily on ihe cash income from coHon. . . . from I'he Good Earlh According to Mother Goose, Old King Cole was a merry old soul . . . But Old King Cottonl' is the merriest old soul around Sweetwater, Cotton is the leading cash crop for the thousands of farmers in the Sweetwater area. Farmers, however, do not put all their eggs in one basket, as wheat and maize are also high-ranking money crops. Ranching and Texas go together like bread and butter. Sweetwater has a large cattle raising industry, with three meat packing houses to supply a market for the fine beef and pork grown in this area. BOOTS AND SADDLES-Caille ranch- ing has always played an imporiani' part in +I1e hisiory of Texas, and Swee+wa+er is no exception. Each year 'Ihousands of fine Nolan couniy beeves 'Find +I1eir way fo ihe na1ion's slaughlerhousos. THIS LITTLE PIG WENT TO MARKET . . . -The old Moiher Goose nursery rhyme comes fo life as this IiHIe pig is readied 'for ihe breakfast fable of hungry Sweeiwaier area residenis. Pace Packing Company, Midwesi Packing Company, and Texas Packing are repre- senlafive of fhe packing indusfry in Sweefwafer.