Area farmers could apply to distributors immediately to request more diesel fuel, according to Johnny S. Potter, Chairman of the Fayette County Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee. Potter said the emergency program, which would be in effect for 60 days, was expected to enable many farmers to continue a variety of work necessary to produce food for the nation. The mandatory distillate fuels allocation program that had taken effect Nov. 1, 1973, was based on the amount of diesel and other distillates each farmer had used in the corresponding month the previous year. Therefore, did not necessarily represent a farmer’s current fuel needs.

To the editor: I was canned after almost fifteen years with the Advisory Board of the Fayette Public Library and Heritage Museum and Archives (library) in La Grange. My tenure will expire on Dec.

That Little Voice I haven’t done much ‘country exploring’since joining the increasing number of Ex-pats heading into Mexico, but I’m on my way to the Mexican state of Yucatan for several days. Since I haven’t ventured far from my current location, I am anticipating seeing a different culture than the high desert of San Miguel de Allende.

To the editor: I recently reread a commentary summarizing a speech given by Allie Beth Stuckey back in April 2023 at The Heritage Foundation’s 50th anniversary. Stuckey said, “It’s easy to feel nostalgic for the way things were, to kind of wish that we lived in a country where we had the same issues we were facing in the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s.” We don’t live in the past, but there are those who want to rewrite America’s past.

To the editor: The Opinion letter of Nov. 24 warns us of bias and misinformation in the media.

The front page of today’s paper tells the story of the massive rockfall that took place Friday morning on the limestone Bluff south of the Colorado River from La Grange. The event jogged some memories of a few other historic “rock falls” on the Bluff.

Highlights As time runs out next week on the fourth special session, Gov. Greg Abbott said he will continue to fight for school choice, despite the Texas House once again decisively rejecting it when 21 Republicans largely from rural districts joined Democrats in stripping it from a $7.6 billion education bill.

I keep being surprised at the advantages of Old Age and I am not only speaking about senior discounts. Pleasantries abound, but are seldom listed. Everyone seems to know the disadvantages, so I will not go there.

T EXAS History The Texas Congress picked Houston as the new capital of the Lone Star Republic over Matagorda and Washington-on-the-Brazos on Nov. 30, 1836.