From the San Saba News & Star Archives
70 Years Ago November 1, 1956
Mr. and Mrs. Jym Sloan were in the Polk pecan bottom viewing Tom and Bill's pecan gathering crew's work. Some of the trees are well set with fruit, while some of the trees are scantily fruited, but taking it all around the pecan crop is fair.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Busby, Sr. returned home from a two weeks visit in Deridder, La., with their daughter and family, First Sgt. and Mrs. Jimmie Baker and children. While there they went sightseeing in New Orleans and Baton Rouge.
Mrs. Jack Wilder, the former Vondene Adams, was honored with a kitchen shower at the home of Mrs. Billy Walker Kirkpatrick with Mmes. Norman Terry, Geo. Lee Jennings and Claude Gage as co-hostesses.
S-Sgt. Homer N. Smith, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer N. Smith of San Saba, who has been stationed at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., left for a 60 day assignment in Africa where he will be stationed at Ben Gueria Air Force Base, Morocco.
A San Saba business that came into being during the peak of the depression and has survived a fire in 1938, a war, and seven years of hear-breaking draught will marks its 22nd anniversary in the month of November –– Jeff Byrd's Grocery and Market, the oldest operating grocery in downtown San Saba.
50 Years Ago October 28, 1976
Tereasa and Gwen McKinnerney attended the Dallas Fair and won a ribbon on the lamb they exhibited. It was from the James D. Carroll flock. James D. resides in Red Oak and has sheep on the Jim McKinnerney land.
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Milton H. Wilson has arrived for duty at Torrejon Air Base, Spain. Airman Wilson, a jet engine mechanic with a unit of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe, previously served at Bergstrom AFB at Austin. A 1973 graduate of San Saba High School, he is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Wilson.
The new San Saba Rylander Memorial Library was damaged by fire of unknown cause shortly after closing time Friday. The fire was contained in the storeroom and was first discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Smith next door as smoke came through a roof vent.
A sign reading "Trucks Cross at Own Risk" is one of several signs posted near bridges belonging to San Saba County to remind heavy trucks of the risks involved. This particular sign appears near the King-Maxwell crossing bridge which has been recently rebuilt after being collapsed by a feed truck.
Everyone can relax now but for a while things were pretty exciting as flames burst out of this gasoline pump located at the Key Station on Highway 190 west. Fire Marshal H. L. Hubbard reported that the fire was apparently caused by a short circuit in the pump which was not securely fastened down. Members of the San Saba Volunteer Fire Department and all trucks answered the call which was quickly extinguished. The incident occurred Friday about noon.