Price Tags in store windows spark mixed opinions
Readers protest or praise window price tags in a local poll. Walter Craig prefers no tags unless on sale, while Mrs. G Eager supports tags to save shopping time. Dewey Gorden argues tags deter entry, saying pricing in windows may reduce in-store interest.
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Bill Young
Virginia
Walter M. Craig
Polk
Dewey Gorden
Ridgemere
Bob C. Wilson
Business College
Dalhart
Alvy Young
Hendl Reengaged as Dallas Symphony Director 1951-52
Walter Hendl is reappointed as musical director of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for the 1951 52 season. The executive committee stated no contract yet but will address the matter soon. The Sunday concert was canceled as guest soloist Oscar Levant fell ill in El Paso and went home to Hollywood.
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U.P
Walter Hendl
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Lawrence Pollock
Oscar Levant
el Paso
Hollywood
Wanted Car Not Wife In Lewiston Tale
A Washington man asked Lewiston police to locate his missing wife and car. He directed officers to wire him if the car was found so he could retrieve it, revealing a curious mix up of priorities in a local lost-and-found case.
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Lewiston
Ida. U.P
Washington
Hoodlum Fined for Assaulting Photo
Dallas underworld figure Jettie Bass was fined $40 in city court after assaulting newspaper photographer Tom Dillard. Dillard had photographed Bass as he left the city jail two weeks earlier. Bass grabbed the camera’s flashgun and hurled it at him. The ensuing image ran in The Dallas Morning News the next day.
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Jettie Bass
Tom Dillard
Bass
Dillard
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Dallas Morning News
Blood Tonic advertised as restoring strength and vitality
An old advertisement touts S.S.8.8. Blood Tonic as a remedy to boost digestion and strengthen the blood. It claims the tonic stimulates stomach juice flow to aid weakness and urges readers to ask druggists for the product, branding it the favorite family tonic.
Hughes To Have Say in Court
In Los Angeles on February 2, Howard Hughes head of RKO Radio Pictures faces a breach of contract suit. The Globe reports Miss Sheridan hired for a film was fired after nine weeks with Ava Gardner replacing her. The studio countersued for 72,625 dollars. A subpoena to Hughes followed before judge James M. Carter requiring his appearance after trial lawyers said they had tried to serve him for a month. Miss Sheridan charges the studio.
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Howard Hughes
Rko-Radio Pictures
the Globe
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Ava Gardner
Miss Sheridan
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Robert
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James M. Carter
Texas Marine Hurt As Shell Explodes
QUANTICO, Va Feb 2 Lt William B Wilson Jr of Austin Texas was among eight student officers injured when a shell exploded prematurely during training Two other Marine officers were killed when the 81 millimeter projectile exploded in a mortar barrel.
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Quantico
William B. Wilson, Jr
Austin
Tex
Marine Announced Corps
A&M Senate Chooses Support for Admitting Negro Colleges
Intercollegiate Students Association, a 28 Texas college group, promotes better citizenship by fostering student governments. At the annual meeting March 16-17, A&M's senate urged its delegation to vote for admitting Negro colleges. The Seaforth Highlanders trace their origin to 1778 when formed by Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth.
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Intercollegiate Students Association
Texas
A&m Senate
Seaforth Highlanders
Kenneth, Earl of Seaforth
Neat burglary in Wilmar settles lack of alarm
In Wilmar California a careful burglar cut a neat hole near a piggy bank slot and removed $25 in change from Mrs. Ann Mayer’s piggy bank. He replaced the money on the closet shelf where it was kept.
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Wilmar
Cal
Ann T. Mayer
Let Negroes In Students Group At Texas A&M College
Texas A and M College student senate voted unanimously to admit Negro students to the campus student group. The decision was announced tonight in College Station as part of ongoing efforts to desegregate campus organizations.
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College Station
Texas A&m College
Texas
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