50 Units for Labor Parade
More than 50 unions bands and units signed up for the Labor Day Parade. Participants include a police escort American Legion color guard mayor labor queen Sandie Band fire trucks armored truck cooks and waiters and many craft unions with visiting locals from Plainview Dumas and Darhart.
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American Legion
Sandie
Brotherhood of Trainmen
Locomotive Engineers
Santa Fe
Trades Council
Buffalo Band
Brotherhood Machinists
Millworkers Union
Plainview
Dumas
Darhart
Western Union
Greyhound Trailway
Maverick Club
Boy Ranch
Children’s Home
Farm Prices Drop Five Percent Across Agricultural Goods
USDA reports farm prices fell five percent for the month ending August 15. The mid month market index shows lower prices for most field crops meat animals and wool though the August 15 index at 313 percent of the 1900-14 base remains well above the 286 level of August 15 1947.
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Texas
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Forest research head named at Jones State Forest
Ray F. Goddard was named forest research superintendent at the Jones State Forest in Montgomery County. He will oversee an expanded program on the 1600 acre state forest as of today.
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Nearo Forest Research College Station
Ray F. Goddard
Jones State Forest
Montgomery County
Mexicans Face Draft Registration Dilemma in Rio Grande Valley
In the Rio Grande Valley this week hundreds of Mexican workers who entered illegally rushed to draft registration centers hoping a draft card could substitute for a passport. Officials report many registrants lack English, while border patrol cautions actions hinge on requests from draft boards.
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Edinburg
A. C. Aderhola
Draft Board
F. L. Rawls
Border Patrol Office
McAllen
Raymondville
Doan's Pills Ease Kidney Related Backaches
Many suffer backaches from kidney trouble. Doan's Pills, a stimulant diuretic, have helped millions for over six years by aiding the kidneys to remove waste from the blood. Night time urination swelling and dull pains may improve after using Doan's.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Doan
Taxpayers Rally Against City Tax Hike at Tyler Battle
A mass meeting gathered over 109 citizens at Tyler City Hall to protest next year's tax assessment. City Tax Collector Tom Crook outlined the levy implications as residents pressed for relief and questioned the board of equalization.
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Laem
Orp
Taxpayers
Vler
Board of Equalization
Tom Crook
Tax hikes sparkhundreds of calls and letters against city action
The city faced hundreds of phone calls and letters criticizing its policy while tax valuations rose by 35 percent and some assessments jumped as much as 300 percent. Rabbits can produce five or six litters annually with three to ten young per litter and mature in roughly six months.
Trade Winds Term Traced to Wind Route Meaning
A Britannica note explains the phrase trade winds derives from an old sense of trade as a path or course. The term does not reflect commerce but the regular sailing winds guiding ships on routes across seas.
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Encyclopedia
Britannica
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