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Newspaper
Andrews County News
Location
Andrews, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1949
Page
5
Fifteen carloads of Texas food and fiber merchandise depart as the first section of the CROP Overseas Program. The Friendship Food and Fiber Train will be distributed overseas by church relief agencies through the Chititu Rural program. State CROP Office coordinates the effort.
Seniors share bright hopes as they learn their annual trip to New Orleans, Louisiana. They will travel by train from Odessa, stay four days and four nights, then return via White House Mississippi to Fort Worth. The plan reflects ongoing county canvas collections for the 1949 overseas relief effort with carloads of farm commodities from across Texas.
Barbara Dean of Alvarado 17 is 1949 Home Improvement state winner for remodeling projects and floor work earning a Mag gie W Barry Scholarship and trip to the National 4‑H Club Congress. Lee Wolf 19 of Gainesville is 1949 National 4‑H Tractor Maintenance state champion with tractor clinic work and a Stanolind trip. Dorothy Kastner 18 of McDade earns 1949 Clothing Achievement state honor for 575 garments amounting to 729.51 cost saving, awarded a trip to Chicago.
A collection of witty definitions targets professionals in Washington. A coordinator creates organized chaos from confusion, a conference is a group that cannot act alone, and a statistician draws lines from unwarranted assumptions. An efficiency expert claims to know less yet earns more. A consultant is an ordinary man far from home, a lobbyist sells influence to those who need it least, and an economist is a financier without money with a Phi Beta Kappa key on his watch chain.
Governor Allan Shivers proclaims December 4 to 11 as Better Health For Texans Week highlighting venereal diseases. State Health Officer Geo W Cox says the drive aims to educate all population segments with facts and to mobilize community action through radio addresses films and packets distributed statewide.
In Austin on December 2, John W. Woodruff reports the University of Texas Employer Unit Plan for personal training, started in the Midland Odessa area in March 1949, is meeting with wide approval.
Woodruff serves as state coordinator of petroleum industry training in the University’s Industrial and Business Training Bureau. He has been asked by the University of California Oklahoma A and M College the University of Wyoming and the University of Alberta to help plan similar extension training programs. The employer unit program targets small businesses lacking staff specialists and arranges University personnel to join meetings with cooperating employers’ workers.
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