Wheelchair Air Lift Returns Polio Patients for Christmas
Six private planes carried about 60 polio patients from San Marcos to Gonzales de Springs Foundation for homeward treatment. The free operation covered over 4000 miles with nurses and ambulances, while officials arranged terminal at Gonzales for weather safety. Planes supplied by Texaco, Brown and Root, Tobin Aerial Survey, Tennessee Gas, La Gloria and Laitmont.
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Alr
Gonzales de Springs Foundation
San Marcos
Gonzales
Cynthia Atkinson
Joyce Wiley
Austin
Auto
Texaco
Brown and Root
Tobin Aerial Survey Company
Tennessee Gas, Laitmont Corporation
la Gloria Corporation
Former Elgin Pastor Selected for Honor
The Rev Charles B. Diltz former pastor of the First Methodist Church of Elgin has been chosen for Who's Who in Methodism by the International Methodist Historical Society for his accomplishments as a Methodist preacher He has led Cotulla Methodist Church for a year and a half and previously served in Elgin for two and a half years
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Elgin
Charles B. Diltz
First Methodist Church of
International Methodist Historical Society
The
Methodist Church of America
Diltz
Cotulla
Innocent Witness in Parkland Hospital Ambulance Case
Dallas police said no comment on a barefoot woman in pajamas who rode in an ambulance from a wreck to Parkland Hospital. She claimed she was not injured and had rushed out to watch, later sitting barefoot outside the emergency entrance and asking who would take her home.
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Dallas
Dallas Police Department
Parkland Hospital
Rev. Robert Hooper Dies in Fort Worth at 68
The Rev. Robert B. Hooper, 68, longtime Central Texas Methodist preacher, died in a Fort Worth hospital Tuesday. He retired in 1947 from the Methodist Church in Midlothian, lived in Georgetown since, and after retirement organized the Rogerville Methodist mission near Austin. He had previously served churches in Cleburne, Comanche, Ballinger, Fort Worth and other Central Texas towns.
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Fort Worth
Robert B. Hooper
Central Texas Methodist Conference
Hooper
Methodist Church
Midlothian
Georgetown
Rogerville
Austin
Cleburne
Comanche
Ballinger
Central Texas
Public Records Court Notices and Marriage Licenses
Public Records list multiple civil cases filed in 98th and 126th District Courts including swindling and aggravated assault. Justice court notes link robbery by assault and swindling. A long list of marriage licenses issued and building permits authorized with addresses and values. Federal cases note removals and insurance disputes in US District Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Casey
Bobby Donald Horton
J. F. Smith
Maurice Bunton
Johnnie Blue
James Davis
Dan Marrero
Alfred Marrero
Sebe Stevenson
Ollie Stamnitz
Frank Rodriguez Jr
H. C. Winn
Justice Court
Blakeslee
William J. Crump
US Payroll Drops To Early '42 Level
The Civil Service Commission said on Dec 1 civilian government employment fell to 1,988,600 the lowest since April 1942, only the second time in 7 1/2 years it passed below 2 million. In December 1947 it dipped under the threshold before rebounding to 2,004,000 the next month.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
What a Doctor Discovered for Change of Life
A vintage ad claims Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription can ease nervous restlessness and ‘change of life’ symptoms. It markets as a sedative tonic believed to boost resistance and calm nerves, citing clinical “recent studies” and high approval in women.
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Pierce
Cannes
Cheap Jurors Picked For Federal Court Term
Jurors will be drawn from six near Austin counties for the January term in federal court. Travis County supplies most grand jurors and veniremen. Two workers compensation cases and a note suit await settings, with $1 096.82 balance sought from the War Assets Administration.
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Uncle Sam
Federal Court
Austin
Drake Jr
Travis County
Bastrop County
Burleson
Lee
Gillespie
Hays
Bastrop
Morris V. Hoffpouir
Texas Public Service Company
Southern Union Gas Company
Liberty Mutual Insurance Company
Willard H. Joiner
City of Austin
American Casualtyompany
War Assets Administration
Dallas Man Dies After Fight Hit With Pliers
Clyde Moffett, 54, died hours after being struck on the head with a pair of pliers in a Dallas fight. His wife said the incident started during a visit to a friend. Sheriff Bill Decker planned to file a murder charge against a West Dallas man.
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Dallas
Clyde Moffett
Sheriff's Deputies
Bill Decker
West Dallas
Fayette County Cotton Ginning Surges Ahead of 19481
Fayette County produced 22,759 bales of cotton ginned before December 1, surpassing the 15,167 bales ginned by the same date in 1947, according to census agent C. W. Meyer. The report for La Grange notes the year to date gain is 7,592 bales.
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LA Grange
C. W. Meyer
Census Bureau
Fayette County
Seabiscuit in the State Theater Film Program
Seabiscuit screens as a Warner Bros. feature directed by David Butler with Lon McCallister and Barry Fitzgerald starring. The review notes the film largely follows Seabiscuit's true racing story including the Santa Anita Handicap and War Admiral match, with technical errors in who rode or trained the horse.
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Warner Bros
David Butler
State Theater
Margaret
Shirley Temple Shawn
Barry Erald
Ted
Som McCallister
Frank Capra
Lon McCallister
Seabiscuit
Georgie Woolf
C. S. Howard
Shawn O’hara
Barry Fitzgerald
Tom Smith
Dudley Early Stars In Seabiscuit Tribute Film
Lon McCallister shines as a jockey and Shirley Temple delivers charm and Irish accent in a Seabiscuit tribute. Seabiscuit is played by his sons Sea Gambol and Sea Voyager with the real Biscuit featured in major races. The film honors the famous racetrack legend who died in 1947 at fourteen.
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Lon McCallister
Shirley Temple
Seabiscuit
Sea Gambol
Biscu
Sea Voyager
Champ
Biscuit
Little Dar
Too Late for Tears at Paramount Theater
United Artists film directed by Byron Haskin features Lizabeth Scott as a woman who steals $60,000 and outwits pursuers. Don DeFore Dan Duryea co star with a tense, well written plot though the finale feels convenient.
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United Artists
Byron Haskin
Paramount Theater
PBS
Inan
Lizabeth Scott
Dan Rib hiNs U2
Eas
Don DeFore
Danny
Dan Duryea
Clerk Carrier Job Open at La Grange Post Office
The Civil Service commission announces examinations to fill a clerk carrier vacancy in the La Grange post office. Applicants must reside within the La Grange delivery area or be bona fide patrons there, says John A. Logan La Grange examiner.
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LA Grange
Civil Service Commission
John A. Logan
US Gypsum To Double Plant at Sweetwater
Contracts will be let soon on a $1 million addition to double the capacity of the US Gypsum Companys wall board plant here. The new 600 foot long steel building will add about 80 employes to the present roster of 400 men.
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Sweetwater
Wall Board
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Robert Hooper
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126Th District Court
Roberts
Rachel Duett DeLeon
James S. DeLeon
Howard T. Morrison
Ethel B. Morrison
County Court AT Law
Thurman
Nairn
Justice
Alvin A. Spain
Limberg
Ernest Martinez
Trenida Granada
Billy Gene Jennings
Joy Lavern Stanfield
Walter McBride
Opal Crawford
Arvel Eugene Franklin
Bobbie Elizabeth Cole
Eddie Caldwell
Annie B. Lane
Romulo Reye Jr
Rebecca Gutierrez
Richard Carl Boriack
Evelyn Nalinda Schneider
William Talmadge Haster
Elmarie Gustafson
William Thomas Stewart
Billie Ruth Sites
Clyde Pardue
Ethelbert Gilliland
J. W. Ward
Evelyn LaVerne Collier
Thomas Richard Young
Eleanor Ray Horne
Ernest Lynn Alexander
Corrie H. Curry
Clifford James Cravatt
Margie Evelyn Heffington
Willie Morgan
Willie Mae Thompson
Herbert Louis Winter
Doris Edna Fields
James Ray Wilson
Betty Lee Griffin
Charles Henry Franks
Gladys Williamson Rodway
Donald Dayton Ray
A Ann Snowden
Harvey Wright Watkins
Emily Amanda Hailey
William Leonard Davis Jr
Wanda Maralla Thompson
Marvin Paul Benner
Marjorie Irene Calhoun
Eckert
Howard Pringle
Piedmont
Charles Edmiston
Arpdale
H. A. Beaver
Palo Duro
US District Court
Rice
Grand and Petit Jury
W. S. Drake Jr
Morris
Hoppoult
126Th District Court of
United States
Lee Bammel
Bammel Machine Company
American Casualty Company
Fayette
Shou Wola
Santa Anita
War Admiral
Pimlico
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Lunderers
Rod Santee
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Burt
Joe
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Steele
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Rio Grande
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Kirsch
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