Teagues' Home Destroyed By West Wind Fire
BERTRAM Feb 22 The Claude Teague home in the north Bertram community was completely destroyed by fire last Friday morning. The blaze started on the west side of the house with a strong west wind driving the flames before firefighters arrived. Mrs Teague and her young son were inside when the roof ignited. Teague held a small amount of fire insurance.
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Bertram
Claude Teague
North Bertram
Teague
Kerrville Schools Buy Site for Business Tax Office
Kerrville Independent School District reports purchase of a site between Lone Star Gas and Kerrville Times for a modern tile building to house the business and tax office. Property fronts 32.5 feet and extends 100 feet deep with tentative plans for a building the width of the lot. Superintendent E L Wildman announced the move on February 22.
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Kerrville
ANS
E. L. Wildman
Kerrville Independent School District
Lone Star Gas Company
Kerrville Times
Kerr County seeks 7500 dollar Red Cross quota
Mrs. Leo Daniels, chairman of the Red Cross drive in Kerr County, announced the county's share is 7500 dollars. She stated that 76.3 percent of the funds would be retained by the local chapter.
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Kerrville
Leo Daniels
Red Cross
Kerr County
Capital Area Livestock Exposition prizes proposed
L. J. Luedecke Austin businessman plans up to 1125 in special prizes for Shorthorns and sheep to boost the Capital Area Livestock Exposition. Travis County shows would feed into a regional event with additional awards for grand champions and reserve titles.
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Dave Shanks
Austin American
BOY Builder
L. J. Luedecke
Austin
Uedecke
Travis County
Luedecke
Texas
Travis
Delaine’s
Arlyn Glimp
Delaine
Groundbreaking Slated at Taylor Lutheran Church
Ground will be broken Sunday at 2 30 p m for the new Trinity Lutheran Church in Taylor. The church, Missouri Synod, organized earlier this month after services at the American Legion Hall with Rev G A Zach Noack. Location donated by Henry Werchan on the west side of Sloan Street opposite the Czech Moravian Brethren church. Camp Swift building secured as initial home. Albert Werchan serves as secretary treasurer.
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Albert Werchan
Kyle Negro Murder Trial Delayed in San Marcos
The murder trial of Morris Washington and Kyle Negro, charged with killing John Espinosa with a cotton hook on Senay Road west of Kyle, was postponed on defense motion. No new trial date is set.
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San Marcos
ANSA
Morris Washington
Kyle Negro
John Espinosa
Washington
Espinosa
Senay Road
Kyleec
Farm Bureau Rally Set at Taylor Friday
Williamson County Farm Bureau plans a countywide meeting at SPJST Hall in Taylor Friday night. President Alva Cating of Bartlett will preside as community chairmen report on progress toward a 1 000 member goal for the county organization.
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Taylor
ANS
Williamson County Farm Bureau
SPJST
Alva Cating
Bartlett
Churches at Bertram Plan World Day of Prayer Service
Bertram churches schedule a union event for World Day of Prayer, to be hosted by the Methodist Church. The program includes youth and adult services with Rev. J. E. Barnett presiding in the morning. Pastors from all churches will participate, and lunch will follow in the Methodist recreation room.
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Bertram
Methodist Church
J. E. Barnett
The
Christian Church
Son Dies Father Hurt In Apartment Blaze
In Corpus Christi a late morning fire in an apartment killed a one year old boy and critically burned his father Carl Frederick Holcomb 27 who was reportedly working on an outboard motor when gasoline fumes ignited by a heater. Mrs Holcomb and a three month old baby escaped unharmed.
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Corpus Christi
Carl Frederick Holcomb
Carl
Ida V Steadman Recovering From Fall At Brackenridge Hospital
Mrs Ida V Steadman of 1200 West 12th Street is in Brackenridge Hospital recovering from a broken hip after a Sunday morning fall. The report notes the accident occurred as she sustained injuries during a fall.
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Ida V. Steadman
West 12Th Street
Brackenridge Hospital
Cecil Long Elected President Of Bastrop Youth Fair
Cecil B. Long of Bastrop was elected president of the Bastrop County Youth Fair Association for 1950. Officers include Claude Watterson as vice president Charles W. Eskew treasurer and Pearlie Jerrell secretary all from Bastrop. A permanent fair site will be decided after bids from Bastrop Elgin and Smithville chambers of commerce.
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Bastrop
Cecil B. Long
Bastrop County
Chambers of Commerce of
Elgin
Smithville
Bastrop Reports Land Purchase Priority For Camp Swift Tracts
Bastrop County has set its priority to purchase 1 224.15 acres at Camp Swift, per John Sharp, Camp Swift surplus land disposal office project manager. County Judge J J Sapp said former owners should have a chance to repurchase, with reappraisal to follow and notices to former owners after appraisals are completed.
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Bastrop
Bastrop County
Camp Swift
John Sharp
Sharp
J. J. Sapp
Sapp
Rioting in Asmara Kills 21 in Two Days
In Asmara Eritrea rival native factions clash twice over two days. Twenty one dead and sixty seven wounded as mobs set buildings ablaze. British and American troops support police to quell further outbreaks.
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Asmara
Eritrea
United Nations
Ethiopia
Man Slays Wife Self in Texas Cafe
In Spofford a couple was shot to death in a cafe where the woman worked as a waitress. Justice of Peace O F Seargeant said David O Chaney about 60 killed his wife Otis M 49 and then shot himself. Mrs Chaney died en route to Bracketville. The bodies were taken to Del Rio. A son J D Chaney with the US border patrol survived.
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Spofford
Justice of Peace O. F. Seargeant
David O. Chaney
Otis M
J. D. Chaney
Border Patrol
Tax Agent To Help Taylor Customers
Taylor residents can get free tax assistance from the Internal Revenue Service with a deputy stationed at the Taylor Post Office on Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The service aims to aid taxpayers in preparing and filing returns and answering questions.
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Taylor
Internal Revenue Office
Taylor Post Office
Walburg 4-H Winners Compete for Top Show Title
Walburg 4-H Club members Harold Mickan and Earl Arldt, both Gold Star winners, enter two calves each in the Williamson County Livestock Show opening Tuesday in Georgetown. Arldt also shows a Jersey heifer under a county Jersey distribution program. The three day event expects about 175 junior entries across beef, hogs, dairy, sheep and goats, plus eight scramble calves from a sheriff posse rodeo.
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Georgetown
Harold Mickan
Earl Arldtt
Arldt
Chamber of Commerce Jersey
Sheriff's Posse
Roy Huckabee
Walter Britten
College Station
Lampasas Urged For Air School
The Air Force added Lampasas and four other Texas cities Brownwood San Angelo Uvalde and Brackettville to a list of potential locations for a proposed air academy. Two hundred twenty two sites will be surveyed by Army Engineers or nearby Air Force leaders. Congress will decide the final site for the school akin to Annapolis and West Point.
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Texas
Lampasas
Air Force
Air Academy
Brownwood
San Angelo
Uvalde
Brackettville
Air Force Headquarters
Army Engineers
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Congress
Navy
Annapolis
Army
West Point
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Hereford Breeders’ Association
Angus
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R. W. Bridges
R. M. Calbert
National Turkey Federation
Burt Stevenson
Turkey Department
M. C
Maggie) Small
W. C. Schofield
Joe Fechtel
Texas Turkey Federation
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Chicago
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Richard Self
Sequine
Kellogg’s
Farm Bureau
America
Bertram Plan Union Services
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Alee Ows
Ted Deeves
Cecil Long
Bastrop’s Fair
Man Slays
Alver
Eden
Walburg
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Currier
ATTIC
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Hillcrest Farms
George Halden
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