Capital Area Farm and Ranch Club to discuss 1951 boy livestock show
The Capital Area Farm and Ranch Club invites eight counties to a dinner in Austin to discuss a nine county breeding animal show for boys. Jim Boswell notes Purina Austin director Robert Bridges hosts the dinner. The meeting will weigh pros and cons and consider financial returns to participating boys.
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Centex
Capital Area
FFA
Travis County
Austin
Hitchin
Jim Boswell
Robert
Purina) Bridges
Livestock Shows and Prices Reflect Fairness for Average Growers
The piece argues fat show prices may peak except at few markets like Houston, while breeder-show returns rely on premiums. It questions the moral excess of high auction prices and stresses practicality. It concludes livestock, like people, vary and the system should serve the average producer.
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Houston
Reuben
April Meat Production Falls in Texas by Nine Percent
Commercial meat production totaled 58,566,000 pounds in Texas for April, down nine percent from March but twelve percent above April of the previous year. U S Department of Agriculture data show first quarter 1950 output at 245 million pounds, two million more than 1949. The estimate covers beef veal pork lamb and mutton slaughter in federally inspected and other plants but excludes farm slaughter.
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Texas
US Department of Agriculture
Rains and Landslides Kill 50 in Tokyo Area
Rural police on Wednesday attributed 50 deaths to torrential rains and landslides in the Tokyo area over the past week. Local authorities reported the toll as rainstorms battered the region causing multiple collapses.
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Tokyo
Toyko
Red War Plants Alerted by Russian High Command
London editor Ken de Courcy of Intelligence Digest warned that Russian industrial plants are to be ready for a war emergency by fall 1952. He cited a May meeting in Moscow where all military commanders were convened and said a Soviet high command committee is reviewing reports to produce a new strategic summary.
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London
INS
Ken—_ de Courcy
Lonon Magazine
Intelligence Digest
de Courcy
Russia
Moscow
Cashier Refuses Bandit Hold Up InBroad daylight
Houston June 14 Two teenage bandits attempted a daylight holdup on a downtown street. Cashier Mason O Sears stepped from his car and faced the gun delivering the line You go to hell The would be robbers balked, dropped the pistol and fled through a car lot Police believe the youths escaped from Gatesville School for Boys they are both Houston residents Sears kept the day’s receipts and resolved not to be frightened by criminals
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Houston
Mason O. Sears
Sears
Gatesville
Flying Saucer Seen Over Alice by Pair
Errico Medina and Loreto Sanchez reported sighting a silver flying saucer over Alice. They said it was perfectly round, mirror bright, and moving silently north Tuesday, but the Air Force denied any knowledge of flying saucers.
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Alice
Errico Medina
Loreto Sanchez
Air Force
Lampasas C of C appoints officer for clinic program
Clyde A. Northington was named general chairman of the Lampasas Chamber of Commerce Clinic Program of Work with Porter Briggs as vice chairman. Meetings run June 19 with two daily sessions, each limited to 25 attendees, in eight leader groups led by listed locals. Paul Martin says the clinic aims to mobilize community support and inform leaders of chamber goals.
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W. A. Johnson
Dr. Rus
McMillin
H. H. Mehrens
R. E. Bristol
S. R. Adams
J. C. Abney
Roger Carpenter
George Schaub
R. L. Croxdale
Harry Moses
Ward Lowe
G. C. Barnett
van Dyke Gillen
F. L. Boothe
Clyde Hetherly
Joe Bozarth
Paul Martin
Chamber of Commerce
Missing Youngster Found Near Home
A posse of men found four year old Clarence Swope, son of a coal operator, about 500 feet from a rocky path near his home in COUPON Pennsylvania. He was slightly blue but safe after a nightlong search by about 1,000 people including state police, residents, volunteer firemen, and Altoona police in Allegheny Mountain terrain.
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Coupon
Clarence Swope
Pennsylvania
Allegheny Mountain
Altoona
Granger Pastor Takes Post in Austin Church
Martin Crass pastor of the Church of Christ in Granger for 14 months is called to the West Side Church of Christ in Austin. He and his wife and son Ray will move in June, with duties starting July 2 in Austin. A Granger successor has not been named.
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Granger
ANS
Martin Crass
Church of Christ of
Manor men donate first Texas honey shipment
The first shipment of Texas honey to move overseas through the Christian Rural Overseas Program was donated by Roitsch Farms Manor. Arnold E. A. Roitsch and LeRoy C. Roitsch directed 1,254 pounds to Lutheran World Relief for needy overseas communities.
Turkey Barbecue Dinner Hosted by Clarks for Church Members
Forty members and guests of the First Methodist Church attended a turkey barbecue dinner Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Clark.
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First Methodist Church
R. C. Clark
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