Reubens Dairy Calf Gift Prompts 4-H Club Interest
W Kelley of Alum Creek dairyman will donate a dairy calf to the top Restrop County 4-H Club boy. Presentation set for July 24 by Mr. and Mrs. Kelley. 4-H records must be completed by July 1 for eligibility. Gordon Probst of Rockne won last year’s calf. Kelley previously taught at the University of Texas.
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W. Kelley
Alum Creek
Restrop County
Kelley
C. A. Stone
Stone
Gordon Probst
Rockne
University of Texas
David Keeney
Hays County
Kyle
David
R. D. Keeney
Sears Foundation
Funeral Services Pending For Two Drowning Victims
New Braunfels remembers two high school teachers after a boat capsized on Lake Dunlap, Guadalupe River killing Alex Borman 36 and Edwin Harden 21 years after Gale Nelson survived the mishap. Bodies recovered by local fire departments. judge rules accidental drowning. Wives and children survive.
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New Braunfels
New Braunfels High School
Lake Dunlap
Guadalupe River
Alex Borman
Edwin Harden
Gale H. Nelson
Seguin
Justice of the Peace
Archie Hector
Marden
Borman
Lampasas Realigns Three School Districts Under Gilmer Aikin
The Lampasas County School Board adopted district realignments under Gilmer Aikin. Littlefield and Lampasas join. Lear Creek is split at the county line with the Lampasas share to Lampasas and Coryell portion to Copperas Cove. Taylor Creek crosses four counties and is split between Lampasas Burnet and Copperas Cove districts.
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Lmpasas
Lampasas County
Gilmer-Aikin
Littlefield
Lampasas
Lear Creek
Coryell County
Copperas Cove
Taylor Creek
Bell, Coryell, Burnet and Lampasas
Lampasas and Burnet County
Bell and Coryell
Granger organizes labor camp to aid cotton season
Granger Farm Bureau outlines a $1700 labor camp plan to support the fall cotton harvest. City officials pledge water and graveling for a one acre site east of Granger near the Co op Gin. 46 vocational students will help build with donations led by Mayor C B Rogers and Frank Janak.
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Granger
Granger Farm Bureau
C. B. Rogers
Frank Martinete
Joe Gaida
Frank Janak
Clarence Barnes
Granger Co-op Gin Company
Ralph Wilks
Johnnie Rozacky
Albert Cervenka
Vernod Brundige
Henry Naizer
Walter Finn
Ancel Bolstrom
Lonnie Hill
W. C. Davidson
Bastrop Hosts Five Day Free X-Ray Survey
One day results show 641 Bastrop residents aged 15 and over were x-rayed during the first day of a five day survey led by Sam A. Gurwitz of the Bastrop County Tuberculosis Association. The mobile unit will return for 2,500 examinations. Mrs. S. L. Brannon is local chairwoman.
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Bastrop
Sam A. Gurwitz
Bastrop County
State Health Department
S. L. Brannon
Martindale Masons Install New Officers
Martindale Masonic Lodge AF and AM No 1206 installed officers Monday night led by District Deputy Grand Master H E Cutcher of Lockhart. Installed were Thomas Gant worshipful master Marlin Gunn senior warden B A Harper junior warden Harry West senior deacon A E Cast junior deacon Morris Griffin tl er J E Carnes secretary Tom Brown Martin treasurer R C Hill chaplain Carl Calvert senior steward Thomas H Armstrong junior steward.
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Martindale
Air Age Education Show Dazzles San Marcos Teachers
A Texas Aeronautics Commission and State Department of Education program tours San Marcos with a Link trainer aircraft exhibit to train teachers from primary to college levels on air age concepts. Ziggy Hunter directs, guiding instructors through flight simulations and discussions on incorporating aviation into curriculums.
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Horace Ainsworthean
Marcos
Texas
Army
Navy
Air Age
Texas Aeronautics Commission
State Department of Education
Ziggy Hunter
San Marcos
Gloria Perez
Emmett Perez
Weslaco
Miss Hunter
Gloria
Perez
Nettie Griffin
Gonzales
Texas Teachers Colleges
Hunter
US Crude Output Rises for Week Ended June 25
The American Petroleum Institute reports US crude oil output averaged 4,889,400 barrels daily in the week ended June 25, up 21,750 from the prior week and the first rise in five weeks. Gasoline production rose to 18,462,000 barrels, while total finished and unfinished stocks fell to 115,715,000 barrels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
American Petroleum Institute
Polio Outbreak in Arkansas Near Emergency
Arkansas Governor Sid McMath warned the polio outbreak is near an emergency level and urged private hospitals and the Army and Navy General Hospital in Hot Springs to prepare for patients. University Hospital in Little Rock already reports the state's only polio isolation wards as cases rise to 121 this year.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Sid McMath
Army and Navy General Hospital
Hot Springs
University Hospital
McMath
Catholic Pilgrims Turn St Peter's Tomb Feast Day Feature
Vatican City June 29 Thousands of pilgrims prayed at Saint Peter's tomb for the 1 700 year old feast of Saints Peter and Paul. More than 100 000 people passed through Saint Peter's Basilica by midday in the largest postwar pilgrimage. Cardinal Tedeschini led a solemn mass as dignitaries shared in the observance. Flowers from Vatican gardens decorated altars and an ancient bronze statue of Saint Peter wore a papal mantle.
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Vatican City
Saint Peter
Peter and
Paul
Vatican
Federico Cardinal Tedeschini
Vatican Gardens
Papal Summer Palace
Castel Gandolfo
Peter
Negro Receiver 5-Year Term in Bastrop Murder Trial
Kelso Yancy, a Black man, was convicted in Bastrop district court of murder for the fatal shooting of Ivan Taylor in Smithville on January 3, 1949. The two day trial ended with a five year prison sentence to be followed by transfer to the penitentiary. Yancy remains jailed awaiting sentencing.
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Bastrop
Kelso Yancy
Ivan Taylor
Smithville
Yancy
E. D. Cartwright
Czechs Charge Tito Plotting With Czech Officers
Bedrich Geminder, a Cominform official, accuses Marshal Tito’s Yugoslav government of conspiring with “reactionary” Czech Army officers to stage putschs in Prague. He also alleges American and British imperialists are involved, in a five column Rude Pravo piece.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Marshal Tito
Bedrich Geminder
Cominform
Tito
Geminder
Communist Party
Rude Pravo
Eager Beaver Tries to Report Crash Strikes Police Car
Truck driver Thomas Tucker 21 received a traffic citation after rushing to report a collision. He claimed he violated the law by driving on the highway shoulder to reach a police car, but he collided with it in his haste.
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San Francisco
Thomas Tucker
Tucker
Houston police chase dis connected auto radio thieves
Houston police hunt a band of radio thieves who have dis connected and stolen 150 car radios in the year to date. Lt. H. A. Spradley, head of the auto theft division, says a well organized gang may be behind the thefts with an average of three radios stolen per night in the past month.
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Houston
H. A. Spradley
Police
Spradley
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G. N. Martindale Jr
Robert Bartling
Joe Robbins
Leonard Scott
Willis Patton
H. C. Pfeiffer
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College Station
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Frank Pannell
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Martindale Masons
STSC
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