Luling Woman Accepts Journalism Post at Hardin College
Miss Marion Bridges of Luling will join Hardin College in Wichita Falls as journalism instructor arriving mid summer. Daughter of Hal and Mrs. Bridges, she is UT graduate with bachelor and master of journalism degrees and has two years as UT assistant instructor.
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Luling
Marion Bridges
Hardin College
Wichita Falls
Miss Bridges
Hal Bridges
The
Luling Signal
Luling High School
University of Texas
Llano Red Cross Sets 638 Dollar County Goal
Llano County will begin its 1949 Red Cross membership drive on Tuesday with a $638 quota. Finance chairman L. B. Turbiville announced. Llano town committee members include Lester Inmen Henry Buttery Jr Jim Watkins T. D. Swenson Curtis Carter A E Crenwelge Donald Bruhl and Elmo Littlepage. Additional workers were named for all county communities.
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Llano
Spl
Red Cross
Llano County
L. B. Turbiville
Lester Inmen
Henry Buttery Jr
Jim Watkins
T. D. Swenson
Curtis Carter
A. E. Crenwelge
Donald Bruhl
Elmo Littlepage
More Comfort Wearing FALSE TEETH
FASTEETH powder improves denture comfort by firming upper and lower plates. It is alkaline and non-acid, leaves no gummy taste, helps prevent odor, and is available at drug stores.
Hair clipping week for Travis County calves at Livestock Show
County agents Elmo Cook and Thomas Hooks plan a busy schedule of calf clipping and hoof trimming ahead of the 10th annual Travis County Junior Livestock Show March 8 10. Calves from multiple ranches will be groomed across Oak Hill Manor and Watson Bros Keillor Ranch with sessions Friday at the latter.
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Dave Shanks
Austin American Agricultural
Elmo V. Cook
Thomas B. Hooks
Travis County
Kenneth Pattoon
Roland Hough
Thomas Beckett Jr
Arthur Belcher
J. H. Patton
Oak Hill
Manor Lumber Yard
Charles Haynes
Robert Ceder
Harold Sandifer
Dorothy Nell Blaylock
Merle Swenson
Frank Voelker
Albert Voelker
Watson Bros. Keillor Ranch
Betty Joyce Wieland
Roland Wieland
John Watson
Sara Ann Watson
Bobby Pfluger
Glenn Tetens
Sidney Tetens
Shirley Mae Weiss
Norman Weiss
Edmund Randig
Lydia Randig
Kermit Hees
Max Kuempel
Mary Jo Fuchs
Auctions Loom For Junior Livestock Show
Austin plans indicate a live stock auction at the junior show with business houses mailed pre bids. Marble Falls reports 1.52 inches of rain since Friday with Llano runoff raising the Colorado River to eight feet. Don Bridges predicts upstream yellow catfish runs as temperatures rise. Charles Rosanky touts seven inch oats as Bastrop County’s best pasture stand. Ardley Cross applies limestone and super phosphate to Bastrop sandy soil.
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Austin
Marble Falls
Llano
Colorado
Don Bridges
Charles Rosanky
Smithville
Bastrop County
Lockhart to Get State Patrol Station
Lockhart will host a new State Highway Patrol station next Tuesday with offices in Caldwell County Courthouse. Patrolmen N. R. Crow and Earl Nichols are assigned to the station.
Fayette County Junior Livestock Show set for March
Judges for the Fayette County Junior Livestock Show March 8 9 have been named. F I Dahlberg TAMU will judge beef cattle swine and lambs Ted Martin College Station district extension service will judge pon s and A M Meekma extension service will judge dairy cattle. The LaGrange high school band will perform and the auction led by Walter Britten College Station starts at 1 30 p m March 9.
Luling Chamber Plans Community Trips
The Luling Chamber of Commerce votes to sponsor goodwill trips into neighboring communities. The first trip is tentatively set for April to the Dowdy School community south of Luling.
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Luling
Luing
Gillespie Community Chest Surpasses Goal Over Twenty Percent
Gillespie County residents pledged over 20 percent more than the 8100 goal in the first annual Community Chest drive. Total gifts exceed 10000 with several solicitors still to report. Major allocations included 2000 to local charity, 1800 to Boy Scouts, 1700 Red Cross, 1500 Girl Scouts, 400 Salvation Army, and 700 for operating expenses. Next year March of Dimes joins the Chest system.
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Fredericksburg
Gillespie Cayunty
Chest
William Schroeder
Here Mondey
Schroeder
Boy Scouts
Red Cross
Girl Scouts
Salvation Army
Alfred Petsch
Petsch
Bellamy Takes New Job Today
S. L. Bellamy, chief of the Travis County probation department, will become director of the Harris County probation department Tuesday. Robert F. Mitchell will serve as acting head of Travis County pending board study. Bellamy left Austin 10 days early. his March 10 resignation was accepted earlier.
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S. L. Bellamy
Travis County Probation Department
Harris County Probation Department
Travis County Juvenile Board
Robert F. Mitchell
Bellamy
Austin
J. Harris Gardner
Houston
Assignments Open For Naval Reservists
The Navy Department announced summer extended active duty openings for about 100 officers of the Organized and Volunteer Naval Reserve. From June 20 to August 20 they will serve as instructors at Newport Rhode Island and San Diego California in the Reserve Officer Candidate Schools. Lieutenant commanders lieutenants and lieutenants jg trained to teach navigation gunnery communications seamanship or naval orientation are eligible. Volunteers should contact Captain H. Y. McCown USN professor of naval science University of Texas for details.
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Navy Department
Naval Reserve
Newport
R. I
San Diego
Cal
H. Y. McCown
USN
Naval Science
University of Texas
Bids on Power Plant Additions To Be Called In June
City plans call for bids to add a building at the power plant to house two turbo-generators to be delivered in 1950 and 1951 with two boilers installed outside. Revenue bonds to finance contracted equipment and the building will be issued around mid May, totaling about 2.6 million dollars.
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Guston Morgan
Morgan
San Marcos Parish Dedicates New Home
The Rev C N Roth of the Texas District led the dedicatory service at First American Lutheran Church in San Marcos for its new parish house. Paul Rode sang with Dr Hilda Damus at Seguin Lutheran College as accompanist. The church's pastor is Rev Paul W Geiger.
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San Marcos
C. N. Roth
Texas
American Church
First American Lutheran Church
Paul Rode
Hilda Damus
Seguin Lutheran College
Paul W. Geiger
Lee Exceeds Its Dimes Drive Goal
Giddings Lee County reports March of Dimes collections totaled 1177.37 dollars, exceeding the county quota by 177.37 dollars, according to Campaign Director Mrs. C. C. Bobo. The report covers the drive in Lee County as of February 28.
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Lee
Giddings
Lee County
C. C. Bobo
Name Change Urged for College of Mines
Senator Hill D Hudson of Pecos introduced a bill to rename the College of Mines at El Paso to Texas State College of Mines and Arts.
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College of Mines
Hill D. Hudson
Pecos
The
College of Mines At
el Paso
Texas State College of Mines and Arts
Dam Core Drillers Endure Colorado River Perils
Marble Falls workers drilling for proposed Colorado River dams faced river danger on Friday and Saturday. A barge carrying $12,000 in gear threatened to drift as E A Smith and Vic Alderson reached shore while Roger Russel, unable to swim, rode the barge until a canoe freed him. The capsized boat and a later mishap near the dam led Marble Falls volunteers to rescue boatmen and recover gear.
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Marble Falls
Colorado River
Old Man River
Llano River
E. A. Smith
Vic Alderson
Roger Russel
Russel
Vernon Jackson
Archie Barnes
Paul Grayson
Carl Rowland
Barnes
Radios Installed in Taylor Police Cars
Taylor police report two way radios installed in two patrol cars and active for several days. Chief J. W. Dellinger says calls come quicker and the system will improve department efficiency.
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Taylor
J. W. Dellinger
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Ed Willingham
Max Will Kretchmar
Edsel Pearson
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Bastrop
Lockhart
Rolling Stone
C. A. Stone
Charlie
Charlie Woods
Elgin Chamber of Commerce
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Farm Bureau
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Blanco
W. A. Byars
Elgin
US Department of Agriculture
Brownwood
Luling CC
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Gear Heart
Walter Wirehaus
Eaesee
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Ford Street Liano
Deviney-Gunn Motor Company
North Main Street
Lockhart, Texas
Charlie T
Austin Motors
East Fifth Street
Hays County Motor Co
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Gillespie
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Southern Jesuit Mission Band
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