Auction Results Show Strong Sale at Capitol Livestock Auction
Monday's auction at Capitol Livestock Auction Company in Austin saw 850 head of cattle bring higher prices across grades. Slaughter calves sold from 23 to 27.50 with medium calves 19 to 23, cows 15 to 19, cutters 12 to 15, and bulls 14 to 20.25. hogs and sheep also traded with gains.
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Capitol Livestock Auction Company
Austin
Harrison Feed and Grain Company
Jarrell
Bernice Walker
Route 3
Huron Neal
Hugh D. Reich
M. M. Chamberlain
Leander
Rosalie Torras
Kyle
Alexander
Watts
Cedar Creek
W. H. Dodson
Burnet
Street Lights At Leander Assured
Leander residents will soon have street lighting after the Chamber of Commerce pledged to back the project with funds to support the LCRA. Officers elected include President O. J. Faught and Director R. B. Hall Jr., with committees led by W. E. Faubion and H. R. Craven.
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Leander
ANL
Chamber of Commerce
LCRA
O. J. Faught
J. W. Strain
E. A. Cook
R. B. Hall Jr
Lois F. Giddens
A. B. Simmons
L. C. Morrison
Taft Kern
Baptist Youth Group Names New Officers
Ernestine Crowder is the new president of the Young People and Intermediate Training Union at the First Baptist Church in Taylor. Other officers include Frederick Roose as vice president Marian Sue McMurry as secretary Reuben Fechner as quiz leader Joan Lee as social chairman Harriet Moore as song leader Sydnah Simmons as pianist Gilbert Barfield as reporter Ernestine Crowder as young people's group captain and Joan Lee as intermediate group captain.
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Taylor
ANS
Ernestine Crowder
Young People
First Baptist Church
Frederick Roose
Marian Sue McMurry
Reuben Fechner
Joan Lee
Harriet Moore
Sydnah Simmons
Gilbert Barfield
Banquet Held at Buchanan Dam High School
Liberty Hill March 21 The annual junior senior banquet was held at the Administration Building at Buchanan Dam with 18 seniors and 10 juniors present. Judge Sam V. Stone of Georgetown was the main speaker. Honor guests were junior sponsors Mrs H E Phillips and Mrs Clint Farris and senior sponsor Superintendent R B Hickman. Senior president Carrol Hayden and junior president Miss Barbara Davis named.
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Liberty Hill
Buchanan Dam
Sam V. Stone
Georgetown
H. E. Phillips
Clint Farris
R. B. Hickman
Carrol Hayden
Barbara Davis
Thorndale Woman Enters Lebanon Medical School
Mrs Walter Vaughn formerly Verna Mae Guthrie of Thorndale now lives with husband in Beirut Lebanon and attends the medical school there. She spent 18 months as a nurse with a field hospital in Europe and is employed by the American Arabian Oil Company.
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Thorndale
Walter Vaughn
Verna Mae Guthrie
Beruit
Lebanon
Vaughn
Europe
American Arabian Oil Company
English Methodists Remove Word Obey From Marriage Ceremonies
One thousand one hundred Methodist ministers in England have struck the word obey from marriage ceremonies. The change follows calls for equality in vows and reflects evolving views on spousal rights within the church.
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England
Dairying, market quotes urged by Buda families and readers
The Rylanders of Buda request Reuben publish frequent prices on cottonseed products oats wheat bran corn hay and other dairy feeds after readers suggested market quotations. Dairy receipts rose in 1949 and milk prices averaged 4 per hundred with butter fat at 62 cents a pound. Local commentary notes politics on cotton acreage and the impact on Texas dairies, while auctions note Holstein buys and fat steer sales.
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Dave Shanks
Rylanders
Buda
Reuben
Georgetown
R. O. Whiteaker
Fall Kills Laborer At Dallas Construction Site
Fred Epps of Paris a 27 year old Negro roofing worker died after falling two stories while climbing a ladder at a downtown Dallas construction project Tuesday.
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Dallas
Fred Epps
Paris
Meteorite in New Mexico Yields Gold Discovery
A meteorite fall in New Mexico years ago has yielded gold within its mineral matrix, sparking scientific interest and renewed relic-hunter speculation about extraterrestrial gold deposits.
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New Mexico
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Lester Bowles
Marble Falls
Max Homann
Lockhart
Quinton Swenson
Route 1
Creedmoor
Alvin Frerich
Red Rock
Lewis von Quintus
L. B. Luker
Marvin Andres
Walburg
B. L. DeLeon
Bertram
M. A. Prokop
Bastrop
Henry Bartlett
Tab Harrell
Cecil Meredith
Norco Ranch
Reuben Burklund
Allene Meadows
Luling
Jeff Huddleston
R. M. Jones
Adolph Town
Arthur H. Schroeder
Elgin
Clifford Huddleston
Dewey Turner
Jim Lockwood
Manor
J. N. Coose
Spicewood
Abb Harber
Dripping Springs
Bob Dittmar
B. F. Burton
A. L. Rosenbusch
C. E. Williford
Delvalle
Emmett Hendricks
F. M. de Spain
Round Rock
H. A. Johnson
Gelveston-Wonston Broweries, Inc., Gelveston, Texes
General
Electric
Fuecher
Baptist Youth Group
Dam Building
Thorndale Woman In Lebanon Med School
Doc
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Richard Riley
Shelby
Shelby Elliott
Caldwell County
Fit
Senate
Little Ranch Dairy
Donald Duane Uithorn
Dousman
Wis
Rust Sissy
Texas
Dick Youngblood
Cypress Mill
Blanco County
San Antonio
Andy Ernest Stubbs
Austin Dairy Herd Improvement Association
Otto C. Pfluger
Pflugerville
Johnson Brothers
Jacksboro
George Pfluger
Fort Worth
J. W. Winkle
Llano
Larry Pfluger
TD Ranch
Porter Davis
Cross Plains
Lower
Colorado River Authority
Farm and Ranch Council
Home Demonstration Club
James Marley
L. L. Pfluger
Horace Echols
Arvid Johnson
Marley
Pflugerville 4-H Club
Travis County Farm and Ranch Improvement Council
Seateneus
L. East Produce Company
Fall
Laborer
China
Penny Pest
Wellborn-Anderson & Co
Columbus, GA
East
Zale
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KR. K. Shannon
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Proctor
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