Bastrop Homecoming Rodeo Promises Big City Event
Reubens HALF ACRE BY C A NELSON Pinch hitting for Dave Shanks big show. The third annual Bastrop Homecoming Rodeo runs Thursday through Sunday with Shrine Band leading a parade and a long colorful procession. Crowning of the king and queen follows rodeo events. Dances, kiddie parade, fiddlers contest, water carnival, baseball, golf, and outboard boat races are planned. Rodeo features include trick riders Tad Lucas Ruth Marian and Dixie Toulson plus Sam Stewart clowning and Bees Wax Moore acts. Rodeo directors include Bower Grider Monroe Sanders and Sally Simpson with honorary directors Curtis Sanders and William Higgens Jr.
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Dave Shanks
Bastrop
Central Texas
Bower Crider
Rodeo Board of Directors
Frank Green
Shrine Band of Austin
Rodeo Board of
Bower Grider
Monroe Sanders
Sally Simpson
Lloyd Keatha
S. L. Brannon, Jr
Wil Rogers
Curtis Sanders
American Legion
William Higgens, Jr
Legion
Bertram Lions Sponsor Benefit Play for Children
Bertram in May. The Bertram Lions Club sponsors Aunt Sally, a comedy, at the Bertram School Auditorium at 8 p m Thursday and Friday. Proceeds go to help Little League and school children needing eye glasses. Local cast features community members.
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Sally
Bertram School
Bertram Lions Club
Local Holiday Pageant Includes Parade and Reviews
Mrs. Nell Adams directs a community play plus Toyland Review Girls' Dancing Chorus and Businessmen's Review. The event features other local specialties and a parade scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
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Nell Adams
Toyland
Canada Welcomes Khan On First Official Visit To Ottawa
Prime Minister Louis St Laurent greeted Pakistan Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan as he arrived by plane in Ottawa for his first official visit to Canada's capital on Tuesday May 30.
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Ottawa
Canada
Louis St. Laurent
Pakistan
Liaquat Ali Kahn
Llano Trustees Sell Rural School Houses
Llano Independent School District trustees sold three more rural school buildings no longer used after consolidation. M. A. Murchison was the high bidder on the Long Mountain school build ing.
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Llano Independent School District
M. A. Murchison
Long Mountain
Buildings Sell in Auction as Land Remains Unsold
Shir Williams bought the Oestreich building for $103 and the Honey Creek building for $76. The land beneath the structures was not offered or sold.
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Thelma Norwood Honored as Top Graduate at San Marcos
Thelma Claire Norwood, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Pat Norwood, earned the highest scholastic honors at San Marcos High School commencement in Evans Auditorium. Andrew Gary received top honors among boys, with second honors to Patsy Tucker Holden and a top ten percent list including Dorothy Smith and others. The class of 61 heard a morality play and watched diplomas conferred by Addison Buckner.
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Addison Buckner
Board of Trustees
Homemaking Pupils Attend Encampment at Bastrop Park
Mrs Reagan Nesbit homemaking instructor at Bertram will lead five students Emma Jewel Ruble Catherine Orr Marjorie McKenzie Billie Daniel and Margaret Ann Knox to the district home making encampment at Bastrop State Park. The camp runs Wednesday through Friday with cooking swimming hiking and square dancing activities for more than 100 girls from 19 Central Texas towns near Austin.
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Reagan Nesbit
Bastrop State Park
Emma Jewel Ruble
Catherine Orr
Marjorie McKenzie
Billie Daniel
Margaret Ann Knox
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Tommy Netherland
Harold Priem
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Shirley Rogers
Mary Schulze
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