Real Spirit You Can Play Santa For Cancer Patient Buster
Community groups and neighbors plan an early Christmas for three year old John Buster Edwards of Hyde Park who battles an incurable cancer. Santa will arrive October 21 at 4500 Avenue C to deliver gifts and set a real tree with packages. Gifts may be left with the Echols family or at The American Statesman editorial offices marked Buster's Christmas.
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Buster
Santa Claus
Hyde Park
W. S. Echols
Echols
Albert
45Th
Avenue C
Santa
The
American Statesman
One-Year-Old Resident of Fannin County Dies
Bonham report notes the death of an 81 year old woman Mrs J C Biggers who had lived in Fannin County for 74 years. She left behind ten children and 24 grandchildren.
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Fannin County
School Board Meets After Invalid Transfer Opinion
The City Board of Education will hold a special meeting Thursday to review actions after the attorney general ruled the $175 000 annual transfer from the water and light department to public schools invalid. Officials debate steps, possible declaratory judgment, and impacts on the budget and new classroom plans.
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City Board of Education
Water and Light Department
R. W. Bryam
J. W. Edgar
Bryam
Rest of Buffalo Skeleton Found Near Onion Creek
Workmen digging below Onion Creek unearthed a fossil buffalo skull about 12 feet deep. Texas Memorial Museum director E H Sellards confirms it as the prehistoric buffalo that died 10 000 to 15 000 years ago. Horn measures 14 inches long and four inches at the base as experts broaden digs for more fossils.
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Onion Creek
Lawson Boothe
E. H. Sellards
Texas Memorial Museum
Sellards
Boothe
Death Claims Former McAllen Show Head
Lucian Jenkins Mason, former theater manager at McAllen Texas, died Monday morning in Albuquerque New Mexico after eight months of asthma treatment. The body was sent to Bowling Green Kentucky, his family home, where his mother brother and sister reside.
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Albuqueque
N. M
Lucian Jenkins Mason
McAllen
Texas
Bowling Green
Courts and filings sweep through county dockets
In Betts court J W Harrison Truck Lines v State Railroad Commission filed for injunction. Multiple cases listed for divorce annulment and swindling with worthless checks across district and county courts. Marriage licenses issued to six couples. New car registrations include Pontiacs Chevrolets Fords and more.
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98Th District Court
Betts
J. W. Harrison Truck Lines, Inc
State Railroad Commission
Forget-Me-Not Day Flower Sale Urged by Mayor
Austin residents urged by Mayor Taylor Glass to buy blue Forget-Me-Nots Saturday in downtown Austin. The sale by Austin High School Red Jackets supports Disabled American Veterans rehabilitation for veterans and families with proceeds going to DAV Chapter No. 4 Lone Star. Driskill Hotel hosts the sale headquarters with auxiliary cooperation.
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Austin
Taylor Glass
Lone Star
Glass
DAV
Driskill Hotel
Two-Headed Guppy Born in Los Angeles Hobby Story
In Los Angeles on October 18, Mrs Kenneth Pettibone reports a twin headed guppy. The mother fish has produced a two headed offspring with two fully formed mouths that eat simultaneously. The guppy is small at birth, about the size of an aspirin tablet.
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Los Angeles
Kenneth Pettibone
Guppy
Full Police Investigation Urged at Travis County Conference
At City Hall a Travis County law enforcement conference urged complete investigations, tighter coordination, and pristine evidence handling. DA Bob Long outlined patrol duties, witness handling, and crowd control to avoid compromising cases. Speakers include Walter E. Long, Charles E. Green, and Perry L. Jones.
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Joe Carrington
Travis County Law Enforcement Commission
Austin
Bob Long
Leslie Proctor Jr
Thomas Blackwell
Oris Doherty
Walter E. Long
The
Chamber of Commerce
Charles E. Green
Austin American Statesman
Perry L. Jones
Israel Sees 150000 Immigrants in 1950
Finance Minister Eliezer Kaplan told a United Jewish Appeal mission in Tel Aviv that Israel expects a minimum immigration of 150000 Jews in the coming year. He said about 90000 will arrive in the first six months of 1950.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Eliezer Kaplan
United Jewish Appeal
United States
Courthouse Wing Favored for Joint City County Plan
City and county officials voiced general agreement on a north courthouse wing to house the sheriff and police departments and local courts. The $300,000 project would require a bond election, with the city leasing space for the corporation and traffic courts, police, and detective bureaus.
Mrs Beaulah Swank Dies in Fort Worth
Mrs Beaulah Jones Swank 68, former Austin resident, died Tuesday morning in Fort Worth. Funeral services held in Fort Worth Wednesday afternoon. Survivors include brother Charlie P Jones Route 5 Austin son William Swank Fort Worth and brothers W C Jones Pauls Valley Oklahoma and Robert Jones Phoenix Arizona plus sister Mrs Jones Buchanana Houston. Widow of Tinsley Swank formerly of Austin.
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Beaulah Jones Swank
Austin
Fort Worth
Charlie P. Jones
Route 5
William Swank
W. C. Jones
Paul's Valley
Oklo
Robert Jones
Phoenix
Ariz
Jones Buchanana
Houston
Nine Big Dams on TVA Tennessee River System
Nine big dams of the TVA stair step the Tennessee River in its 650 mile course and 500 foot drop from Knoxville to its mouth on the Ohio River at Paducah Kentucky. Above Knoxville are nineteen more dams on the Tennessee and its branches.
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TVA
Tennessee River
Knoxville
Ohio River
Paducah
Knoxvilel
Tennessee
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Charles Weeks
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R. D. “Boss” Thorp
C. B. Batey
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J. E. Townsley
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L. L. McClain Jr
Rupert Jackson
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Limberg
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Horace B. Finner
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Aurelio Torres
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James O. Burns
Edith Barker
Harold Louis Thomas
Evelyn Lucille Roberts
Heffington
Doyle T. Brooks Jr
Pontiac
Leroy R. Robbins
Lawrence C. Johnson
Cadillac
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Ethel Satterwhite
John T. Crawford
A. F. White Sr
Ford
C. L. Cody
Curtis W. Voelker
J. W. Shriver
E. B. Miller
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Kennth C. Jurgens
W. O. Evans
Richard R. Bennett
Hudson
Tom Miller
Mercury
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K. N. Amacker
R. W. Workman
F. J. Schnitzer
Mayor Glass
Rauscher, Pierce & CO
Long
Prosos
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Braniff
Austin Hotel
US Independent Telephone Association
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