Post Office Bars Yuletime Tree Stamps at Christmas Post Office
The Christmas Florida post mistress Juanita S Tucker must stop stamping tiny green Christmas trees and Yuletide slogans on holiday mail after years of the practice. A postal official said such cachets are forbidden except on new stamp issues, and the ban could extend to other communities. Senator Holland urged a relaxation, but the policy stands.
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Washington
Fla
Juanita S. Tucker
Dfla
Jesse Donaldson
Holland
Chamber of Commerce
Ind
Army Says Small Firms Secured 75 Percent of Bids
Army procurement witnesses tell House subcommittee that about 75 percent of armed services purchases go to small firms while 73 percent go to other firms. Brigadier General Brannon notes these figures cover prime contracts only. sub contracts aid small businesses as well.
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ARMY
Washington
Armed Services
Celler
D-Ny
House
E. M. Brannon
Air Force
Navy
United States
Murderer Hatton asks Florida governor to die instead of death
Reed Leroy Hatton, 20, sentenced for the 1948 murder of Willie Riley, writes to Governor Fuller Warren seeking execution rather than commutation to life. Insanity rulings are cited. doctors deem him legally sane though chronically dangerous. Hatton claims lifelong unrest and requests rest through death.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Reed Leroy Hatton
Fuller Warren
Hatton
San Francisco
California Hospital For
New Detergent Cuts Out Rinsing Clothes
Lever Brothers unveiled a laundry detergent claimed to eliminate rinsing on wash day. Demonstrations in a Philadelphia hotel showed dirty clothes washed in 20 minutes with a machine, then hung to dry without a rinse as dirt supposedly remains suspended and exits with the rinse water.
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Philadelphia
Lever Brothers
Build Farm in Day project meeting topic set
A Central Texas build a farm in a day project will be discussed at a dinner meeting of agricultural business and civic leaders at the Austin Hotel. Jim Boswell the agricultural secretary of the Austin Chamber of Commerce announced the plan on Tuesday. Boswell and Ernest Best recently spoke with San Antonio officials about the project which drew 150 000 people to Bexar County.
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Texas
Austin
Jim Boswell
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Boswell
Ernest Best
Chamber of Commerce Agricultral
San Antonio
Bexar County
Weather Outlook For Austin Texas With Cool Skies Expected
U S Weather Bureau forecast for the Austin area calls for clearing skies and cooler weather with a high near 65. Daily readings show variable minor data and references to moon phase, rainfall totals, and river stages around Montopolis Buchanan Lake Travis and the Colorado River forecast with conditions returning to normal below Austin.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Austin
Texas
Colorado
Montopolis
Buchanan
Lake Travis
Marshall Ford
Colorado River
Galveston
Brownsville
Houston
Corpus Cartel
Laredo
del Rio
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Wesehrren OO
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