Weafer Files Candidacy for 10th District School Board
Eugene Clyde Weafer of Caldwell Burleson County filed as the first candidate for the new State Board of Education from the 10 county 10th District. He is 36 and previously sought Caldwell postmaster. A petition group backed Paul Bolton Austin School Board member for the district seat, with more than 1500 signatures filed by next Monday deadline for the November 8 ballot.
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Caldwell
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Caldwell County
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Shivers Begins Week Tour With Mexico City Stop
Morris acting governor leaves Austin for three day trip to Mexico City and Dallas. Shivers attends Texas Citrus convention and a Houston civic dinner, addresses the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and meets International Aftosa Commission co directors. Senator Morris acts as governor during his absence.
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Houston
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Dallas
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Mexico City
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Education Board To Meet Monday For Textbook Bids
The State Board of Education is called to a special meeting next Monday to consider preliminary phases of a possible Nov. 14 adoption of textbooks. Bids were called by Chairman C. C. Chessher as the outgoing board weighs contracts nine days before replacement by a new board.
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State Board of Education
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Austin
Grocery Fortune Heir Weds Ex Cigaret Girl
Huntington Hartford III, a 38 year old grocery fortune heir of A and P, disclosed he married Marjorie Sue Steel, a 19 year old former nightclub cigarette girl, on the previous Saturday in Gardnerville Nevada.
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Huntington Hartford, III
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Marjorie Sue Steel
Lawhon Resigns Liquor Control Post to Rejoin Law Practice
John Lawhon resigns as administrator of the Texas Liquor Control Board effective upon successor choice. He will return to Tyler to resume law practice, after serving about 18 months as head of the board and previously leading the law enforcement division. The board will meet in Austin within two weeks to appoint a successor.
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Dallas
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Brown
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Obie Bristoe
Quinn Begins Job With Parks Group
Frank D. Quinn, appointed Saturday as a member of the State Parks Board, started his duties immediately and traveled Monday to Detroit for the National Conference of State Parks Officials. He is first vice president of the conference and will speak for Governor Shivers inviting the 1950 national meeting in Texas, possibly with Big Bend dedication.
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Frank D. Quinn
State Parks Board
Detroit
Gordon K. Shearer
Parks Board
Quinn
Allan Shivers
Texas
Big Bend National Park
James V. Ash
Burglaries Reported as One Suspect Faces Charge
Two burglaries were reported on Monday while a third was solved. Alton McCarver Jr., 20, of 3800 Pennsylvania, was charged with burglary in Justice Travis Blakeslee's court. The Page Rev. Booker T. Page residence on Sept. 2 was entered and a revolver removed. the weapon was recovered. Burglars hit Soldier's Inn on Sabine Street and Covert Auto, stealing nickel, cash, keys, and a 1941 Chevrolet. Delores Harris reported a shotgun theft and Corpral D W Ippoliti reported a wrist watch stolen from his car at Barton Springs.
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Travis Blakeslee
Booker T. Page
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Sabine
Willie Gibbs
Covert Auto Company
501 Nueces
Delores Harris
Oldham
D. W. Ippoliti
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Barton Springs
Soil Security Day Proclaimed by Texas Governor
Governor Allan Shivers proclaimed September 15 as Soil Security Day and set October 20 27 for Texas Farm Bureau Federation Organization Week. The proclamation highlights soil and water preservation as vital to Texas prosperity and notes a dawn to dusk soil conservation demonstration sponsored by the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce and local dealers.
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San Antonio Chamber of Commerce
Bexar County
Pioneer Air Line HQ Move Decision Expected This Week
Pioneer Air Line officials may decide this week whether to keep headquarters in Houston or move to Dallas. The board authorized the executive committee to finish negotiations with both cities after meeting over the weekend. The company has used a Houston hangar owned by the State Armory Board, with a lease termination and hangar reassignment to the 63rd Fighter Wing of the Texas Air National Guard previously notified.
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Pioneer Air Line
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Rebellious Kachins fortify Namhkam hospital in Burma
In Namhkam Burma, Kachin tribesmen turned a hospital run by American Dr Gordon Seagrave into a fortress. Government troops halted an offensive to protect patients and Karen nurses. Dr Seagrave, famed for Burma Surgeon, joined Stilwell on the 1942 trek.
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Houston Safecrackers Get $1,200 at Theater
The Stade Theater in Houston reported a $1,200 robbery. Police were told that experienced thieves knocked the safe knob off and forced it open, with the discovery made Monday morning by manager D. L. Murray.
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D. L. Murray
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Murray
Four Rare Iris Tubers Offered From Puget Sound Beds
Four rare English originations priced at $1 each with blooms BLACK MAGIC DOG ROSE CONSTANCE MEYER SUNSET GOLD and a labeled set including GUDRUN Iris. Extra bundle option adds two more tubers plus a white GUDRUN with gold throat totaling nine tubers for $2 postpaid. Empress Bldg.
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Constance Meyer
Eisenhower Snubs Young Republicans in Denver
Denver report says General Dwight D. Eisenhower during a vacation in Denver refused to speak with any Republican. Hugh S. Jenings, a Young Republican League member, said he telephoned Estes Park and relayed that John Evans wished to speak with him. Eisenhower reportedly answered I dont want to talk to any Republican and hung up.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hugh S. Jenings
Young Republican League of Colorado
Eisenhower
Estes Park
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John Evans
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Paying Off a Debt Polio Fund Drive Hearten Austin Unit
Dr. Lewis Hatch of the Travis County National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis said early responses to the Polio Emergency Drive in Austin were heartening. A local Austin woman donated a $100 check as contributions are sent to Dallas for the emergency aid and the foundation’s $10 million research program. Austin drive officials say the community owes the foundation $12,000 for last year’s emergency aid. Contributions should be mailed to Polio Austin.
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Lewis Hatch
Travis County
National Foundation For
Hatch
Dallas
National Foundation
National
Founda
Austin Drive
Five New Polio Cases Reported in Houston Area
Five new polio cases, all Harris County residents aged three to 32, raise Houston total this year to 60 with one death. Harris County totals reach 70 cases and four deaths, while out-of-county cases total 30 with two deaths. Last year at this time Houston had 142 cases and 13 deaths.
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Harris County
Texas Railroad Man's Funeral Rites Slated
Funeral services are set for 11 a.m. Wednesday at Settegast Kopf Funeral Home in Houston for Frank H. Comiskey 69 a Fort Worth and Denver City Railway freight claim agent who died Sunday in a Fort Worth hospital.
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BC Headache Powders and Tablets Offer Fast Relief
Headache Powders and Tablets provide quick relief for headaches neuralgic pains and minor muscular aches with a blend of popular ingredients. The product promises rapid, effective action whether in tablet or powder form and notes cost options of 10¢ and 25¢.
Train limps home after losing to the tire incident
In Springfield Illinois on September 12 a Gulf Mobile and Ohio streamliner struck a truck tire on the rails. The impact damaged the airline and brakes, causing the wheels to flatten. The train crawled into St Louis five hours late for repairs at 30 miles an hour.
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