Texas Theaters Polio Fund Drive Nets Big Sum
The Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation at Gonzales received a $172 222 01 check from the Texas Theaters Polio Fund drive campaign chaired by L M Rice in Dallas. Patrons of 814 theaters contributed 176 808 20 while baseball fans in four leagues gave 6 176 81. Campaign expenses totaled 10 763 including 9 549 for a motion picture trailer shown in 614 theaters. Governor Shivers appeared in the trailer with nine Gonzales patients. Funds will cover deficits from the 1949 polio epidemic, expand training, add an isolation ward, and maintain equipment like portable respirators across Texas.
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Dallas
INS
Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation
Gonzales
Texas Theaters Polio Fund
Allan Shivers
Gonzales Foundation
L. M. Rice
Texas
Big State
East Texas
Longhorn
Gov
Shivers
Rice
Oil Strike Prompts Gladewater Hotel and Cafe Plans
Gladewater oilman Claude Lee and partner Dick Burnett reported a good well near Stephens Arkansas. They plan a $500 hotel and a $75,000 restaurant, with Burnett noting Lee is ready to proceed. A swank restaurant is also planned at the Gladewater municipal airport after the town lost its major hotel when the St. Clair burned a year ago.
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Gladewater
Stephens
Ark
Claude Lee
Dick Burnett
Dallas
Burnett
Lee
St. Clair
Wakefield manganese sale rumor shocks Texas town
On September 15 1889 a rumor spread that the Wakefield Company sold its manganese holdings near Mason Texas for 925000, vastly exceeding the land’s cost. Discovered at the Spiller mine in the early 1890s the prospects were never commercially exploited and the deal was never confirmed.
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Texas
Wakefield Company
Mason
Spiller
Wakefield Yard
Demands Listed By Phone Union In Texas Talks
The CIO Communications Workers of America plans higher wages and better conditions for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Texas employees. The current contract covering about 23 000 expires December 1. The union filed the proposal as a pre negotiation overture 60 days before expiry. Southwestern Bell in Dallas had no comment.
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Dallas
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Texas
CIO Communications Workers of America
Southwest
CWA
Division 20
St. Louis
Southwestern Bell
Waco Officials Find Rented Office Unused Since April
County commissioners learned they have paid rent on an office unused since April 1 1944. P R Malone, a Negro rental agent, sought more rent this week for the downtown office, which officials had not informed him was not in use.
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Waco
P. R. Malone
Malone
Shivers Plans Run For Governor As Mexico Visit Ends
Texas Governor Allan Shivers, visiting Mexico, announces he will run for a full term next year. He outlined his plans at a news conference after touring Mexico City sites, praising U.S.-Mexico cooperation in the aftosa campaign and presenting a Texas legislative resolution to President Miguel Aleman.
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Mexico City
Allan Shivers
Texas
Mexico
Shivers
Beauford Jester
Dallas
Texas “Friendship Caravan
Thomas Sutherland
Texas Good Neighbor Commission
Fernando Casas Aleman
del Prado
US Embassy
Walter Thurston
Casas Aleman
Los Pinos
Miguel Aleman
United States
Gov. Shivers
State of Texas
Aftosa
Republic of Mexico
United States of America
Thurston
President Aleman
National Palace
Miguel Hidalgo
Spain
Shallow Eyes Key In Choosing Potatoes
The best potatoes are firm and clean with shallow eyes and no cuts or decay. Green spots should be removed before eating as they contain the same harmful substance found in potato sprouts.
Listening Eyes School Opens for Deaf Children in Wichita Falls
The non profit School of Listening Eyes opens in a former six room home to teach deaf children to speak and lip read. Seventeen pupils from Wichita Falls and nearby areas begin preparatory training with two specialized speech teachers. The Goins home houses the school and local firms plus labor unions contribute remodel and exterior work.
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Wichita Falls
San Antonio
Randlett
Okla
Electra
Holliday
Jimmy Goins
Texas and Pacific Railmen Laid Off Amid MP Strike
About 400 Texas and Pacific Railway workers face temporary layoffs on the eastern division from Fort Worth to Texarkana due to the Missouri Pacific strike. layoffs affect shop, yard, station, and office staff handling repair, inspection, switching, and clerical duties. Specific totals include Lancaster shops 91 furloughed, Dallas switching engine idle affecting 5 crewmen, Marshall 72, Longview 30, Texarkana 140, Mineola 16, with further reductions planned.
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Dallas
Texas and Pacific Railway Company
Fort Worth
Texarkana
Missouri Pacific
Marshall
Longview
Lancaster
Mineola
County ignores Daniel Opinion on August Tax Practices
Attorney General Daniel clarifies that August tax levies are for the next calendar year’s operations and not current revenues. Johnson defends using late-year collections as current revenues to cover September indebtedness and avoid employee script warrants, noting a $15 000 budget leeway for unforeseen expenses. The county judge points to state laws forcing a July levy and budget, requiring 18 months of foresight for a January-to-January fiscal year.
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Daniel
Johnson
Galveston Gambling Hearings Postponed
Four Galveston establishments charged with permitting gaming faced continued hearings to next Tuesday after attorney Louis M. Gernsbacher requested the delay. Complaints were filed by Ira Taylor, a former Galveston Tribune reporter. Defendants include J. A. Pinocchio Bonnie Holmes Christie Mitchell Hal White and Jack Sparks of the Omar Khayyam Club.
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Galveston
News
Louis M. Gernsbacher
Justice of the Peace Orran Richmond
Ira Taylor
Galveston Tribune
J. A. Pinocchio
Bonnie Holmes
Christie Mitchell
Omar Khayyam Club
Hal White
Jack Sparks
Tenure Secure Box 13 Faces Grand Jury Review
Jim Wells County Box 13 linked to Stevenson's bid faces renewed scrutiny as a grand jury subpoenas key officials and Stevenson loyalists. Witness Kellis Dibrell says new evidence may imply local criminal responsibility, not affecting Lyndon Johnson's Senate tenure. Subpoenas target judge Luis Salas, county executive secretary B F Donald, and Box 13 clerks and supporters.
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Alice
Jim Wells
Coke Stevenson
Kellis Dibrell
FBI
Stevenson
Dibrell
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Police Press Call for Cooperation to Cut Traffic Toll
Dallas Sept. 14 The International Association of Chiefs of Police heard William J. Scripps urge full police press cooperation to lower traffic deaths. Mayor Dorothy McCullough Lee cited the cost in blood and suffering and urged integrated education engineering and enforcement programs.
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Dallas
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Scripps
Dorothy McCullough Lee
Portland
Ore
Lee
Franklin M. Kreml
Chicago
Association
Illinois
Kreml
Woman Out on Bond In Trainman Slaying
A 38 year old Houston woman, Mary Elizabeth Stansbury, charged with murder after the fatal shooting of railroad conductor William Howard Jones, 52, at a Houston rooming house. Justice of the Peace set bond at $1,000. Jones died with ten gunshot wounds.
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Houston
William Howard Jones
St. Louis
Brownsville
Mexico
Mary Elizabeth Stansbury
Justice of the Peace
W C. Reagan
New Bank Building Planned in Longview
The First National Bank of Longview announced a new air conditioned banking and office building on its current downtown site. The plan, reported by the Longview Daily News, shows construction in the heart of the business district.
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Longview
First National Bank of
Longview Daily News
Cautious Couple Marries After Threshold Demand
In Enid Oklahoma on September 14 Joseph N Grove 72 from Shamrock Texas married Sally B Chitwood 65 from Garber Oklahoma after a justice of the peace asked Grove if he would take the bride he replied I will if she treats me right The bride required Grove to carry her over the threshold before the knot was tied
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Enid
Okla
Joseph N. Grove
Sally B. Chitwood
Justice of Peace
A. C. Moyer
Grove
Search Continues For Texas Flyers
Air Force rescue forces pressed a search for two missing Texas fliers, William B. Cline of Amarillo and J. W. McBrayer of White Deer, last heard over Wichita as they requested weather near Gage and Amarillo. A C47 from the 2151st Rescue Unit at Lowry Field joined the search near Gage, Oklahoma, with paratroopers and medical gear aboard.
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Wichita
Kans
Air Force
Texas
William B. Cline
Amarillo
J. W. McBrayer
White Deer
Gage
Lowry Field
Denver
Gage and Supply
Okla
Josh Lee Sees Central Airlines Inaugural Flight
Josh Lee former US senator from Oklahoma and Civil Aeronautics Board member rode the first of six Central Airlines planes on a pre inauguration flight from Fort Worth to five feeder points Gainesville Ardmore Ada Holdenville and Shawnee Oklahoma Special ceremonies marked each stop and the first regular flight is set for 7 35 a m Thursday with two daily services.
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Fort Worth
Josh Lee
Oklahoma
Civil Aeronautics Board
Central Airlines
Oklahoma City
Gainesville
Ardmore
Ada
Holdenville
Shawnee
Okla
Ex Hillsboro Mayor W P Anderson Dies
William P. Anderson 79 former Hillsboro mayor died at his home Wednesday. He served 1923 to 1931 and once ran a blacksmith shop. A native Kentuckian he had lived in Hill County 62 years with survivors including his widow two daughters and a son.
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Hillsboro
William P. Anderson
Hill County
E. A. Jordan
Waco
O. L. Fowler
Denton
N. P. Anderson
Mobile
Ala
Demo Chairman Defends Payment of 1650 to Self
Arthur Stevenson, head of Dallas County Democratic Exec Committee, defended a 1650 payment for special redistricting services in 1946 and said it had not been approved by committees. He insisted he was entitled to pay for his work and denied theft, while acknowledging audit discrepancies in 1948 finances.
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Dallas
Arthur Stevenson
Dallas County Democratic Executive Committee
Robert Finklea
Robert Sherman
Stevenson
Executive Committee
Finance Committee
Finklea
Fat Fish Best For Baking
Fat fish are best for baking while lean fish are preferred for poaching steaming and in chowders and soups.
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