State School Law Study Debates Desegregation Question
A statewide advisory committee studies if Texas school laws are nullified by recent desegregation clashes. Governor Shivers outlines major issues, urging practical adjustments in students' best interests. The panel includes 34 community leaders and eight legislators to tackle compulsory attendance and segregation, local district authority, and mandatory school attendance rules.
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Vern Sanford
Texas Press Association
Austin
Texas
Guy Allan Shivers
U. S. Supreme Court
Shivers
el Paso
Texas Western College
Will Morris Crews
San Antonio
Dorsey B. Hardeman
San Angelo
Hardeman
Texas Water Resources Committee
Texans
Hfe
New York musings mix showbiz, fashion and travel
A columnist reflects on meeting Jackie Cooper and Shirley Temple as grown, notes Dorothy Collins drink rumors, warns about Bermuda shorts in hotels, and watches Anne Kimbell in The Seven Year Itch. Fashion gossip centers on moody berets as Clark Gable and Kay Spreckels exchange lines. Lunt and Fontanne return to Broadway. Westbury enacts a curfew against nightly yowling to curb city ills.
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New York
New Yorker
Jackie Cooper
Barbara
Shirley Temple
Cooper Or Temple
Jackie
Dorothy Collins
Las Vegas
The
Edison
Anne
Lee Strasberg
Marilyn Monroe
John
Nancy Andrews
Miss Platt
Greenwich Village
Henry Morgan
Phyllis Hill
Lunt
Fontanne
Lindsay-Crouse
Miss F
Westbury
I. I
Westsbury
Mrs Figueres Shows Off Baby Presidents Wives Like Parents
Washington story profiles Mrs Jose Figueres wife of Costa Rica president Jose Figueres. She explains her life from New York arrival with baby Jose Jr to modest public appearances at the Costa Rican embassy. She recounts how her humanitarian work and study of social science led to meeting her husband and plans for the future in Costa Rica and Denmark.
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Mrs. Figueres
Washington
Jose Figueres
Figueres
Costa Rica
New York
Westchester County
Jose Jr
Aries
Columbia University
Baron
Jose
Denmark
Knowledge Grab Bag Quick Quiz Answers
A quick trivia set answers: 1 Charles Taney? 2 Mrs. Abraham Lincoln? 3 Kathmandu, Nepal capital? 4 The Declaration of Independence phrase. 5 Prince Albert, consort to Victoria. The page also offers dated notes and birthday wishes, plus mini quizzes and a birthday greeting list.
Getting Out May Cost Congress Vacation Time Across Europe
A Washington column notes the upcoming congressman trips to Europe on taxpayers’ dime after the session ends. It mocks the heat, the vacations, and the tendency to dodge highway needs while lawmakers tour abroad. The piece jokes about various driver types and argues for standardized speed limits to curb accident costs.
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Washington
Civil Defense Evacuation Committee
Europe
Jim Wright
Texas
Capitol
Menare
Baytoum Sunt publication details and rates
The Baytoum Sunt published each weekday afternoon by The Baytown Sun Inc in Baytown Texas lists staff positions and office details. It includes subscription rates by carrier and by mail with monthly and yearly options, notes armed services tie and second class matter status, and mentions national advertising representation.
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Baytown Sun, Inc
Pearce and Ashhel
Baytown
Texas
Fred Hartman
Shid 8
Gould
Beulah Mae Jackson
Armed Services
Postoffice
Congress
Telling Mel By William Ritt
A humorous column notes Mel Ritt with quick quips about science climate forecasts and love on Crete where a couple aged seven and sixty five marry after a kidnaping. Australian psychiatrists study kangaroos while Americans cope with six million hay fever sufferers and a warmer European mood post Geneva conference.
Washington Merry-Go-Round: Ike’s Administration Fires Negro
Washington column reports Dr. Frank Horne of the Federal Housing Administration was dismissed after 18 years amid policy disputes over segregation and federal housing. Jane Spaulding, named Negro Woman of the Year, remains out of favor after urging desegregation on military posts. The piece also critiques lobbying in the 84th Congress, detailing gas and toll-bridge lobby activity and a Shell Oil influence scheme in California aimed at repeal of price regulation.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Frank Horne
Federal Housing Administration
Cole
Supreme Court
Horne
Housing Administration
Jane Morrow Spaulding
Hobby
Congress
Roy Clippinger
Illinois
Wabash River
Clippinger
Iingis
Indiana
Olis
Denton
5O Clippinger
Rongr
Joe Martin
John Butler
Maryland
Clint Murchison
Texas
Jack Porter
Price Daniel
Daniel
Lyndon Johnson
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Federal Power Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Interstate Commerce Committee
Interior
Lehman
New York
Senate
San Bernardino
California
Shell Oil Company
C. E. Smelser
Shell Oil
Shell
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Editorial
Henry Holle
Senterfitt
Reuben Senterfitt
Kelly Owen
Owen
J. Hari Rudder
Rudder
Attorney General's Department
Veterans Program
Marple
Bascom Giles
Mexico
Maverick County
Giles
Travis County
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Bureau Naperte
Anne J Kimbell
Vanessa Brown
Miss K
New Orleans
Central Park
Mel Heimer
Love
Karen Olsen
Karen
Central Press
United States
Ager B. Taney
Katman
Edward VII of
Tingland
Victoria
Burma
Rangoon University
Tasa
Ister
Republic
Hollywood
Calif
Outer Space
Sally
Saint Anne
Dawn
Socorro
Adolf Busch
Paul Kelly
Sylvia Sidney
Irsse Stuart
Ken Raffeeberger
England
Ritz
Solomon Islands
Russia
Japan
United States Supreme Court
Jamey K. Polk
Nepal
Princess Alexandra of
Henner Q
Kathleen Hughes
By Ed Koterra
America
Harry Boyd
Mel
William Ritt
Tokyo
Crete
Ike
Limes
Barbell
THID
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