Tourist Trade Big Business in Texas Tourism
Texas welcomed over eight million visitors in 1961, a slight drop from 1960, with 8.41 million travelers crossing borders and spending about 440 million dollars. The industry supported about 84,000 jobs and generated 23 million dollars in direct state taxes, while promotional efforts by the Texas Highway Department and chambers of commerce boosted travel through entry-point bureaus and free maps. The survey shows 34 percent visited Texas, with vacations and business being major motives. average travel party has 2.6 persons, 6.2 days, and 8.44 dollars spent per day per person, covering about 1,021 miles.
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Texas
Mexico
Texas Highway Department
Chambers of Commerce, Civic
Highway Department
Austin
Chambers of Commerce
Lone Star
Freshmen barred from cars in Kentucky plan
Other Views from the Daily Oklahoma notes Kentucky's policy extending a university rule to all state colleges. Freshmen barred from driving. sophomores with below a B average cannot operate cars starting Sept. 1. Louisville Times supports the rule as reducing distractions for students. Florida Times-Union adds pilot Robert M. White's sighting of a drifting object 58.7 miles up, joking it resembled a newspaper editorial from a high ivory tower.
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Kentucky
Oklahoma
University of Oklahoma
Council On Public Higher Education
University of Kentucky
Hay
Louisville Times
Florida Times-Union
Robert M. White
White
Baytown Sun Staff and Masthead Details
The Baytown Sun masthead lists staff roles including Editor and Publisher Robert K. Gilmore and Managing Editor listed among others. Advertising and circulation departments are named with managers such as Corrie Laughlin and Meena, detailing office operations and rights of republication.
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Severere Severeess
Veses
Converses
Vegstrase
Warer Siseusess
Foden Wade Wees
Seere Eesrsee Rerraeteneeresers
Fron Fice Meena
Spy Sky Test Ban Talks Dimmed by Russian Attitude
Washington AP analysis notes the Russian stance on a nuclear test ban keeps prospects bleak at Geneva. US detection advances favor fewer inspectors, yet Moscow rejects intrusive on-site checks, preferring sky based verification. Kennedy reiterates need for inspection as Dean and Zorin discuss new proposals amid rising global tension.
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James Marlow Washington
United States
Russia
U.S
Arthur H. Dean
Geneva
Kennedy
Hig
Dean
Valerian Zorin
Zorin
Texas postmaster nominations sent to Senate by Kennedy
President Kennedy has named ten Texas postmaster nominees to the Senate including Thomas Journeay in Angleton Burton Kirtley Jr in Graham Lloyd Hart in Kingsbury Jerry Canaday in Lone Star William Brinkley in Mount Enterprise Mary Polk in Pharr Clarence Garrett in Pittsburg C V Witt in Rising Star Terrell Brewer in Rosenberg and John Hodgkins in Sanderson for confirmation.
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Washington
Kennedy
Texas
Senate
Thomas Journeay
Angleton
Burton Kirtley Jr
Graham
Lloyd Hart
Kingsbury
Jerry Canaday
Lone Star
William Brinkley
Mount Enterprise
Mary Polk
Pharr
Clarence Garrett
Pittsburg
C. V. Witt
Rising Star
Terrell
Brewer
Rosenberg
John Hodgkins
Sanderson
Try and Stop Me and Thoreau in 1849 book note
A blond bombshell’s screen role is teased with a studio purchase of 300000 for a best seller film rights. Henry David Thoreau laments his limited A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers edition, noting his own large, mostly self-written library of about nine hundred volumes.
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Henry David Thoreau
Concord
Merrimac
California
New England
Today’s Grab Bag Answers and Trivia Snippets
A collage of questions and snippets from a newspaper feature. Topics include rice paper origin, a king captured by a Austrian duke, a city at the Canton River mouth, Galileo pendulum isochronism, and a Canada Quebec link. Includes biographical hints and a dated WWII Luftwaffe note.
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Austria
Canton River
Pisa
Thalidomide probe expands as Merrell case draws grand jury
A federal grand jury investigates the Merrell Co. for thalidomide and MER-29 sales in the United States. The probe includes FDA file access and doctor disputes over safety. Frances Kelsey is noted for blocking thalidomide while Merrell pressed to release the drug amid mounting deformations.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
Buthes
William S. Merrill Co
Cincinnati
Food and Drug
Europe
Germany
England
Merrell Co
Merrell
Justice Department
Isiah Mattack
Frances Kelsey
Kelsey
Tennessee
Estes Kefauver
Everett Diniven Wa
Kefauver
Freedom in Your Future with U S Savings Bonds
A promotional note urges keeping freedom in the future through U S Savings Bonds. It highlights patriotic framing and the role of savings programs, appealing to individual investors and families amid national fiscal messaging.
Know Your Bridge Forth Dealer North South Bidding
In a six spades contract West leads a heart. South must manage trumps and clubs to avoid loss. A series of ruffs and a heart discard strategy allows South to secure seven or more tricks, depending on West and East plays, illustrating why many so called guesses are sound with correct play.
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West
South
Normel
Decelarer
Jeter
Eastom
Geclarer
Quay
Merndtt
Aden Abe
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British Isles
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Paul Kelly
Sylvia Sidney
Jesse Stuart
John Temple
Canada
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Carillon
Wolfe
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Plains of Abraham
Quebec
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Hong Kong
Galileo
Aristophanes
Wolt
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Ape
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China
Federal Aviation
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Walter Winchell
Robert Kennedy
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Turnberry
Scotland
Eisenhower
Munberry
Culzean Castle
Fulton Lewis JR
State Department
New York City
Jovanovich
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Marshal Tito
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Tito
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Belgrade
Soviet Union
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Set
Alon
Dulas
Gentral
Srmska Mitrovica
New York
U.S. Savings
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North-Bouth Mineral North
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