Open Call For State Education Commissioner Candidates
AUSTIN Dec 22 GP The Board of Education seeks a new state education commissioner to oversee Texas schools. Cecil Morgan chairs a five member committee and says 46 to 50 names have been suggested though the list is not closed. The panel will gather information from potential applicants and invite interest while remaining open until candidates are exhausted. Woods’ name is among those discussed for the post now held by Dr I L Woods.
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Austin
Rate Board of Education
Cecil Morgan
Fort Worth
Blorgan
Iower
I. & Woods
Public’ Instruction
Morgan
Woods
Bank All Girls Choir Scores In Caroling Night
The Citi zeas National Bank and Trust Company choir performed in the bank lobby attracting hundreds outside and won a professional contract. Led by Miss Dolores Dunn the group will perform at Brunson Theatre at 8:30 p.m. for a 13 minute program of carols. Theatre manager Ruins Honeycutt presented each of the 30 singers a 10 gift book and invited them to appear as a late night feature.
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Citizeas National Bank and Trust Company
Lsbby
Dolores
Ruins Honeycutt
Theatre
The
Branson
Dotty Lamour Sues RKO For Back Pay
Hollywood actress Dotty Lamour sues RKO Radio Studio in federal court for back pay after being dropped three days before childbirth. She seeks 1500 dollars weekly since October with a contract rate of 150 per week in top supervision plus 2200 weekly. Lamour and her husband William Bowara have two young sons, aged three and two months.
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Hollywood
Ter
Antress
Dbeoreths Lamour
Federel
Reoq-Radio Studio
Mind Blank After Killing
A woman recounts a fatal shooting as a man ordered the cab driver to stop. He produced a pistol and shot Frentz in the side, then fired additional rounds, hitting the cabbie in the back and wounding the wife in the jaw. Neighbors alerted police after screams and gunfire.
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Frentz
White
Petrons
Untitled snippet shows chaotic household scene
Fragmentary text describes a tense family moment with a child and gifts. Names and clear events are missing, but hints of a domestic scene and disruption appear. The passage references a husband and a neighbor, with unreliable text about a Santa figure and the day’s activities.
Central America Quake Recorded At Fordham
NEW YORK December 22 Two earth shocks were recorded today on the Fordham University seismograph. The university said the disturbances were registered at 4 35 50 mt and 4 41 43 am and probably occurred in Central America. Earlier two slight shocks at 2 42 24 pm and 2 49 53 pm yesterday occurred miles south of New York, probably in Peru.
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New York
Fordham University
Central America
Peru
Descan Syesking for Ralsby Tractor Co
FRIDAY AFTERNOON schedule listing Gongs of Our Times 10:2) segment and Behind the Headline feature with Deacon Speaking at route 13569 gas appliance corner.
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Descan Syesking
Ralsby Tractor Co
iy—Deacon
Aarper Gas
KREL
Showdown Over Me Too Policy Divides GOP
A bipartisan foreign policy showdown looms as Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg calls for a formal bipartisan debate on foreign policy. He argues national security transcends partisan politics and urges reductions in foreign aid while stressing self reliance. Nebraska Senator Hugh Butler counters that such efforts risk alienating Republicans who oppose mere opposition.
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Washington
Senate
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
GOP Archtect
Ae Spa
Vandenberg
Hovever
Chicago
Hugh Butler
Nebraska
Butler
Infant Polio Victim Is Coming Home
An infant polio patient was reported improving and to be returning home from Hedgecroft Clinic in Houston. The Baytown area saw a third case within a week, seven year old Charles Melvin Cox of Highlands, still in serious condition with muscle weakness. Cox is at Jefferson Davis. County Sanitarian WP Mills and DDT fogging operator Earl Hickland surveyed homes with a fogging machine to curb possible insect spread. EPA washout caused a Meade Kansas derailment killing six and injuring 77 on Oct 10, per the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Hedgecroft Clint
Houston
Baytown
Charles Melvin Cox
Highlands
Jefferson Davis
WP. Mills
Earl Hickland
County Health Unit
Nslro
Severe Sea Storm Spurs Widespread Midwestern Disruption
Severe storm disrupts central Missouri and surrounding states with power outages and downed lines. Towns listed as isolated include Monroe City Paris Otterville Smithton Green Ridge Walker Harwood Shells City Rockville Windsor Hughsville Palmyra Stoutville Vandalia Perryville Centralia Santa Fe. Telecommunication lines fail with 1500 wires broken and 300 poles splintered amid freezing rain and heavy snow across the Great Plains and Great Lakes region.
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Radis
Kansee
Hernicel
Utility
I Ms
Quincy
WEAD
WGEM
WCAZ
Carthage
Hineis
Quincy Herald-Whig
Peoria
Mecomb
Thingis
Sour
Monroe City
Paris
Otterville
Smithton
Green Ridge
Walker
Harwood
Shells City
Rockville
Windsor
Hughsville
Palmyra
Stoutville
Vandalia
Perryville
Centralia
Santea Fe
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Sedalia
Missouri
Dlinois Bell Telephone Company
Beardstown
Ilinois
Great Plains
Great Bend
Kansas
Concordia
St Joseph
Dodge City
Wichita
Beatrice
Fairbury
Nebraske
Springfield
Chicago
Great Lakes
China Is Big Red Prize Of This Year
The article discusses Communist China’s power expansion as Mao Zedong meets Stalin in Moscow. It notes China’s independence from Soviet troops since 1949 and predicts treaties binding Beijing to Moscow, aiming to convert China into a Soviet outpost while China fights Nationalists and curbs Western influence.
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China
Voice of America
Mooscow
Red Family
Moscow
Peiping
Mao Tzetung
Stalin
Miso
Chine
Mao
Livestock Prices in Fort Worth Reported by USDA
Livestock figures show cattle at 200 head with steady demand. beef cows 14.00 to 16.50 with canners and cutters 9.00 to 14.00, calves steady, odd heads 13.4 to 22.00, stockers scarce. Hogs 200 head steady to higher than Wednesday. good and choice 200-270 lb hogs 15.50, 160-190 and 285-350 lb hogs 14.50-35.25. sows 12.50-13.50. feeder pigs 10.00-12.00.
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Fort Worth
USDA
Economists See High Employment In 1950
Washington December forecasts from government and private economists foresee high employment and near record production in 1950. Leon Keyserling, acting chairman of the president's council of economic advisers, called the outlook much better than midyear as he left a White House conference with President Truman before the upcoming message to Congress.
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Washington
Leon
A. Keyserling
Turmah
Council of Economic Advisers
White House
Truman
Man Clears Conscience in Five Minutes
Springfield reports federal records show Edward E. Moore, 33, cleared his conscience in five minutes, though he says it took nearly four years. He admitted stealing a car, driving to Joplin then Houston, regretting the act, and finally turning himself in after a minister’s advice. U.S. Attorney recommended token punishment. Moore spent five minutes in a city marshal’s office and walked out a free man, planning to return home and reconcile with his wife and daughter for Christmas.
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Springfield
Ill
Edward EF. Moore
Moore
Charles Briggie
Joplin
Missouri
Moline
Illinois
Houston
Texas
Br Fesu
Itiel Imstrict
Howard Doyle
U.S
Hin Wif
Dial system changeover discussed with Baytown officials
29 telephone lines to Houston continued from Page 3. There were 8350 outlets in the system and none could be added until the Gisl controls are installed. The present capacity limits any additions to avoid hampering service. G P Norton, personnel manager of Southwestern Associated Telphones Company, Osiles main office, spent days here this week with Baytown residents about the dial changeover, accompanied by A S Offill of the company public relations staff.
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G. P. Norton
Southwestern Associated Telephones Company
Osiles
Baytown
A. S. Offill
Five Die in Charleston Fire From Bad Heater
In Charleston West Virginia on December 22 five people died when a two story frame building housing a one room church and a second floor apartment burned. The victims were Katie C Winston 38 Samuel B Winston 2 Beatrice Winston 2 Eugee Clark 30 and Henry James 42 all identified as African American. Firemen attributed the blaze to a defective gas heater with several others escaping the flames.
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Charleston
W.va
Katie C. Winston
Samuel B. Winston
Beatrice Winston
Eugee Clark
Henry James
Christmas Blessings for Rios Family Homecoming Birthdays
Mr and Mrs A K Rios celebrate a double Christmas gift as son Jon Rios returns on furlough from two and a half years in Japan, arriving on his 20th birthday. Armando Rios, 17, home from the USAF in Manila for the holiday, joins the family reunion.
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A. K. Rios
Jon Rios
Japan
Armando Rios
U.s.air Force
Men Ming
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