Census Costs 25 Cents Per Person For 1959 Headcount
Central Press correspondent explains the 1959 decennial census, its 25 cent per person cost, and the duties of census takers from April 1 to 15. The piece notes fines for noncompliance, the inclusion of income questions, and the expanding data scope from radios to televisions, with local figures due by June 30 and a national report to President Truman by December.
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Central Press
Washington
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United States
House of Representatives
Ercle Sarvs
Census Bureau
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America
New York City
New Jersey
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Flies Cause Thousands Ill Warn Health Chief
In a Texas health bulletin Dr George W Cox State Health officer warns flies spread typhoid fever and other diseases. He urges strict sanitation screens on doors and windows keep flies from food and utensils and keep garbage covered. pamphlets with practical fly control methods available on request.
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Austin
United States
George W. Cox
Texas
Cox
State Health Department
Beatty
Los Angeles
ABC Fires Engineer For Griping On Air
ABC officials said an engineer fired for grumbling on air interrupted a sports program on Station HECA to claim unfair hiring. The on air tirade accused management of six month provisional staffing, and was cut off by the master control engineer. A second item notes Jack Synder’s electric blanket igniting while warming his car, leaving it a charred wreck.
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Hollywood
American Broadcasting Company
HECA
Spokane
Wash
Jack Synder
Synder
Snyder
Omaha
John Lund
Harry Green
Lurid
Coffee-Crazy Rats Of Hawaii To Get Poison Oats Diet
In Hawaii, 7000 pounds of rolled oats will replace coffee in the last meals for Kona coast rats. Legislators fund the plan to curb caffein-addicted rodents, with oats offered via feeding stations across plantations to convert the pests, amid expected coffee losses valued up to several million dollars.
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Hawaii
Honolulu
Kona
Coffe
Industry names adrift in a Baytown Sun special chart
A list of major steel, chemical, energy, and Industrial firms appears in a Baytown Sun feature. Companies include Armco, Bethlehem Steel, Dow, Eastman Kodak, General Electric, Goodyear, Gulf Oil, Humble, Texaco, Tex Gulf, Timken, Whirlpool, and Pensacola area listings alongside several others, reflecting a broad industrial network. The note combines corporate names and product lines in a dense roster style.
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UL Steel -Kirby -Pet
Kenn Cop Lithy
Liggett and Myers
Dairy
Wat Steel Oia OL Penney’s Ince Pure OF
Packard Motors
Repab Steel
St. Regis Paper Son
Pacif Stan of
Indien
ONI Sunray Oil
Tex Gulz Sul Texas Co
Tex Gulf
Tidewater Corp
Timken Bearing GU. S&s, Steel Woolworth Inc Match N. C. Cotton Ai
Tom Heads Civic Music Schedule Preview
The article notes top performers including Sex the famed cellist and Sullivan who played Peter Grimes in New York and San Francisco and Show Boat Ravenal. Selzedo is highlighted as a harp artist. Next season’s concert schedule is not yet announced and Houston Galveston and Pasedene programs will be released together for member convenience.
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Sullivan
Britten
Peter Grimes
New York
San Francisco
Ravenal
Selzedo
Houston
Galveston
Pasedene
Retired Sawmill Worker Dies In Coady Home
John L. Norton, 81, a retired saw mill worker, died at 7:45 am today at his son J. B. Norton’s home in Coady. Survived by a daughter Mrs. T. B. Harris of Voth, two sons J. E. Norton of Coady and W. T. Norton of Longview Washington, four sisters, and funeral arrangements by Earthman’s.
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J. B. Norton
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T. BE. Harris
Voth
J. E. Norton
W.T. Norton
Longview
Washington
Mack Reid
Flatonia
Jessie Bowlin
Waelder
Mattie Pemberton
Melvine Bam
Earthman's
Friend Of Judge Roy Bean Dies In Houston
Houston veteran John J. Gillespie former assistant city engineer died at his home in Houston on February 2 He was known for recounting the meeting of Lilly Langtry and Judge Roy Bean that inspired a Pecos town name change Funeral services for Gillespie were planned for the following morning A separate brief from Joplin Missouri notes a thief breaking into a hotel display case and stealing four bottles of whiskey
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John J. Gillespie
City of
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Lilly Lengity
Roy Bean
Pecos
Venegaroon
Langtry
Puneral
Joplin
Snow Benefits Grave Diggers in Spokane
In Spokane Washington snow is welcomed by grave diggers as it keeps the ground from freezing deeply, making digging easier for their work.
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Spokane
Governors Oppose Dam Plan In Southwest Vote Request
Amarillo dispatch says Texas and New Mexico governors are to submit written opinions by April 1 on a proposed 35 million dollar dam project. Senate subcommittees plan hearings around April 15 as Canada River data and related bills move forward. Coulee Dam, Washington, faces aging generators producing scarce power with a 24 hour output near 19 000 megawatt hours, equivalent to 23 806 tons of coal.
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Amarillo
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Texas
New Mexus
Senate
Coulee
Student Found Beach Heat Railroad Tracks
An 18 year old student veteran at Laredo Junior College was found dead along the Missouri Pacific Railroad main line near Laredo with a fractured skull. Police are investigating the death as they examine the scene and gathering details.
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Laredo Junior College
Missouri-Pacific
Hector Sendoval
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