First Blind Woman Blair Wins Texas Seat
Anita Blair, a 1952 Democratic primary survivor from El Paso, becomes one of a quartet of femme legislators in Texas. She uses a seeing-eye dog, serves on three committees, and aims to improve schools and aid parents and pupils. Blair, blinded in 1936, holds BA and MA from Texas Wesleyan College and plans to act as her own secretary, bringing along reader Gus Weber.
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Jen
Anita Blair
Texas House of Representatives
el Paso
American Foundation For the Blind
House
Senate
Fawn
Miss Blair
Reuben Sevierfitt
State Hospitals and Special Schools
Lfe
Blair
la Salle
Chicago
Cago
Texas Wesleyan College
Blsir
Gus Weber
Avoiding Colds Means Avoiding All People
Cleveland report notes Dr. Joan H. Dingle of Western Reserve University as preventive chief concluded that to avoid common colds you should avoid people. The remark, made during a discussion on cold prevention, emphasizes minimizing exposure.
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Cleveland, An
Joan H. Dingle
Western Reserve University
Censors scold actress over sexy photo Roberta Haynes reacts
Hollywood reports Roberta Haynes shrugged at the censors over a full page pin up showing her in a transparent petticoat and brassiere. She says the image helped her career with contracts and fan interest, while the Motion Picture Producers Association condemns such exposure as indecent.
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Roberta Haynes
Hollywood
Motion Picture Producers’ Association
Roberta
Iade
Frank Freeman
Movietown
Mother
Palm Springs
Wichita Falls
Tex
Paris
Wenglec
Gary Cooser
Jin
Paralmo
Semoz
Columbia Studio
Texas border flap hints El Paso join New Mexico
Gov Mechem ridicules Texas Shivers border plan and jokes about appointing Rev Walling to Congress. He warns that a surveying error could swap El Paso to New Mexico, potentially giving New Mexico a third representative. The remarks mix humor with political maneuvering on border demarcation.
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Santa FE
N. OL
Edwin Merhem
Allan Shivers
Ff Shivers
West Texas
Mechem
Texas
J.B. Walling
New Mexico
Congress
el Paso
Walling
Meenem
Blind couple weds odds raise in Fort Worth tale
In Fort Worth on January 16 Stanley Headrick a blind man walked 16 blocks to obtain a marriage license for his blind sweetheart Lupe Gonzales despite lacking sight. Headrick said he navigates better than his fiancée and plans a Saturday wedding.
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Fort Worth
Stanley Eugene Headrick
Headrick
Sceipg
Lupe Gonzales
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