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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1950
Page
10
The Texas State Board of Pharmacy relocated its offices from Dallas to Temple on March 14 under Board Secretary Buster Brown of Temple. The board, with five full time employees, licenses pharmacists and issues drug store permits.
Taylor Gerber earned the top prize for a window crochet display at Black Pharmacy and Variety Store on Texas Avenue. The National Needlecraft Bureau awarded $250, plus a $4 photo fee, for the finest display among stores of that size nationwide. He shared the good news with wife and daughter, who had already spent some of the prize.
Government mediator Cyrus Cheng faces a tough Sioux negotiator in a Southwestern strike. A thousand striking Sioux demand raises, their only reply is “Ugh.” After days, Cheng reports a two dollar per day raise, then asks if it will be retroactive.
A traveler crossing a bayou was attacked by swarming mosquitoes. He fought with an oar then a shotgun. The swarm fled at the roar of a weeper and he escaped. He trapped one mosquito in a bear trap intending to use it to drill wells, but the creature broke loose and grabbed a calf and flew away.
U S officials estimate the government pays about 10 million dollars each month to store vast farm surpluses held off the market as part of price support programs. They say total investment in 31 surplus crops runs near 4 billion dollars and annual storage costs approach 120 million dollars, with higher costs expected as 1949 crops are moved onto government books.
Gene Autry and Jack Dempsey visited Frederick Oklahoma where a 40 foot oil gusher erupted from a new well near town drawing about 82000 spectators. The pair toured the site in a light of fame as oil partners while Autry narrowly avoided a crowd rush at the airport and enjoyed the spectacle as oil spewed about 10 barrels from a 20600 foot deep hole.
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