Public School Week Winners Announced In Baytown
More than 2,600 visitors registered during Public School Week as Baytown area schools awarded $10 prizes to rooms with top promotions. Prizes funded art supplies, books, aquariums, and classroom equipment across Baytown Elementary, David G. Burnet, Anson Jones, Ashbel Smith, Lamar, San Jacinto, Sam Houston, Carver, and McNair elementary campuses.
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Citizens Committee For Celebration
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Baytown
David G. Burnet
Pearl Dobbs
Alamo
Pioney
Virginia West
Roy Elms
DeZavala
Lamar
Dewey Keene
Roy Pickering
San
Afrikaans Novel Hailed In South Africa By Arthur Fula
Johannesburg March 18 Critics hail Arthur Fula's first Afrikaans novel Johnnie Casts The Image for its rich portrayal of native life and parallels to Alan Paton's Cry The Beloved Country The work aims to bridge gaps between black readers and Afrikaans speakers with translations in Zulu other languages and English Fula says blacks and Africans deserve to be represented in Afrikaans writing and he started the movement after waiting for educated leaders to write it themselves
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Johannesburg
Arthur Fula
South Africa
Johnnie
Alan Paton
Fula
Union of South Africa
Two Leopard Cubs Visit Zoo They See Own People For First Time
In Wichita, Thumbi and Beerun, two three month old leopard cubs raised at a private home, visited the zoo for the first time and met people. They grew from 12 ounces to about nine pounds each in three months, with daily care reducing from hourly to every three hours. Their public display was a success and the zoo plans a permanent move.
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Wichita
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Thumbs
Beeran
W. W.le Clerc
Witchita Zoo
Thumbi
Beerun
Barges Proposed For Pittsburgh River Commuters
Pittsburgh officials consider high speed passenger barges on the Ohio Monongahela and Allegheny to ease traffic. An investment group offers 1 million dollars to finance the project with three river terminals planned within 30 miles of Pittsburgh. Speeds up to 25 mph would ferry commuters and sightseers around Gateway Center and Staite Point Park.
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Pittsburg
W. N. Burt, Jr
National Barge Co
Ohio
Mohongahela
Allegheny
Burt
Pittsburgh
Gateway Center
Staite Point Park
Venice
Tarentum
Elizabeth
Rochester
Woman Admits She Was Prostitute In Dallas Motel
In Dallas a trial witness, first invoking the Fifth Amendment, agreed to testify after immunity promises. She acknowledged prostitution at the Triple A Ranch Motel but said she would not be prosecuted. Motel owner Mrs. Cora Reynolds testified she warned porters after a May raid she would fire them if prostitutes returned. A 21-year-old witness testified she was brought to the motel in September but worked only briefly as a prostitute before arrest.
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Dallas
Triple A Ranch
Bill Alexander
Cora Reynolds
Rio Below Last Year Rio Below Last Year
Rio Grande flow Thursday was below last year’s level with less than 500 cubic feet per second. The International Boundary and Water Commission noted the potential for higher flow if fins are heavy. Depth behind Falcon Dam dropped from 95 to 77 feet and impounded water believed near 430000 acre feet versus 693000 at Marte R. Gomez or El Azucar reservoirs.
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Laredo
Tex
Rio Grande
International Boundary and Water Commission
Falcon Dam
Isenhower
Ruiz Cortines
Mexico
Marte R. Gomez
el Azucar
Patching Saves Taxpayers Army Now Repairing Worn-Out Items
In Germany the U S Army patches worn-out ordnance worth 1.5 billion dollars, spending 400 million on labor and parts to repair items instead of replacement. 13,000 German technicians work under U S supervision across six ordnance depots, with cash rewards to ideas saving time and money. Mainz depot, opened 1951, has reclaimed 215 million in weapons and rebuilt 300,000 small arms and vehicles. European maneuvers and many troops sustain heavy equipment use. In Oklahoma City the Turnpike Authority hires LeLeuw Cather & Co to cost engineer three proposed toll roads.
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Germany
U. S
Europe
Mainz
U.S
Oklahoma City
State Turnpike Authority
LeLeuw, Cather & Co
Singer Blames Weight On Romance Worries
New York March 18 Minna Mic Key Lane told a felony court judge she gained from size 10 to a stylish stout due to romance worries. She seeks action against Marco Gates for failing to return eleven thousand dollars she sent him while engaged.
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New York
Minna
Mickey) Lane
Marco Gates
Doan's Pills Offer Kidney Relief for Common Aches
Nagging backache and low energy may signal slow kidney function. Doan's Pills, a diuretic trusted for over 50 years, claim to ease strain on kidney tubes and flush out waste, improving overall kidney health.
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Doan
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