Baytown Club Hosts District 3 Meet in Galveston
Baytown Business and Professional Women's Club will host District 3 at the Galvez Hotel in Galveston on September 24 and 25. Winnie McKinstry heads arrangements, with Mrs Bremer as registrar. Registration and banquet funds go to Bremer, hotel bookings via Hotel Galvez. Delegates from District 3 will register Saturday afternoon, followed by a boat ride and bus tour, banquet in Terrace Room in the evening, and Sunday business sessions ending at noon with Mary Silverstrom presiding.
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Baytown Business and Professional Women’s Club
Galvez
Galveston
Winnie McKinstry
Theresa Bremer
Baytown Club
McHinsky
Mary Silverstrom
Wil
U S Cracks Down On Vet Schools
Washington September 2 The veterans administration issued a policy briefing ordering training schools to operate on their own for at least one year before accepting veterans under the GI bill. Subsistence allowances will be blocked for those not meeting the minimum. The move aimed at deterring fly by night schools seeking government funds for veteran training.
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Washington
Veterans Administration
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Soil Surgeons To Cut Erosion On 210 Acre Farm
Princeton reports a Labor Day one day operation by soil conservation specialists to repair years of erosion on 210 acres of worn blackland soil. Scientists will oversee earth moving and farming measures including reservoirs, levees, terraces, tree removal, graded gullies and reseeding with Bermuda and bluegrass to restore productivity and future generations' farming methods.
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Princeton
Soi
Collix County Soil Conservation District
A. L. Garmbrell
Soil Conservation District
Blacklands
Gamprell
Reservoira
King Ranch
Police Hunt Others in Dynamite Plot
SAN ANTONIO September 2 The Bexar County sheriff s office believes multiple suspects were involved in stealing dynamite and explosives from a powder magazine last Monday night Billy Piper 15 was charged after authorities found 186 sticks of dynamite 100 detonating caps and 60 feet of fuse cached seven miles west of the city The theft occurred at the Illinois Powder Manufacturing Company dump and another attack on a 15 ton dynamite magazine was narrowly prevented Explosives experts warned a catastrophe was averted by quick action.
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San Antonio
Bexar County
Sheriff's‘office
Billy Piper
Illinois Powder Manufacturing Company
Piper
Mason Grand Jury Selection Today
A special grand jury to investigate the slaying of W. H. Mason, a crusading Alice radio newscaster, will be selected today by Jim Wells County officials. Judge I Browter ordered the probe. he faced health issues and a Texas district court assignment as the case moves toward an investigation. Deputy Sheriff Lem Smithwick, charged but unnamed, remained in jail without bond as visitors tapped his cell. he refused interviews.
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W. H
Bill) Mason
Jim Wells
I. Browter
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Browter
Houston
Paul Mertineau
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Meson
Sheriff's Department
Doputy
Lem Smithwick
Smithwick
Kirkpatrick Pushes JC Reserve Plan at Austin meeting
E B Be Kirkpatrick of TEsytown state president of the Texas Junior Chamber urges Jaycees to back the armed forces reserve program. The rally in Austin featured Governor Allan A Shivers, with Austin Jayceen booths for reserves and the National Guard. Shivers urged Texans to support the reserve program locally as the nation faces potential aggression. Beauford Ceater, former Texas governor, was called one of the greatest champions of states rights by Governor Frank Carlson.
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Ebbe Kirkpatrick
Tesytown
Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce
Texas Jaycees
Kirkpatrick
Allan A. Shivers
Jayceen
National Guard
Shivers
Estes-Park
Cole
Beauford Ceater
Texas
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Blonde Disappears After Bank Robbery Attempt
In Dallas a petite blonde attempted to rob the Dallas National Bank but fled into a crowd after cashier Eddie Meish blocked her note. The 20 to 25 year old woman, about 100 pounds, warned of danger and appeared nervous. The incident followed a concealed pistol claim and a demand for large bills. Next, in Oklahoma, a preacher paid his daughter $20 to end an eight day jail fast and escape child abandonment charges. George Washington inauguration 150th anniversary fairs were noted in New York and San Francisco.
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Dallas National Bank
Eddie Smfeish
Main Street
Meish
Jobart
Okla
Ernest Csin
New York
San Francisco
George Washington
Acting Governor Morris To Address Teachers
Acting Governor G C Morris will speak to the annual Callin County teachers conference after a McKinney Rotary Club luncheon in McKinney Texas. Governor Allen Shivers attends the Interstate Compact Commission meeting in Estes Park Colorado and plans to return tomorrow.
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Austin
G. C. Morris
Rice Harvest Spurs Need for Public Rice Storage
The agriculture department reported that rapid adoption of modern rice harvesting raises Texas storage needs by 2,000,000 barrels of public bulk capacity. Much of existing storage is in terminals not accessible to small producers. sacking rough rice costs 40 cents per barrel despite new drying methods.
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Washington
Texas
Agriculture Department
Department
Death Of Prisoner Still Being Probed
PORT LAVACA Sept 2 A formal inquiry continues into the death of Michael Byars 31 year old Harlingen man who was shot by Calhoun County Sheriff L M Fisher as Byars seized him during a jail cell encounter before a justice of the peace for a preliminary hearing on an assault to rape charge Byars died of three bullet wounds Fisher a former army pilot had gone to the cell to transfer him to the hearing Byars had been convicted last year of murdering his wife Juanita whose charred body was found in their Harlingen home and appeared strangled before the house fire
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Port Lavaca
Michael Byars
Harlingen
Calhoun County
L. M. Fisher
Fisher
Byars
Justice of the Peace
Juanita
Tennessee Convict to Attend Texas Centennial Fete
Tennessee life-term prisoner Frank M Grands received permission from Governor Gordon Browning to attend the Big Spring Texas centennial on October 2. Grands, 47, had written a cantata in prison without instruments and will perform there tapping time with a pencil. He will return to prison duties after the visit, continuing his sentence as a habitual criminal.
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Nashville
Tenn
Frank M. Grands
Big Spring
Texas
Gordon Browning
Gran
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