Weatherford College alumni shine among Capitol executives
Weatherford College in Texas is highlighted for alumni in Washington. Notables include Rep. Jim Wright and wife Mary Ethelyn, former Rep. Fritz G. Lanham, Robert Anderson of Vernon, and FBI agent Estee, with ties to Weatherford’s early history as a junior college. The piece threads in scenes from the Capitol tour, local educators, and a personal remembrance of the college’s founding disruptions.
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Jim Wrie*t
Fort Worth
Mery Ethelyn
Fritz G. Lanham
Weatherford
Navy
Robert Anderson
Vernon
Anderson
University of Texas
Waco
E. N. Dennard
Capitol
Dennards
W. R. Poage
Texas
Rex Guill
Maritime Board
Guill
Dennard
Pampa
Eric
Kay
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Safeway Brentwood Egg Co to Demonstrate Large Scale Farm
Safeway Stores Brentwood Egg Company announces a cooperative project with the A and M College System to establish a 26 acre Demonstration Farm near Hamilton Texas three miles NW of Hamilton. The farm will showcase modern labor efficient laying houses and aim to boost Texas egg production and farm income. Harold E Phillips of Southwest Texas State Teachers College is named manager.
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Hamilton
A & M College System
Safeway Stores
Brentwood Egg Company
D. R. Stewart
Brentwood
Dallas
Stewart
Texas
A&m System
College Station
Stephenville
Arlington and Hempstead
Hempstead
Texas Agricultural Poultry Specials
Agricultural and Home Demonstration
Hamilton County
Comic Columnist Morris Frank Lights Up Luncheons in Texas
Morris Frank the Texas humorist and Houston Chronicle columnist has spent a quarter century touring as a speaker and master of ceremonies. A recent appreciation dinner in Houston drew over 1,100 guests who gifted him an air conditioned car and home, plus a recording of the event. Frank has emceed many events, including the Washington Touchdown Club banquet, and recalls his first banquet speech in 1931 to Tyler High School’s football team. He notes his fee is zero and prefers not to be a professional speaker, enjoying relaxed performances and audience goodwill.
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Jim Boone
Kingsville
Mission High School
Capitol
Tom
Texas
Boone
Associated Press
Morris Frank
Houston Chronicle
Bayous
Morris
Houston
Washington Touchdown Club
Beaumont
Frank
Tyler
Henderson
Lufkin
Lloyd Gregory
The
Houston Post
Post
Gregory
Lufkin High School
Dallas
Demonstration Farm Training Underway at Brentwood
A&M and Brentwood partner to build a commercial eye pro duction demonstration at the Demonstration Farm. The project, led by an instructor from San Marcos, aims to integrate college knowledge on housing nutrition and feeding with Brentwood expertise. Construction starts in a few weeks and full production may take about a year, with demonstrations lasting about five years.
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Ter
San Marcos
Brentwood
A& M
Stewart
Card of Thanks from the Bradshaw Family
The Children of Mrs G S Bradshaw extend thanks for the sympathy shown and for the services of doctors and nurses.
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G. S. Bradshaw
Townsend announce birth of son Jimmy Wayne
Mr and Mrs Alton Wayne Townsend of Abilene announce the birth of a son born July 19 in an Abilene hospital weighing 7 pounds 14 ounces named Jimmy Wayne Maternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs T R Brown and paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs J A Townsend of Rockwood
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Alton Wayne Townsend
Abilene
Abilene Hospital
Jimmy Wayne
T. R. Brown
J. A. Townsend
Rockwood
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Rio Grande Valley
Joe Kilgore
McAllen
Rayburn
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J. Baylor Bell
Corpus Christi
South Texas
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J. Baylor
Eisenhower
Misa Hildegarde Hiller
Austria
Gol
David J. Becker
Fort Hood
Ess
George W. Lair
Elm Mott
Burnel Davis Agency
Lehman-Davis
Protectio Gibbons Bldg
McLean’s
Sporting Goods
Eyes OF
Paris
Midland
Place de la Concorde
Safeway
Brentwood Egg Co
Harold E. Phillips
Southwest Texas State Teachers College
Whitesboro
Arlington State College
Phillips
Broiler
Nacogdoches
the Brady Hospital
Harold V. Ratliff
Brady
Roy O. Wilkerson
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Oldsmobile
Olds
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West Lockhart
Brady, Texas
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