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Newspaper
Brady Standard
Location
Brady, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1959
Page
5
Christine Cook, 11, asks Santa for a long list of gifts including a big baby doll, a buggy, a big suitcase, doll clothes, a little Falcon, a nurse kit, a little Santa Claus, and a typewriter to learn typing. She signs with her address in Brady, Texas.
The commission led by executive director Frank Campbell aims to educate the public that alcoholism is an illness and a public health responsibility. It plans to inform via mass media, produce literature, and host meetings and seminars while coordinating state efforts. Local Councils on Alcoholism are being set up across Texas communities. Guests of Spillers in Thermopolis joined family in San Marcos for Christmas.
This excerpt outlines Texas long efforts against alcoholism from 1876 to the 1950s. It notes constitutional provisions for an ebriate asylum, mandated alcohol education in state-supported schools, and the 1951 Governor’s Committee leading to the 1958 Texas Commission on Alcoholism. The commission, with six appointees including Badger of Dallas as chairman and Dr. Walter Goddard of Austin as vice chairman, aims to educate, prevent, treat, reclaim, and rehabilitate to reduce broken homes and public welfare harm.
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