Texas Health Review 1954 Polio and Flood Impacts
The 1954 Texas health picture shows severe flooding across five border counties and an outbreak of Saint Louis encephalitis in Hidalgo County. Water plants recovered within nine days, while 3107 polio cases made the year the second worst in state history. About 35,000 second graders participated in Saik vaccine field trials with results pending next spring.
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Texas
Health Department
Hidalgo County
State Health Department
Saint Louis
Social Security Rep Here Wednesday in Brady
Holly Rees, field representative for the San Angelo Social Security office, will be in Brady in the district courtroom on Wednesday January 5 at 1 30 p m to help residents file retirement and family insurance benefits. Disabled workers with sufficient work records are urged to contact their local office for details on new provisions that disregard disability periods in determining insured status and benefits, potentially raising monthly payments.
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Holly Rees
San Angelo
Social Security Administration
Brady
Social Security Office
Disa
Strieglers Spend New Year in San Antonio Visit
Mr and Mrs Cecil Striegler spent the New Year holidays as guests of their son Bert Striegler and his wife in San Antonio.
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San Antonio
Cecil Striegler
Bert Striegler
Texas lawmakers face big fiscal choices in 1954 session
Texans face a tough 1954 legislative agenda with 24 million more needed for schools, 14 million for public welfare, and 50 million annually for highways. Proposals include a 2-cent per gallon gas tax hike, beer tax raise, higher college tuition, and reversing tax cuts on gas wells to save 14 million yearly.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
Reward Offered for Information on Livestock Theft in Lohn Valley
The Lohn Valley Protective Association announces a $1000 cash reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any person unlawfully handling cattle sheep or goats owned by members. Names of association leaders and numerous members are listed as potential informants.
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Lohn Valley Protective Association
Chas. H. Miller
Dutch Woodward
James Finlay
Lir
Walker W. N. White & Co
EL D. Bradley
Glenn Wright Wiley W. Walker
L. B. Turner
McCall & Curtis
Paul Lohn
B. A. Cornill
L. M. Robelson
Sam Fullagar
J. Purcell Lynn Haywood Ray Don Turner Bill Roddie Herbert Wood Frank Corder
Punk Snyder
Wildlife Aids Available to Help Birds and Beasts
The Director of Wildlife Restoration urges Texans to act now to aid scarce species through habitat work when rains come. Hunters landowners and nature lovers can help by planting cover and supporting quail habitat with guidance from Austin headquarters and a pamphlet by Dan Lay.
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Commission
Austin
Dan Lay
Marion Toole
Local business moves to Rockdale and community highlights
The article notes Walter Swenson and Fred Townsend plan moving the shop to Rockdale around the 1th to start a new business. It recalls a 500 party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Hughes with about thirty guests, winning prizes for Miss Gillie Macy and G. R. White, and lists guests at a salad course. It also advertises the Brady Cafe merchants lunch from 11:00 to 2:00 for 20 cents.
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Walter Swenson
Fred Townsend
Rockdale
W. L. Hughes
Gillie Macy
G. R. White
Messrs. and Mines
Jack Nussbaum
Sam Moffatt
John McKnight
Fred Reissner
Max Scharff
P. F. Gould
Clarendon
Brady Cafe
Commission urges harvest of game fish from shrinking tanks
A special bulletin outlines a plan to salvage fish from shrinking tanks as water levels rise. The Commission says many inquiries seek restocking later and advises harvest for home storage while restocking may be undertaken in the future.
Home for Holidays with Behrens Family Guests
Mr and Mrs J W Behrens enjoy a holiday gathering with their children and relatives including Rev and Mrs Wayne Nayle and family from Hartley with Benchaurefers and Charles Huckabay, Earl Behrens group, Rhonda Sue and Joe Wes Zephyr, Charles Lee Williams and Edd Layne Fredonia, Pete Behrens family Sherron Kay and Jackie.
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J. W. Behrens
Wayne Nayle
Hartley
Benchaurefers
Charles
Huckabay
Earl Behrens
Rhonda Sue
Joe Wes
Zephyr
Charles Lee Williams
Edd Layne
Fredonia
Pete Behren
Sherron Kay
Jackie
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Barton Motors
Vernon
Lowed
Vern Sanford
Texas Press
Asociation
Veterans Land Sales
Senate
Veterans Land Program
Veterans Land Board
Bascom Giles
Allan Shivers
John Ben Shepperd
Department of Public Safety
State Auditor’s Office
Attorney General
Duval County
Shepperd Is
Sam Burris
Shepperd
Burris
Douglas E. Bergman
Dallas
Bergman
U. S. Department of Agriculture
USDA
UT Bureau of Business Research
U. S. Department of Commerce
USA
Selective Service Headquarters
Thrift
THE
Brady National Bank
Nat'l Bank
Roy O. Wilkerson
Funeral Directors Burial Insurance Ambulance Service
Prescription
Don F. Johnson
Gibbons Bldg
Fidelity Union Life Insurance Co
Dallas, Texas
General Motors
Oldsmobile
Campbell’s
West Lockhart
Brady, Texas
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