Lost Parker 51 pen found in Texas obituary note
Sealed proposals to furnish materials labor and equipment for drilling and completing one Hickory Sand Deep Water Well at Brady Texas due February 15 1955. Plans on file with Brady City Secretary Mrs W P Jones. City reserves right to reject all bids. Charles A Schnabel 4103 Ave H Austin Texas lists pen as last gift from son killed at Iwo Jima.
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Parker
Son
Iwo Jima
Charles A. Schnabel
Ave. H
Austin
Texas
Brady
W. P. Jones
Induction of Dennis Hodges Noted in Waldrip Open House
Waldrip Texas residents report Dennis Hodges was inducted into the Army, processed at El Paso, and sent to Fort Ord for basic training. Open house honors for Nat Randall and wife on their 40th anniversary are slated for January 30.
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Dennis Hodges
Nat Randall
Waldrip
Texas
E. W. Frost
George Hill
Abilene
George
C. KE. Frost
Charlie Hill
Clarence Lohn
Claude Lee Frost
Winters
C. E. Frost
E. W
John Winstead
Ku Bray
Marion Holland
R. E. Briscoes
Paul Lohn
George Reed
Warren Caylors
Ben Hodges
Army
el Paso
Fort Ord
Calif
Billy Jeff Bratton
Cora Holland
Germany
Woodrow Short
Lois Briscoe
Jacob Doyle
Mary Winstead
Green Doyal
R. E. Briscoe
Nat Randals
Woodrow
Ben Hedges
Carla Jo
Jimmie
Ira Hester
Aaron Bray
Sadie Hill
Brady
Hazie Chaffin
Marlyn
Robbie
Roy Dean
New Cotton Insecticide Tests Show Promise in Texas
Two experimental organ phosphorus compounds, benzol triazine derivatives, show high effectiveness against boll weevil pink bollworm cotton aphid spiker mites and leafworms in Texas tests. Compound 17147 reduced bolls damage to less than one percent after field trials while outperforming DDT and preventing aphid buildup.
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Texas
College Station
Pilotless Planes Train Anti Aircraft Gunners At Fort Hood
At Fort Hood, the 1st Armored Division 2nd Anti Aircraft Artillery Battalion trains with radio controlled aerial targets RCATs. Twenty RCATs simulate enemy pilots with 72 horsepower propeller engines and 12 foot wingspans. The circular track launches the craft at 80 mph so gunners can practice evasive maneuvers and hits as the planes loop dive and glide.
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Fort Hood
1St Armored Division
Eans
Robert Hraden
Denver
RCAT
Fife Area to elect leaders for 1955
In Fife Texas residents gather at the community center to elect one of three men for another year or replace him. The likely three incumbents are Tom Bradley Tom Hickman and Carol Hodges. Visitors are welcome. Also noted are Mrs. Larue Boots Mitchell’s partial recovery and local farming updates with oats planting and tentative cotton expansion amid rains.
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Fife
Texas
Dreuth Blues
Tom Bradley
Tom Hickman
Carol Hodges
Larue
Boots) Mitchell
M&s
Brady
Neck of the Woods
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S. Bradley
Andy Allen
Higginbotham Bros. & CO
N. M. Barnett
Melvin, Texas
Barbee Bros
U. S
Beltsville
Barton's
TEXO
Hallmark Greeting Cards
N. Elizabeth
Jim Robertson
G. L. Scoggin
Rochelle, Texas
High School
S. E. Meers
Vance Yates
A. B. Cox
S. Church of Cox Studio
Crothers Ave
York Nut
Ralph Wrisley
Eden
New York
Florida
Jeanne Baldwin
Hotel Brady
Luzier’s
L. B. Smith
Brady Standard
Wyler Ladies’ Watch
T. Monroe
Rochelle
Ollie Harvison
A. D. Hoover
W. Marie
Brady Gardens
17Th St
Mildred
Marvin Jewell
Necchielna Sewing Circle
S. Bridge
Junior High
J. B. Evridge
Wall
Vern
W. H
Bill) Miller
Kenneth J. Mitchell
THE
Jacoby Bros
Columbia
Mountain Rhythm Boys
Cherry Springs
Duke Mann
Brownwood
Waldrip News
Mrs
Paris
Tony Curtis
Gene Nelson
Curry Gloria de Haven
Corinne Calvet
Paul Gilbert
Brady Theatre
Ludmilla Tchernina
Pulcheria
Jeff Chandler
Marcian
Texas Theatre
Jack Palance
Attila the Hun
Rita Gam
Kubra
John C. White
Railroad Salvage Agency
Ramos
RCA
Donald Finlay
Frank H. Corder
Beltone
J. B. Morgan
Brady Hotel
Adv
Heart O’ Texas Commission Co
Brady, Texas
Jerry” Griffith
McCulloch County
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