Davy Crockett film features Fess Parker as star
Native Texan Fess Parker stars as Davy Crockett in Walt Disney’s Davy Crockett King of the Wild Frontier. The wide screen feature opens at Scenic Drive-In with showings Sunday through Wednesday. Parker, born in Fort Worth and raised in San Angelo, discusses his name and fame while spotlighting Crockett’s bear slaying at the outset and his Alamo defense sequence.
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West Texas
Heavy Rains Persist in Mercury Community as Flooding Spreads
Mercury Texas reports 0.65 to 0.70 inch rainfall in a weekend with heavier downpours south and west toward Placid and Corn Creek. Creeks rose, tanks filled, and a bridge at Deep Creek east of Milburn condemned amid renewed downpours and wind damage. Local residents held a 42 party and noted May total rainfall at 15 inches.
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Merccury
Placid
Corn Creek
Eest
West Cedar Creeks
T. W. Sansom
Billie Banks
Lavon Beakley
Sansom
L. M. Robinson
W. H. Matthews
Brownwood
Pumphrey
J. C. Young
Coleman
Caroline
Sul Ross
Alpine
Big Bend Park
George Harris
Mullin
Myra Fisher
S. J. Fisher
Elm Grove
Bowser
Robt
Gober
Kirby Smith
Deep Creek
Milburn
Dallas Manicurist Is Teacher Too Teaching People to Fish
Henrietta Tracy, a 42 year old Dallas manicurist, doubles as an outdoor fishing instructor on weekends. She teaches mostly wives and young boys at Lake Texoma, building a small school with boats, starting with a rented metal boat and a 0 horsepower engine, now owning a 22-foot cruiser Mrs Henri. Since starting three years ago about 100 students across North and East Texas have taken her course.
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Texas
Brady Hospital Admits Noted Local Residents
Sunday arrivals at Brady Hospital include Mrs. Mac McWilliams of Hext Ben Dillon of Brady Mrs. Leon Bode of Katemney Katherine Leach of Brady Mrs. G R Roth mann and Mrs. E S Cummins of Junction. Monday admissions list Mrs. G S Bradshaw Calf Creek W W Fike Placid Mrs Hattie Ward Gray Carruthers and Mrs Henry Bradiey all of Brady.
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Ben Dillon
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Katherine Leach
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Junction
G.S. Bradshaw
Calf Creek
W. W. Fike
Placid
Hattie Ward
Gray Carruthers
Henry Bradiey
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By Bruce Henderson
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Black Valentine
Carton
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Sleepy Hollow
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Pepto Bismol
Chuck Roast
U.S. Gov't
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Frankfurters Oes
Turkey
VOCA
Milton Pogue
Fort Stockton
Karlton Rothman
Mason
McLean’s
Sporting Goods
America
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