Brookshire Community Filings and Holiday Visits
Local families from Odessa Andrews Ballinger and Sweetwater gather through the holidays visiting Hedges Burks Boatright and Clark households. Notable notes include Buster Gleghorn secretly marrying, plans to move to Arizona, deer hunting trophies, and multiple Christmas dinners with kin across Ballinger Andrews Midland and San Angelo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon Burks
Odessa
H. C. Hedges
Bete
Buddie Foster
R. C. Horton
Andrews
J. P. Duffy
Homer Clark
J. C. Boatright
B. V. Hedges
John Bednar
Joe Hale Hedges
Willis Smith
Ballinger
Red Holland
Jack Herring
Dee Foster
de Clark
Herbert
J. C. Boatrights
T. G. Gleghorn
Buster Gleghorn
Billie Joyce Smith
Gleghorn
Arizona
Red Hollands
Sparks Boatrights
Sweetwater
Big Spring
Jack Moore
T. G. Glegorn
A. J. Essarys
Jim Clark
Marvin Stephenson
Midland
Georgia Mae Nixon
D. B. Stinebaugh
J. R. Brooks
Weribest
C. H. Hester
Luther
Aileen
J. D
Jack Stinebaugh
C. B. Baker
E. E. Wade
Henry Boatright
Miles
Jim Harris
San Angelo
W. M. Alexander
Herb Holland
Dee Fosters
Sparks Boatright
Jim
Homer Clarks
H.C. Hedges
T. G. Greghorn
Buster and
Howard
Jodie Hedges
Herb
Local Want Ads Feature Livestock and Furnishings
Want ads promote English White Leghorn chicks and light breeds with early delivery. Ballinger Texas listings offer a registered Aberdeen Angus bull for 225 dollars and home furnishings from Gift Mart in Ballinger and San Angelo, including living room suites and studio couches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Williams Hatchery and Supply
Hutching Ave
Ballinger
Texas
Aberdeen
Sunbeam General
Page
Box
San Angelo
T. W. Taylor & Son
N. Chadbourne
Bronte Service Company Ad Seeks Butane Finder
Local Bronte business posts terse notice seeking a 28 gallon capacity butane finder contact. Advertisement appears as a brief service note with minimal details and no contact method.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ay Keepers
Butane
Servi Company
Bronte
Opening of the 50th Congress and new leadership detailed
The 50th Congress opened with Joe Martin of Massachusetts as Speaker nominee and Sam Rayburn as Democratic leader. The Reorganization Act shrinks standing committees from 48 to 19, aiming for efficiency. Texas delegation remains largely intact with four retirements and seven new faces among 103 newcomers. Fourteen women serve in the new Congress, seven Democrats and seven Republicans, including Helen Gahagan Douglas and Edith Rogers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
Sam Rayburn
Martin
Rayburn
House
Library of Congress
Congress
Texas
Hatton Summers
Dallas
Fritz Lanham
Ft. Worth
Luther Johnson
Corsicana
Sam Russell
Stephenville
Summers
Lanham
Johnson
Federal Court
Helen Gahagun Ps
California
Mary T. Norton
New Jersey
Georgia L. Lusk
New Mexico
Marith
Maine
Edith Rogers
Katherine St. George
New York
Frances P. Bolton
Ohio
Fort Worth WAA Office Moves to Grand Prairie. surplus music gear offered
War Assets Administration shifts Fort Worth regional office to North American Aviation plant in Grand Prairie starting February 1, keeping a Fort Worth unit for customer service. A $250,000 surplus music instrument inventory is offered, with VA and federal agencies prioritizing disabled veterans. later sale to certified WWI veterans and priority claimants. The piece also notes a record insect repellent sale by L. L. McKeehan, netting $147,068.48 above prior bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
War Assets Administration
T&p
North American Aviation
Grand Prairie
Texas
Karl E. Wallace
WAA
Wallace
Dallas
West
Louisiana
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Mississippi
Veterans’ Administration
New York
San Francisco
Philadelphia
L. L. McKeehan
McKeehan
Uncle Sam
Texas Dairy and Cotton Outputs Dip in November 1946
The University of Texas Bureau of Business Research reports a 27 percent drop in dairy manufacturing for November 1946, while production rose 1 percent from October. Hog shipments increased 62 cents, cattle shipments fell 15 percent, and overall hours and earnings rose with a 9 to 23 percent gain in weekly earnings across industries. Cotton consumption in Texas mills fell 14 percent from October but remained 19 percent above 1945 levels. Cottonseed crushed rose 19 percent as mill receipts dropped 38 percent and end-month stocks were down 3 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stefano Pommi
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
OPA
Insulating Farm Buildings
Poultrymen report lower death rates in hot weather after adding insulation to laying house roofs. Texas A&M engineer notes attic heat can reach 40 to 50 degrees hotter than outside, raising ceiling temperatures. A half inch board reduces comfort temperature by about 10 degrees, boosting efficiency and saving electricity over time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
Price Hobgood
Texas A&m College
U. S. Department of Commerce
Fiji
Churchill's troubles hit long distance calls and cashing checks
Winston Churchill Texas Technological College basketball player faces odd problems as his name leads to long lines for long distance calls, hotel registrations, and check cashing. The Sterling City lad, fifth nephew of the former British prime minister, says identification rarely helps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
Winston Churchill
Texas Technological
Churchill
Sterling City
Great Britain
Winan
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Srt Rons
Johnny W. Brenda
Tarzan and the Leopard Woman
Bob Hope
Beaucaire
Donlevy
Gale Russell
Alamo Theatre
Robert Lee, Texas
John Garfield
Eleanor Parker
the Marines
Claudette Colbert
George Brent
Brian Donlevy
The
Coplay Roar Co
H. P. Neill
L. F. Wilson, JR
Acme Plumbing Company
Strong
Cox-Vautrain Funeral Home
W. Beauregard
DIAL
Brookshire Browsings
Smtwtes Ry
Smtwtes
Washington News
O. C. Fisher
Garman
Jombie
Iaitens
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