Texas Happenings and Statewide Comment
Federal authorities filed counterfeiting charges against Vernon Roland M L Roland and Homer Dale Russell for producing fake one and ten dollar bills at Hereford Texas Their shop was alleged to print the notes Onlookers at Port Arthur refused to unload Russian licorice root from a Swedish freighter after six prior attempts to move the cargo Capt A Olson warned of possible port changes A 300000 memorial stadium in Commerce Texas was dedicated to 77 East Texas State Teachers College alumni who died in World War II The dedication preceded a football game between East Texas Lions and North Texas Eagles A nationwide Crusade for Freedom for Texas was announced by Gen Weatherred to fund a Berlin bell and counter Soviet propaganda A Gatesville Messenger editor criticized apathy after a fire prevention demonstration In literature LeRoy Leatherman of Dallas Public Library praised for The Caged Birds by Lon Tinkle and The Dallas Morning News
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Amarillo
Vernon Roland
M. L. Roland
Homer Dale Russell
Hereford
Tex
International Longshoremen's Association
Port Arthur
Capt
A. Olson
Selma Thornden
Boston
Mass
Olson
Walter H. Woodul
Houston
Commerce
East Texas State Teachers’ College
East Texas State Lions
North Texas State Eagles
Texas
Preston A. Weatherred
Weatherred
United States
Europe
Berlin
General Weatherred
LeRoy Leatherman
Lon Tinkle
Dallas Morning News
Mr. Leatherman
Dallas Public Library
John Crowe Ransom
Eudora Welty
Allen Tate
Andrew Lytle
Katherine Anne Porter
CAB Chair Demands Immediate Civil Air Mobilization Plan
Air Mobilization head Delos W. Rentzel told Fort Worth the Civil Aeronautics Board must deliver a complete mobilization plan for all U S civil air transport at once calling it the real urgent task. Rentzel was confirmed just hours earlier by the Civil Aeronautics Administration. American Airlines and Delta Air Lines began a one stop service from New Orleans to Los Angeles via Dallas and Fort Worth with a fourth interchange flight offering.
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Civil Aeronautics Board
Delos W. Rentzel
Fort Worth
CAB
United States Civil Air Transportation
Rentze
Civil Aeronautics Administration
American Airlines
Delta Airlines
New Orleans
Los Angeles
Dallas
Delta
Shivers Honored as Honorary Chairman of Campaign
Gov Allan Shivers was named honorary chairman of the campaign in recognition of his public service and leadership. The designation signals strong political backing and broad party support for the upcoming effort.
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Shivers
Allan Shivers
Texas U Issues Book to Aid Family Problems
The University of Texas Hogg Foundation publishes Family Community and Mental Health a 64 page handbook for community leaders. Written by Texas community workers over two years the book is illustrated by Betty Cobb and will be nationally distributed with copies at 50 cents each.
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Texas U
Austin
Tex
University of Texas Hogg Foundation For
Bernice M. Moore
Texas Education Agency
Robert L. Southerland
Hogg Foundation
Texas
University of Texas Hogg Foundation
Womans Foundation of
New York City
Betty Cobb
Dallas
University of Texas, Austin
Popular Cotton Rowden Tops 1950 51 Crop Report
The University of Texas Cotton Merchandising Research Laboratory reports that Rowden was the leading cotton variety in USDA district 8-N for 1950 51. It covered 58 percent of planted acreage, followed by Mebane and Qualia at 8 percent, Deltapine at 7 percent, and Stoneville at 5 percent.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
University of Texas Cotton Merchandising Research Laboratory
Stoneville
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Shun Red Cargo
First
Sulphur Springs
Pioneer Village
North Texas
Gilmer-Aikin
L. P. Sturgeon
Gilmer-Aiken
Sturgeon
American
Gatesville Messenger
Joe Fogaley
State Firemen’s Training School
City Auditorium
Texan’s
White Rock
New Air Service
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