Texas finance rates face scrutiny amid loan shifts
State Sen. Bill Patman notes a drop in borrowing from finance companies since 1968 and a rise in credit union loans as Texans seek lower costs. He compares a 37 month 1000 loan cost totals and warns of dangers from high rates and ads. Local retailers report new spring stock and shop updates.
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Bill Patman
Patman
Texas
One-Vehicle Crash Knocks Out Burnet Power
A 1968 Dodge Dart driven by Lawrence Curtis McDowell of San Angelo lost control after a cigarette, hitting a utility pole and transformer at the Hwy 29 281 intersection. The crash caused a four hour outage at the southeast intersection, with a hospital stay for McDowell and fire department response to a subsequent auto fire.
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Burnet
Roger Holland
Lawrence Curtis McDowell
San Angelo
KHLB Adds Our Changing World With Earl Nightingale
KHLB will begin airing Earl Nightingale's Our Changing World beginning January 3. The daily series is heard on more than 1 000 radio and TV stations worldwide and features Nightingale's philosophy for success. It airs Monday through Friday at 9 45 a.m. in the Hill Country area.
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Peoples Savings
Earl Nightingale
Hill Country
U.S
Canada
KHLB
Nightinggale
Nightingale
Arizona
WGN
Chicago
America
Logging Insurance Agency
Creatve 08
Nights
Lloyd Conant
Nightingale-Conant Corporation
Kingsland New Year Dance Features The Rusty Nail Band
The Rusty Nail a local band led by Carl Arnold of Burnet will perform at the American Legion Hall Kingsland for a New Year’s Eve Dance. The group covers country western and rock and roll styles inviting all to attend.
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Kingsland
Rusty Nail
Carl Arnold
Burnet
American Legion Hall
Conjunction Music Note and Miscellaneous Wordplay
If you have any city or county business to take care of this week, be sure and do it before Friday. All city and county offices will be closed Dec. 31 to observe the New Year's holiday. Banks and savings and loans in the county will also be closed all day. The Burnet Post office will remain open Friday as usual but the Marble Falls post office will close at noon. Normal box and route deliveries in Marble Falls will be made but no in or out mail will be received Jan. 1 and the post office will be locked. Post offices in Bertram and Buchanan Dam will be open in the morning to service customers, but no definite closing hours have been set.
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Burnet
Investment offer boosts bonds and preferred stocks
The note promotes high yielding investments and a free book on bonds and preferred stocks plus a folder on U S Government Guaranteed Bonds. It asks readers if they will participate in the next boom or keep money in mediocre rate accounts with penalties.
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U.S
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