Eisenhower earmarks five million for Texas soil rescue
President Eisenhower announced five million dollars in emergency funds to aid farmers in Texas and six other states hit by dust storms. The aid, administered through the agricultural conservation program, aims at emergency tillage and soil cover to curb wind erosion as millions of acres suffer or face damage.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Texas
White House
Austin
William McGill
State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee
Texas A& M
James Hagerty
Colorado
Kansas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Nebraska
Wyoming
Sharp FFA Boys And Sweetheart Event Details
Mr and Mrs George Lamb and Mr and Mrs Dwight Hine hosted the Sharp FFA event with the Sharp chapter sweetheart Shirley Drummond and escort Peggy. Other participants included Leroy Kohring Weldon Koskocil and Howard Lee Pierce.
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George Lamb
Dwight Hine
FFA
Leroy Kohring
Weldon Koskocil
Howard Lee Pierce
Sharp
Shirely Drummond
Peggy
FFA Sweetheart Banquet At Rockdale School Friday Night
Lawrence attended the District FFA event at Rockdale School where Shirley Drummond was one of five sweethearts in the runoff.
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Lawrence
FFA
Rockdale
Shirley Drummond
Crops Replanted After Freeze Says J. D. Moore
Crop conditions show little change since last week with a half inch to near flood rain late last week. Heaviest rain along Sandy Creek south of Milano and north of Yarrelston. Nearly all corn replanted after the freeze with about half the maize surviving. cotton and truck crops being replanted or waited until after Easter. Livestock conditions are good.
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Sandy Creek
Milano
Yarrelston
Evelyn Courtney Appears in SHSTC Pioneer Show
Evelyn Courtney of Cameron performs in the Swinging Doors western show sponsored by the Annie Gibbs and the Vete ran's Club with Pioneer Roundup and Western Week at Sam Houston State College. A SHSU sophomore elementary education major and 1953 Groveton High School graduate, she cheered and served as Lion's Club Sweetheart. she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Courtney.
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Evelyn Courtney
Cameron
Annie Gibbs and the
Veteran's Club
Pioneer Roundup
Sam Houston State College
Evelyn
Groveton High School
Lion's Club
Maurice Courtney
Dealey Remembered In Ernest Sharpe Biography
Ernest Sharpe's book on G B Dealey head of the Dallas News portrays him as a master of journalism with 72 years at a single paper. Critics like Herbert Gambrill praise Sharpe for detailing Dealey's enduring impact, humility, wit, and civic work.
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Dealey
Ernest Sharpe
Sharpe
Dealevy
Dealeys Laconic
Herbert Gam
Brell
University of Texas Journalism Faculty
Ten million added to Social Security under new act
James B Marley notes the 1954 amendment to the Social Security Act brings about ten million more workers under OASI starting January 1, 1955. The group includes farm operators self employed professionals and government employees. Nine of ten working Americans will be affected and over 57 million civilian workers will be covered next year.
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Mmer
Eisenhower
James B Marley
Austin Social Security Office
Marley
OASI
Social Security Office in Austin Addresses Benefit Reforms
Officials at the Austin Social Security office discuss potential improvements to retirement tests disability freeze and a drop out provision. The goal is to secure adjusted benefits and refigure eligibility rules for regional claimants.
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Austin
Social Security Office
Mrs Hess Travels to Hot Springs to Visit Father in Hospital
Mrs Horston Hess left Friday night for Hot Springs Arkansas to visit her father A. L Crider who is seriously ill at a hospital there.
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Morton Foods
J. D. Moore
SHSTC
Lone Star Land
Merry Modern Says
The
Lone Star Gas Company
Lone Star
Otto Patrke
GO Electric
Texas Power
Plymouth Belvedere
Plymouth
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