Motor Vehicle Titles and 1946 Licenses Urged in Texas
The Texas Highway Department urges all Texas motor vehicle owners to verify 1946 titles and bring prior year registration receipts to Tax Collectors. Owners with used or assigned titles should obtain new titles promptly, and commercial vehicle operators must prove weights and serial details. Heavier emphasis on registering trucks trailers and buses to avoid penalties and congestion.
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Austin
Motor Vehicle Division
Texas Highway Department
Texas
Surplus Land Returns 5257 Acres to Farming in Illinois
The first sale of surplus government owned farm land returned 5,257 acres in Illinois to agricultural production. About 40 farms were involved, selling for 86 percent of acquisition cost, with former owners given priority under the Surplus Property Act. Land will be turned over to buyers for spring planting.
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Illinois
Farm Credit Administration
Department of Agriculture
Texas
Egg Grading School At College Station Planned
An egg grading school will be held at College Station February 26 and 27 to train personnel to grade eggs under U S grades. The program aids the Government Egg Purchase Program and expands participants’ knowledge. A copy of the two day schedule is available by calling County Agent office number 768.
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College Station
R. B. Tate
U. S
Record Cotton Stocks Reach New High in July
World cotton stocks total 26.5 million bales at July end per USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, up from 26.1 in 1944 and 24.1 in 1948. Also notes automatic promotion to private first class for former privates reenlisting in the Regular Army within three months post discharge.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Office of Foreign Agricultural Relations
Regular
Army Education Factor To Maintaining Atomic Age Leadership
Colonel Jean Edens stresses army education as essential to leadership in the atomic age. He details USAFI the United States Armed Forces Institute as the world’s largest school offering over 200 courses via correspondence self teaching and class study with minimal costs for soldiers and extensive college access through eighty five extension divisions.
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Jean Edens
Edens
USAFI
United States Armed Forces Institute
USAF
Army schools offer civilian credit through USAFI courses
Camp Swift and other posts run numerous classes under Captain Se crest for high school and college level subjects. High school credit is through Bastrop High School and college credit via the University of Texas after passing exams. Brooke General Hospital and Ft. Sam Houston conduct similar programs with class groups and correspondence options for soldiers. Many Army schools also train soldiers in job skills with credits recognized by civilian schools per nationwide standards.
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Camp Swift
Secrest
Bastrop High School
University of Texas
Brooke General Hospital
Ft. Sam Houston
National Association of School Principals
Tuttle
More Cattle on Feed Boosts Farm Output
A livestock survey shows seven percent more cattle on feed and twenty five percent fewer lambs than a year ago. Total cattle on feed this season may near a record. Staff Sgt. Wilson W. Killen, husband of Mrs. Alice H. Killen of Cameron, has returned to the States aboard the USS Funston, a key ship in U S amphibious invasions of Japan.
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Wilson W. Killen
Alice H. Killen
Cameron
States
U. S
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