Milam County Easter Seal Drive Begins Under Civic Leaders
Milam County embarks on the 1950 Easter Seal Drive with Mrs. Earl Moseley as Chairwoman and a coordinating committee directing direct mail schools lily parade and publicity. The drive funds braces crutches and transportation for 137 local handicapped individuals and supports the Milam County Child Welfare Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milam County
Earl Moseley
Pleasure and Profit Club
Stanley Swift
Adolph Winfield
J. B. White
Albert Horstmann
Milam County Child Welfare Board
Waco couple guests of Mrs C H Ruby this week
Mr and Mrs Martin Ruby of Waco visited Mrs C H Ruby, the couple’s mother, here this week as guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Ruby
Waco
Mr. Ruby
C. H. Ruby
Square Dance Jamboree Set for Gregory Gym Austin
Mid-Tex Square Dancers' Association plans a spring Jamboree at Gregory Gym, Austin, April 15, with an afternoon clinic at the Austin Athletic Club. The Dallas Grey Brothers band will provide music, and Rickey Holden of San Antonio and Raymond Smith of Dallas will MC. Admission limited to association members, dancers and spectators.
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Gregory Gymnasium
Austin
Mid- Tex Square Dancers’ Association
Austin Recreation Department
University of Texas
Austin Square Dance Council
Raymond Smith
Grey Brothers
Dallas
Texas
Austin Athletic Club
Central Texas
Rickey Holden
San Antonio
Mid-Tex Square Dancers’ Association
P. O. Box
Mrs Grady Gill and kin visit Caldwell and Bryan families
Mrs Grady Gill and her son David Lynn spend Wednesday visiting Mrs E R Hearne and family in Caldwell and Mrs Grady Goodwin and family in Bryan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grady Gill
David Lynn
Minnie McFarland
D. C. York
E. R. Hearne
Caldwell
Grady Goodwin
Bryan
P. A. Wenck
Leona Walzer
Cameron
Palmer Eickenhorst
New Orleans
Louisiana
Panama
Bascom Giles Drives Texas School Fund Toward $156 Million Milestone
State Land Commissioner Bascom Giles signed documents that push the State Permanent School Fund to $156,000,000 with a monthly $1,000,000 increase from oil and gas royalties. His tenure also grows the University Permanent Fund from $27,000,000 to near $100,000,000 and spurs a veterans land program aiding 5,000 veterans to acquire farms. Giles champions oil tidelands for public schools and brings 30 years of state service to the job, plus local roots in Manor where he farms land his great grandfather settled.
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Bascom Giles
State
Giles
University
Veterans
Texas Public Schools
Austin High School
The
Masons of Texas
Manor
Travis County
Worst air disaster claims eighty lives in Wales crash
Cardiff officials report an Avro Tudor airliner carrying eighty people crashed short of Llandon Airstrip near Cardiff. Only three aboard survived as relatives gathered to greet the Welsh football fans. Captain Dennis J. Parsons, 25, commanded the plane which plummeted into Sigginstone field. Coroner to hold inquest. Lord Pakenham and aviation experts arrived to investigate.
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Cardiff
Wales
Sigginstone
Llaundon
Dennis J. Parsons
Lord Pakenham
Civil Aviation
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Parents Society
National Society For Crippled Children and Adults
Chicago
Mobilgas
Grand Canyon
Studebaker
Studebaker Land Cruiser
America
Studebakers Save
Howe
Edward Villareal
Galveston
Ben Purnell
Houston
C. J. McDonald
Fort Worth
Gulf Brewing Company
Houston, Texas
Julie Munroe
RAF Air Vice Marshal
Bennett
al- Hazar
Epa
Tay
Nork. Leet
Minnie Stedman
Mamie A. Hefley Insurance Agency
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