Blindness Fight Fueled By Mildred Weisenfeld’s Drive
Mildred Weisenfeld, a partially blind Brooklyn native, leads the National Council to Combat Blindness to fund prevention research. She founded the group in 1946 after recognizing widespread eye trouble and raises funds through a broad network, with a major December benefit planned.
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New York
Mildred Weisenfeld
Miss Weisenfeld
National Council To Combat
New York Boroughs
Westchester County
N.Y
New Jersey
Philadelphia
Miam
Brooklyn
Funeral Services For W. P. Close Jr Today
Final rites for W. P. Close Jr. were held at 3 p.m. at First Methodist Church with Pastor Rollo Davidson officiating. The Dallas area resident died Sunday night at the family home in Community Center. Pallbearers included Garland Collins Earl Hackler Denver Redwine Leo Brummett Kennth Ellis Ralph Sides Frank Trosper and Carroll Seals. Burial followed in Childress Cemetery under Newberry Funeral Home direction.
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W. P. Close, Jr
First Methodist Church
Rollo Davidson
Close
Garland Collins
Earl Hackler
Denver Redwine
Leo Brummett
Kennth Ellis
Ralph Sides
Frank Trosper
Carroll Seals
Childress
Newberry Funeral Home
Refund planned for Tyler natural gas customers
Tyler natural gas users will get a refund from United Gas Co after the U S Supreme Court declined to review a Court of Appeals ruling that the company violated a 1946 contract by raising rates in 1953.
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Tyler
Tex
Tyler Natural Gas
United Gas Co
U. S. Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Livestock Market Report Fort Worth USDA
Fort Worth market notes show cattle, calves and stockers mostly steady with some sectors active. Hogs and sheep receipts cited with steady to higher trading, futures in New York and New Orleans show mixed gains and unquoted thereafter.
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Barrows
Gibe
New York
New Orleans
Birmingham Steelmaking Hub of the South
Birmingham Alabama emerges as the Souths largest steelmaking industry center with all inputs from iron ore to processing minerals sourced locally within the region.
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Birmingham
Ala
Conservationists Prepare to Open Fire on Oil Lease Rules
Washington based conservationists plan a strong challenge to new restrictions on oil and gas leasing on wildlife lands. Wildlife officials and industry spokesmen testified as hearings opened with a proposal by Interior Secretary Seaton to bar leasing on refuges unless drainage is already occurring nearby.
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Washington
R Gutermkth
Wildlife Management Institute
Interior Department
Cratermuth
Fred A. Seaton
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Temperatures Record Highs and Lows with Readings
The 24 hour period ending 11 a.m. Tuesday reached 74 degrees at noon and again at 1 and 3 p.m. Monday. The low was 36 degrees at 6 a.m. Tuesday. Temperatures follow.
Construction begins on $95 million ditch to the sea
The project starts today near New Orleans as a new $95 million canal fixes a strategic link to the sea. The site lies 143 years after British warships scraped bottom while transporting troops for the Battle of New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Dave Ricks to Be Buried in Childress Cemetery
Funeral services for Dave Ricks will be held at 2 PM Wednesday in Newberry Chapel with Rev Rollo Davidson of First Methodist officiating. He died Sunday in Dallas Veterans Hospital. Interment follows in Childress Cemetery. Ricks, born May 29, 1892, was a long-time barber, WWI veteran, and member of the WWI veterans and American Legion. Survivors include a daughter Lillian Daniels and son John D. Ricks of Los Angeles, plus four sisters and two brothers living in Kansas, Pampa, Wellington, and Childress.
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Dave Ricks
Newberry Chapel
First Methodist
Rollo Davidson
Ricks
Veterans Hospital
Dallas
Arch Hays
Dewey Bushon
Tom Preston
L. Dewis
George Spear
Allen Jones
Childress Cemetery
American Legion
Lillian Daniels
John D. Ricks
Los Angeles
Calif
Rosie Mahone
Kansas City
Kan
Bessie Lewis
Pampa
Bertha Riker
Wellington
Annie Gordon
Childress
Harm Ricks
Dude Ricks
Governor Cannot Appoint Legislator To Senate Confirmed Post
Atty. Gen. Will Wilson ruled Governor Price Daniel cannot appoint any member of the legislature to a post requiring Senate confirmation during the term for which the legislator was elected. The decision was issued after Daniel sought a legal opinion, and it addresses potential appointments including rumors of Rep. JT. Ellix Jr. to the State Board of Water Engineers.
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Austin
Atty
Will Wilson
Price Daniel
Senate
Asst. Atty
C. K. Richards
Daniel
Rep
JT. Ellix Jr
Weslaco
State Board of Water Engineers
Wilson
Navy Demonstrates Regulus II Hypersonic Guided Missile
Edwards AFB Calif Navy shows off its new Regulus II a hypersonic guided missile designed to replace the Regulus carried on surface and undersea craft It can carry a nuclear warhead and was launched at about 10 20 a m est from the desert base during the first semi public demonstration
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Calif
Navy
Desert
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W. P. Close Jr
Fort Worth
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South's Steel
Olympic
Lipton Products
Starkist
TUNA
PEAS
Niblet
Rinso
Soflin
Tome
California
Double Gunn Bros
Mar
Harold Rose, Jr
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