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Prison plates fuel tough Texas trivia and sports chatter
The State Penitentiary at Huntsville produced license plates for the Texas Highway Department in a 1951 order exceeding six million. End-to-end, the plates would stretch from Austin to Chicago, then from New York to San Francisco bumper to bumper. The item notes a league vote on girls basketball sponsorship and lists population figures from the Census Bureau. It also reports Mineral Wells Resorters beating Dublin Shamrocks 9 to 1 to win the Brazos League title and mentions home construction costs likely rising slightly in 1950.
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