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Newspaper
Eagle Lake Headlight
Location
Eagle Lake, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1955
Page
3
George Roesner joins KPRC and KPRC TV staff amid coverage changes. The move strengthens the Houston stations' news team as they reorganize their on air personnel this year.
Eagle Lake Garden Club 3 will meet next Wednesday at the Eagle Lake Community Center. A film on the Control of Garden Insects will highlight the program presented by Jesses rgrove Smith. Mrs aithens will discuss Compost and Why and Mrs 0 L will bring garden be ers for April. Business centers on the Flower Show set for April 19 at the Community Center.
Regional contest features County School bands in concert and sight reading events. Divisions include first and fourth class groups with teams from B schools advancing and facing stiff competition.
A local feature recalls Beckman Drug Store as a dependable prescription service since 1929. The column jokes about a man sending his wife to the bank and kissing his money goodbye, portraying a thrifty era mindset.
Rep Homer Koliba recounts a weekend inspection of Huntsville Texas Prison System detailing inmate numbers 8800 with 220 women and 341 attending church, staff resources including a 12 piece orchestra, food quality, and a call for reform through citizen visits. He notes cotton production data for 1954 and remarks on the general session of the legislature and a proposed teacher retirement plan.
The Cen tral Power and Light Company board met in Corpus Christi on March 22 and elected Lon C. Hill as chairman J L Bates as president and general manager Dwight Carlsen as vice president and treasurer N A Easter G W Gilliam E S Joslin and M H Lovelady as vice presidents W D Boone as secretary Tom D Pierce and Alice Huebner as assistant secretaries E B Rhodes and J A Manley as assistant treasurers and Garnet Menger as auditor. At the annual stockholders meeting, directors elected were J L Bates Dwight Carlsen N A Easter G W Gilliam Lon C Hill E S Joslin Richard King and M H Lovelady all of Corpus Christi, Robert W. Harper Harl ingen Albert Martin Laredo, and Claude K McCan Victoria.
An eye examination offer from Dr J Ben Johnson near the First National Bank. Tests use machines and lenses with no drugs, promising careful vision care at affordable prices. The notice proclaims better Nision and positions him as the poor man’s friend.
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