Texans weigh special session to revise auto inspection law
Editorial argues lawmakers push for a special session to rewrite the state inspection act. Rep. Joe Pyle says the act was meant as safety reform but has grown out of control. The piece estimates at least $1 per car for 350,000 vehicles, plus repairs, funding patrols and stricter enforcement as possible outcomes.
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Texas
Joe Pyle
Fort Worth
State
Highway Patrol
San Angelo
Its Big Government Critics Weigh In On Government Woes
During a congressional recess Senator Millikin cites constituents concerns about corruption taxes waste and Korea while a Mississippi Democrat notes the lack of plan to win the war balance the budget or reform Washington. The Wall Street Journal warns the federal machine is running out of control as Truman prepares next year’s appropriations.
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Korea
Mississippi
Washington
Wall Street Journal
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Congress
Congressional
House
Senate
Johnson City Pioneer George Summy Dies at 75
George W. Summy aged 75 died at his ranch near Johnson City after a long Blanco County life. Funeral services were held at Croft's Funeral Home with Rev. D. G. Hardt officiating. Burial followed in Masonic Cemetery. Survivors include five daughters and two sons. A month earlier his daughter Prebble Summy died. Local notices mention other residents and a separate accidental death of Fentress Clayton near San Marcos.
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Johnson City
Blanco County
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G. Hardt
First Methodist Church
Prebble Summy
Masonic Cemetery
Fred Mogford
Alton Burchett
San Antonio
Charlie Hobbs
Edgar Moreland
H. Klappenbach
Otho Summy
Jude Summy
Guy Summy
Garnet Summy
California
Fentress Clayton
San Marcos
Calyton
Neil Rountree
Austin
Fritda Arrington
Babe Arrington
George Gipson
Opal Ray
Bill Hirsch
Arlene
G. J. Bryan
Texaco
Alvie Kennedy
Fred Danz
Tobin of
Harper
J. R. Hunnicutt
Malcolm Haley
Emma Haley
Cecil Presnell
Mary Stevenson
Live Oak County
Howard Casparis
Burnet
Casparis
U. S. Army
J. C
Missouri
Lee B
Germany
G. A Cammack
Alton
Houston
Carroll Wilson
G. A. Cammack
Ruth Wall
Blanco
Pedernales Philosopher Questions Industrial Progress
The Kerr Route farm writer argues that progress and industrialization are not essential to value, praising self sufficiency while noting lack of local bomb or car factory activity. He critiques the idea that a region must produce all goods to be modern, warning about transportation and coastal advertising.
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Atlanta Constitution
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Cleveland
Price Daniel to Reveal Political Intentions on Monday
Texas attorney general Price Daniel will announce his 1952 political plans in a statewide radio address Monday evening January 21 at 7 30. Governors Shivers bid for reelection stirs debate on Daniel's possible run for Senate. Daniel is known for his fights against organized crime and against federal efforts to seize Texas tidelands from the Public School Fund.
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Price Daniel
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Shivers
Daniel
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Senate
Texas Tidelands
Texas Public School Fund
Fredericksburg Bank to Close Saturday for Lee Birthday
The Fredericksburg National Bank will be closed Saturday January 19 in observance of Robert E. Lee's Birthday.
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Fredericksburg National Bank
Robert E. Lee
Coon Hunting Passion Drives Squaw Creek Youth
The community young men and boys prize coon hunting with many owning hounds and claiming furs. nights bring baying hounds and quiet darkness as anticipation rises. PTA event at Morris Ranch featured 35 mm and 16 mm projectors with Edna and Ernestine Crenwelge. Squaw Creek school mid term exams run through Wednesday the 16th. Local families, the Stehlings and Sieckmanns, visited Harper and San Antonio for events including the Senja Henie Ice Revue.
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Edna Crenwelge
PTA
Morris Ranch
Ernestine Crenwelge
Squaw Creek
Henry Stehling
Roman Stehling
Harper
Albert Sieckmann
Mis
Meta Spaeth
San Antonio
Letter Expresses Frustration Over Local Commerce and Distribution
The writer laments reliance on others to process crops into usable goods. He explains that he can harvest cotton and wheat but cannot manufacture further, stressing a sense of communal or logistical dependency. The closing signs with “Yours faithfully, J. A.” imply a personal, domestic letter.
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J. A
Central Motor Co Promises Quality Auto Repairs
Our shop has the necessary equipment and the experienced men who can do a first class job of repairing on any model or make car. Call on us today. All work guaranteed.
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Central Motor CO
Bading Becomes Porter-Cable Key Man for Fredericksburg Area
Lorenz F. Bading of Gillespie County Lumber Co. in Fredericksburg Texas has completed the Porter-Cable instruction and exam earning expert status on a broad line of electric woodworking tools. He is appointed Porter-Cable Key Man, directing instruction and promotion for SpeedHade and Guild tools and serving as the central information source for the area.
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Lorenz F. Bading
Gillespie County Lumber Co
Fredericksburg
Texas
Porter-Cable Machine Company
Syracuse
New York
Porter-Cable
Bading
Porter- Cable
Llano County Births Fall as Deaths Rise in 1861 and 1959
Llano County records show 1861 had 38 births and 55 deaths, while 1959 saw 46 births and 40 deaths. Of 1951 deaths, four were under 40, 35 were over 70, including 19 above 80 and 40s, 90s, with the oldest at 93 years.
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