Curries Honored on Golden Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. Dess Currie celebrated their Golden Wedding anniversary with family and friends at Rising Star Church of God in Christ. The cafetorium was dressed with white linens and a white and gold centerpiece as eight guests shared fried chicken peas salad creamed potatoes cake and iced tea. The couple are parents to Willie Currie Ruth Watson Rosie Timmons and Curtis Currie.
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Rising Star Church of God In Christ
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Rosie Timmons
Curtis Currie
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Sales Tax Rise Highlights 1968 State Revenue Surge
The piece notes Wisconsin style tax quirks and a national surge as 44 states levy general sales taxes, up from about half a dozen decades earlier. It cites 1968 general sales tax collections at 10.4 billion, a 244 percent rise since 1956, and 35 states enacting increases to bolster education funding.
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Oklahoma
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Kilgore Meeting to Feature Railroad Board Official
Tyler Texas May 20 East Texas Chapter American Petroleum Institute hosts Roy D Payne director field operations railroad commission of texas as guest speaker social hour 5 30 p m Kilgore National Guard Armory dinner 7 p m topic recent rule changes and compliance requirements Payne's career spans Kilgore Austin and Corpus Christi with notable posts in trucking and drilling firms origin of the diamond industry traced to ancient times with Chinese sources and Alexander the Great soldiers mentioned
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U. S. Army
Consulting Petroleum Engineering
Edgerton, Payne & Stearns
Austin
Travis Drillers, Inc
Abilene
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Governor Jump of the Calvaras County Fair
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department employees will search for a suitable bullfrog for Governor Preston Smith to enter in a Governor's Jump at the Calvaras County California Fair amid a chili cook off in Terlingua and a rolling joke about location.
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Terlingua
California
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Preston Smith
Calavaras County
Lookout For Smilin Smith Jumping Frog Jubilee
Daryl Darcy, budget examiner for the Texas legislative board, will assist Governor Smith in choosing the leanest largest jumper named Smilin Smith. The winning frog will be flown to California to compete with Able Albert owned by Alabama Governor Brewer and Big John I owned by Louisiana Governor McKeithen. The Governors Jump is set for 3 p.m. Saturday May 17 with winners eligible for an international contest.
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Daryl Darcy
California
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Albert P. Brewer
Alabama
Big John I
John J. McKeithen
Louisiana
Anatomy of a Sunday Jump Contest and Stamp Controversy
A Sunday jump contest invites top athletes with a secret department employee hidden isometric training. Meanwhile in London protesters target a May stamp issue showing Liverpool Cathedral with a Catholic cathedral image. The 1s éd valued stamp is part of an architecture series featuring Anglican cathedrals and St Giles Edinburgh.
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