Highway Week events and university enrollment rise in Texas
Reports detail a Longview Highway Week luncheon honoring District Engineer Wilson Potter with Dewitt C. Greer to speak. Stephen F. Austin State University posts a fall enrollment record of 9,976, up 3.6 percent from last year. The Longview industrial conference in Houston features astronomer Robert Crippen as luncheon guest and W. A. Clements Jr. among speakers. In Brockville a toy shop robbery nets 952 dollars as a cat and a snake engage in a tense standoff.
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Felts
Longview
Dewitt C. Greer
Texas Highway Commission
Greer
United States
Nacogdoches
Stephen F. Austin State University
SFA
Gene Barbin
Barbin
SFA University
Shamrock Hilton
Houston
Alf Jernigan
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Jack Yianitsas
Beaumont
W. A
Bill) Clements, Jr
Robert L. Crippen
Screwworm outbreak widens across Texas regions
Officials warn livestock producers of an expanding screwworm crisis with 19 cases in the week ending Sept 3 and 16 more over Labor Day weekend, bringing Texas to 138 cases and the U.S. total to 161. Producers urged to inspect wounds, spray beards, delay dehorning and castration, send larvae for ID, and request collection kits from agents.
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Texas
U.S
Mission Screwworm Laboratory
Mission
FAT-GO Diet Plan Promises Quick Weight Loss
An advertisement promotes FAT-GO as a sensible diet plan with a full 12 day supply for $2.50. It claims steady weight loss and offers a money back guarantee if not satisfied from the first package.
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Texan to Join Mexican Academy of Arts
University of Texas professor Allen W. Phillips, a Spanish scholar, has been named a member of the Academia Mexicana. The honor marks him as the first and only U S member in the respected body founded in 1875, which includes writers poets and critics.
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Austin
University of Texas
Mexico
Allen W. Phillips
United States
Academia Mexicana
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