Oveta Hobby's Hats Stir Houston Public Interest
Houston profile of Oveta Culp Hobby, newly appointed Federal Security Administrator, notes her fame for hats as much as civic duties. Designers recount her preferred sailor silhouette, wide brims, and varied fabrics from felt to velvet, with price never a concern.
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Houston
Oveta Culp Hobby
Federal Security
Burton Pell
Pell
Jerome Simon
Women's Army Corps
Flood Control Parley Sets San Francisco Budget Meeting
The California Flood Control Conference will meet in San Francisco on December 4 to decide the recommended congressional appropriation for California flood control in the new budget year. The item mentions a Houston home at No 2 Rebbington Lane and notes a woman who manages her home without a housekeeper.
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Sacramento
California Flood Control Conference
San Francisco
Congress
California
Rebington Lane
Houston
New Deportation Hearing Set for War Heroine Nicknamed Joey
A deportation hearing is slated for Josefina Guerrero, known as Joey, a Philippine war heroine and leprosy patient at the National Leprosarium in Carville. The case involves her former World War II service and questions of citizenship, with the hearing set by U.S. Immigration Service on December 5.
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Joey
Carville
Joey Fields
Guerrera
Manila
Guerrero
U. S. Aftor
Josefina Suerrero
James Morrison
Louisiana
U. S. Immigration Service At
U. S. Public Health Service
New
Orleans
Leger to Attend Vienna Peace Conference Opening
Fernand Leger muralist famed for U N headquarters work in New York plans to attend the Communist backed Peace Conference opening in Vienna on December 12. Pleas to President Truman and immigration officials were sent. the hearing was postponed and no action has followed on the Congressional bill. Leger holds the American Medal of Freedom with Silver Palm for civilian war service valor.
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Red Parley
Paris
Fernand Leger
U.N
New York
Vienna
Baton Route Bar Association
Truman
Guerrero
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Sweden
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Galif
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Haddon Hall
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PAGS
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West Bend Corn Pepper
Toastmaster
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Towle
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Presto
Ekco Tepe
Liichen
Wallace — Lunt Reed & Barton
Frans
Dohrmann
Siscan
Pine Avenue
Chrome
Mr. Bartandar
Revere
Westinghouse TV
Westinghouse Television
Westinghouse
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Salem Chest
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