Gas Price Minimums Fight Falters in Texas House
The Texas House failed to stay in session as backers of a gas price minimums bill suffered a blow, with opponents labeling it price fixing and arguing benefits to producers at consumers’ expense. The session adjourned until Monday while other measures, including a car dealer licensing bill, stalled in final passage.
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Hardeman
J. B. Walling
Wichita Falls
Senate
Walling
Texas
House
J. C. Gillham
Brownfield
Sec
Robert Anderson
Vernon
George Berry
Lubbock
Curtis Ford
Corpus Christi
36Th Division Assn
Capitol Grounds
36Th Texas Infantry Division
Texas National Guard
Pontiac
Former Mayo College Ex-Students To Meet April 30
Mayo College ex students association plans a reunion for April 30 in West Texas and New Mexico. Notables include Rep Sam Rayburn and Vanderbilt professor Clyde Pharr among many listed alumni from Lubbock Odessa and Amarillo.
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Old Mayo College
Mayo College
East Texas State College
Stat Commerce
Caprock Jeel
Homer H. Tate
W. N. Mayo
Mayon College
Ex-Students Association
Boone Whitten
Matador
Carr Thompson
Homer L. Pharr
Claude Hale
Lubbock
Wo OL. Tittle
Plainview
Jimmy Crump
Paducah
Judge Whitten
E. C. Nix
Sam Rayburn
U. S. House of Representatives
Marshall ‘Williams
U. S. Navy
Clyde Pharr
Vanderbilt University
D. L. Clark
University of Texas
E. C. Nix Seminole
Anna B. Casey
15Th St
West Texas
H. 7 Phillips
Wichita Falls
C. A Murray
WTSC
Canyon
E. L. Pitts
Court of Civil Appeals
Amarillo
Murray Fly
Odessa College
Odessa
John D Mitchell
Gillham of
Brownfield
D.C. Wiliams
Maggie Mae Griffin Jones
Post
J. F. Nix
Boulter
C. E. Davis
Claude L. Hale
S. E. Cone
Luther Godwin
James Williams
W. F. Cox
Mae W. McKenzie
R. L. Hutton
W. Shaddix
Credit Education Week Declared by City and State Officials
Acting Mayor Lennis Baker issued a proclamation for Credit Education Week in Lubbock, echoed by Frank Revier of the Lubbock Credit Managers Club. Gov. Allan Shivers issued a statewide proclamation as well. A film The Good Things of Life on Credit will be shown to civic groups during the week, illustrating how wise credit use supports necessities and luxuries and builds responsibility.
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Lennis Baker
Lubbock
Frank Revier
Man Arrested After Asking Police to Help Get Wife
A 45 year old man was arrested in a tavern after he asked officers to help him get his wife out of the joint. He was booked on a drunkenness charge when the woman convinced investigators the man was not her husband.
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Mate
Worth
City Commission Backs East Broadway Upgrade Without Median Divider
Lubbock city commissioners in a called session at City Hall urged the State Highway Department to widen East Broadway with curb gutter and street lighting but drop the median divider strip. The resolution will go to the State Highway Commission in Austin next Wednesday after protests from property owners. Other actions included parking meter use for Lions district convention and plans for a parade heralding the South Plans Sport Show at Farr Park Coliseum on Thursday April 28.
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Lubbock
City Hall
State Highway Department
East Broadway
State Highway Commission
Austin
Highway Department
Caprock
Tahoka Co-Op Group Dividends Awarded at Annual Meeting
Tahoka Farmers Cooperative Association distributed more than 7402 dollars in cash dividends to 696 stockholders at the annual meeting and dinner. The payout was 2 dollars per bale plus 25 percent of the 1948 stock series. T V Mason and T D Puntap, both local farmers, were elected to the board. After the election, 374 attendees viewed a cooperative film. The gathering ended with a patron dinner at Tahoka High School.
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Tahoka
Farmers Cooperative Association of
Bar Assa Speaks on Social Security at Lubbock Meeting
John C Hutton manager of the Lubbock district office of the Social Security Administration was guest speaker at a monthly meeting of the Lubbock County Bar Association. He discussed program phases and explained rescission in the Social Security Act of 1954.
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John C Hutton
Lubbock
Locial Security Administration
Floydada Streets May Be Renamed
The Civic Committee proposes renaming Floydada streets to create a systematic grid. A plan would add two cents to each city account for eight months to fund the effort, while another would require a block by block canvass and awaits council action.
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Floydada
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