Four Major Issues Loom Over Texas 51st Legislature
The Avalanche-Journal notes four major issues shaping the 51st Texas Legislature led by finances and taxation, school system overhaul, election law reform, and prison system revamp. It highlights a projected $240 million ready cash, Gilmer Aiken education plan scope, and anticipated battles on tax policy, rural roads, and civil rights measures.
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Dave Cheavens
Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Beauford H. Jester
Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Gilmer- Aiken
Marshall O. Bell
San Antonio
English Writer Will Be Guest Speaker At Knife and Fork Session
Vivian Meik of Salt Lake City, noted English writer and former diplomatic and professional correspondent for The People, will be guest speaker at the Lubbock Knife and Fork club dinner at 7 pm Thursday at Hilton hotel. Meik has hobnobbed with heads of government and endured two world wars, losing sight in one eye in the Battle of Britain, and is front page columnist of The Desert News.
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Vivian Meik
Salt Lake City
Lubbock
Hilton Hotel
Lewis B. Rix
Meik
the People
The
Illustrated
John Bull
High Seas
Oxford University
Associated Clubs
Knife and Fork Club
Zambeze
Hitler
England
America
Block And Bridle Members Attend Meeting In Chicago
Clinton Ritter and Glen Quattlebaum represented Texas Tech at the national Block and Bridle meeting in Chicago on November 29. Robert W. Baumgardner, Tech alumnus and merit award winner, earned the national ranking of fifth most valuable member for 1947-48 based on scholarship and club activity. Iowa State won the chapter achievement award for its International Livestock judging team, which included Tech staff member Stanley E. Anderson in 1947-48.
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Clinton Ritter
Texas Technological College
Block and Bridle
Glen Quattlebaum
Chicago
Robert W. Baumgardner
Tech
Baumgardner
Iowa State
Ames
Iowa
Stanley E. Anderson
Fire damages nine story Fargo Naval building in Boston
Flames swept through three floors of the nine story Fargo Naval building in Boston today forcing out 65 officers. The total damage was estimated at 100000 dollars.
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Boston
Fargo Naval
Inis
Tech Engineering Students Initiated Into Tau Beta Pi
Twenty undergraduates at Texas Tech including 19 seniors and one junior and a Texas A M alumnus were initiated into Tau Beta Pi at Hilton hotel. Rex C. Bradford led the junior class with top GPA. senior initiates included Emory Diltz and others. A banquet followed with Wendell Mayes Jr as master of ceremonies and John Haynes winning the essay contest titled Engineers in Politics.
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Texas Tech
Texas A. and
M. College
Tau Beta Pi Association
Hilton Hotel
Tau Beta Pi
Rex C. Bradford
Emory E. Diltz
Allan Ray Beavers
Leon Bragg
Samuel A. Combs
James R. Dezelle
A. W. Guthrie
Fred W. Gipson
Thomas S. Greenwood
Isom H. Hale
John J. Haynes
Herbert L. Lamb
Clarence A Loveless
Frank McEwin
Charles E. Newton, Jr
John H. Vaughan, Jr
Paul Meadows
Dave G. Wilson
William T. Wright, Jr
C. W. Nall
Bryan W. Berthelot
Odessa
A. and M
Wendell Mayes, Jr
Haynes
O. V. Adams
H. F. Godeke
L. J. Powers
F. L. McRee
A. G. Oberg
D. J. Helmers
Grand Champion Turkey Sells For 30.50 A Pound
Modesto Calif December 4 A turkey sold for 30.50 a pound with a 24 pound grand champion hen snown by Elwood Swanson of Turlock Calif. Armour and Company paid 732 yesterday for the bird at the Far West Turkey show.
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Turkey
Modesto
Calif
Armour and Company
Far West
Elwood Swanson
Turlock
Language Experts Finally Unravel Einstein's Views
Princeton December 4 The report traces how Einstein's quote praising a world government spread after being written in German translated into French by an American and then into English by a Danish translator. World Federalists acknowledge some loss of nuance, yet the gist urged a supranational authority.
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Einstein
Princeton
N. J
Albert Einstein
Paris
Combat
Institute For Advanced Study
Princeton University
Princeton Institute
Dr. Einstein
World Federalists
United Nations
Program Study To Highlight Littlefield C Of C Banquet
The Littlefield chamber of commerce will hold its annual banquet at 7:30 PM Tuesday at the First Methodist church annex. James G Roberts says the program covers last year's four point plan and the coming year's work with principal address by Truman M Chumley of a Lubbock grain company.
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Littlefield
Chamber of Commerce
James G. Roberts
Truman M. Chumley
Lubbock Grain Company
First Methodist Church
Presbyterians Set Book Fair at First Church
Westminster Chapel and First Presbyterian churches sponsor the first annual Book Fair at the First church today and tomorrow led by Miss Eugenia Hopp er and Dr. William H. Foster. The event features religious literature for home and church, talks by Mrs. Estelle Amos and Mrs. David Zacharias, children's hours, book discussions, and social hours with purchases from the Dallas Presbyterian bookstore.
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Westminster Chapel
First Presbyterian Churches
First Church
Eugenia Hopper
William H. Foster
el Paso
David Zacharias
Westminster Church
Westminster Fellowship
Douglas
Amos
Dallas Presbyterian
Jesus
Europe
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Zacharias
Presbyterian
Forgotten debtor repays penny loan in Newton
Newton patrolman Miles A. MacNeil who helped many people without carfare received three cents in repayment for four pennies borrowed a month earlier. The small payment offers a glint of hope for the officer who often aided others in need.
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Newton
Mass
U.P
Miles A. MacNeil
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