Wartime Roles Expand Women in Texas Politics and Work
In Texas during World War II and after, women joined factory work and civic life in large numbers. By 1946 employment among Texas women rebounded, while several women were elected or appointed to state offices and positions and women led in local politics and public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Pearl Harbor
Aartnership
Marie Carter
Dallas
U.S. Employment Service
U.s.es
Neveille H. Colgan
Navasota
Elizabeth Sutter
Winnsboro
Rae Filestill
Waxahachie
Maureen Moore
Austin
Sarah T. Hughes
Barbara
Joan Jester
Lenore
Helen @Rainey
Overnor
S. Alfred Taylor
Democratic Party
Rainey
Marion Storm
Talks Scheduled On Unmailable Matter For High School Students
Postmaster Amos Howard announced plans for discussions with high school students and local civic groups about unmailable items. The program aims to curb prohibitive mail through education and prevent disruption of promising youths careers while avoiding stigma for those not informed.
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Amos ‘Howard
Postoffice Department
Howard
Liked Owls in England Offered Barn Owl Vantage
In historic English farming practice farmers built owl windows to attract barn owls prized for their rodent control. The custom reflected the barn owl’s valued mousing role in rural livelihoods.
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England
Winter wedding sets Portales home celebration
A wedding ceremony at 2 and reception at the bride’s home followed by a Texas honeymoon. The bride wore a winter white Jersey outfit with black accessories. Miss Odessa Speckman hosted, with Miss Jean Smith assisting at the reception table adorned with white linen and pink chrysanthemums. The groom, a Portales native from a pioneer family, served as a navigation engineer and Navy machinist mate on the USS Beagle during World War II. The couple will reside in Portales.
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Ceresterio
Miss Odessa
Speckman
Jean Smith
Texas
Portalegy
Burnett
State College. of Optometry
Portales
Kansas
Redlake
Navy
U.S. S
Beagle J
Hall Clark celebrate 25th wedding anniversary with reception
Mr and Mrs George Hall and Mr and Mrs Doyle Clark were honored on their 25th wedding anniversary with a Saturday night reception at 1923 Fifteenth. Attendees arrived between 5 and 8 pm. gifts poured in. Guests registered by Mrs Jenar Byrd. The green and red Christmas motif and silver theme colored the candlelit table and the wedding cake. Mrs Henry Smith and Mrs Troy Lawrence served, with Mr Pete Hubbard assisting in hospitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George ‘Hall
Jenar Byrd
Henry Smith
Troy Lawrence
Pete Hubbard
Christmas Party Held At Harris Residence
A Christmas party was held recently in the home of Mr and Mrs Leon Harris 2213 Twenty second street. The entertainment centered on a Christmas theme with traditional games and a surprise under a Wi Harold Reber wit ma Jere.
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Leon
Harris
Harold Reber
Jere
Santa’s Visit to Veterans Host Arrives in Lubbock
The report notes a Santa visit to the Veterans hospital area near 147, with arrival timing and holiday arrangements. Lubbock hostesses included Mesdames Juanita Walden Marie Harral Catherine Carr and gentlemen W H McDonald George Farmer. Helpers were Mrs Gladys Andrews and Mrs Bernice Hill assisting from Amarillo auxiliary.
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Ly Santa
Christmas Dessert Bridge Honoring Miss Bettty Jenkins
Miss Elizabeth Howard hosted a dessert bridge at 1 15 this afternoon at her home 2309 Seventeenth in honor of Miss Bettty Jenkins home for holidays from Christian College Columbia Mo Guests included Alyce Howell Sam McKay Martha La Roe Joan Prouty Sara Davis Velma Lou Dunn LaVaughn Bearden Dorothy Barnett Jean Eisenberg Louise Elliott Anne Tucker Sylvia Whitacre Willa Marie Why puree Elizabeth Craig and Carolyn ole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth ‘Howard
Bettty Jenkins
Louise’ Elliott
Anne Tucker
Sylvia
Whitacre
Willa
Marie 'Whypuree
Elizabeth, Craig
Carolyn Ole
Jean Rhinehart to Wed Jack Carmichael in Texas Tech Couple
Mr and Mrs Samuel C Rhinehart announce the engagement of their daughter Jean to Jack C Carmichael son of Mr and Mrs C Carmichael of Miami The couple plan to marry January 24 at St Johns Methodist Church Both are students at Texas Technological College He served three years in the Navy in the Pacific theater.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel
C. Rhinehart
Jean
Jack
C. ‘Carmichael
Miami
St. John’s Methodist Church
Miss Rhinehart
Texas Technological College
Navy
Pacific Theater
TUCC Office To Be Closed This Week
The Texas Unemployment Compensation and Employment Service offices in Owens Building at Tenth and Avenue K will close for the rest of the week after hours today. They resume Monday under a new state supervision. Lunch hours will be observed daily 12 to 1. The rent office in the same building closes for Christmas from noon Tuesday to Thursday morning.
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The
Texas Unemployment Compensation
Commission
Owens
Tenth
Avenue K
James E Marshall
Busiess
Marshall
General State
Supervison
Robert E. Key
Grandfather and Mrs Hunt Die. Rites Planned in Post
N. N. Ross 85 of Muleshoe and Mrs. L C Hunt 25 of Lubbock route 2 died Sunday. Joint funeral services set for 2 PM at First Baptist Church Post with burial in Post cemetery under Rix Funeral Home. Ross survived by wife five sons three daughters and many grandchildren. Hunt survived by husband parents and sister.
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Muleshoe
L. .C. Hunt
Lubbock
Route 2
First Baptist Church
Post
Post Cemetery
Rix Funeral Home
Ross
Green Hospital
George Ross
Boise
Idaho
Charlie Ross
Glendale
Ariz
Gess Ross
Akins
Dewey Ross
J. D. Ross
Hart
Mae James
Edna Lee
Flamet
Dolly Anders
Paltotes
N. M
Elmer Ross
el Dorado
iDrive To Be Started On Traffic Neglect
City plans intensified curbside policing and driver education to curb rising traffic accidents. Police and City Manager Homer Hunter cite failures to signal turns, drive on the right side, and avoid crossing against traffic as key causes. A fines schedule for improper signals will be established, with the highest penalty for omitting the extended arm left turn signal.
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Homer Hunter
Hunter
Steel and iron shaped into vast U S production since 1854
A historical note records that steel and iron have been cast rolled and forged into 1.76 billion tons of products used in the United States since 1854, reflecting the industry’s long economic impact.
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United States
Local business gains charter and Christmas bonuses noted
An Austin dispatch reports L. R. Case and Sons Inc of Lubbock secured a charter with $38 000 capital stock. Incorporators include L R Case Mary Elva Case and Lee R Case. A Commercial Credit Corp employee at 413 15 Lubbock is cited. Also noted are Christmas bonuses of five percent for staff at Lubbock National Bank building, under Dudley Wooten. In Loveland, Dr E S Williams and Mrs Williams welcomed a son Edward Sansom born at 1 05 am in Phillips Dupre hospital with grandparents listed. Police described a nonlethal home intrusion after a man cried from a Lubbock residence and brandished a butcher knife during an uninvited entry. the couple disarmed him and filed a disturbance report. Police also noted a Christmas carol gathering disturbance call where neighbors were asked to keep quiet.
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Sty
People’ S Legislative Committee
Austin
Texas
H.H. Weinert
Seguin
Lena Gay ‘More
Brownsville
Frank Morris
Roperty Owners Association
OPA
Bettye Mims
White
Dallas
Géla Ment
Texas Pga
Polly
Riley
Fort Worth
Mary
Cunningham
el Paso
Eddings
Molly O
Daniel Wrather
Henry W. White
Barbara Jester
Beauford Jester
Howard L. Burriss
San Antonio
Shannon Jensen
Pharr
J. J. ‘Clark
Naval Air Basic Training
Corpus, Christi
Ruth Carter
Hillsboro
Golden Rule Foundation
Ann Wisener
University. Park
Port Arthur
G. B. Dealey
A.‘H. Belo Corporation
Dallas Morning ‘News
Lou, Freeman
National Bank
Athens
Jean Kiger
Little York
Houston
Florence J. Scott
Rio Grande City
Federation of Women’s Clubs
Joe Cade
Monahans
Agricultural Department
Ben. Lopez
Lamesa
H. Morton
Marshall
Texas and ‘Pacific
L. R. Case ‘and Sons, Inc
Lubbock
Associated Press
L.R. Case
Mary Elva Case
Lee R Case
The
Commercial Credit Corporation
Lubbock National Bank
Dudley Wooten
Focal
E. S. Williams
Levelland
Edward ‘Sansom
Phillips-Dupre Hospital
Abernathy Man Dies in Hospital Here
J. W. Hamilton age 71 of Abernathy route 1 died at 4 10 this morning in St Marys hospital after a stroke suffered Sunday morning Funeral services set for 2 pm Tuesday at First Baptist church with Rev H W Fields and Rev C J McCarty officiating Burial will be in Lubbock cemetery under Sanders Funeral home direction He survived by his wife four sons Odie Wiemer and J W Hamilton Jr all of Abernathy and Leslie Hamilton of Colorado City 12 grandchildren and three great grandchildren
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J. W. Hamilton
Abernathy
St. Mary’s Hospital
First Baptist Church
H. W. Fields
C. J. McCarty
Lubbock Cemetery
Sanders
Mr. Hamilton
Odie, Wiemer
J. W. Hamilton, Jr
Leslie Hamilton
Colorado City
Human Bones Found By Deer Hunters Near Beaumont
Three deer hunters reported finding human bones 12 miles southeast of Beaumont. The remains, clad in khaki with shotgun-formed holes, were crushed. the skull was sent to the Austin Public Safety lab for examination. Death is believed to date six months back. Finders are C. P. Hargraves, Floyd Gilmore, and O. E. Adams of Fanette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaumont
U.P
Department of Public Safety
Austin
C. P. Hargraves
Floyd Gilmore
O. E. Adams
Fanette
Pope Pius XII Leads Huge Anticlerical Campaign Rally
In St. Peter’s Square Pope Pius XII urged 200000 worshipers to intensify the fight against anticlericalism. He framed Rome’s mission as essential and warned of a battle between camps for Christ and against Christ while observers noted the strong crowd ovation.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
St. Peter’s Square
Rome
Holy See
Pope Pius
Christ
Firehouse beds blamed for missing sleep in Hammond
In Hammond, caretakers at a firehouse set a bed on a fire truck while cleaning. They returned to sleep but found the bed missing and later realized it had become engulfed in a fire, leaving investigators puzzled.
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Hammond, Ind
Hammond
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Jack-C. Carmichael
TUCC
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Avenue
Bunaenna
Keb Nicideey
Seventeenth Street
Italy
Il. Mercante
Il Pollo
Don Basillo
Don Basiliq
Mt. Vernon
Hristmas
Rein
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