Demo Solon Warns Republicans To Lower Income Tax Cut Goal
Washington, Feb. 21. Senator George of Georgia says Republicans should reduce their proposed income tax cut from about seven billion dollars to around four billion. He notes the House already approved a deep cut and foresees Senate resistance. Millikins chairman Millikk expresses confidence in passage. Knutson estimates a six and a half billion cut. President Truman vetoed GOP tax-cut attempts last year.
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Washington
George
D-Ga
Senate
House
Millikk
R-Cole
Finance Committee
Rep. Knutson
R-Minn
Truman
GOP
Wild Jungles To Hide Fate Of Missing Men
The Army stated the American Graves Registration service has suspended all search for the bodies of 1 636 American servicemen missing in World War II after over two years of in jungles in India and Burma. Many were Air Force crews believed to have crashed on inaccessible mountain peaks or in remote wilderness.
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Washington
India
Burma
Army
Air Force
Last Rites Conducted For Lee Wilson Bell
Funeral services for Lee Wilson Bell 49 of 1712 B Tenth secretary of West Texas Gas were held at Broadway Church of Christ with Dr M Norvel Young officiating. Bell died Thursday in St Marys hospital from a heart ailment. Burial followed at Lubbock Memorial Park under Sanders Funeral home direction. Company officials from Amarillo attended along with representatives from multiple West Texas Gas service towns.
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Lee Wilson Bell
Tenth
West Texas Gas Company
Broadway Church of Christ
M. Norvel Young
Bell
St. Mary's Hospital
Lubbock Memorial Park
Sanders Funeral Home
T. C. Cartwright
M. ‘T. Hill
Amarillo
W. W. Rusk
Amarillo Oil Company
T. S. Whitis
Midland
Lamesa
Slaton
Floydada
Canyon
Plainview
Hereford
Littlefield
Levelland
Brownfield
Patterson to Speak in Dallas on European Recovery
Former Secretary of War Robert P Patterson flies to Dallas to discuss American guidance for European recovery and world peace. He chairs American Brotherhood Week and the Marshall Plan committee, speaking Monday as the Southwest stop for the national conference of Christians and Jews.
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Dallas
Robert P. Patterson
American Brotherhood
Southwest
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Building boom continues as Texas prize awards top $104 million
Austin reports that the Texas Contractor notes seven weeks into the year total construction awards reach $104,185,585. This week adds $12,385,091 in contracts including $3,775,925 in residential work and $1,615,748 in engineering projects with 426 homes under seven thousand dollars and several higher priced residences.
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Austin
Texas
Cotton Congress Exhibits Group to Meet in Dallas
Hillsboro Feb 21 Fifty top cotton experts from the South will convene in Dallas Friday as part of the 1948 cotton congress exhibits committee. Burris C. Jackson reveals that the exhibits group, led by D T Killough, plans a premier display of cotton farming and processing machinery. The congress clinic, set for July 25 26, aims to analyze industry problems and is described as a leading national cotton event.
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Hillsboro
Dallas
Burris C. Jackson
D. T. Killough
College Station
Jackson
Sorghum Flour Bread Research at Texas Tech
Texas Technological College launches a yearlong project led by Mrs. Jonnie McCrery Michie and Miss Faye Hattox to develop yeast bread recipes using sorghum flour supplemented by wheat flour. The team will test ingredient ratios, use new high protein sorghum from Lubbock, and conduct rat bio-assay growth tests.
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Texas Technological College
Jonnie McCrery Michie
Faye Hattox
United States
State Agricultural Experiment Station
Lubbock
Harvest Queen Mills
Plainview
Night flight training offered by 707th Bomb squadron
Flying personnel from the 707th Bomb squadron in Lubbock will conduct night training at Lubbock Army Air Field on February 27 28 and 29. Six AT 6 and AT 11 planes will be available for eligible squadron members who hold current medical exams. Public tours are welcome and the unit notes it is the official Air Force reserve training squadron in Lubbock replacing the Air Force Association.
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707Th
Lubbock
Air Force Reserve
Lubbock Army Airfield
Cecil E. Jennings
Cer
Jennings
Air Force
Air Force Association
Widely Known Texas Newsmen Buy Odessa Newspaper
Odessa Morning Herald to announce sale of the Herald by Jada Davis and Darrell Freeman to F. M. Shaver and W. S. Foster. Shaver from El Paso becomes publisher in Odessa while Foster, with ties to Stamford Victoria and Rogers, lives in Waco.
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Odessa
Odessa Morning Herald
The
Herald
Jada Davis
Darrell Freeman
F. M. Shaver
W. S. Foster
Texas
Shaver
el Paso
Foster
Waco
Stamford
Victoria
Rogers
Solon Pushes Taft Hartley on Union Membership Rules
Rep. Kearns of Pennsylvania proposes amending the Taft Hartley act to prevent workers from being forced to join more than one union to hold a job. He leads a House Labor subcommittee probing the Hollywood movie strike and says it would be fine for a worker to belong to several unions for different work but not to carry four union cards for one job.
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Washington
Kearns
R-Pa
House
Hollywood
Russian factories to mass produce television sets this year
A TASS dispatch from London reports Russian factories will begin mass production of television sets this year. The notice notes plans for increased output and expansion of television manufacturing in operating facilities.
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London
TASS
Death of Kress Resident Harry Davenport at 73
Harry Davenport 73 a resident of Kress for 33 years died this afternoon in Swisher County hospital Tulsa. Wood Funeral home Plainview reports funeral services will be at 3 p m Monday in Kress Baptist church with Rev Russell Pooge officiating. Burial in Kress cemetery. Survived by wife, one son Clifton Davenport of Wes Jaco, and four daughters Mrs Carl Lossin, Mrs E F both of Kress, Mrs Nettie Beck of Roswell New Mexico, and Mrs Johnnie Bob Griffith of Dimmitt.
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Plainview
Harry Davenport
Kress
Swisher County
Tulsa
Wood Funeral Home
Kress Baptist Church
Russell Pooge
Kress Cemetery
Clifton Davenport
Wes Jaco
Carl Lossin
E. F. Both
Nettie Beck
Roswell
N. M
Johnnie Bob Griffith
Dimmitt
Russian TV Broadcasting Details Omitted in Report
The article provides no further specifics on television broadcasting in Russia. No names dates or organizations are specified in the readable text.
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Russia
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