More Farm Meetings Slated Across County in Two Weeks
The county holds a series of farm community meetings sponsored by D W Sherrill and partners. Sessions run 7:30 pm at various sites including Idalou Slaton Shallowater Acuff Wolffarth Woodrow Monroe and the county agent's office. Films cover DDT use cotton problems irrigation and nutrition.
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Ave. Q
D. W. Sherrill
Idalou Club House
Shallowater Club House
Acuff
Roosevelt School
Wolffarth
Rewship School
Woodrow
Cooper School
Monroe
New Deal School
Slaton
School House
Sherrill
Matador City Goes Into Plumbing Business
Matador's city government will install plumbing, perform repairs, and replace old lines. Water Supt. Herman Stanfield, a licensed plumber, will supervise and be paid a salary. customers will be billed for services. The move arose from continual calls and lack of resident plumbers.
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Matador
Herman Stanfield
Stanfield
Ober Johnson
McKee Wholesale Introduces Retirement Plan for Workers
The Lubbock based McKee Wholesale company announces a new employee retirement plan based on years of service and earnings. Implemented by owner Joe Smith and Manager R. M. Caviness with Great National Life Insurance staff, the program offers up to five percent of annual wages as a lifetime retirement income starting at age 65. The firm serves a 60 mile radius around Lubbock with cigarettes, cigars, and many national brand candies.
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Lubbock
McKee Wholesale Company
Joe Smith
R. M. Caviness
Keneath D. Moore
Charles Matteson
Great National Life Insurance Company of
Dallas
McKee
A. W. McKee
Three Persons Killed in Accidents Near Fort Worth
Three people died in traffic accidents near Fort Worth. John W. Herdelicke age 38 and Henry Grady Gresham age 52 of Ponder Texas were fatally injured when their car collided with a Santa Fe switch engine at a crossing on Highway 81 near the municipal airport. Thomas Rowland Murrell, 42, of Fort Worth, died about 30 minutes after a separate automobile crash.
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Fort Worth
John W. Herdelicke
Henry Grady Gresham
Ponder, Tex
Thomas Rowland Murrell
Ownership Change Mentioned for Local Asset
The fragment notes that an item has been owned by Smith for the past two years, indicating a recent ownership period without additional context or details.
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Smith
Texas Polio Cases Hit All Time Peak In 1948
Texas health officials report 1 765 polio cases in 1948 the highest on record surpassing 1943 the 1 274 mark and 1946 s 979. The department promotes community cleanup campaigns and polio control measures for 1949.
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Texas
Austin
State Health Department
Health Department
Spur Man in Berlin Airlift Commended for Work
Billy G. Hairgrove aviation machinist's mate first class USN husband of Mrs. Jane S. Hairgrove Spur Texas serves with Naval Air Transport Squadron flying with U S Air Force planes in the Berlin airlift. He received a well done from the Air Force Commander for coal and food runs amid harsh weather and improvised shelters at Rhein Main near Frankfurt.
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Billy G. Hairgrove
USN
Jane S. Hairgrove
Spur
Naval Air Transport Squadrons
U. S. Air Force
Air Force
Lubbock
Tex
Berlin
Rhein Main Air Force Base
Frankfurt
Pacific
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dr. Pierce
Adv
Armstrong Warehouse
Transfer, Inc
Texas Ave
United van Lines
International
G.M.C
Ford
Dodge
Pendley Body CO
Milam
Dial
Crosbyton
J. W
Big Jim) Robinson
Blanco Canyon
C. E. Lamb
James Coleman Robinson
J. C. Robinson
Ave. C
Dale Lamb
Big Jim” Robinson
Center
Broadway
Wylies Brug
Navy
Il. Sun
Albuquerque
U Santa FE
Las Vegas
Sweetwater
Midland
Odessa
San Angelo
Ilene Fae
Waco
Roswell
Amarillo
Plainview
Lussock
Mumeaat Worth Wells
Cas Cruces
EL Paso
Inseae
Houston
Bryan
Wylies Drug
Wylie's
Texas Dial
Leonard Refrigerator
White’s
SimNer
Leonard
White's
White
Frozi
Dorothy Gray
Wylies Brug Store
Wylie’s
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