Texas Voters Favor Broadening Social Security Coverage
A Texas Poll finds most voters support expanding federal old age and survivors insurance to include farmers domestic servants and government workers. Support for including self employed business people is narrow with persistent caution about doctors engineers and other professionals.
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Alex Loud
Texas Pell
Austin
Texas
Texas Poli
Congress
Interwiewers
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
The
Texas Social Welfare Association
Spur Student High In Tech Judging Contest
The first half of the 21st annual freshman livestock judging contest at Texas Tech judging pavilion drew 80 participants. Individual winners included George Fisher of Spur with 447, Kenyon Banks of Meadow 446, Thomas Davis of Sterling City 444, and Ben Wilson of Claude.
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Albert Tevin
H. G. Sprawls
John Bayles
James Gunter
K. O. Lewis
Roy Boone
William Montgomery
Robert Kelly
Johnny Leathers
Im Humphries
Edwin Dawson
Suspect Holds After Admitting Slaying Mother
In Columbus Ohio on January 11 a 42 year old man named Ernest Wright confessed to killing his mother Mrs Lavinia Wright 75 at their Osceola Avenue home He described himself as an ordained minister and noted a number 709 on the iron foot rest of a stove The killer phoned police to report the crime and remained at the scene until officers arrived describing the event as occurring about 8 pm last night at the single story residence He identified the location and his own name to the dispatcher and then greeted officers at the door.
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Columbus
Lavinia Wright
Ernest Wright
Ira Dodd
Wright
Osceola Avenue
Homicide
Lowell Sheets
Heating Tunnels Under University of Minnesota Campus
A 100 foot underground maze of sandstone tunnels carries steam to heat U of Minnesota buildings. As new structures rise, eight foot tunnels are added to the system to supply heat during harsh winter cold.
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Minnesota
Time This Program Will Reduce the Need for Old Age Aid
A report outlines a program expected to lessen dependence on old age assistance by increasing efficiency and support services. Officials emphasize potential savings and improved outreach for seniors within the community.
Thief Targets Radios in Henryetta Three-Day Spree
Henryetta police hunted a mad about music thief who stole radios from a different store each day for three consecutive days. Two more radio thefts were reported nearby in Okmulgee on one of those days. The thief focused on portable radios.
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Henryetta
Okla
Okmulgee
UN Secretary Lie Makes Stop in Houston on Goodwill Tour
United Nations Secretary General Trygve Lie and Assistant Secretary General Leon Cohen arrived in Houston en route to a Latin American goodwill tour covering 10 countries and a U.S. possession. Lie declined to comment on Soviet base talks, noting his role as an international civil servant bars judgment on any UN member.
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Houston
Tex
U.P
United Nations
Trygve Lie
Lie
Latin America
Leon Cohen
Chille
United Press
Washington
Oslo
Norway
Spitzbergen
Traffic Control Laws For State Are Asked
The Texas Safety association launches an appeal to the 50th legislature urging a six point traffic program. It seeks 200 more Texas Highway Patrolmen, a uniform model traffic code, driver license fee administration, and school driver education funding. The move follows a 1946 traffic toll likely over 2000 deaths and an estimated 50 000 injuries with 100 million dollars in economic losses.
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Austin
Tex
Texas Safety Association
Texas
A. F. Allen
Dallas
Texas Highway Patrol
State Education Department
T Texas Department of Public Safety
Woman shoots husband to keep him home from Army
In Pittsburgh a 20-year-old expectant mother, Mrs. Marion Shields of Penn township, admitted aiming to delay her soldier husband Aloysius Shields from returning to camp. She shot his hand on furlough, injuring his left fore finger. she awaits legal action in Allegheny county jail.
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Pittsburgh
Allegheny County
Joseph A. Stack
Marion Shields
Verona
Penn Township
Pvt
Aloysius Shields
Wallace Warns Policy Toward Russia Could Spark War
Former Secretary Henry A. Wallace, now editor of the New Republic, told reporters in a radio interview that U.S. policy toward Russia risks provoking war. He warned that tough measures against the Soviet Union could lead to conflict and suggested the United States and Britain might use the atomic bomb aggressively under unspecified conditions.
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Washington
Henry A. Wallace
United States
Russia
Wallace
New Republic
Soviet Union
Great Britain
Truman
Wade H. McWhirter Dies at 68 in West Texas Hospital
Wade Hamilton McWhirter 68 of 1603 Twenty third died at 10 10 Saturday in a West Texas hospital after four days with a cerebral hemorrhage. Funeral services to be held in Nashville Monday. Survived by wife two sons T G of Shreveport Powell of 1914 Twenty Ninth a daughter Mrs Leland McCann of 3513 Twenty first and brother N P McWhirter of Rock Island Tenn.
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Wade Hamilton McWhirter
West Texas Hospital
Plaing Funeral Home
Nashville
Tenn
T. G. McWhirter
Shreveport
Powell McWhirter
Leland McCann
N. P. McWhirter
Rock Island, Tenn
Notable Family Tributes From Rock Island
One sister, Mrs. Sally Dunlop of Rock Island Tennessee, and seven grandchildren are listed among relatives in the obituary.
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Sally Dunlop
Rock Island, Tenn
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Stantons Feeds
Stanton
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