State Teachers Back Plan on Elective to Appointive Shift
Texas State Teachers Association members split over proposals to switch the state superintendent from elective to appointive. A reorganization bill would make the State Board of Education appoin tive and empower it to name the superintendent, pending Senate introduction and a Beauford H. Jester endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BO Byers
Associated Press
Austin
Texas State Teachers Association
Senate
TSTA
Gilmer- Aikin
Harrison
Canada Builds Icicle Troops To Defend Arctic North
Major A S Ennis Smith of Canada says defense in the Alaskan frontier is weak and a cold weather strike force is being developed. The plan includes icicle troops trained at Fort Churchill Hudson Bay as part of a joint U S Canada exercise with 18 000 Marines and sailors en route to Kodiak Island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Chernus
Mount Mckinley
Kodiak Island
Alaskan Frontier
Canada
A. S. Ennis-Smith
Ennis-Smith
Western Army Command
Edmonton
America
Alaskan
Northland
Russia
Alaska
Iron Curtain
sub-Arctic
Fort Churchill
Hudson Bay
Ennis Smith
San Diego
U. S.-Canada Defense Commission
Cleveland Girl Rescued After Falling Into Sewage System
A 12 year old Cleveland girl, Margaret Renz, fell into the city's sewer and was carried a quarter mile underground. Fire Captain William H. Dippel and three firefighters descended the tunnel to reach her. She was treated at St Luke's hospital and released. The girl described slipping through a hole in a field near home and gripping a ladder to survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
INS
Margaret Renz
William H. Dippel
St. Luke’s Hospital
Margaret
Paul Faro
Alex Solancis
Hodges to Retire From Active Duty January 31
Gen Courtney Hodges, WWII First Army commander, will retire from active duty January 31. A Perry Georgia native, Hodges rose from the ranks in 43 years service, led the Normandy landings, Paris liberation, Rhine crossing, and met Soviet forces. he witnessed Japan's surrender aboard the Missouri in Tokyo Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
INS
National Military Establishment
Courtney H. Hodges
First Army
Hodges
Governor's Island
N. Y
Perry
Normandy
St. Lo
Paris
Rhine
Japan
First
Missouri
Tokyo Bay
Houston Newspaperwoman Says U S Most Left Wing Country
Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby of Houston told the Texas Press association in Austin that the United States is the most left wing country in the world. She contrasted America with Russia as the most regulated nation and warned against labeling communists as liberals. Other speakers at the mid winter meeting included Corinne Neal Cook and Jenkin Lloyd Jones among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
United States
Oveta Culp Hobby
Houston
Texas Press Association
Houston Post
Russia
Hobby
Shamrock Bar in Sunset claims 55 years of continuous operation
Tony Herzog asserts his Shamrock bar in San Francisco’s Sunset district is the city’s oldest, running continuously at the same site for 55 years, challenging the belief that the Bar bary Coast holds the distinction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
W.P
Tony Herzog
Barbary Coast
Shamrock
Sunset District
Rescue at Manhole After Girl’s Distress Calls
Two teens, both 19, heard a girl’s screams from sewers and chased the sounds through streets. At an intersection they found Margaret screaming from a manhole. Firefighters were summoned and rescued her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret
Tex Tech heads to statewide seed breeders meeting in Waco
Dr A W Young head of Tex Tech plant industry will attend the annual statewide meeting of Certified Seed Breeders in Waco Friday and Saturday. William J Murray Jr Texas Railroad Commission chair from Austin will speak at the Texas Tech Engineering Society banquet March 5. Building permits for the month total 314451 in Lubbock per building inspector Lloyd Ross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. W. Young
Texas Technological College
Waco
William J. Murray Jr
The
Texas Railroad Commission
Austin
Engineering Society
Lubbock
Lloy Ross
Messrs
Mesdames
J. Ray Dickey
R. O. Bennett
Walter G. Alderson
E. K. Huffstedler, Jr
San Francisco
National Automobile Dealers Association
Five Texans Honored As Outstanding Men
Five young Texans received distinguished service awards in Victoria for 1948. Arthur Temple Jr Lufkin Willard Crotty Dallas Charles M Prothro Wichita Falls John Ben Shepperd Gladewater Arvie Elliott Victoria were honored at a banquet by Gov Beauford H Jester on behalf of the Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victoria
Beauford H. Jester
Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce
Texas
Arthur Temple, Jr
Lufkin Lumberman
Willard Crotty
Dallas Insurance
Charles M. Prothro
Wichita Falls Oil
John Ben Shepperd
Gladewater
Arvie Elliott
Shepperd
U. S. Juniour Chamber of Commerce
Texas Jaycees
Melvin Evans
Wichita Falls
Jim Brown
Abilene
O. B. Ellis
T&P Seeks Permission to Cut El Paso Dallas Trains
Texas and Pacific railway asks the State Railroad Commission to discontinue two passenger trains from Dallas to El Paso. A Fort Worth hearing is set for January 28. The Westerner trains, operated a few months, cost about $50,000 monthly without sufficient income.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Texas and Pacific Railway
State Railroad Commission
Dallas
el Paso
Railway Company
Westerner
T&p
Dallas- Fort Worth
Monahans
Dallas-Fort Worth
Murray Undergoes Rest and Checkup in Pittsburgh
CIO president Philip Murray, 62, is in Mercy hospital Pittsburgh for rest and routine checkup after returning from a CIO convention in Portland. His wife said he was tired and entered hospital a week ago at her insistence. A separate wartime draft stat notes 340 rheumatic heart disease rejections per 100000 examined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray
Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
CIO
Mercy Hospital
Portland
Two Hotels Enjoined In Downtown Prostitution Case
Temporary injunctions against Logan hotel at 100742 Ave. G and Texas hotel at 81042 Main were entered in C9th district court amid state claims they are bawdy houses. Judge Pardue noted sufficient evidence for the injunctions. A W Salvars and others represented the state and hotels in separate actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C9th District Court
Logan Hotel
Ave. G
Texas Hotel
Main
Pardue
A. W. Salvars
Roy Carpenter
Byron Chappell
Curtiss Douglass
Pampa
Texas Htel
Pastor Dr Robert A Baker Named Highland Dallas Leader
Dr Robert A Baker associate professor of church history at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Fort Worth has accepted a call to become pastor of Highland Baptist Church Dallas He previously led churches in Fort Worth Dallas Hillsboro Wichita Falls and Ardmore Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Robert A. Baker
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth
Highland Baptist Church
Hilsboro
Wichita Falls
Ardmore
Okla
GOP Post-Election Executive Committee Members Named
The Republican national chairman appointed a 15 member post election executive committee. Members include Harold E. Mitchell James F. Dewey J Russell Sprague Mrs Worthington Walter S Hallahan Mrs Cecil M Harden Jouett Ross Todd Mrs Edna Baston Donald Harry Darby Mrs Daniel J Schneider Mrs Roy F Priest McIntyre Faries Mrs William Preston Few R B Creager and Mrs Marshall E Cornett.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ins
GOP
Scott
Republican Party
Harold E. Mitchell
Connecticut
James F. Dewey
Vermont
J. Russell Sprague
New York
Worthington
Scranton
Walter S. Hallahan
West Virginia
Cecil M. Harden
Indiana
Jouett Ross Todd
Kentucky
Edna Baston Donald
Nebraska
Harry Darby
Kansas
Daniel J. Schneider
Colorado
Roy F. Priest
Utah
McIntyre Faries
California
William Preston Few
North Carolina
R. B. Creager
Texas
Marshall E. Cornett
Oregon
No immediate comment from the railroad on running it
The report notes the railroad gave no immediate comment about operating the line. It mentions ongoing decisions and potential impacts on service. No further details are provided in the readable text.
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T. W. Ogg
Brazosport
Gilmer-Aikin
Henry Foster
Longview
Woods
Arctic
DIAL
GO Modern
Ave
Electric Planter’s
Gen. Hodges
U.S
Stuart Nichols
Don Nichols
U. S. Navy
Nichols
Navy
Lubbock Senior High School
Salsbury Sound
Seattle
Joe R. Gooden
Denver
Colo
O. C. Gooden
Wichita
Kans
West Texas Cerebral Palsy Association
First Baptist Church
Sam C. Newman
Twentieth
Bowman Lumber Company
West Texas Hospital
B. T. Hambright
Polly Hill
Dan Blair
G. V. Pardue
George Sneed
Sneed
Ave. H
Sam Allred
Allred and Boedeker
Tex
Avalanche-Journal
Sun
Railway Union
Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Southern Pacific Railroad
Pacific Division
J. P. Colgar
Brotherhood General
Union
Southern Pacific
Ogden
Ore
Tucumcari
N.M. Colgar
Paul Graham Co
Builders Supply
Main Street
Labseck
Charles J. Wagner
M. D
Sam G. Dena
P.A.C
Geogh
Alles J. Stewart
Obert T Caner
M.D
Crees
F.A.C
Eastish
A.C.S
Gwell & Bunt
Benson
Infanta
G. C. Mansell
Gellingeworth
B. C. Douglas
Clyde & Elkins
Watkins
B.T.U
Norce
Anthony Co
19Th St
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