Texas Teachers Press for Higher Pay as 51st Legislature Looms
AUSTIN Jan 24 Texas teachers and public school leaders plan to push for higher salaries and funding in the 51st Legislature. They seek severance taxes on natural resources for education and a rural road program, arguing current pay and resources fall short of needs and rival other professions. Leadership includes Joe Humphrey chairing a legislative committee with Elizabeth Koch Piguid Stillwell W Edgar Evenk Sockan among members.
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Dave Cheavens
Austin
Texas
Educators’ Conference
Public School of
Beauford H. Jester
Jim Seeyeees
Texas State Teachers Association
Joe Humphrey
Abilene
House
Elizabeth Koch
San Antonio
Piguid Stillwell
Texarkana
W. Edgar
Evenk Sockan
San Angelo
Gilmer-Aikin Committee
Jester
Mex Naval School Cornerstone Lays in Veracruz
President Miguel Aleman granted audiences at the municipal palace in Veracruz to groups seeking greetings or solutions. At 11 am he laid the cornerstone for the Anton Lizardo Naval school near here, expected to become Mexico’s Annapolis upon completion. He planned to return to Mexico City Sunday via the Interoceanic railroad he opened yesterday.
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Wow Naval School
Mexic
Veracruz
Mex
Miguel Aleman
Pergeoey
Toy
Anton Lizardo
Annapolis
Mexico
Mexico City
Fort Sill sergeant drives unauthorized howitzer ride
Army authorities report Fort Sill sergeant Donald S. Williams seized a self propelled 155 gun from a park and drove to Lawton and back on Fort Sill Boulevard. He damaged two parked cars in Lawton, was arrested by military police, and placed in prison for investigation by a board of officers. Williams offered no explanation saying I am not a very good driver.
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Fort Sill
Okla
Lawton
Army
Donald S. Williams
Mp’s
Clift Andrus
Field Artillery Center
Andrus
Williams
Talon
Seacullery
Man Rescues His Wife And Son From Death At Train Crossing
J. D. Carter of Houston saved his wife and four year old son Donald when his car stalled on railroad tracks minutes before a Missouri Pacific streamliner would pass. He signaled the train and barely jumped clear as the locomotive struck the vehicle.
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Houston
J. D. Carter
Donald
Missouri Pacific
Carter
Funeral Services Held For Don Justo Sierra Mexican Educator
In Mexico City on January 24 mourners gathered as the ashes of pioneer educator Don Justo Sierra were carried from the National Teachers School to the Chamber of Deputies for eulogy before burial in the Dolores cemetery rotunda of illustrious men. An army guard of honor and national leaders attended the ceremony and a salute was fired.
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Don Sierra
Mexico City
Don Justo Sierra
Dolores
Justo Sierra
National Teachers School
Chamber of Deputies
Federal District Department
Casas Aleman
Mexico
Seismograph Blasting Permits Discussed In Gulf
In Austin on January 24 the issue arises over blasting in the Gulf of Mexico under a permit issued by a Calhoun County judge. Bascom Giles, land office official, notes seismographic crews will work with oil companies and a game fish and oyster commission representative may attend.
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Austin
Gulf of Mexico
Calhoun County
Bascom Giles
Giles
Land Office
Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Texas oil completions rise 1948 pace over 1947
Texas Railroad Commission data show oil well completions up one third in 1948 year to date. In the past week drillers completed 107 wells totaling 399 for 1948, versus 300 in the same period of 1947, with January applications at 703 compared with 472 a year earlier. Forty one gas wells were completed in the first three weeks, alongside 177 dry holes and several dry gas and oil wells plugged.
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Texas
Austin
Railroad Commission
Fire Fatality After Downtown Hotel Blaze
One person died from burns in a 19 degree downtown hotel fire in Fort Worth early today. Marvin T. Graves, 47, a retired painter and semi invalid, died of burns and asphyxiation. the fire confined to Graves’s first floor residence and trapped others in their rooms.
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Fort Worth
Marvin T. Graves
Justice of Peace
Gus Brown
Graves
Texas GIs Organize To Work For Bonus
A group of Texas veterans at Griffiss Air Force Base in Fort Worth organized to support a Texas state bonus. Odell Tillman of Palestine leads a membership drive for the Associated Texas Veterans. Most GIs contacted oppose Gov. Beauford Jester’s stance calling a bonus un Texan.
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Fort Worth
Jan
Texas
Griffiss Air Force Base
Odell Tillman
Palestine
Associated Texas Veterans
Beauford
Tilboen
Woman Dies After Auto Crash Transported Home
In Mancos Colorado on January 24 a 56 year old Farmington New Mexico woman Ethyl Nora Stalworth died after an automobile collision yesterday. Her body was being sent to her home today following the crash.
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Mancos
Colo
Farmington, N. M
Ethyl Nora Stalworth
Union Workers Near New Pact at La Consolidada Mills
Officials of La Consolidada steel mills and the mining and metallurgists union expected to sign a new contract ending a 19 day strike at company plants in Mexico City and Piedras Negras Coahuila. The federal conciliation office reported a verbal agreement reached last night with signing delayed pending local ratification.
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Mexico City
la Consolidada” Steel Mills
Mining and Metallurgists Union
Piedras Uegras
Coahhila
Federal
Piedras Negras
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