GOP Headquarters Turn Philly Convention Into Circus
In Philadelphia the Republican race simmers as Dewey HQ dazzles visitors with door prizes and a photo booth while Stassen HQ floods the lobby with chairs and free coffee. Taft's camp offers quiet contrast at the Benjamin Franklin hotel as the pre convention mood quickens.
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Inez Robbins
Philadelphia
Philly
Thomas E. Dewey
M. C
Little Red
Dewey
Dewey Camp
Bellevue-Stratford
Stassen
Stassen Hdatts
Harold Stassen
Harold
Taft
Java
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Sen. Taft
Benjamin Franklin Hotel
Littlefield Votes on 450000 Water Sewage Bonds
Littlefield set July 7 for a public election on issuing 450000 in bonds to finance expansion and improvement of water and sewage systems. If approved, 220000 remains after refunding 180000 debt, funding a long range plan including new 16 inch water main, distribution loop, two wells, extensions, sewer lines, and a new reservoir.
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Littlefield
Art Chesher
City Commission
Labor board requires bargaining on union health plans
The National Labor Relations board ruled that employers must bargain with unions over group health and accident insurance programs for workers under Taft Hartley. It states employers need not grant plans, but must discuss them if a union requests.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Broker Charged With False Celebrity Stock Promotion
The SEC accuses N James Elliott a New York broker of using famous movie stars to boost sales of stock in American Silver Mines Corp He allegedly distributed literature claiming a caravan of cinema stars would accompany a silver shipment from Panamint City to New York with stops in 54 communities The hearings set for July 12 in New York will decide if his broker dealer license should be revoked
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Washington
INS
Securities and Exchange Commission
N. James Elliott
New York
Elliott
s_ great
Panamint City
Calif
SEC
Jack Carson
Victor Mature
Orson Welles
Errol Flynn
Burt Lancaster
Henry Fonda
Brian Donlevy
Max Baer
Keenan Wynn
Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom
Glenn Ford
Oil Well Completions Exceed 100 in Week in Texas
Oil well completions topped 100 for the week with 147 wells, boosting the year total to 3,269 in Texas. Thirteen gas wells were finished this week, bringing the 1948 gas total to 287. Wildcat results yielded four oil wells, one gas well, and 44 dry holes. Rail road Commission logged 163 wells plugged and the calendar day crude oil allowable rose to 2 682 353, up 7 688 from last week.
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Austin
Wildcat
Railroad Commission
Retiring West Texas State President to be Honored
Dr. J A Hill, who led West Texas State College for 30 years, will be honored July 4 5 and 6 at Canyon during an education conference sponsored by the Texas State Teachers College board of regents and area college leaders. He retires September 1 after 38 years, to be succeeded by Dr. James P Cornette.
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West Texas State
Dr. Hill
Texas State Teachers College Board of Regents
Texas
Hill
Melvin C. Ejidson
First Baptist Church
Austin
G. W. Diemer
Warrensburg
Missouri
American Association of Teachers Colleges
A. L. Crabb
George Peabody College For Teachers
Nashville
Tenn
William L. Kerr
Midland
W. A. Collins
Livingston
W. J. McConnell
North Texas State College
Denton
David M. Warren
Panhandle
University of Texas Board of Regents
Clyde W. Warwick
the Canyon News
Grady
Hazelwood
Amarillo
Floyd Studer
Panhandle-Plains Historical Society
H. W. Morelock
Sul Ross State College
Alpine
D. A. Shirley
West Texas State College
Paul L. Boynton
Stephen F. Austin State College
Death of Vice Admiral Alophus Andrews at 69
Vice Admiral Alophus Andrews USNR former naval aide to three presidents and wartime commander of the eastern sea frontier died today at the U S naval hospital in Houston. He aged 69 and had long service since graduating from the Naval Academy in 1901 including commands of the Texas and Massachusetts and leadership roles in the Bureau of Navigation and the third Naval District. State hosts a Palo Duro park conference picnic Tuesday afternoon with a Deep River Singers concert closing the event. The conference, though educational for teachers, is open to the public for all sessions.
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Houston
Alophus Andrews
USNR
Eastern Sea Frontier
U. S.naval Hospital
Navy
U. S. Naval Academy
Texas
Massachusetts
Bureau of Navigation
Third Naval District
State
Palo Duro State Park
Deep River Singers
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Lubbock
Tex
Avalanche-Journal
Sun
GOP
Horace A. Emery
Broadway
Kenner
Lubbock Steel Works
Edgar G. Lewis
Recov
West Texas
New Mexico
NLRB
Rhine and Moselle
Woodfin’s Shoe Shop
Avenue J Phore
Quincy
Mass
Charles V. Dunham
University of Texas
Dask
Andrews
al Houston
Shetten
Idalou Church
Idalou
John Lewis Shelton
Sanders Funeral Home
Leslie Derrick
Delbert Mac Sawyer
Frank Guess
Leo Bullock
Joe Lewis
Buddy Sawyer
Plymouth
Hotchkiss
Chrysler Corporation
Detroit
Michigan
Roamkae
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