Texas Governors Race Heats Up Over Stevenson Vote
May 25 report from Austin shows candidates for Texas governor courting the so called Stevenson vote. Beauford Jester assails Homer Price Raney while Lt. Gov. John Lee Smith pivots to labor court ideas and union backing. Sen. W. Lee O’Daniel denies a gubernatorial run as Dallas broadcasts discuss new party options.
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Gordon K. Shearer
Associated Press
Austin
Coke R. Stevenson
Stevenson
Beauford Jester
Homer Price Raney
Travis
Texas
CIO
University of Texas
Sidney
University
Dr. Rainey
Sidney Hillman
Henry Wallace
Ney
Rainey
Smith
John Lee Smith
Truman
Labor
Samuel Gompers
Grover Sellers
Sulphur Springs
Jerry Sadler
Grand Ole Opry
Nichols
W. Lee O’daniel
Dallas
Shift In Methodist Pastors Announced Fort Worth Move
Bishop A Frank Smith announces a three way Methodist pastor shift in Fort Worth Texas Rev J W Morphis moves from Oakhurst church to Fort Worth Central Texas conference Rev Ernest Piatt from Paris to Itasca and Rev H M Hopkins to Fort Worth vacancy The appointments become effective Wednesday
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Fort Worth
A. Frank Smith
Houston
J. W. Morphis
Oakhurst
Central Texas
Paris
Ernest Piatt
Itasca
H. M. Hopkins
West Point Cadet Wright To Graduate This June
William M. Wright son of Mr and Mrs Neil H Wright of 1634 Main will graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point this June. He is a Lubbock High School alumnus who attended Texas Tech before his appointment by Congressman Geo Mahon. Wright played two years of soccer at West Point and belongs to the Camera and Ski clubs. He earned cadet sergeant in his first class year and will be commissioned in the Air Corps.
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William M. Wright
Neil H. Wright
Main
United States Military Academy
West Point
N. Y
Wright
Lubbock High School
Texas Tech
Cong
Geo. Mahon
Air Corps
Ex‑SS Volunteer Says He Fired Mercy Shots At GIs
Marcel Boltz the 19 year old French volunteer in the German SS testified at the Malmedy massacre trial that he fired mercy shots at wounded American prisoners in December 1944 near Buellingen Belgium. He said he aimed away from others as SS Sgt Altkruger began firing and that he later shot wounded prisoners to end their suffering. The testimony also notes a separate report about county offices and farm production in California for 1945.
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Boltz
Alttkruger
Altkruger
Caviness Named Scurry County Agricultural Agent
Jamie N Caviness of Lubbock named as Scurry county agricultural agent effective June 1 by the Texas Extension Service. He replaces H B Cox who resigned for a position with the U S Department of Agriculture after 42 months service in the Army Air Forces. Caviness holds B S and M S degrees from Texas Technological College and studied at Texas A M. he and his wife Eu Lam ae Watson will reside in Snyder.
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Jamie N. Caviness
Lubbock
Scurry County
Texas Extension Service
Caviness
H. B. Cox
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Army Air Forces
Texas A & M College
Texas Technological College
Eulamae Watson
Snyder
UT Regents Tighten Admission Rules for Nonresidents
The University of Texas board approved tighter admission requirements for nonresidents effective July 1, with grades and class ranking thresholds for transfer, law school entrants, and out-of-state students. Texas residents are exempt. Regents also raised summer and long-session board rates and nudged Littlefield dormitory rents due to rising costs.
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Austin
U.P
Board of Regents
University of Texas Today
University
School of Law
Texas
Regents
Littlefield
Federal Court Starts Monday In Lubbock Division
Two poliomyelitis cases were diagnosed in 1946 in Fort Worth at City- County hospital. The May term of federal district court in the Lubbock division opens Monday with Judge T Whitfield Davidson presiding and a docket of 70 civil actions and 22 criminal cases. The list includes bank robbery and transportation for immoral purposes charges, plus compensation suits from Yoakum and Wolfforth incidents and a Farm Credit loan case. Proceedings may stretch a month with naturalization and potential motions on the calendar.
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Fort Worth
Tarrant County
T. Whitfield _ Davidson
Federal District Court
Lubbock
George W. Parker
Davidson
Lubbock Division
Ollie Oliver Melton
Olaf Alvin Rogers
Morton
Leroy Vaughn
Billie Joe Barrett
U. S
Arthur James White, Jr
John Cantu
Billie Max Mann
Glen Aven McDowell
Aston L. Haggard
Dyerad
Jeff R. Graham
Higginbotham-Bartlett Co
Interstate Commerce Commission
Robert Young
Cavett Binion
Clyde Hood
Cecil N. Payne
Yoakum County
State Industrial Accident Board
L. H. Tanner
Payne
Standard Insurance Company
Tanner
Associated Indemnity Corporation
Wolfforth
Denver City
Marvin E. Herman
Lynn County
Herman
Farm Credit Administration
FCA
Institute Of Professional Photographic Arts Opens In Lubbock
The Institute Of Professional Photographic Arts will open June 15 in a 50 by 140 foot building at 805 College Ave Lubbock. Ped Watkins registrar says 12,000 spent for a 300 student capacity with 100 veterans to enroll. staff nine with assistants. ultra modern equipment on order. John W. Wilson Jr and Willis H. Bledsoe direct courses including basic and commercial photography retouching portraiture and more. Aerial and motion picture photography courses planned. women offered photo modeling.
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Dallas
Los Angeles
Institute of Professional Photographic Arts
College Ave
Ped Watkins
Houston
Army Air Forces
Veteran Rehabilitation Administration
John W
Buddy) Wilson, Jr
Willis H. Bledsoe
Texas Tech
Wilson
Watkins
Grayce
RAF
Tech Student Dies Of Crash Injuries
Theresa Wynelle Cotten Spencer of Lamesa died in Lubbock Memorial hospital from injuries after a car train collision on North College Avenue. She was a Texas Tech freshman, wife of William Spencer, with funeral planned at La Mesa First Baptist Church.
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Theresa Wynelle Cotten Spencer
Lubbock Memorial Hospital
North College Avenue
William Spencer
Texas Technological College
Lamesa
First Baptist Church
Lamesa Cemetery
Bryan McDonald & Son Funeral Home
J. L. Cotten
Donald L. Cotten
Jimmie Lee Cotten
Nannie K. Cotten
van Alstyne
Spencer
Lubbock
Clovis
N. M
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Attorney General’s Office
Johnson County
George L. Murphy
Cleburne
California
Golden State
Texas U
Federal Court
Lepher Downs
Zale
Benrus
Briny Dj A. mM, Q - Im
Rick
Esmond
Bemberg
John C. Roberts
STOR
Adin
Tion
Tech
DRS. Harvey & Johnson
Chiropodists
Lubbock, Texas
Dickinson Motor Co
Renrnny
Dodge
Plymouth
Dependance Service
Transportation Headquarters
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