Mid-Century State Fair to Open with Record Attendance Expected
Dallas October 1 Special reports the 1950 State Fair of Texas opening October 7 for a 16 day run. Officials forecast over 2 225 000 visitors at the 187 acre showgrounds as the biggest fair yet with a Mid Century Expo lineup featuring South Pacific Ice Cycles Midway shows a Parade of the Decades and the All American Jersey cattle show with Orrland Signal Sable as world champion cow.
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Dallas
South Pacific
Janet Blair
Richard Eastham
Sally Rand
Midway
Moon Mullican
Betty Lou Williams
Dunkard
Detroit
Magnolia
Texas
Oklahoma
SMU
Oklahoma A & M
Nine Chinese Communist Suspects Executed in Formosa Roundup
In Taipei Formosa on October 1 nine persons were executed for conspiring to topple the Chinese Nationalist government. The group included Chou Shu alias Chou Pei tah, a former reporter for Sao Tang Pao, two CN lieutenant colonels, other officers and civilians. Earlier nine more were executed and several were sentenced to six months to three years.
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Taipei
Formosa
Chou Shu
Chou Peitah
Sao Tang Pao
U S Fliers Capture Dozen Reds From Air
U S Fliers in Korea report a dozen North Koreans captured while patrolling near Taejon in F 51 Mustangs. Capt. Joe V Lane of Dillon South Carolina and First Lt Owen T Brewer of Arcadia Florida saw villagers wave white flags and soldiers in two columns. The pair wagged wings and guided the troops toward American lines before returning to base.
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Air Force Base
Korea
Joe V. Lane
Dillion
S. C
Owen T. Brewer
Arcadia
Fla
Taejon
Lane
Brewer
U. S
Lehigh Pool to Honor Late Bethlehem Steel VP Myrl Jacobs
The new $110,660 swimming pool at Lehigh University in Bethlehem will be named for Myrl L. Jacobs, a 1910 graduate and former vice president of Bethlehem Steel Company. The memorial pool recognizes Jacobs as a notable university alumnus and business leader.
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Bethlehem, Pa
Lehigh University
Bethlehem Steel Company
Myrl L. Jacobs
Four Engine Transport Lands Safely After Off Shore Engine Loss
A four engine transport plane carrying 74 wounded evacuees from Korea and 12 crewmen landed at Fairfield-Suisun AFB California after losing an engine 350 miles offshore. A Coast Guard plane and an Air Force B-17 accompanied the crippled C-74 in. Peru has raised its tea duty.
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Fairfield-Suisan Air Force Base
Calif
Korea
Air Force
Coast Guard
Peru
Harvest Festival Queen races expand to two titles
Brownfield high school nominees June Whitaker Leah Dale Portwood and Joan Nell White join Peggy Kay of Union for the Harvest Festival on October 31. Senior candidate Peggy Black and prior queens are noted. Winners decided by public vote with prizes totaling 100 wrist watches and cash awards.
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Brownfield
Brownfield High School
Union
June Whitaker
Leah Dale Portwood
Joan Nell White
Peggy Kay
Peggy Black
Miss Whitaker
Ed Whitaker
Future Farmers of America
Miss Portwood
John Portwood
Miss White
L. L. White
Wellman and Meadow
Glenn Faye Winston
Diana Ruth McIlroy
Ann Snedeker
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Washington
Delaware
Metropolitan Museum
New York
Museum of Fine Arts
American Museum of Atomic Energy
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Greedwey
Herece A. Emery
Broadway
Northern Ireland
Ovey Taliaferro
Melvin
Taliaferro
Kee Ona
Lubbock
W. M. Clover
Optometrist
Zale
Ad Beer
Lattimore
Packard
Welys
Ana Scfer Nove
Armstrong
Gare
Queen of Brownfield Festival
Tex
Avalanche
Mon
Page
Oregon
Portland
Ore
Baie Courtney
Mia
Hehegg
I. Toda
Preerds
Harry Francis John O'Day
John Lewis Wilson
Newburg
Woodburn
Courtney
Dorothy Roberts
Tillamook
O'Day
Wilson
Hillsboros
D! Scholls
J. Davis
Armistead Optometrist
Ave
Dial
Iaaa
Jenkins
Par
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