Texas Regulars endorse two term limit and Jeffersonian slate
The Texas Regulars announce a platform backing a two-term limit for the U S president and a rule requiring two thirds of delegates for presidential nominations. They pledge to resist federal overreach, support school segregation and poll tax positions, and place electors who favor Jeffersonian Democrats. The party formed after anti fourth term Democrats split from the Texas Democratic setup. More than 500000 former New York City public school pupils are now in the armed services.
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Austin
Texasegulars
Qedre
Clint C. Small
P. H. McGregor
Jerritt H. Gibson
Longview
Texas
United States
Texas Regular Party
Texas Party
Roosevelt
Truman
Great
Democratic Party
Democratic Arty of Texas
States of America
New York City
The
Armed Services
Torpedoman Harold Parsons Visits Here on Leave
Torpedoman Harold Parsons, 23, a former Western quarterback with three battle stars, visits his parents during 12 day leave from the Navy. He served on destroyers at Casablanca Palermo and Gela, survived long dive bombings, and later served in the Caribbean. Parsons played for the Westerners in 1937 38 and quarterbacked at New Mexico Military Institute. He returns to duty Thursday in Boston.
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Uncle Sam
Harold Parsons
Gela
Sicily
E. J. Parsons
Parsons
Casa Blanca
Palermo
Glennon
Can
Caribbean
Westerners
New Mexico Military Institute
Boston
Texas Tech names 32 beauty nominees from 167 applicants
A one man committee will cut 167 nominees for Texas Tech beauties to 32 at Sunday’s 2 pm meeting. The 32 will become 16 by Oct. 24 in an all campus election with a celebrity selecting eight for full pages in La Ventana and eight for half pages as runners up.
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Texas Tech Beauties
la Ventana
Mary Frances Alexander
Kermit
Billie Anderson
Aspermont
Ruth Anthony
Lubbock
Virginis Anthony
Ralls
June Augustine
Sterling City
Mary Frances Barnard
Lamesa
Norma Barnes
Vernon
Jonnie Belsher
Marion Benson
Dolores Bizzell
Dub Blankenship
Petersburg
Mary Frances Bledsoe
Becton
Lou Deane Blair
May Belle Bonner
Crane
Virgina Bondurant
Dorothy Brown
Fran Buchanan
Plainview
Charlene Bucy
Tohoka
Ethel Burns
Houston
Lucille Burns
Nelda Butler
Amarillo
Nan Bradberry
Donella Bucy
Wink
Barbara Byrd
Corsicana
Hope Cade
Sundown
Dorothy Cantrell
Freida Caulkins
Seminole
Bess Campbell
Paint Rock
Bobbie Childers
Tulsa
Frances Cloninger
Norma Cleavinger
Hart
Marilyn Claiborne
Jo Cobb
Jane Cole
Rule
Kidy Cole
Janice Collins
Coleman
Sarah Cooke
Ft. Worth
Betty Cope
Doris Cornelius
Floydada
Hallie Crum
Dallas
Maxine Cozzens
Elizabeth Davis
Ropesville
Jean Davidson
Andrews
Juanita Davidson
Estelle DeBusk
Idalou
Jane Domingo
LaNell Dashier
Claude
Verdia Beth Edler
Christina Eller
Charlene Fisher
Slaton
Maxine Ford
Claudie Sue Fort
Lovington
N. M
Billye ¥Ry
Santa Paula
Calif
Wanda Fuller
Cleburne
Billie Marie Farr
Childress
Jean Freeman
Phylis Goeth
Abernathy
Margie Gerber
Pampa
Marillyn Gibson
Mary Lou Rawlings
Beverly Grafa
Pat Groves
Theda Gutgesell
Overseas Christmas mail deadline shortened to Oct 14 in Lubbock
Postmaster Amos H. Howard announced the overseas Christmas mailing deadline for servicemen requests is October 14 as October 15 falls on a Sunday and the post office will close. He noted the Lubbock office processed over 8,900 packages to armed forces members overseas through Saturday, with parcel post windows open until 6 pm on the preceding day.
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Lubbock
Amos H. Howard
Howard
Kalavryta Massacre Highlighted In Greek Occupation Losses
Patria Greece reports Greeks estimate 1300 villages burned and many towns sacked by Germans during three years of occupation. Kalavryta massacre killed 700 men and boys as reprisal. Civilian deaths and 1.5 to 2 million left homeless. currency collapsed with 300 million drachma per dollar and bread at 16 million drachma.
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Sid Feder
Associated Press
Patria
Greece
Kalavryta
Here
John Moustacopoulos
War Production Board to Release Frozen Duck Stocks
Rep. Mahon says WPB will immediately release frozen 8-ounce duck material to ease a cottonpicker sack shortage. He notes West Texas holds sufficient quantities to meet immediate requirements amid a critical wartime shortage.
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Washington
War Production Board
Mahon
D-Tex
Texas
Pean
Tech Speech Clinic Opens Thursday for West Texans
Texas Tech launches its tenth annual speech clinic Thursday afternoon with hours from 1 to 4 pm in room 205 of the Administration Building. Miss Annah Jo Pendleton leads the program with assistants Miss Helene Blattner and Mrs. Jane McDonald. The service runs every Thursday through May 1, 1945, free of charge, addressing enunciation, articulation, lisps, retarded speech, stuttering, hearing impaired, cleft palate, and spastic paralysis cases.
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Annah Jo Pendleton
Tech
Helene Blattner
Jane McDonald
Miss Pendleton
New Mexico University to Honor Ernie Pyle with Doctor of Letters
The university in Albuquerque will confer a doctor of letters degree on Ernie Pyle, famed national columnist, at commencement on October 27. Pyle, a resident of Albuquerque, recently returned from Europe.
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Ernie Pyle
New Mexico U
Albuquerque
N. M
New Mexico University
Pyle
Magnolia Labor To Present Their Cases
The eighth regional War Labor Board announced a tripartite hearing set for Oct. 12 in Beaumont over the dispute between Magnolia Petroleum Co and two CIO Oil Workers locals. Panel members are A C Ives, E H Morter, and John E Crossland with roles as chairman, industry representative, and labor member respectively. The case centers on union security.
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Dallas
Magnolia Petroleum Co
Oil Workers ‘International Union
CIO
Beaumont
Eighth Regional War Labor Board
A. C. Ives
Baton Rouge
East Baton Rouge
E. H. Morter
Texas, Oklahoma and
Louisiana Manufacturers Associations
Texas To Go 21: For Roosevelt Prediction
Democrat elector Pat N. Fahey told a Roosevelt Truman rally in Harris County that Texas voters will endorse the Democratic candidates by a slate majority in November. Others speaking at the small gathering included John Douglas Joek Sallas and Miss Nancy Painter.
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Texas
For
Roosevelt
Houston
Pat N. Fahey
Harris County
John ©. Douglas
Joek Sallas
Nancy Painter
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