Mexia News Briefs Cover Local Events and Notices
Two Mexia State School boys ride a tractor at Bill Murphy farm. deputies return them to school after a pasture collision. Mexia Jaycees display horse show trophies and ribbons at Corner Book Store. Black Cat annuals pickup reminder and band practice start for Mexia High School. Local profiles include Bob Wood’s AP tenure and Kerrville camp for a crippled-children’s program. Public notices on airport grants and local improvements follow.
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Mexia State School
Bill Murphy
Mr. Murphy
Thelma
Ralph Ray
D. M. Holcomb
Jaycee Rodeo Arena
Mexia Jaycees
Harold Nussbaum
Mexia High School
Black Cat
Miss Newman
Red
Stanley Wayne Cotton
Cox's
Woodrow
Cotton
Tehuacana
Lions Club
Kerrville
Weldon Fleming
J. A. Schnable
Mexia Lions Club
Texas
Stanley
Wasstricken
David Humphrey Shows Slides At Mexia Lions Club
David Humphrey presented color slides at the Mexia Lions Club luncheon. He shared vacation pictures from the Grand Canyon Hoover Dam Disneyland San Francisco the World’s Fair Seattle Victoria Canada and Salt Lake City taken with Mr and Mrs Byron Orand and Mrs Humphrey.
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David Humphrey
Mexia
Byron Orand
Malakoff
Humphrey
Mexia Lions Club
First Baptist Church
Grand Canyon
Hoover Dam
Disneyland
San Francisco
Seattle
Victoria
Canada
Salt Lake
Weather forecast for Mexia and Bi-Stone area
The U S Weather Bureau predicts partly cloudy and warm conditions through Thursday. Tonight will dip to around 74 degrees with Thursday reaching near 101.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
Mexia
Bi-Stone
Market Dip After Four Day Rally on Wall Street
New York AP reports a midday market retreat as the Dow nears 600, with the AP average down 1.10 to 219.30. Industrials slide about 2.60 and utilities slightly lower. leaders like Corning Glass IBM Xerox Polaroid show mixed moves while U.S. Steel plans its dividend despite flat quarterly profits.
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New York
Associated Press
Wall Street
Dow Jones
Corning ‘Glass
IBM
Xerox
Polaroid
U.S. Steel
Budget Review Aims at Mexia State School Expansion
State legislators and officials examined Mexia State School's proposed two year budget of 7 015 260 for the period starting September 1 1963 A 1 395 000 allocation covers governor and board needs while a major capital program plans 12 ward buildings adding 720 beds plus a central kitchen laundry and storage facilities The project includes new ward units with dining rooms and central dining and a potential permanent improvements contract estimated at 1 675 000 Supervising architect Rob Stein and Executive Director Raymond Vowell oversaw site selections for the new structures.
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Vernon Jones
Raymond Vowell
Tien Brdldine
Walter F. Woodul
Supt. Jones
State Board
Jones
Rob Stein
Vowell
Protest Hearing Over Prairie Hill Transfer to Mexia Coolidge
A statewide Austin hearing began at 9 a m before State Commissioner Dr J W Edgar on transfers of Prairie Hill students to Mexia Coolidge or other districts The Limestone County board voted June 13 to route Prairie Hill bus students to Mexia Based on a parent survey 17 wanted Mexia 13 Coolidge 3 Groesbeck attendees include Mexia Supt B E Oberholtzer and trustees C W Teel Bob Fain Ivan Thorne and business manager Hugh Pendleton
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J. W. Edgar
Prairie Hill
Coolidge
Limestone County
Mexia
Groesbeck
Austin
Mexia Supt
B. E. Oberholtzer
C. W. Teel
Bob Fain
Ivan Thorne
Hugh Pendleton
Arizona Woman May Leave U S To Get Operation
Arizona television star Mrs Sherr Finkbine, facing a threatened pregnancy termination, may travel to a country permitting abortion. Her husband seeks passport extension. a court suit to permit abortion was dismissed on legal grounds.
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Arizona
U. S
Phoenix
Ariz
Farmer Finds Gold Coins From Cabin Log in Ohio
Hillsboro Ohio AP reports Howard Hodge found 15 gold coins in a log abandoned from a cabin at Rainsboro in southwestern Ohio. Ten are US twenty dollar pieces dating 1795 to 1805 and five are foreign coins. He discovered them when sawing the log to support farming equipment.
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Hillsboro
Ohio
Howard Hodge
Rainsboro
Hodge
United States
Arkansas Voters Reelect Faubus to Fifth Term in Primary
In Little Rock Ark Gov Orval Faubus won a fifth Democratic term amid a surge of support for moderation. He defeated five rivals including Dale Alford and Sid McMath while Sen. J William Fulbright secured a fourth term. The race followed national desegregation tensions and Faubus’ pledge for expanded state services.
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Little Rock
Ark
API
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas
Faubus
U.S. Supreme Court
Dale Alford
Sid McMath
Alford
McMath
J. William Fulbright
Winston Chandler
Vernon Whit
Ten
Kenneth Coffelt
David A. Cox
Fulbright
Chandler
Anothe
MccMath
Francis Cherry
Cherry
John L. McClellan
National Guard
Mrs. Bill Pollard Returns To Mexia
Mrs. Billie Pollard, injured in an automobile wreck near Ardmore Oklahoma last Thursday, returns to her Mexia home after suffering a broken leg when a driver pulled in front of her husband’s car on a six lane highway.
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Billie Pollard
Ardmore
Okla
Mexian
Pollard
Earthquake Claims At Least 40 Lives In Colombia
Authorities in Colombia report at least 40 people killed and about 300 injured after earthquakes struck central and western regions on Monday.
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Bogota
Colombia
Research Device Given Hospital In Memory Of Edward Rogers
A $10.00 Offner Dynograph device, donated by the Veterans Assistance League, was given to the Long Beach VA Hospital in memory of Edward Rogers a Texan and WWII veteran paralyzed in youth. The eight-channel recorder aids spinal cord injury research and may help Rogers and others. Rogers died in 1961 and was related to Mexia residents Mrs. E. E. Rogers and the late Rev. & E. Rogers.
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Mexia
Long Beach
California
Veterans Administration
Edward Rogers
Rogers
E. E. Rogers
E. Rogers
Jay Bowden
North Carolina
South Carolina
Dillas
Texas
Veterans Assistance League
League
Charles EL Sexton
Work to Begin Next Week on Mexia Airport Runway
Mexia municipal airport improvements move forward with a first phase survey of the property, nine acres purchased from S. B. Barnes. Runway extension and grading to create an all weather strip, plus drainage culvert and possible later upgrades to the office and other facilities are planned.
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Mexia Municipal
Dan Mize
S. B. Barnes
Kilgore
Soviet Spy Ships Leave Pacific After Test
Four Russian instrument ships that spied on U S nuclear tests in the Pacific steamed away after the July 9 200 mile high blast. The report notes one vessel was Quebec City near Quebec province.
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Washington
U.S
Pacific
Quebec City
Quebec
Canada
North America
Revival Begins Friday Night at Shiloh Church
Revival services start Friday at 7 30 pm at First Baptist Church of Shiloh led by Rev Jim Stephens pastor of Point Enterprise First Baptist. The revival runs through Aug 12 with Rev W R Dillard urging attendance. Richard Bradley directs singing and Mrs Bill Speights plays piano. a youths choir will be formed for the event.
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First Baptist
Church of Shiloh
Jim Stephens
First ,Baptist Church of
Point Enterprise
W. R. Dillard
Richard Bradley
Bill Speights
Dillard
Young Peoples
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City Beat
Kerr
Thurman Kerr
Mexic
Ane
A. B. McHay
Fred Bryan
Bob Wood
Sean
Dawn
Temple
Bob
Carroll Wood
Veterans Hospital
Dallas
News Service
University of New Mexico
Sanders Creek Baptist Church
Fairoaks
Jack McDaniel
Jim Ben Watson
Jene Noll
Kenneth Born
Charlie Korn
Kerr Ranch
Fairfield
Mexia High
A. B. McBay
Fort Worth
Southern Association of Secondary Schools and Colleges
Henry Jackson
St. Luke's Hospital
Houston
Denton
Corsicana
Athens
Market Report
Pennsylvania Railroad
Vandalia
St. Louis
Indianapolis
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Foe
Civil] Aeronautics Board
Continental Airlines
Unionville
CAB
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Thomas G. Doty
Kansas City
Doty
Geneva Greenwood Fraley
Continental
Chicago
Bill Pollard
Southern Methodist University and Colleges In
Shiloh
Susan Conine
Barbara Sue Machen
South Texas
Janie Gentry
Panola City
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