07 Aug 1969
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Newspaper
Mexia Daily News
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1969
Page
1
Local page from Mexia Texas shows brief items including community notices and society notes. Names, dates, and places reflect mid century town events with small town civic and social details.
Public Welfare Commissioner Button Hackney hailed Texas welfare amendment as the largest vote getter in nine proposed changes. The measure raises the welfare ceiling by 20 million, expands aid to the aged disabled and blind, and with federal matching funds yields about 60 million more for dependent children and related programs.
NASA says Apollo 11 astronauts Armstrong Aldrin and Collins will end quarantine in Houston next week. They will hold a Houston news conference at 11 a.m. EDT August 12, then a luncheon at Shamrock Hilton with 700 workers. A flight from Ellington is planned for August 13 with parades in New York Chicago and a state dinner in Los Angeles attended by President Nixon.
The Fort Worth market reports cattle with varied weights and grades, cows at 20.00 to 21.25, cutters 19.50 to 21.00, bulls 22.00 to 25.00, good calves up to 28.00, and feeder steers 28.00 to 30.75. Hogs range 24.25 to 26.75 per hundredweight, with sows steady. carcass weights 320 to 400 pounds run 21.00 to 21.50. A separate note mentions the canonization of Frances Xavier Cabrini as a saint in 1946.
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