Bi Stone scouts honored with silver beaver awards
Two veteran Bi Stone area Scoutmasters Leon Flatt of Mexia and Jim Martin of Teague received the silver beaver award at a Heart O Texas council banquet. Gen Clarke praised their decades of service in Scouting and civic work. The event, held at the Roosevelt hotel, featured remarks by O B Ellis and council leaders as Heart of Texas reported 180 units and 4 464 youth members.
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Leon Flatt
Mexia
Jim Martin
Teague
Heart O'Texas Council
Fx’ Hood
Cer
Flatt
Civic
Exor
Carins
Gen. Clarke
Roosevelt Hotel
W. R
Bill) Boyd, Jr
J. H. Nussbaum
Heart O
J.C. Banks
C. R Noles
Jack Oliver
Boyd
Gene Womack
John Kidd
Groesbeck
A. P. Rowland
Waco
O. B. Ellis
Texas Prison System
Texas Cotton Output Prediction Faces Contested Figures
Washington reports Agriculture Department experts maintain Texas 1952 cotton projections amid challenges from state officials. Estimates show 3,310,307 bales ginned by December 1 with about 439,693 left un-ginned, mainly in West and Northwest Texas, while other regions are largely through ginning.
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Washington, D. C
Agriculture Department
Texas
John Claite
White
John J. Morgan
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Census Bureau
Berne
Mexico
Gonate
Hermosillo
Supreme Court hears historic segregation cases in public schools
In Washington the Supreme Court weighs constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools. Thurgood Marshall represents the NAACP against John W. Davis for South Carolina in five cases from Kansas South Carolina Virginia DC and Delaware challenging state and local school segregation.
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Washington, D.C
James S. Byrnes
Supreme Court
Kansas
South Carolina
Virginia
District For Columbia
Delaware
Thurgood 44
New York
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
John W. Davis
Public urged to mail Christmas greetings early
Rauch, with 40 years in service, urges timely mail to ensure delivery before Christmas. He advises sending outside Texas by Dec 15 or locally a week before, using first class, three cent stamps, and clear return addresses. Post office peak: 11 000 pieces daily. holiday schedule begins Dec 15. best mail windows 8 am to 6 pm with 10 am or 1:30 to 3:30 pm recommended for cards and gifts.
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Olf Ser
Rauch
Texas
Stubenrauch
Auld Opens Edmil Auld Radio Repair Shop Downtown
Edmii Auld opened Edmil Eddie Auld Radio Repair Shop today at 209 East Commerce Street in the same building as Henderson's Electrical Appliance. Auld has three years of prior experience and is a 6 graduate of Mexiao High School and the electronics department of Commercial college. He offers repair for radios and television sets. Mrs Auld notes his church memberships with Mercs and Galery Baptist Calvary hist.
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Edmil
Eddie) Auld
East
Commerce Street
Henderson
Auld
Lexia
Mexiao High School
Department of Commercial College
Mercs
Galery Baptist Merce Calvary
Vehicle conference to be held December fifteenth
A Texas Highway Department sponsored meeting on motor vehicles is set for December 15 at 4 p m in the McLennan County Courthouse Waco. The discussion will cover registration and certificate of title and is organized by Central Texas area groups including dealers finance companies banks and wrecking yards.
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Austin
Spl
McLennan County
Waco
Texas Highway
Texas
Orang Si Ree
T'S
Billy Graham Arrives in Tokyo for Japan Visit
Evangelist Billy Graham landed in Tokyo today for a visit to Japan with plans to meet religious leaders and discuss church work in the region. The trip follows his ongoing US tour efforts and touches on international relations themes.
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Tokyo
Billy Graham
Japan
Korea
Eisenhower
Teachers Plan Meeting on Pay Increase in Limestone County
Limestone County teachers from Groesbeck and Mexia join to outline proposed 1958 Texas Legislature measures. The gathering includes A B McBay and Frank Kemble with Principal Gilbert Smith as organizer. State Rep Bill Osborne and Sen Bill Moore will attend to hear proposals from the Texas State Teachers Association.
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Texas
Limestone County
Groesbeck
Limestone
Texas State Teachers ‘Association
Gilbert. Smith
Mexia
Tee
Charles Tennyson
Texas, State Teachers | Association
Smith
TSTA
el Paso
Sadie Jo Black
Texas Tidelands
Legisis
Wo ‘Mem Ture
Bill Osborne
Marlin
Bill Moore
Bryan
Prin. . Smith
A. B. McBay
Frank Kemble
Red Cross Seeks Blood and Funds to Combat Polio
The American Red Cross urges the public to donate 2 million pints of blood and 7 million dollars to stock gamma globulin for polio areas. Tests in four states show gamma globulin injections provide temporary near immunity in exposed children. Roland Harriman announces added mobilization at the request of the Office of Defense Mobilization.
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New York
N. Y
American Red Cross
Texas
Roland Harriman
The
Office of Defense
Red Cross
Korea
Farmers Forecast Price Drops and Rising Costs in 1953
U S Agriculture official O V Wells warned at Texas A&M College that farm product prices may fall in 1953 while costs rise. He said income for farm operators could drop up to five percent, with more cattle moved, higher wheat stocks by July, and about 14 million bales of cotton expected this season.
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College Station
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Wells
Department’s Bureau
Agriculture Economica, Ee
Texas Farm and Ranch Credit School
Texas A&m College
Defense Bonds Awarded at Pontiac Showing in Mexia
Mrs Walter Perkins and Martin A Meredith won $25 defense bonds during the 1953 Pontiac showroom event at McKeith Pontiac in Mexia as 800 visitors viewed the new American Beauty Pontiac. Door prizes were drawn by Ronnie DeLo. attendees received rose lapel pins balloons and Indian Head bands while coffee and doughnuts were served.
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Walter Perkins
Martin A. Meredith
McKeith Pontiac Company
Mexia
Earl McKeith
McKeith’s
Pontiac
Ronnie DeLo
R.C. DeLo
Nation's Finest Documents Kept In World's Best Safe
Engineers display three documents in a large glass showcase at the shrine. Visitors may inspect them during the day, then the doors close and lock as the documents descend into a hidden safe beneath, beneath the massive doors.
Freeze conditions spread across Panhandle and Texas
United Press reports temperatures dropping to freezing or lower in the Panhandle and South Plains with 24 to 40 degree lows in West Texas and Panhandle Tuesday night. South Texas fog persists. Dalhart records 26 degrees, Mexia 53 overnight after 76 high.
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United Press
Panhandle
South Plains
Texas
U. S. Weather Bureau
East Texas
Mexia
North Central
West Texas
South Texas
Dalhart
Brownsville
Wyoming
Colorado
Leadpile
Colo
Strip Tease Bandits Nabbed In El Paso San Antonio
A trio identified as James P. Jermain Mary Jermain and Jean West were arrested in El Paso while attempting to rob a soldier after previously abducting a San Antonio man. Jermain has a criminal record and West Gil is recently divorced.
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EL Paso
San Antonio
James P. Jermain
Mary
Jean West
Jermain
West Gil
Girl 13 admits church arsons in Pond Creek Oklahoma
In Medford Oklahoma a 13 year old Pond Creek girl confessed to setting fires that damaged or destroyed five churches. She must undergo observation and psychiatric treatment at Oklahoma City hospital under authorities orders.
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Medford
Okla
Pond Creek
Oklahoma
Sheake
Reverend Paul Farrell resigns Mexia ministry for Brownfield church
The Rev Paul E Farrell resigns as minister of the First Christian church of Mexia effective late January and will take the post at the First Christian church in Brownfield Texas. He has served Mexia since August 1949 after moving from Mesquite and has held roles in the Mexia Ministers Alliance Lions Club and Masonic lodge. He and wife have one son. Brownfield has grown from 4009 residents in 1940 to about 10000 today.
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Paul E. Farrell
First Christian Church of
Mexia
First Christian Church
Brownfield
West Texas
Farrell
Mesquite
Mexia Ministerial Alliance
Mexian Lionsted
Springfield Masonic Ge
Theological Seminary of
Texas Christian University
Fort Worth
Ben
Young Texas Bandit Identified As Man Who Robbed Jeweler
The Houston jeweler Ralph Perry identified Raymond Fairris in a police lineup as the gunman who stole about $14,000 in rings and watches last Tuesday night. Fairris, a 21 year old parolee from Kansas, is the nephew of outlaw Raymond Hamilton and surrendered to police after six days on the run. He said he turned himself in to avoid taking blame for every Texas crime.
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Houston
Southwest
Ralph Perry
Raymond Fairris
Fairris
Kansas
Raymond Hamilton
Margie Zeglen
Texas
Red Cross seeks hospital bed for ill Thornton man
Limestone county Red Cross chapter requests a hospital bed with a head-rest for a seriously ill Thornton man. Chairman A W DeGuire urges anyone with a bed to donate or loan it for an indefinite period and asks them to call the Red Cross office.
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Limestone “County
Red | Cross
Thornton
Red ‘Cross
Santa Claus Talks to 45 Youngsters at Telethon
Forty five youngsters spoke with Santa Claus on the telephone last night and he will return to his post from 7 to 8 pm tonight inviting calls. Children may write letters to Santa at the North Pole with three-cent stamps and proper return address.
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Santa Claus
Santa
North Pole
Eisenhower May Seek MacArthur Views on Korea War
Republican senators said President-elect Eisenhower is expected to seek Gen. MacArthur's views on ending the Korean stalemate. They noted no plans for direct meetings but anticipated consideration of MacArthur's ideas through intermediaries. Eisenhower held talks with Cabinet members aboard the USS Helena as the mid Pacific conference nears its end.
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Washington
DE. C
Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
Far’ East
MacArthur
Truman
Henry C. Dworshak
Idaho
Gen
Korea
Ike
GOP
Mien Anden
Schoeppel
Pei
Kansas
Cific
Dons
Vieninsky
Fuses
United Nations
Peiping
Pyongyang
General Assembly
India
United States
France
Tunisia
Heldache
U. S
Philip C. Jessup
Casablanca
Helena
Pearl Harbor
Bavaui Quarters
Hawaii
Gentner
New York
Messia Independent School District Board Meet at Mexia High
The Messia Independent School District holds its regular monthly board meeting at 7 90 pm at Mexia High School. The sessions are open to the public. Dr W Duke Pittman serves as board president.
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Messia Independent School District
Mexia High School
W. Duke Pittman
Meen
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Oregon-California
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Jack Sparks
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Thuban
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