12 Dec 1957
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Newspaper
Mexia Daily News
Location
Mexia, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1957
Page
1
Texas welfare figures show social security payments to 240,323 residents totaling 11,916,645 dollars, outnumbering old age assistance for 225,538 residents at 10,087,233 dollars. The shift reflects new eligibility rules extending benefits to women 62 and over, with rapid growth over eight years.
Texas public schools win the 1957 National Driver Education Award from the Association of Casualty and Surety Companies. Gov. Price Daniel accepts the plaque as 77,577 students were enrolled in 1956 57 with 40 percent of high schools offering driving training.
In the Alpine foothills near Malles, a dramatic aerial clash saw a huge royal eagle slaughter more than 30 crows. Peasants in fields witnessed the 30 minute battle, a remarkable spectacle in local folklore.
George G. Morgan of Aloga Texas was held on a vagrancy charge after driving 8000 miles in a 1956 car allegedly taken from a Victoria Texas agency without paying. Morgan said the salesman told him to take it out for a trial spin but did not specify a distance.
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