Black Cats Receive Letters At Football Banquet
Pi Rev Ray Harrell lauded competitive sports and the value they bring to youth as the Mexia Black Cats 1946 team were honored. Coach Carroll Wood awarded letters to players Robert Barnards Don Glendon Cline Thomas Dyson Johnny Fletcher Randall Gil Ham s Bill Hil John Hill Billy Burley Adrian Little Wilbur Hollingsworth Claude Nussbaum Roger Payne Thomas Payne Billy Joe Phillips Byron Tolson and A B Wilson along with managers A T Brown Jack Ralph Jones and Harold Nuss.
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Ray Harrell
First Baptist Church
Harrell
Carroll Wood
Robert Barnards
Glendon Cline
Thomas Dyson
Johnny Fletcher
Randall Gil Hams
Bill Hil
John Hill
Billy Burley
Adrian Little
Wilbur Hollingsworth
Claude Nussbaum
Roger Payne
Thomas Payne
Billy Joe Phillips
Byron Tolson
A. B. Wilson
Jack Ralph Jones
Harold Nuss
Calendar error announces change in Palace show picture
The calendar for Media Events mislisted Thursday and Friday images as the same. Today’s entry clarifies that Friday’s picture will replace Thursday’s, with Gene Autry in Blue Montana Skies showing tonight at the Palace.
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Palace
Gene Autry
Montana
Foreign Ministers End Long Paris Peace Conference Session
The Big Four foreign ministers end six weeks of conferences in New York after fifteen months of satellite peace treaty talks. They depart for a three month recess before resuming work in Moscow on March 10 to tackle German and Austrian peace treaties.
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New York
Det
Paris
Moscow
Calendar of Mexia Events Between Football Game and Church Activities
Local listings show Fairfield vs Valley Mills football at 7:45 p.m. on Friday followed by Amoma Class at 8:00 p.m. First Baptist Church hosts a party. Cavalry Baptist Church plans a 7:00 p.m. youth program. The Palace offers film showings including Blue Montana Skies and Rustlers of the Badlands.
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Fairfield
Valley Mills
Amoma
First Baptist Church
Christ Fellowship
Cavalry Baptist Church
Gene Autry
Montana
Liberty
the Badlands
UAW begins campaign for 23.5 cent wage hike for auto workers
The CIO United Automobile Workers Union starts its campaign for a 23.5 cent per hour basic wage increase for about 1,000,000 auto workers with fringe demands totaling an estimated 624 million dollars. Walter P. Reuther announces the unanimous UAW board approval and cites living-cost increases and wartime wage controls as factors.
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New York
CIO
United
Automobile Workers Union
UAW
General
Motors
International ‘Board of Directors
Walter “P.' Reuther
Reuther
United States
Reuther,Sal
Nine War Time Air Ports Transferred To Texas Cities
The War Assets Administration transfers nine air port properties valued at 15 million dollars to Texas cities and two counties. Avenger Field goes to Sweetwater Dalhart Army Air Field to Dalhart Terrell Aviation School Brady Bonham Aviation School Harmon Flying School Valley Ballinger Coleman Waco Auxiliary No 1 at McGregor Marfa Airfield Auxiliary No 4 to Presidio County Pacific School at Fort Stockton to Pecos County. Recipients to take over hangars buildings runways and equipment while keeping them in repair with right to recover fields in national emergency.
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Dallas
Texas
Avenger Field
Sweetwater
Dalhart
Terrell Aviation
Ce Brady
Brady
Bonhama Aviation
Bonham
Harmon
Valley Mi
Ballinger
Coleman’ oPlyin
Coleman Waco
McGregor
Houston to Open International Air Gateway Sunday
Agreements for the official opening of Houston's International Air gateway were being completed. The ceremony will take place Sunday. After the dedication, 22 Gulf Coast residents will board a Pan American DC-4 Clipper for a flight to Mexico City, with Mexican officials expected to arrive from Mexico City aboard a Pan American plane for the ceremony.
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Houston
International Air Gateway
Gulf Coast
Pan American. Airways
Mexico
City
Pan American
Outlaws Strikes Railroad Dispute Reaches Court
A railroad labor dispute escalates to legal action as parties prepare filings this week. The case centers on the Outlaws group challenging strike actions and potential government intervention. The President’s stance or involvement remains unclear from the fragment.
Copper mine slide endangers rescuers report
Brownsville dispatch notes danger to rescuers in a copper mine slide incident. Fragmentary text references a pit lodge and helmet regent in a Venezuelan airport context amid Latin American upheaval.
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Riz
Fragmented OCR hints at ships and ports
Damaged text hints at maritime items, ships and ports including San Pedro and Keelung, with fragmentary phrases about loading phosphate and a vessel’s headwork.
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San Pedro
Keelung
Blind Veteran Seeks Help for New Eyes
A blind veteran in Indianapolis asks Santa for new eyes in a newspaper notice. The fragment mentions hospital locations and editor notes, with partial text indicating continuation on page 8.
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Santa
Housing program push amid veteran housing debate
The article outlines veterans groups AMVETS and the Veterans Committee urging restraint on rapid removal restrictions to avoid enriching profiteers. Omar B. Ketchum testifies before a senate subcommittee, while White House officials pursue a new housing program with ongoing conferences and a planned meeting with President Truman.
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Washington
Omar B. Ketchum
VFW
Senate
Eee
Vetans
Amvets
The
Daresan
Veterans Committee
White House
White, House
Truman
Snowstorms hinder search for missing Marine
Snowstorms and heavy rain limited the effort to locate a Marine transport plane missing since Tuesday with 32 aboard. Grounded search planes, six feet of snow above 2000 feet on Mount Rainier, and flooding closures hampered teams as efforts pivoted to Rainier’s glacier.
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Longmore
Wash
Ranier
Washington
Oklahoma City's Transit Strike Halts City Transport
Oklahoma City's transit system remained idle as 500 motormen and drivers from Oklahoma Railway Co. walked out at 3 a.m. Today the State Corporation Commission issued an emergency order raising fares from 25 cents to 15 cents for street cars and buses, while hourly workers faced layoffs and thousands were late to work. City officials mobilized police and municipal vehicles to aid stranded riders.
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Oklahoma City
Corporation Commission
Reford Bond
The
Oklahoma Railway Co
Andalso
Paul
Reed
Mately
William Gil’ Jr
Association of Street and Electric
Employes of America
AFL
Apot
U Waldo Stephens
Arbitration, Board
Neal Barrett
Two Boys Held for New York Tenement Fire Arson
In New York rescue crews battled through rubble of a crushed tenement after a blaze at an abandoned ice house. Two youths bragging of starting the fire were placed under arson charges as 17 people remained missing or presumed dead.
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New York
Sesche
Mexia Chamber Officers Attend Fort Worth Banquet
Mexia Chamber of Commerce officers Ralph Jones president and Sid McKinnon secretary manager joined Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce leaders at its annual banquet. The event drew representatives from several towns and featured William K. Jackson president of the United States Chamber of Commerce as the principal speaker.
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Ralph Jones
Sid McKinnon
Mexia
Chamber of Commerce
Ft. Worth
TL. Worth
William K. Jackson
United States Chamber of Commerce
Soldier Train Crash Near Mansfield Kills Eight
In Mansfield Ohio a 13 coach Golden Triangle Limited carrying soldiers bound for furloughs crashed into wreckage from two freight trains east of town. Eight killed including train crew and at least 40 injured many with fractures or burns.
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Mansfield, O
Golden Triangle Limited
Pennsylvania Railroad
Here
Fear
Coulter, .O
Station of the Ohio
Oil:co
Rdilidad
Iranian troops enter Tabriz in Azerbaijan government push
The Iranian General Staff announced that early Thursday detachments of government troops entered Tabriz to oversee parliamentary elections. Martial law and a curfew were proclaimed in the city as troops met stiff opposition from irregular forces at Shahinde and pressed the advance toward Tabriz.
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Azerbaijan
Shahinde
Tabriz
Ivey Brother of Mrs. Riddle Dies in Blooming Grove
HP Ivey died suddenly at his home in Blooming Grove on Friday morning. He is survived by a sister and four brothers. Funeral services will be held at the Methodist Church in Blooming Grove at 3 o’clock this afternoon, with burial in the Blooming Grove Cemetery.
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Ward
HP. Ivey
Blooming Grove
Mr. Ivey
J.L. Riddle
Cementary
Red Cross To Send Christmas Dinners
Rev. A. W. DeGuire chairs the Limestone Chapter of the American Red Cross and said the organization will send complete Christmas dinners to many destitute county families. Families have been located and investigated by chapter members.
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A. W. DeGuire
Limestone
The
American Red Cross
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Liberty — “Rustlers
Hinabor
International ‘Air Gateway
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Brownsville
American Airways
Indianapolis
House
Mt. Rain’ier
High Mountain
Toledo
Cascade Range
Rainier
Rotary
Legion State School
Clovis Bounds
Mexia Rotary ‘Club
Bounds
American Legion
Gene. Womack
J.L. Bond Fund
Rotary Club
All State School
E. EL Clayton
San’ Francisco
California
Ohio
General Hospital
Mexiaites
Red Cross
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