Riches and Philanthropy Quoted Then Little League Reminder
The clipping cites biblical verse about riches and charity, contrasts sun value with usefulness, and invites boys 7 to VP years to Little League practice at the city park Saturday 9 a.m. under Mexia association. Rainbow Girls chapter 77 to install June 4 at 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian church fellowship hall. attendees asked to arrive by 7:00 p.m.
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George Eubanks
The
Mexia Association
Order of the Rainbow For Girls
Mexia Chapter
First Presbyterian Church
Make Dad King for a Day contest set in Mexia shops
A joint Mexia chamber and merchants committee will award at least four prizes in the Make Dad King for a Day contest. Entries are free at 44 participating stores with no purchase required, and registrations can be made anytime. The drawing is June 20 at 4 pm on the corner of Sherman and Commerce to select winners from the greater Mexia trade area. Prizes include a $10 electric drill from Goodyear Service Store, a $10 pen and pencil set from Western Auto, $5 groceries from ASP Grocery, a $3 fish and basket box from Riddle Furniture, and $5 in TV or machine service from Little TV and Sewing Center.
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Trades Development Committee
Chamber of Commerce and Merchants of
Mexia
Dad
Sherman and
Commerce
Goodyear Service Store
Western Auto
ASP Grocery
Riddle Furniture
Mexia Daily News
Bank President Chased by Frisky Cow in Tyler Dairy Month
Boots Coolidge, president of four East Texas banks, was knocked aside by a cow during Tyler's Dairy Month kickoff. Jeff Austin pursued the animal after it kicked him, wasting his milking time as the bovine refused to cooperate in the contest opening.
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TYLER
UPI
Jeff Austin
East Texas
Frankston
Rusk
Coolidge
Jacksonville
Austin
Kerry pilot Max Conrad crosses toward El Paso flight
Reports say Max Conrad of San Francisco flew from Cusablen Moroe and passed over Trini dad airport en route to El Paso Texas.
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New York
Max Conrad
San Francisco
Trinidad
Paso
Tex
Cusablaen
Moroeto
Partly cloudy and warm in Mexia with scattered storms
Mexia officials report 90 degree high, 62 low forecast through Thursday. The 24 hour period ending 7:30 a.m. Wednesday measured 82/69 with 12 inches of rainfall, per Josie Newman, U S government weather observer.
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Texas
West Portion
Mexia
Josie Newman
U. S
Texans Rally Behind Elliott In-Defence Dispute
Influential Texans rally to Mexia businessman J W Elliott after Senator William Moore labeled him incompetent for State Game and Fish Commission duties. Brown and Root executive leads defense amid letters and calls defending Elliott who challenges Moore over alleged misuse of commission stationery. Elliott says he will sue for 500 for every alleged misquote. Austin officials provide limited comment.
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Texas
J. W. Elliott
Mexia
William Moore
Bryan
Austin
Brown and Root
Houston
Elliott
Texas Senate
State Game and Fish Commission
Moore
Commission
Bryan Lawmaker
Senate Nominations Committee
Austin Howard Dodgeon
Dodgeon
Eliott
Herbert J. Frensley
Chait
Atlanta Park to Be Tourist Entry at State Park
Park Board plans to develop Atlanta State Park on the Texarkana reservoir as a major tourist entry point funded by either tax bonds or a concession lease. The board allocated 5000 dollars yearly for two years for minor improvements and continued a ban on cut down automobiles on park golf courses with a one month observation period. The proposal for a drag strip at Whitney State Park was favorably considered if conflicts with park concessions are avoided and U.S. Corps of Engineers approval is obtained.
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Atlanta State Park
Texarkana Reservoir
Texas State Parks Board
Austin
Atlanta
Raymond L. Dillard
Park System of
Texas
T Ax
iThe Board
Whitney State Park
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Brown Hospital
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Storm Slams West Texas Sparking Floods and Damage
A violent storm struck West Texas with 80 mph winds and hail the size of marbles to golf balls. Snyder suffered wrecked homes and evacuations while Slaton saw unroofed houses and rain-swamped roads along U S 84 between Anton and Littlefield. Rescue work was hampered by darkness and rising floodwaters.
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United Press International
Texas
Snyder
Slaton
Littlefield
Lubbock
Department of Public Safety
B. A. Porter
Anton
Eisenhower Doubts Progress Toward Summit
President Eisenhower, speaking at his first news conference in three weeks, expressed that the Geneva foreign ministers meeting had not yet made enough progress to justify a summit. In Austin, the State Senate condemned the Atomic Energy Commission plan to dump atomic waste 180 miles south of Galveston in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Ike
Washington
UPD
Eisenhower
Ceneva
Austin
UPI
State Senate
Atomic Energy Commission
Gulf of Mexico
Galveston
West weighs East West Berlin access plan amid talks
Western officials study a plan to form an East West Berlin access commission with both German sides. They seek Moscow guaranteed Western rights and access as a condition for progress at the Berlin talks.
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Geneva
UPI
Can
U. S
Selwyn Lloyd
Andrei Gromyko
Christian Herter
Maurice Couge de Murville
Tax Fight Brews After Daniel Plans View
The Texas Senate set Gov. Price Daniel's tax plans for public hearing as a floor fight rages in the House over the abandoned property proposal. The State Affairs Committee will hear the administration’s 150 million dollar tax program to balance the books, while the House votes to replace the measure with a substitute bill. The Senate recessed until Friday to allow full debate.
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Austin
UPI
TheTexas Senate
Price ‘Daniel
House
Daniel
House Revenue and Taxation Committee
Sam Bass
Freeport
Jim Bates
Edinburg
Senate
Stae Affairs
Dorsey Hardeiman
San Angelo
Hardeman
Nicaragua seeks OAS help over airborne invasion
Nicaragua appealed to the Organization of American States for an immediate meeting and consultation to counter an airborne insurgent invasion. Ambassador Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa urged hemispheric foreign ministers to act under the Rio Pact to coordinate measures against the threat. Revels said three boatloads were en route from Cuba, while two plane loads attacked. The council planned a 24 hour adjournment for consultations among 21 nations.
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Washington
API
Nicaragua
Organization of American States
Guillermo Sevilla-Sacasa
Council of the Oas
Hemisphere
OAS Council
OAS
Luis Somoza
Cuba
Sevilla-Sacasa
Long Cooperates With Treatment Says Hospital Bulletin
In Galveston Texas the doctors for Governor Earl Long of Louisiana said he is cooperating with efforts to diagnose and treat his mental illness. No treatment has begun yet pending diagnostic tests. a Louisiana official warned he may be finished as governor. In Tokyo the Western Liberal Democratic Party won a clear majority in the upper house.
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Galveston
Tex
UPI
Earl Long
Louisiana
John Truslow
John Sealy Hospital
Titus Harris
Long
Truslow
Bayou State
Nippon House
TOKYO
UPL
Liberal Democratic Party
Mexia Merchants Discuss City Trade Promotions Tuesday
Twenty businessmen and Chamber of Commerce and merchant committee members met at the J-V Cafe to plan monthly promotions for Mexia trade. They proposed Dad's Day prizes on June 20 and a July Crazy Day window displays with deep price cuts. Options include a Back-to-School theatre party in August, Super Value Days in September, and Homecoming Week ties with the school, plus Saturday openings after Christmas.
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Chamber of Commerce Trade Development Committee
J-V Cafe
Vai -Horn
Mexia
Municipal Audit Begins for Mexia Records
Records are open as annual outside audit of Mexia city books for the year ending March 31, 1959 starts with P. Williams Jr. and T. McCroy from Dallas. The audit aims to be complete in about two weeks and filed with the city commission per city charter.
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Os P. Williams, Jr
T. McCroy
Dallas
Mexia
Snyder and Langston
E. Joslin
BE. Joslin
E. M. Berry
Frank L. Wilcox
Waco
A. C. Upleger and Co
Ware
Lips and Co
Rankin and Mistrot
Wiod W. Rankin
McAlpine and
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