Mexia Weather Sparks Heat Record and Local Ventures
Tuesday's heat hit 100 degrees the hottest day this year in Mexia, with Dallas and Glade receiving rain from storms. United Press predicts scattered showers in North East Texas to ease crops. Local business notices promote new iced air conditioning at Kendrick and Horn and announce Mexia Automobile Auction at the Circle next Friday morning. The Mexia Chamber of Commerce and Jaycees host meetings and barbecues with tickets available, plus a packed week calendar from June 10 to 14.
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Josie Newman
Mercury
Dallas
Fort Worth
Glade
Tarrant County
United Press
Mexia Chamber of Commerce
Jaycees
Lewis
Southwestern
United States Chamber of Commerce
Herman Focke
Jaycee
Mexia
Presbyterian Fellowship
Presbyterian Church
M. Circle. C. of C
City Auditorium
Red Cross
Lewis Offers to Extend Coal Contract If Pension Plan Goes Forward
John L. Lewis proposed indefinite continuation of the current soft coal contract on the condition that the disputed welfare pension plan take effect immediately. He said extensions would apply retroactively to July 1 and begin July 6 after miners return from vacation, amid stalled wage talks and legal challenges over fund eligibility.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
Lenwn
United Mine Workers
Lewis
Tom Phillips Jr Graduates From West Point Album
Tom Phillips Jr. graduates from the United States Military Academy on Tuesday in a ceremony attended by his parents Mr. and Mrs. Tom A. Phillips of Mexia Texas and Miss Ora Phillips. A Mexia High School and University of Texas alumnus, he served as Cadet Lieutenant and earned monograms in football and numerals in later years. He held roles in the Diatic Society General Committee and Howitzer staff, and will be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Air Force and assigned as a pilot.
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United States Military Academy
Tom A. Phillips
Milam St
Mexia
Tex
Phillips
Ora Phillips
Luth A. Johnson
Mexia High School
Ter
University of Texas
Austin
Texas
U. S. Navy Reserve
Academy
Diatectic Society
Howitzer
Air Force
Mexia Ladies Meet To Organize Softball Teams
Local women interested in forming two women’s softball teams are reminded of a 7 30 p m meeting at the Mexia News Office. Willie Wright, president of the Mexia Softball Association, will attend to assist in organizing the clubs.
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ALY Ladies
Mtto
Mexia
Willie Wright
Mexia Softbell Association
Senate Public Works panel OKs rivers flood control bill
The Senate Public Works Committee approved a bill authorizing 44 thousand dollars for future rivers and harbors and flood control projects. The total exceeds by 49.556 million dollars the 82.88 million authorized under the House passed bill.
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Washington
Senate Public Works Committee
New Cooling System Installed at Kendrick and Horn
A Carrier Cooling system was installed at Kendrick and Horn Drug Store in Mexia. The system, cost in the thousands, maintains a year round temperature, cooling in heat and supplying warm air in winter via the same vents, with operation begun this Wednesday after two weeks of work.
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Kendrick and
Horn Drug Store
Mexia
Focal Drug Store
Val Horn
Social Security Rep To Visit Mexia For Benefits Help
RR Tuley Jr manager of the Waco office with the Social Security Administration will be at the Texas Employment Commission in Mexia starting 10:00 a.m. Thursday June 10 to take applications for old age and survivors insurance and handle related federal family insurance program business.
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RR. Tuley, Jr
Waco
Social Security Administration
Texas Employment Commission
Mexia
Vandenberg attacks House cuts to Marshall Plan funds
Senate President Arthur Vandenberg charged the House used a meat-axe technique to gut the European Recovery Program. He urged restoring 2.16 billion dollars, warning the cuts risk undoing the Marshall Plan and harming American leadership and world peace.
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House
Senate
Washington
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Vandenberg
Michigan
Congress
De Gaulle Urges France to Oust Coalition Government
Paris reports Gen Charles De Gaulle calling on the French to overthrow the coalition government and implying he would assume leadership of the country. He attacked the Germany accord as risking France and Europe and heightened threats to Premier Schuman's government as the National Assembly prepared to vote on the pact.
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Paris
Charles de Gaule
France
de Gaulle
Germany
Feades
Europe
Robert Schuman
National Assembly
Oklahoma Delegates Weigh Truman Support at Convention
Oklahoma's 32 Democratic delegates plan a period of discussion before deciding whether to back President Truman for the nomination. The mood is described as tentative with possible shifts before the convention.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Truman
Agriculture extends pink ballworm quarantine to six Oklahoma counties
Washington reports the Agriculture Department extends the Texas and New Mexico pink ballworm quarantine and adds six Oklahoma counties. In other action, the House Foreign Affairs Committee approves a bill to authorize a Rio Grande railroad bridge near Hidalgo Texas, while the Senate Post Office Committee plans to send an investigator to Houston to study complaints against Granville Elder’s postmaster nomination. Ford Motor Company continues coverage in New York reports.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rio Grande River
Mexico
United States
Hidalgo
Tex
Senate Post Office Committee
Houston
Granville Elder
Israel And Arab States Agree to Four Weeks Truce
In Washington and Cairo reports say the United Nations truce plan was accepted by Israel and Arab states for four weeks starting 6 am GMT Friday. Weizmann and Bernadotte offices circulated confirming acceptance with noted questions on Jewish immigration and Jerusalem access.
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Cairo
Israel
Palestine
Folke Bernadotte
Moshe Shertok
Bernadotte
Shertox
Jerusalem
Arab League
The
UN Security Council
League
Chaim Weizmann
Paris
United Nations Security Council
Mahmud Bey Fawzy
Marshall Announces U. S Accepts London German Plan
Secretary of State Marshall announced the United States accepts the six power London agreement on western Germany. The accord calls for a constituent assembly to draft a German constitution and a seven power Ruhr administration with Germany having a voice. The move is described as a major step toward solving Germany's problem.
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Washington
Geshall
United States
London
Germany
Ruhr
Marshall
Texans to Attend C of C Jaycee Annual Meeting
Sid McKinnon announced that prominent Texans will attend the joint C of C and Jaycee Annual Meeting and barbecue at Mexia Country Club Friday night at 7 30. Guests include Harold Hamlin East Texas Chamber of Commerce president D A Huiey Lone Star Gas Company former Dallas Chamber past president and J F Sullivan Southern Pacific Railroad general passenger agent.
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Sid McKinnon
Mexia Chamber of Commerce
C. of C
Jaycee
Mexia Country Club
Harold Hamlin
East Texas Chamber Commerce
D. A. Huiey
Lone Star Gas Company
Dallas Chamber of Commerce
J. F. Sullivan
Southern Pacific Railroad
Two Phone Calls Bring Tragic News
Mrs. A. W. DeGuire received two long distance calls Wednesday morning with tragic news. First, the death of her uncle Otto Bogusch at his Mason Texas home Tuesday. Seconds later, the report that her brother in law Judge J C McShan of San Angelo was in critical condition at a hospital there.
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A. W. DeGuire
Fist
Otto Bogusch
Mason
Texas
J.C. McShan
San Angelo
Owen criticizes apartment controls in Fort Worth speech
John E. Owen of the National Apartment Owners Assn denounces press controls as a police state overreach and says they have no business in this country.
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Fort Worth. Tex
John E. Owen
National Apartment Owners Assn
Truman Attacks Congress From Spokane Platform
President Truman denounces Congress as the worst in the country’s history in Spokane Washington remarks on June 9. He faults Republican chairmen hindering a western flood control program and urges labor support to vote against Republicans this fall. He rallies with Gov. Wallgren and Sen. Magnuson in downtown Spokane.
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Truman
Republican Congress
Spokane
Wash
Ray Felkner
Columbia River
House
Senate
West
Mon C. Wallgren
Warren Magnuson
D. Wash
Postpone Band Practice Announcement
Ralph Burford announces no band rehearsal on Thursday night June 10. Sessions resume Monday June 14 as scheduled.
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Ralph Burford
Billy Smith Opens Mexia Auto Auction Friday
Billy Smith launches Mexia Automobile Auction Company in Mexia at 11:00 a.m. with Edd Brigance of Coolidge as auctioneer. The sale serves certified auto dealers and will attract buyers from across Texas, operating Fridays in temporary quarters at Circle near highways 7 and 14.
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J. B
Billy) Smith
Billy
Mexia Finance Company
Mexia Automobile Auction Company
Circle
Mexia
Texas
Billy Smith
No. 7
No. 14
Edd Brigance
Coolidge
Markets at a Glance Stocks Rise in Moderate Trade
United Press reports stocks higher in moderate trading and curb shares up. Bonds are irregularly higher while U.S. governments did not trade. Chicago stocks move irregularly higher. Silver remains at 74.5 cents per fine ounce in New York. Cotton futures steady. Grains in Chicago show irregular moves across wheat corn oats and barley futures.
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United Press
U.S
Chicago
New York
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