Beef Cattle Shortage Shrinks Shipments and Market Prices
Chicago reports that cattle shipments to major markets fell to 38 500 from 44 000 last week and 66 000 a year ago, signaling tighter beef supplies. Packers buy only under price ceilings while independents bid above them, with forecasts of continued shortages and potential price controls until autumn. President Truman plans a national address on anti inflation measures as rollback orders begin and new reductions loom.
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Chicago
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Swift, Armour, and
Wilson
Lem Wyatt
Agriculture Department
American Meat Institute
National Association of Retail Meat Dealers
Funeral Services Set Tomorrow for Mrs J H Cline
Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist church in Mexia tomorrow at 2 30 p m for Mrs J H Cline of Forest Glade who died Sunday night at a local hospital The Rev James B Thompson of Horn Hill Baptist church will conduct the service Burial will be in Mexia cemetery with Riddle funeral home in charge She is survived by one son two daughters six grandchildren and one great grandchild pallbearers are Claude Gore Jack Maddox Leonard Tidwell L D Wright Joe Thedford and A L Fowler
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First Baptist Church
Mexia
J. H. Cline
Forest Glade
James B. Thompson
Horn Hill Baptist Church
Riddle Funeral Home
Cline
Mississippi
Limestone County
Groesbeck
al Phillips
Pat Ward
Waco
H. L. Hill
Santa Anna
Lee Owens
Claude Gore
Jack Maddox
Leonard Tidwell
L. D. Wright
Joe Thedford
A. L. Fowler
Highway project bids open for Donte to Buffalo upgrade
Austin UP State Highway department to open bids Wednesday for 9.2 miles of highway from Donte to Buffalo. Plan includes surface treatment and two course surface work along State Highway 164 as part of a two billion dollar plan for highway and farm road improvements.
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Austin
State Highway Department
Donte
Buffalo
Abilene Storm Roars Through Texas With Wide Damage
A weekend storm system lashed Texas with scattered thundershowers and damaging hail. Abilene reported winds up to 120 mph, power outages, and 1.58 inches of rain, while hail damaged Brownwood windows and Mesquite area reports noted large hail.
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United Press
Texas
Abilene
Rotan
Coleman
Brown
Little Elm Lake
Lake Dallas
Presidio
Laredo
New England
Harvard
Rhode Island
Violent Deaths For 27 Texans Weekend Accidents
A United Press survey shows at least 27 Texans died in weekend incidents from Friday to Monday morning. Most deaths were auto crashes with 11 and two pedestrian deaths, plus drownings and five homicides.
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United Press
Texas
Air Force
Lubbock
Odessa
Jineman
Doyle Gene Howell
LaPorte
Garth Scott
Noblesville
Ind
Wiseman Ranch
Dumas
Joseph van Wrysberghe
Buffalo
N. Y
Houston
Neosho
Irvin Thomas
Johnnie
Bobbie
Stamford
Thomas
E. J. Colvelle
Stephenville
Mexia Officer Awarded Bronze Star for Korean Action
Lt. Walter P. Sheppard of Mexia receives the Bronze Star for courageous mine disposal work off Chinnam Po Korea. He volunteered to explode mines and destroy detonators to aid future operations aboard USS Mainstay. He enlisted in 1941 and serves as mine disposal and small boat mine sweeper.
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Walter P. Sheppard
Audrey Sheppard
Mexia
Korea
Navy Department
Sheppard
Chinnam Po
Navy
Wesley Adams Enlists in U S Air Force
Wesley Adams a 1950 Mexia High School graduate enlisted in the U S Air Force at Waco recruiting stations after a year at Baylor University. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W A Adams Route 1. After basic training at Lackland AFB he will be assigned to his first duty station. Ordinary meteors move around randomly unlike fixed celestial paths.
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WACO
Spl
Wesley Adams
Mexia High School
U. S. Air Force
Waco U. S. Army
Baylor University
W. A. Adams
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Adams
Beverly Conn
S. .R. Conn
Mexia Jaycees
Tyner
Miss Conn
Jaycee
Gordon Tyner
A.B. McBay
Cochairmen
Doug’ Newberry
Dale, Brown
Dale McKeith
Marshall heads for US to seek larger army
Defense Secretary Marshall flew to Washington to address urgent manpower needs and talk of expanding national guard calls. Separate reports note UN forces in Korea pushing from the Chorwon Kumhwa area while facing renewed Chinese resistance near Kumsong and along the 38th parallel.
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Tokyo
U. S
Defense
George+.C. ‘Marshall
Washington
Air Force
Thomas K
Finletter
Roasche
Korea
South Korea
Matthew
Ridgeway
Britain
Douglas MacArthur
Marshall
China
United Nations
Iroin
Chorwon
Kumhwa
Kumsong
Red
Ghorwaga
Pyongyang
Reds
Seoul
38Th Parallel
Iron Triangle
Konsan
Kaesong
Kumkwa
Yanggu-[nje
Kansong
Yonchon
Search Called Off For Missing American Jets
The U S Air Force halted its search for two American jet fighters missing over Germany since Friday. Officials fear the planes may have crossed into Communist East Germany or Czechoslovakia, prompting the pause in operations at Wiesbaden.
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Wiesbaden
Germmany
U. S
Germany
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Future Homemakers Camp At Fort Parker State Park
More than 100 Future Homemakers club girls and sponsors from 10 Central Texas counties arrive at Fort Parker State Park for a three day encampment. The event marks the first use of new group camp buildings along Fort Parker Lake with activities including crafts, weaving, jewelry making, hiking and swimming. A public talent night is planned for tomorrow evening.
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Homemakers Club
Texas
Fort Parker State Park
Antonig
Fort Parker Lake
Davida Mount
Hunts' ‘Ville
FHA
Emily Ann Cundiff
Center- Ville
Area 8
Susie Bell
Wortham
Southwest Industry Shows 1951 Job Gains Across Four States
The four southwestern states Texas Oklahoma Louisiana and Arkansas had 673000 factory workers employed in April 1951, up 69400 from April 1950. Texas led with a 49700 gain driven mainly by transportation equipment including aircraft ship and boat building and repair.
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Atlanta
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Arkansas
Texas Armored Unit Trains in Louisiana
The 49th Armored Texas National Guard began a two week training period at Camp Polk Louisiana. Maj. Gen. Albert S. Johnson of Dallas commands the unit as it draws ammunition for preliminary firings with pistols through bazookas, marking the first Texas unit to train outside the state since World War II.
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Camp Polk
Texas National Guard
Lone’ Star State
49Th Armored
Texas National Guard Division
Albert. S. Johnson
Dallas
49Th
Maceo Empire Faces Texas Raid Over Illegal Gaming
In Galveston the Maceo gambling empire comes under probe by a state crime investigating committee. The group, built on dice and slot machines, reportedly earned most of its four million dollar turnover from illegal enterprises. With Sam Maceo dead, Texas Rangers and officials raid game rooms and shut down Balinese Room entry, as Col. Garrision warns to clean up or Texas Rangers will intervene.
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Austin
Maceo
Galveston
Fred V. Meridith
Sam Maceo
Empire
Texas Rangers
Susof
Magees
Col. Garrison
Price Daniel
Texas
Maceos
Wedemeyer Endorses Lone U S Action in Korea Debate
Lt. Gen. Albert Wedemeyer testified before the Senate committee that the United States should go alone if needed to confront Communism in Korea and China. He supported Gen. MacArthur’s call for bombing and a naval blockade, accepting the risk of a broader war, while cautioning that armistice terms at the 38th parallel could be a setback. He rebutted claims of coalition governance and warned against overreliance on past China policies.
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Washington
D. C
Albert C. Wedemeyer
Gen. MacArthur
United States
China
Get. MacArthur
Manchuria
Yalu River
Korea
Russia
Wedemeyer
Senate Committee
Dean, Acheson
Gen. Wedemeyer
Richard H. Spruance
George C. Marshall
Defense
Gen. Marshall
Truman
Mr. Acheson
Formosa
38Th Parallel
Commissioners Take No Action Toward Naming Constable
Limestone county commissioners in Groesbeck met with no action on appointing a precinct 4 constable. Two applicants, Howard Wooten and George Follis, both former law officers, reportedly filed for the post. The Only other business was approving county bills for May.
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Limestone County Cornaniasioniers
Groesbeck Toy
Howard
Wooten
George Follis
Pastor swap at Methodist church moves Rev Gordon
The Rev Gordon leaves Mexia for Graham with four years at Graham noted. The Rev Patterson and his wife are parents to two sons, one at Southern Methodist University and the other in high school. In the Waco Conference yesterday the Rev E A Chisholm, superintendent of the Corsic district including Mexia, will stay in his Corsicana post.
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First Methodist Church
Graham
Patterson
Southern
Methodist‘ “University
Waco
E. A. Chisholm
Corsic
Mexia
Corsicana
Mexia Resident’s Brother Buried in Wichita Falls
Funeral services were held in Wichita Falls for Clarence R. Dailey 48 a former Mexia resident killed when a car struck barricades workers on a highway he and two others were completing He is survived by his wife mother Mrs Ellen Dailey two daughters Mariett Fairy Nell Dailey and Ray Dailey all of Wichita Falls five sisters Lena Persons Mexia Lois Lyles Teague Lyles Odessa Katie Stewart Wichita Falls Ruth Rutherford Mexia and brothers John Mond Clifford Dailey Mexia
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Wichita Falls
Clarence R. Dailey
Teague
Dailey
Ellen Dailey
I Gue
Mariett
Fairy Nell Dailey
Ray Dailey
Wichita
Lena Persons
Mexia
Lois Lyles
Lyles
Odessa
Katie Stewart
Ruth Rutherford
Survive
John
Mond
Clifford
Texas Wheat Crop Figure Unchanged
The Texas 1951 wheat crop estimate remains 18.5 million bushels, unchanged from last month. Production compares to 1935’s 11.473 million, and 1949–1950s years show a national crop forecast about 1,053.825 million bushels.
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Texas
Austin
U. S. Department
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A. United
Washington, D. C
Joe Montague
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Producers Association
Congress
Johnny Stoecker
Nome
Italy
NEA
U. St
Josie Newman
Weather Bureau
Mesquite
Dallas ‘County
Brownwood
Mexia Navy
Alaska
US Air Force
Red Triangle
Parker
Southwest
Beauty
Senate
Lester C. Hunt
Wyoming
MacArthur
Chile
Saiin
America
Gordon
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