New Road Chief Named M G Cornelius
M G Cornelius of Yoakum is appointed as the new highway engineer for the state highway department, succeeding M B Hodges who becomes district engineer at Del Rio. The change took effect February 1. Local visits include Charles Welfl Jr visiting in Moulton, and Kneseks in Schulenburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yoakum
M. G. Cornelius
Houston
State Highway Department
Mr. Cornelius
M. B. Hodges
del Rio
Charles Welff Jr
Moulton
Mrs
Chas. Welfl
Government Reorganization Crusade Calls for Action
A 1947 campaign announces a plan to reform the executive branch with a bipartisan commission led by Hoover to end agency duplication. It cites wasteful costs such as Hungry Horse Project overcharges and scattered land permits, urging readers to contact the Citizens Committee for Reorganization of the Executive Branch of the Government in Philadelphia. Mrs. Pren Lockwell visited Gonzales friends last Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Executive Department
Federal Government
Congress
Truman
Hoover
Department of Interior
Department of Agriculture
Army Engineers
Reclamation Bureau
Hungry Horse
Montana
New Orleans
Citizens Committee For
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Pren Lockwell
Gonzales
Texas Land Office Figures and Ysleta’s Early Settle Yes
The article recalls Col Thomas Ward as Texas land commissioner in Republic and early statehood days, noting his injuries and later service as US consul to Panama. It then describes Ysleta as Texas’s oldest town, founded 1681 by Indian captives from Isleta, with relics of earlier settlements and its relation to El Paso del Norte.
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General Land Office
Texas
United States Counsul
Panama
Buchanan
Ysleta
Isleta
New Mexico
Ozermin
San Antonio de Panda
el Paso
DeLeon
Neches
San Augustine
Florida
United States
City
Mexico
el Paso del Norte
Rio Grande
Navy Advised How to Replace Its Battleship
A Texan, Don Leaton of Midland, telegraphed the Navy Department suggesting borrowing the battleship Texas, afloat at Houston, to replace the mud bound Missouri. The 39 year old ship had been surplus after the war but became a state shrine.
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NAVY
Washington
Missouri
Don Leaton
Midland
Navy Department
Chesapeake Bay
Texas
Houston
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E. A. Oekrl Grand Prize
Pearl
Moulton, Texas
No. 99
NEW Road
Elliott Edwin Knesek
Johnny B. Dunagin
San Antonio
Edwin J. Knesek
Eddie Hinch
Ivan Hinci
Schulenburg
Iva Mae Kuhen
Southwest Texas Teachers College
San Marcos
Jasper Kuhen
Joe’s
Chevrolet
Boyce
Ward
F. A. Koncaba
James Koncaba
Ad. Pilat
la Grange
James Haverda
Lv.clarke
Louis, Xvwius
Weimar
Weimar Sewing Machine Co
Weimar, Texas
Berangin
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