The Hickory Grove View On A Tarnished Political Show
A reflective column critiques political theater saying the long promised sweetness never arrived. It notes a new season with Kefauver, Stassen, Warren, Taft, Russell, and Eisenhower, while implying the public sees through the old show and remains hopeful yet wary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry
Kefauver
Mr. Stassen
Mr. Warren
Uncle Harry
Mr. Taft
Russell
Eisenhower
Texas Tales of Jesse James and Dime Box Origins
A narrator recounts postwar Azle encounters with Jesse James under an alias, his Texas honeymoon, and a bold stagecoach robbery in the Austin–San Antonio route. The piece also explains the origin of Dime Box near Giddings, recalling a man who earned the town its name by asking for a dime box of snuff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Azle
Tarrant County
Tom. Jackson
Jackson
Missouri
Jessie James
Texas
Jesse
Austin-San Antonio
Jim Reed
Belle Starr
Cole Younger
Jim Younger
Frank James
Dime Box
Giddings
Shivers Praises Austin State Hospital Improvement
Gov. Allan Shivers cited the Austin State Hospital’s second place in the 1951 mental hospital achievement contest as evidence of progress in Texas hospital improvements. He noted overcrowding remains and full goals are not yet reached, but praised better manpower use, morale, training, and treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Austin State Hospital
Allan Shivers
American Psychiatric Association
Texas Mental Hospitals
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Bama
W. H. Etlinger
Mrs. Tuckers
Little Crow
Schulenburg Livestock Comm
ADOLPH _ PETREK
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War
Albrecht
Hickory Grove
To Serra
Boyce
Cotton Grove
Rudy Kurtz Orch
Legion Park
Shiner, Texas
Jurecka
ORCH
Weimar
Smitty
Orchestra
Schulenburg
American Legion
Hal
Flatonia
Moulton Music Masters
Adm
Gents
Ladies
Louis Niebuhr
Olan Mittank
Bobby and
Michael
San Antonio
Louis Fehrenkamp
Constellation
Idlewild
New York Port Authority
City Fire Department
TWA
New York
la Paz
Bolivia
National Revolutionary Movement
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Ballivan
Shivers
Amous
Xtra
EKA. Oehl
Pearl
Jennings B. Cook
Thulemeyer’s
Flatonia, Texas
Texalite
Kuhn’s
Moulton, Texas
Willie Pilat
Charles Pilat Moulton
Fred A. Berckenhoff
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