Rutherford Like Ector Against Food Distribution Plan
The Texas Legislature debates a central distributing agency for Federal surplus foods for school lunches. Despite strong district support, key lawmakers from Odessa and Pecos voted against the plan. Attorney General inquiry and past bills are cited as background, with calls from Gov. Shivers and the education commissioner to end the program.
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Permian Basin
J. T. Butherrd
Odessa
Senate
Hill Hundson
Pecos
J. W. Edgar
Rutherford and
Hudson
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Edgar
Atty
Price Daniel
Texas
Gox
Allan Shivers
Congress
Clyde Manning
Decatur
Public Welfare Department
State Affairs Committee
Zivley
House Appropriations Committee
George Moffett
Chillicothe
House
Moffett
Thugs Steal Free Soap Display in Odessa Incident
Odessa director of Texas Raindeer Bill O Keefe reported thieves took a free soap display from 814 N Texas over the weekend. The display included 100 bars and 24 boxes of soap, laid out for photography, and the Sunday night theft left the public giveaway unsettled.
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Odessa
Bill O’keefe
Texas Raindeer
Texas
O’keefe
Rube Goldberg Type Accident Hurts Soldier
Corporal Raul M. Menzer of Newburgh New York wounded when a Communist mortar shell exploded near him in a frontline bunker. A rifle rack snapped downward discharging a rifle which struck an iron ceiling support. A separate item notes a $775000 loan to Sam Houston Electric Cooperative Livingston Texas approved by the Rural Electrification Administration.
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Menzer
Washington
Sam Houston Electric Cooperative
Livingston, Tex
Rural Electrification Administration
Shattering the iron injures Manzer in shocking play
A fragment describes a brutal play where a sharp piece shatters iron and pierces Menzer shoulder, leaving readers startled by the on field accident.
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Menzer
Four Cadets Charged With Hotel Theft
Four Texas A M College ROTC cadets were fined 250 dollars each in Louisville. They faced charges after allegedly robbing two hotel rooms last month while stationed at Fort Knox. Names include John Schafer 20 Houston Irvin Keller 21 San Antonio Gordon Zuber 21 Abilene Clifford Smith 22 El Paso. Sentences of one year each were suspended.
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Louisville
Texas A&m College
John Schafer
Houstony
Irvin Keller
San Antonio
Gordon Zuber
Abilene
Clifford Smith
Elpore
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Fort Knox
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Frank Fairlamb
Iona A. Blair
U. S
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Dial
Henderson
Prescription
North Grant
Pho
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Texes
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Korea
Raul M. Menzer
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