Highway Commission unveils 20 million dollar road program
The Texas Highway Commission approved a 20 million dollar plan for rehabilitation and improvement of roads for 1958, following a 50 million dollar farm road boost for next year. The program covers 2,256 miles across 144 counties with paved shoulders on 634 miles at about 3.2 million. Allocations outline mileage and funding by district, highlighting safety and capacity gains.
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Austin u—The Highway Commission
Commission
Marshall Formby
D. C. Greer
Greer
Two Odessa Women Held In Midland County For Forgery
Two Odessa women Laura K Nickens 41 and Ruby Jackson 36 were jailed in Midland County on forgery and passing charges. Deputies arrested them at 312 L North Tom Green Odessa after Midland warrants. They recovered items valued at several hundred dollars believed bought with checks and a Midland merchant filed the case after a check was cashed.
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Odessa
Midland County
Ector County
Laura K. Nickens
Ruby Jackson
Tom Green
Midland
Negro Student Decline Noted In The South
Nashville Tenn southern school news reports a drop in Negro pupil percentages in most Southern and Border states since 1951 while overall public school enrollment rises. Declines reach 24 percent in Georgia, with increases in Alabama Arkansas Delaware Kentucky Maryland Missouri and Tennessee. Factors cited include Negro out-migration and booming white enrollment. One new desegregated district reported in November Kinta Oklahoma, bringing total desegregated districts to 726 of 3,008 biracial districts in the region.
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Nashville
Tenn
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Virginia
Texas
North Carolina
Oklahoma
West Virginia
Alabama
Arkansas
Delaware
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
Tennessee
Deep South
Supreme Court
Kinta
Border States
Lea County Expands Voting Precincts For Primary
Lea County will add 10 voting places in next spring's primary elections, increasing total precincts and sub-precincts to 36. Five new polling sites appear in Hobbs, three in Lovington, and one each in Jal and Eunice under a state law requiring split polling places when previous turnout exceeded 600.
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Lovington
N. M
Lea County
County Commission
Hobbs
Jal
Eunice
Taylor
Washington and Jefferson
Houston and Heitzer
Yarbro
Llano
Danish Explorer's Love Letters Stored by Royal Library
Dagmar Freuchen, renowned fashion illustrator and widow of explorer Peter Freuchen, reveals that copies of her late husband's love letters were sent to the Danish Royal Library. She notes Danes routinely have letters archived for 50 years posthumously. Dagmar studied art in Europe before moving to New York and her first husband died in World War II in the Pacific.
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Dorothy Roe
Associated Press
Dagmar Freuchen
Peter Freuchen
Seven Seas
Peter
Dagmar
Dane
America
Royal Library
Europa
New York
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