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totourist meetA conference designed to help develop the tourism potential of East Texas will be held in Nacogdoches Friday, Jan. 19. H. J. Shands .Jr., Lufkin banker and president of the newly organized Angelina County Development Association, will preside.State Rep. Joe Ratcliff of Dal-las, a member of the Texas Tourism Council, will be the leadoff speaker for the conference, His subject will be “The. Potential of Tourism in East Te*-: as.”5 men go for induction into Army in JanuaryFive men will go for induction into the Army in January, all Volunteers.Three from Upshur County will leave on January 17. They are: Harold T. Steed, Frank E. Poun-cy and Oscar Ray.From Wood County are Samson Ervin Grant and James L. Applegate. They leave on January 18.No men will be forwarded for physical examinations from Local Board No. 133 in January.A call for Induction has been received and three men will be sent for induction on February 20. No physical cali was received for February.I Next speaker will be Df, At* ! vin Wooten, professor of agricul-| tural economies at Texas AM j College. He will discuss laftd use in East Texas and its feeieation-al potentialLake development in the area and site leasing and recreational planning for McGee Bend Reservoir now under construction will be discussed by P. K. Mixon Of Fort Worth, a member of the planning section of the U. S. Corps of Engineers.Rounding out the mowing program will be James Willeford of Dallas, a member of the Community Inns Organization of A-merica. “A Program of Tourism in East Texas” will be his topic.Conference participants will reconvene in an afternoon session to hear- Donald Bush, landscape architect from Kansas City, Mo. Bush is a senior partner in the firm of Hare and Hare, nationally famous city, county and state site planners.Participating in an afternoon panel discussion will be four Texas architects with a variety ; of experience in restoration of historic sites and buildings. They are Hal B. Tucker of Nacog-HHfSTTi'iTTato'' '■ ~to Winnsboro’s , new1 111 HJ!MOTEL MANAGER and bookkeeper at the new Trade Winn Motel will be Mrs. June Tenni-son, of Dallas, who resides at the motel with her two children, Cindy, 13, and Donny, 11, students at nearby Memorialdoches, S. B. Zisman and Marvin Eichenroht of San Antonio, and j Eugene George of Austin.Herbert Wilson of Nacogdoches, manager of the community-owned Hotel Fredonia, will end the conference with a discussion of “The Community Motor Hotel’s Place in the Development of Tourism.”Hotel Fredonia has gained international fame for its success, and has given a tremendous boost to the tourist business in Nacogdoches.1 POSITWii York i sires will dt
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Winnsboro News
Winnsboro, Texas, US
Thu, Jan 18, 1962
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