Farmer relates ginning years in Delta County Texas
Cecil Basham recalls 27 years in cotton ginning at Charleston Gin and Noble Co-Op Gin. He describes wage, old methods, and the shift from hand picking to mechanical strippers and pickers as chemicals and fertilizers evolved since the 1930s.
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Pacio
Delta County
Tex
Cecil Basham
Charleston
Basham
Noble
Lamar County
Paolo
Ralph
Bashams
Fair directors buy new ride for the State Fair
The State Fair of Texas directors decided to purchase the Swiss Sky Ride at Fair Park for 300000 dollars. The ride, installed in 1964 by Paul Rogers, grossed 114400 this year and was shipped to Dallas from Switzerland after factory price of 220000 and 230000 for transportation duty and installation.
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Dallas
State Fair of Texas
Fair Park
Paul Rogers
Switzerland
DPS codes vast felon records for cross state searches
Austin AP reports the Department of Public Safety has coded and key punched 168,979 criminal records on felons for storage. The tapes go to Central Texas College in Killeen for Project Search System to aid law enforcement cross state identifications.
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Austin
Department of Public Safety
Central Texas College
Killeen
Mexico Bans Siesta, Orders Continuous Working Hours in 1944
The Mexican government in 1944 officially banned the siesta custom of midday business stoppage and decreed continuous working hours. Authorities mandated uninterrupted daytime labor to boost productivity and economic activity across the nation.
Seminary Receives $750,000 Gift for New Children's Building
Fort Worth Texas AP The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary was given 750000 the largest single grant in its history by a donor described as a friend of the seminary. The fund will finance construction and equipping of a children's building named for President Robert E Naylor.
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Fort Worth, Tex
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Robert E. Naylor
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Fair
DPS
Siesta Ban
Reeves County
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A. B. Nail
Mrs. Pearl Barker
Estelle Clinton
J. E
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Eva Grammer
Jane Ross
J. F. Hightower
Justice OF Peace
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Essenwine
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