Welfare Workers and Board Members Named in County
Welfare workers at the University of Chicago and Our Lady of the Lake college in San Antonio are noted along with Miss Davis’s limited graduate study. An advisory Child Welfare board appointed by the commissioners court includes Mrs. Jim Sweeney of San Benito and Mrs. Julia Laakso of the Los Fresnos Port Isabel district. The piece urges greater community support as more children require services. The anti trust division of the Justice Department voices concern over the merger movement among corporations, stated by Assistant Attorney Crenera Barnes.
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University of Chicago
Dé Leon
Schoo
Our Lady of the Lake College
San Antonio
Davis
School of Social Work
University of Texas
Commissioners’ Court
Jim Sweeney
San Benito
Julia Laakso
Los Fresnos
Port Isabel
Anti-Trust Division
Justice Department
Crenera Barnes
Brownsville Child Welfare Expands Work Across County
Cameron County’s Child Welfare unit, part of the State Department of Public Welfare, investigates neglect and abuse, arranges temporary foster care, and assists with adoptions only when legal custody rests with the court. Services extend to families, disabled children, and cooperation with Sunny Glenn Home and Valley Boye Ranch.
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Cameron County
State Department of Public Welfare
Socia
Sunny Glenn Home
Valley Boye Ranch
Bayview Road Improvement Underway on FM 732
Six miles of repair and widening work on Farm to Market Road 732 Bayview road begin at the county warehouse east of San Benito and extend to the railroad intersection north of Los Presnos Pavement is being retopped shoulders widened and two lanes expanded Ballenger Construction Company holds the project contract
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Bayview
San Benito
Los Presnos
Ballenger Construction Company
National Tobacco Use Falls After May Uptick
The National Tobac co Tax Research Council notes a May pickup halted a monthlong decline in national cigarette consumption. For the fiscal year ended June 30 the decline stood at 46 percent, less than the prior year.
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National
Toleco Tax Research Counncil
Square Dance Benefit For March of Dimes Planned
Valley square dancers invite participation in a March of Dimes benefit dance Saturday September 25 at Salon Brier Memorial Auditorium Brownsville. All proceeds go to the polio fund with outstanding callers from the Valley. Herbert Hoover Jr named Under-Secretary of State by President Eisenhower to succeed Gen Walter Bedell Smith who resigns for personal reasons.
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Valley Square
Salon Brier Memorial Auditorie
Brownsville
Herbert Hoover Jr
Eisenhower
Walter Bedell ‘Smith
Also Mentioned on This Page
James Graham
Roger Robinson
Luis de Leon
Miss Davis
Agnes Barber
Child Welfare Dept
Cameron Co
White House
Conference On Children and Youth
Harry Lewis
J. G. Cochrane
la Feria
The
Child Welfare Board
Bayview Road
Ped Hunt
Buletins
Field Books
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