Out of Control Car Crash Near Rusk Injures Three
A 1956 Buick went out of control on U.S. 69 north of Rusk while attempting to pass on a curve. Driver McCoy Duff and passenger Garrett Lee Lawson were taken to a Lufkin hospital, and 17 year old Carol Jean Allen of Maydelle was hospitalized in Jacksonville. The car overturned three or four times and was destroyed. Deputy Otho Black investigated the 9:20 p.m. crash.
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Rusk
Highway 69
Carol Jean Allen
Maydelle
Lufkin
McCoy Duff
Garrett Lee Lawson
Duff
Lawson
Miss Allen
Jacksonville
Otho Black
Black
SFA to Call for Bids on New Building Program
Stephen F. Austin State College will call for bids January 29 on a building program to construct a soils lab seed lab agriculture shop and warehouse. The project is valued at about $250000 and the maintenance warehouse will be remodeled into classroom space. The new warehouse will relocate to East College Street.
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Nacogdoches
Stephen F. Austin State College
Ralph Steen
East College Street
County renews delinquent tax collection contract
County Commissioners Court voted to extend a contract with attorneys Bob Adamson of Jacksonville and Jack McCreary of Austin to continue collecting delinquent taxes dating to 1919. They have recovered $82,000 in back taxes, with $70,000 to the county and $12,000 in fees.
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Bob Adamson
Jacksonville
Jack McCreary
Austin
McCreary
Adamson
J. W. Chandler
Trains For Police Work In Georgia
Army Pvt. Douglas R. Minton, son of Douglas Minton of Alto, Texas, completed eight weeks of military police training at Fort Gordon Georgia. He entered the Army in June 1962, finished basic training at Fort Ord California, and is a 1959 Yreka California High School graduate who attended the College of the Siskiyous in Weed California.
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Army
Douglas R. Minton
Douglas Minton
Alto Tex
U.S. Army Training Center
Fort Gordon
Minton
Fort Ord
Calif
Yrega
College of the
SWS Telephone Shows Hook Up Hike for 1962
In 1962 Southwestern States Telephone Co and Four States Telephone Co footed a 7 percent rise in Texas service adding 7 949 telephones across 76 exchanges. The parent company reported 113 650 Texas telephones by year end up from 82 798 in 1957.
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SWS
Brownwood
Texas
Southwestern States Telephone Co
Four States Telephone Co
Southwestern
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Cherokee County
BIG State Creamery
SFA
Prescription Department
Cartridge Drug Store
the County Commissioners
Chevrolet
Rusk, Texas
Georgia
P.S
United
Bauvers Pee Gil Doate
United Gas Lines
Easy Kelvinator Maytag Roper Suburban
Frigidaire
Kenmore
NORGE
Hamilton
Philco
Er United Gas
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