Texas Retail Sales Jump in May Amid Broad Gains
May retail sales in Texas rose 3 percent from April after seasonal adjustment. Durable goods up 7 percent and auto sales 16 percent, with furniture showing a 22 percent May rise. Building permits up 2 percent from May 1961 and 14 percent from April, as autos and farm goods fueled the surge.
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Austin
Texas
UT Bureau of Business Research
House of Representatives
W. T. Dungan
Mc. Kinney
Dallas
House
Amarillo
Will Wilson
J. W. Edgar
County Atty
John Lawdon
Denton
Jim George
Justice of the Peace
George
Bill F Griffin Jr
Center
Mack Wallace
Athens
National Guard
Calvary VBS Opens at Calvary Baptist July 9
Vacation Bible School starts Monday at Calvary Baptist Church and runs through July 18 with sessions daily from 8 30 to 10 30. Mrs Bill Draper is principal and department superintendents include Mrs Milton Fletcher Nursery Mrs Hazel Farrow Beginner Mrs Shelby Hood Primary and Mrs Gene Yarbrough Juniors.
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Calvary Baptist Church
Bill Draper
Milton Fletcher
Hazel Farrow
Shelby Hood
Gene Yarbrough
United Gas Announces New Statement Form for Rusk Area
United Gas in the Rusk area will start issuing a new type statement in July. Oran A. Spence says the card will show all pertinent bill information and require customers paying by mail to write the account number on checks. The East Texas Division, headquartered in Jacksonville, will distribute the first statements this month to customers in Jacksonville Longview Marshall and Nacogdoches. The change follows installation of a modern processing machine to speed account handling and improve service as the program expands to over 600000 Gulf South customers by year end 1962.
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United Gas
Rusk
Oran A. Spence
United
East Texas
Jacksonville
Longview
Marshall
Nacogdoches
Spence
Texas
Gulf South
Health Tips For School Children
Early this fall more than 238000 young Texans start private and public school for the first time. A complete physical exam, eye check, and dental work should be done before enrollment. Ensure immunizations and booster doses, proper sleep, nutrition, and a relaxed family mealtime routine. A birth certificate may be required. send details to the Texas Health Department.
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Texas
Rites Read For Mrs. Maness
Mrs. Lilla Edna Maness was laid to rest at Atoy Cemetery after services at First Methodist Church Rusk officiated by Rev. Jewel McClure. She died Friday night at her son's home on Hospital Street. Surviving are three sons Jewel Rusk K E Maness Waco Wyatt Maness Longview one daughter Syble Singletary Tyler two brothers Nugent White Paris Frank White Dallas fourteen grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren.
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Lilla Edna Maness
Atoy
First Methodist
Rusk
Jewel McClure
Jewel Maness
Longview
Syble Singletary
Tyler
Nugent White
Paris
Frank White
Dallas
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Jewel of
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Waco
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