Childs Food Stores to Move General Offices to Shreveport
The general offices of Childs Food Stores Inc and its wholesale unit Childs Grocery Co will relocate to the new Shreveport headquarters in February, aligning with the firm’s plan to centralize operations near its expanding retail stores. The Shreveport site will house 28,000 square feet of offices and will be part of a larger Food Distribution Center with 179,000 square feet of warehouse space and 40,000 square feet for a Super Market. The perishable division will be finished by April 15, 1957, with dry grocery and home center divisions moving in by August 1957. until then Jacksonville remains the home base for those units.
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Childs Food Stores, Inc
Childs Grocery Co., Inc
Jacksonville
Shreveport
Alvin Childs
Childs
Ark-La- Tex
Childs Food Distribution Center
Thos C Halbert Rites Held at Rocky Springs Church
Thomas Cleve Halbert 73 longtime Rusk resident died Sunday at Guys Nursing Home near Jacksonville. Funeral services were Monday at Rocky Springs Church with Rev J M Thomas officiating. Interment in Rocky Springs Cemetery. Survived by two daughters Thelma Hunter and Tracy Pearman two sons Joel and Warren plus five grandchildren.
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Thomas
Cleve) Halbert
Rusk
Guys Nursing Home
Jacksonville
Rocky Springs Church
Dialville
J. M. Thomas
Alto Baptist Church
Rocky Springs Cemetery
T. Allen
Alto
Joel Halbert
Crockett
Warren C Halbert
Los Angeles
Cal
Texas Baptist churches set $200000 offering for six children's homes
Rev Lonnie Webb says First Baptist Rusk and Calvary Baptist will take a Sunday offering November 25 to support 1046 dependent children in six Texas Baptist homes. The facilities include Buckner Home Dallas with 620 youths and Buckner Ranches Burnet Breckenridge Beeville San Antonio Round Rock and more.
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Texas Baptist Churches
Lonnie Webb
First Baptist Church
Rusk
First Church
Calvary Baptist Church
Buckner Orphans Home
Dallas
Buckner Boys’ Ranch
Burnet
Buckner Girls’ Ranch
Breckenridge
Mexican Baptist Orphanage
San Antonio
South Texas Children's Home
Beeville
Texas Baptist Children’s Home
Round Rock
Texas Baptist Homes
Hill Country Texas Deer Management Prospects
The Hill Country of Texas could become an ideal deer country, yielding many quality animals for hunters and profits for land owners. Effective deer management requires proper grazing, invasive plant control, and sustained year to year crop yields.
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Texas
Salem Bulah Home Demonstration Club Plans Christmas
The Salem Bulah Home Demonstration Club met November 20 at 1 30 p m in Mrs Lonnie Spivey home with 13 members present and one visitor Miss Dorothy Hassell Also Mrs R L Murphey a former member attended Crafts to be taught June July August include ceramics copper tooling leather tooling aluminum tooling basket weaving knitting and pressed flowers. Family Night report noted a small turnout but a pleasant fellowship at Bulah School House November 16 with good food and laughter
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Salem-Bulah
Lonnie Spivey
Tommie Martin
Carl Rogers
Dorothy Hassell
R. L. Murphey
Martin
Mart Hassell
Bulah
Club Christmas Party Plans and Charity Penny Drive
The ladies group discussed a December 4 meeting at Bulah Community hosted by Mrs. Carvel Hendricks. Attendees will bring handmade or purchased gifts under 50 cents, plus cookies, with punch and coffee provided. Each member will give a birthday penny and the club will give a small gift up to 25 cents. Mrs. Hassell demonstrated Christmas gift wrapping and decorations. Refreshments included Lady Baltimore Cake Lazy Susan Cake and fruit punch served by hosts Mrs. Spivey and Mrs. Hassell.
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Carvel Hendricks
Bulah
Mart Hassell
Lady Baltimore
Spivey
Frank Sewall Place Identified as Mystery Farm
Last week's Mystery Farm No 12 has been identified as the Frank Sewall farm near Dialville. The 182 acre property is owned by Sheffield Division of Armco Steel Corporation which bought it from Dr and Mrs D B Williamson of Jacksonville. Three rent houses stand on the land and tenants may farm it.
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Guy Chapman
Leo Conwell
Sheffield Steel
Frank Sewall
Dialville
Sheffield Division
Armco Steel Corporation
D. B. Williamson
Jacksonville
Thelma Jones Attends Texas Red Cross State Convention
Thelma Jones, coordinator of Volunteer Services for Rusk State Hospital, spoke at the first Texas Unit American Red Cross State Convention in Dallas November 16 17 1956. Her address covered What Volunteer Service Means to Mental Patients. The gathering drew 700 attendees and plans for a 1957 Galveston meeting were announced. Mr and Mrs R W Nolley of Houston visited the Alex Blacks last week.
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Thelma Jones
Red Cross
Dallas
Rusk State Hospital
Texas
American Red Cross
Baker Hotel
Gray Ladies
Nurse’s Aid
Motor Corps
Veteran’s Hospital
Galveston
Colorado Tops U.S. by Highest Average Altitude
A claim states Colorado has the highest average altitude above sea level of any state. The second sentence declares libel as written abuse, highlighting a legal warning about defamatory writing.
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Colorado
Kerr Area Tour Planned Soon
Kerr County officials announce open house tours of the Kerr wild life management area to showcase demonstrated modern game management. The program, tied to fall deer season harvests, aims to show joint use of land for livestock and wildlife and to support Hill Country economic prospects.
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Kerr Wildlife Management Area
Game and Fish Commission
Commission
Kerr County
Kerr Area
Also Mentioned on This Page
Thos. C. Halbert
Rocky Springs
Spencer Tracy
Robert Wagner
Techaic
Ser Man
Buffalo Bill
Esther Williams
George Nader
Technicolor
Payne
Zero Food Locker
Cherokee Theatre
OOOO
Robert Ryan
Anita Ckberg
Rod Steiger
Phyllis Kirk
Buckner
Salem-Bulah H. D. Club
Mystery Farm
R. W. Nolley
Houston
Alex Blacks
Dren
Jack Nichols
Rusk & Vicinity
Northwestern National Life Ins. Co
Southwestern Abstract Co
Power Giants
H. P. V& Engines
DODGE
NEW Town Panel
Martin Motor Coq
North Main Street
Chrysler - Plymouth - Dodge
Rusk, Texas
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