Woman Becomes San Antonio's First Woman Train Tagger
Mrs. Mary Fayn Riddick takes a historic post as San Antonio's first woman yard clerk and weighmaster, tagging and weighing railroad cars to direct wartime cargo. She works 2 to 10 p.m., crawls through cars by lantern, memorizes 69 destination codes, and has a father who is a 30-year Southern Pacific official.
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Mary Fayne Riddick
Southern
Pacific Yards
Interstateera Pacific
Commerce
Mary Fayn Riddick
San Antonio
Oregon
California
Riddick
Austin Street
England
Houston
Lone Fara
Mynthey
Oliver Mikesail
April Pension Average Up
April pension payments totaled 3.681 million dollars across three classes as checks reached 183 162 recipients. The average old age pension fell to 19.21 dollars with a four dollar cut from the recommended level due to funding limits while Blind rolls rose to 4308 and dependent children aid averaged 21.37 dollars per case.
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Austin
Department of, Public Welfare
French Tars Get Release
NEW YORK April 3 The 12 French castors who seized ships in war zones have been released for 4 dollars. They claimed their action aided De Gaulle supporters and hoped to enter Canada to join a De Gaulle unit. Their capture had involved transfers to allies for repairs and renovation.
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New York
Marcel
Bieishand
de Gaulle
Otrand
Canidae
de Gaulle Uni
Legislature Starts on Home Stretch
Austin April 3. The Texas legislature moves toward finishing within the 120 day limit as key appropriations bills pass the House and move to the Senate. Utilities and taxation debates dominate the week with the Lower Colorado and Guadalupe Blanco River authorities facing new profit-sharing requirements. Labor bills, pensions, liquor regulation, banking code rewrite, and child welfare funding were debated with mixed progress.
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Austin
INS
House
Shane
Gine Die
Meng
Senate
Representation Marshall
Bell
Colorado
Guadalupe-Blanco River
Doe Ed Wiifrer
Houston
Lora Dsard
Ebner
Bastrop
W. W. Roark
Temple
Stevenson
Roark
Staven
Durwood Manford
Gedy Hazel- Wood
Amarillo
U. S
W. Lee O'Daniel
Nice
Alquor
Renrk
Pat Divyer
Oly
Highway Patrol
Maury Maverick
Texas
Federal Administration
Bank Cove
Eenster
Josin Martin
Fort Worth
Benatar Weaver
Ktoora
Moustan
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Audiphone Oo
EMIS
Jim Antonio
Broadway
Fifth Sts
Langeat
U. B
Incod Jones
Legislature
J. W. Murchison
Pessian
Ange
Sears
Conor
Ates
Sears, Roebuck and
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