Boyce House Hopes To Be Texas Lieutenant Governor
Fort Worth residents, led by Boyce House and his wife, campaign on a down to earth Texas persona. The journalist and lecturer, known for Texas tales, emphasizes dedication to teachers, juvenile delinquency, and democratic renewal while expressing confidence in election.
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Boyce
Fort Worth
House
Brunet
Nora Lee Jamison
Park Ridge
Eastland
Republic
West
Texas
Noah
Alpine
Brownwood
Uvalde
Carlton Faulk
Jacksonville
Fla
Vivian House
Washington, D. C
Dallas
Tom C. King
Probe Demanded Of Belden Poll
Dallas resident Paul Mills son of lieutenant governor candidate Larry Mills calls for a full federal probe into the Belden Poll claiming it misreported results for Jester Rainey Pat Neff Price Daniel Boyce House and Allan Shivers. He cites Harold Higgins Young of the Commerce Department saying the poll cost his father votes and urges a federal law banning such polls. A second item notes 1937 US chemical industry research spending at 4.3 per cent of sales versus 0.5 per cent for steel and 0.4 per cent for petroleum.
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Dallas
Paul Mills
Larry Mills
News
President Truman
Belden
Mills
Jester
Rainey
Pat Neff
Price Daniel
Boyce House
Allan Shivers
Harold Higgins Young
United States Department of Commerce
Texas
Amendment election proclaimed for Nov 2
Gov. Coke Stevenson announced a special election on November 7 for a constitutional amendment to create a veterans land buying program. The measure would authorize a land board to supervise sales to ex service members using loans and up to 25 million dollars in bonds at low interest, funded by state loans.
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Austin
Coke Stevenson
Stevenson
Atty
Grover Sellers
Supreme Court
Veterans Land Board
Texas Bonded Debt Exceeds 600 Million
Texas governmental subdivisions will end the fiscal year August 31 with bonded indebtedness well above 600 million dollars. New debts this year almost offset a 108.6 million decline over five years. Last year counties cities districts and the state collected 162.4 million, over one sixth of the total debt. State Auditor Cavness estimates property valuation above 10 billion, with assessed value about half that.
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Austin
Texas
Cavness
Girdles At Dallas Store Priced At 97.50
A Dallas department store today advertised girdles for women at 97.50 each. The ad, aiming for figure engineering, notes the prewar 1.95 girdle term. The fancy girdles were purchased in France.
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Dallas
France
Falls Then Talks Hears First Time in 62 Years
SEATTLE Claude Berger a deaf mute for 62 of his 65 years could talk and hear his own voice after a fall at the army service forces depot Captain Rosario Sacco surgeon said muteness traced to childhood shock not scarlet fever and sudden fall shock restored hearing and speech witnesses called it a miracle
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Seattle
Wash
Claude Berger
Berger
Citation for seizure of land in Denison Texas 1946
The State of Texas issues a citation to T. J. Calhoun deceased and unknown heirs to appear by 10 A M on the first Monday after 42 days from issuance, September 2 1946, before the Grayson County District Court in Sherman. Plaintiff Mary E. Lyday Fuller et al seeks title and possession of Lots 9, 10, 11 and 12, Block 28, Dumas Addition to Denison on Paw Paw Creek.
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State of
Texas
T. J. Calhoun
District Court of
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Mary E. Lyday Fuller
Denison
Paw Paw Creek
I. C. Belcher
Dumas
A. D
S. V. Sarnest
Nancy Drake
Half of Texas 1945 Taxes Paid By Oil Industry
Dallas report shows the Texas oil industry paid 52.2 percent of all state business and property taxes in 1945. Local governments drew about one third of their revenue from oil, with the industry paying 23 state and local taxes and 13 federal taxes. For the year ending June, crude production tax totaled 31,371,556 dollars, down from 33,590,211 dollars.
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Dallas
Texas
Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Assn
Association
Texoma Boat Accident Basis for Court Suit
A Grayson County Bar Association picnic on Lake Texoma July 6 led to a lawsuit. Sherman attorney Roy G. Baker is defendant in a $3,735 damage suit filed in Fifteenth District Court by J. K. Hundley of Hundley Boat Co. Hundley says his inboard motor boat sank after an explosion while Baker operated it without permission. Damages seek loss of boat clothing and other items including a $200 billfold.
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Grayson County Bar Association
Lake
Texoma
Roy. G. Baker
Sherman
Fifteenth District Court
J. K. Hundley
Hundley Boat Co
Hundley
Baker
Sterling home given to Houston Optimist clubs
Former Governor and Mrs. Ross Sterling announced they have given their $1,000,000 Galveston Bay home to the three Optimist Clubs of Houston as a boys home. The clubs plan a $500,000 development fund. The 20 room, three story building sits two miles southeast of La Porte on the bay, twenty-two miles from Houston.
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Houston
Ross Sterling
Galveston Bay
la Porte
Bay
WAC Letter Challenges German Starvation Propaganda
Violet Williams writes from occupied Germany that Germans are well fed and clothed, contradicting home reports of famine. She describes enjoying comforts, observing well-off German children, and notes disapproval of German conduct and relations with GIs. She warns readers not to trust starvation stories and expects to return home soon.
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Gilmer Mirror
WAC
Violet Williams
James
J. W. Williams
Europe
Germany
Kobe Steel Mill Workers Endorse 24 Hour Week Strike
In Kobe Japan workers at the steel mill began a new strike method a 24 hour week. Unable to secure special food payments the union declared a strike but kept men on the job four hours daily six days a week.
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Kobe
Japan
White Rubber Overboots Break Old Color Barrier
A new white powdery material for rubber compounds matches carbon black, enabling rubber overshoes to be produced without the traditional black color, signaling a shift in pigment use and product appearance.
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Chemical Industry
United States
Jackson
Whitewright
E. P
Edgel) Jackson
Precinct
Cannon
T. W. Ayres & Son
Carter
Falls
Ross Sterlings
Florence
John Norris
Emerson
R. I. Scott
Allen T. Short
Phone 100
Hannah's
Karo Maxey
Stephens & Bryant
J. K. Wells
Glen Earnheart
Rawleigh
Rawleigh's
Dept
Memphis
Tenn
Shelton
West Woodard Street
Ribbons—The Sun
Stafford
Universal Typewriter
West Woodard St
Calvin Raley
L. LaRoe & Co
Tom Barbee
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
J. L. Truett
Rics
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