Christmas Programs At Local Churches
Churches offered Christmas programs last week including Sunday school class events and children’s activities. The Central Christian Church presented the White Gifts pageant with a free will offering for Juliet Fowler Home, Dallas. Methodist Church collected for the Methodist home, Waco, at morning service. First Baptist screened The Life of Christ and The Night Before Christmas in the evening.
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Central Christian Church
Juliet Fowler
Dallas
Methodist
Waco
First Baptist Church
Liquor Control Plan Proposed for Texas Schools
A former war labor board official proposes a state liquor monopoly to fund public education in Texas. Thomas H. McKee estimates $25 million yearly, with 90 percent for vocational schools delinquency centers new buildings teacher raises and scholarships. The plan would end private sales in wet counties and create state stores. He sent the letter to Gov elect Jester and all county superintendents.
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Dallas
War Labor Board
Beauford H. Jester
Texas
Thomas H. McKee
McKee
Jester
Boards of Education
Many Companies Drop Car Insurance in 1946
Audits of 1946 project 40 000 traffic fatality victims. higher repair costs and car values push loss costs up. Insurance losses from increased accident frequency drive higher rates. Even with higher rates, several Texas and other state insurers have stopped writing automobile insurance.
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Texas
Crop Subsidies Eyed Because of Big Yield
Washington reports that 1946 crop production reached a record level, 26 percent above the 1923-32 pre- drought average and 2 percent above the 1942 high, increasing the likelihood the government will earmark large sums for price support next year.
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Washington
Thegriculture Department
Spinach crop to surge this winter in the United States
The Department of Agriculture announced a bumper spinach harvest for winter, with Texas supplying 100 car loads daily next month and California and Louisiana also major producers. The total crop is projected at 7,550,000 bushels.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Texas
California
Louisiana
$1.10 Oranges Bringing Growers Only Four Cents Lament
Washington note reports Austin E. Anson from the Rio Grande Valley finding a pearl in oysters yet lamenting that a dozen oranges selling at up to $1.10 in cities yields only four cents to growers. He calls the pricing paradox “screwy” while noting fruit is cheap at the grove but expensive at the grocer.
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Valley
Washington
Austin E. Anson
Rio Grande Valley
America
Anson
Guilloud Wins Election Contest in Grayson County
In Sherman, Grayson County precinct 4 votes were ruled illegal, affecting the November 5 race. Judge Robert S. Vance upheld Guilloud as commissioner elect with 283 votes to McKinney's 266 after the contested totals, with 549 ballots deemed valid and 390 invalid. Pottsboro, Gordonville, Preston and Hagerman saw partial vote reductions, while Sandusky Locust Red Branch and Rock Creek boxes remained unchanged.
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Pottsboro
Guillaud
McKinney
Gordonville
Preston
Hagerman
Sandusky
Locust
Red Branch
Rock Creek
Record $29 Billion In Circulation Sets New Peak
The nation’s money in circulation topped $29.019 billion last week, a first in history, equating to about $207 per person on a population of 140 million. Analysts note brisk turnover as citizens engage in Christmas buying and business activity recovers from the coal strike impact.
Star of the East Poem Prayer for Bethlehem
The poem speaks of the Star of the East guiding wise men to the Child in Bethlehem. It imagines angels and a tender grace that cheers Earth’s loneliest places, urging seekers to offer gifts and hearts to the Child in Bethlehem.
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Syrian Hill
Earth
Star of the East
Bethlehem
Vet Bonus Urged As Less Expensive
Omar B. Ketchum of the Veterans of Foreign Wars says taxpayers will spend 20 billion dollars or more under the GI Bill of Rights and fewer than half of World War II veterans will receive substantial benefits. He argues for a federal veteran bonus in the January issue of VFW National News.
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Washington
Omar B. Ketchum
Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
VFW National News
Don’t Overeat Don’t Overheat Doctor Advises
Dr George W Cox state health officer warns against excess during Christmas urging caution with eating crowded home conditions and overheated rooms. He says maximum pleasure comes to those practicing pre cautional living.
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Austin
George W. Cox
Sun Honor Roll of Recent Subscriptions
The Sun lists subscribers and renewals since last Thursday on the honor roll, with many names including W. H. Biggerstaff, Edward Kent III, Luther Gordon, Mrs. D. M. Taylor, J. Doyle Withrow, Roy Below, Robert B. Allison, M. D. Oliver, Guy Allen and others, as January 1 renewal window nears.
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The
Sun
W. H. Biggerstaff
Wm. Fleming
Edward Kent III
Hi-Way Grocery
D. M. Taylor
Luther Gordon
H. E. Sanderson
Clarence Rine
W. B. Head
J. Doyle Withrow
Jim Bilmner
Elvin Petty
Jack Nossaman
W.C. Brown Jr
R. E. Simpson
M. D. Oliver
Guy Allen
Texas Employment Shows Increase Texas Employment Shows Increase
Texas manufacturing payroll rose to 328 900 in November, up 4 percent from October and 16 700 from November last year, per University of Texas Bureau of Business Research. Food manufacturing led with 71 400 workers, up 15 percent from October and 17 percent year over year. stone other sectors dipped 3 percent month to month but up 22 percent over the year with 9 400 workers.
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Austin
Texas
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Cotton ginnings reach 7.78 million bales by Dec 13
The Census Bureau reports 7,782,862 running bales ginned from the 1946 crop before December 13, with round bales counted as half. Last year by this date ginnings were 7,727,523 and in 1944 they reached 10,523,396. Texas ginnings this year stood at 1,557,883 versus 1,675,932 last year.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Texas
Naval limits under 1921 pact bound ships to 35000 tons
The world naval agreement of 1921 restricted combatant warships to a maximum size of 35000 tons, a cap later abrogated by subsequent actions and treaties.
Rolls Royce price boost by a little announced
Rolls Royce makers say prices have risen a little, with increases ranging from 906.75 to 1411.25 dollars. The new price for the limousine is 17639.31 dollars. Salmon are noted to travel hundreds of miles weekly.
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London
The Sun Christmas Edition Goes To Press
The Sun announces a Merry Christmas edition pressed on Monday to reach subscribers before the holiday. Along with Wright business institutions the paper extends season greetings and wishes happiness during the holidays. The next issue will publish January 2.
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the Sun
Whitewright
Eisenhower backs Democrats in 1909 speech
Gen Dwight D Eisenhower, then 19, told Dickinson County Democrats in Abilene Kansas on November 9 1909 that the Democratic party deserves the vote of the intelligent young man. The wartime general has since denied any political ambition and has never voted.
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Kansas City
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Democratic Party
Eisenhower
Dickinson County Democrats
Abilene, Kan
Letters to Santa From Orville and Dora Head
Two childhood letters to Santa request toys and treats. Orville Head asks for a scooter checker set football gun holster animal set fruits and candy and includes his family. Dora Ann Head asks for a box of candy a doll mittens a scooter and more for herself and her siblings and parents.
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Santa
Orville B. Head
Dora Ann Head
Navy backs universal training to replace draft
Navy officers told the National Security Committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars that a universal military training law should compel one year of continuous training for boys aged 17 to 20. The plan would replace the selective service act set to expire next March.
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Washington
The
Navy
National Security Committee
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Contractor Finds Lost $5600 in Texarkana
TEXARKANA. Christmas for the Ed Forrests will be brighter after Ed, a local contractor, recovered $5,600 saved from wartime earnings. He hid the cash in his garage, then lost it after a tire and a long carpentry job delayed him. The money was found later under a warehouse structure where he worked, weathered but intact, and is now back in the bank.
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Texarkana
Ed Forrests
Forrest
Forrests
Travelers carry own fire escape
In Atlanta hotel crowds and traveling men prepare for fires after the Winecoff blaze. Many buy long ropes up to 250 feet and plan to carry them wherever they stay. A dealer said a man will travel with a rope suitcase and another shop reported selling about 1,000 feet of rope daily.
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Atlanta
Youngster Prods Santa's Memory In Illinois Store
A Springfield boy challenged Santa at a department store saying he forgot coffee and doughnuts left for him last year. The playful moment showed Santa being stumped as he tried to recall details. The incident highlights holiday cheer and public interest in Santa appearances.
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Springfield
Ill
Santa Claus
Bijapur Fort: A Glimpse of India's Impregnable Stronghold
The fortress city of Bijapur in India stood as one of the era’s most impregnable strongholds, famed for its formidable defenses and historic strategic significance in ancient Indian conflicts.
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Bijapur
India
Automobile Party To Draw Big Crowd On Christmas Eve
Whitewright Post 225 plans the largest Christmas Eve crowd for an American Legion automobile party to raise funds for a new recreation center. The event starts at 4 30 p.m. in the downtown district with a 12 45 p.m. Santa Claus parade by local groups and a 2 p.m. Bryant Field football game between a Whitewright Legion/VFW team and a Belis squad of Legion players.
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Whitewright
American Legion
Whitewright Post No
Legion Recreation Center
Booster Club
Bryant Field
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Belis
1947 Model Cars Change Minimal in Detroit
Detroit reports that 1947 passenger cars will largely resemble 1946 models as automakers avoid major upgrades due to 1946 losses and weak demand. Pilot models show only minor changes in front fender curves grille details hub cap design and instrument layout, with GM delaying dies for 1948 vehicles.
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Detroit
General Motors
Grayson County Receives 2000 Dollar Refund From Engineers
Six counties in Texas and Oklahoma were told by the U S Engineers district in Tulsa that 25 percent refunds on grazing revenue from Lake Texoma would be issued for 1945 under the flood control act. Col. C H Chorpening announced funds to Richard C Pyle, noting Grayson County got 2036.67, down from 3675.75 in 1944.
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Texas
Oklahoma
U. S. Engineers’ District
Tulsa
Lake Texoma
Col. C. H. Chorpening
Denison
Richard C. Pyle
Pyle
Grayson County
Runyon's Ashes Scattered Over Times Square Shock
Damon Runyon’s ashes were scattered over Manhattan from an airplane above Times Square. His son Damon Jr. said Runyon left instructions to spread the ashes over the island he loved. Captain Eddie Rickenbacker tilted the urn as the plane passed.
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New York
Damon Runyon
Broadway
Times Square
Runyon
Damon Jr
Manhattan
Eddie Rickenbacker
Banana Prices Rise As Health Trend Shifts Demand
New York reports bananas once seen as a poor man's fruit have become costly as doctors and dietitians promote their health benefits. Imports now average 65 percent of prewar volume with prices high. Attendant correction expected by midsummer 1947.
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New York
Eight elections hold no wet day changes in Texas
Eight elections on the sale of alcoholic beverages across Texas counties failed to alter status on election day. Four counties Camp Montgomery Titus and Angelina voted to stay dry while four other counties or precincts chose to continue sales of alcoholic beverages.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Liquor Control Board
Camp
Montague
Titus
Angelina
Birds with concealed nests lay white eggs
In general, birds that hide their nests produce white eggs. This observation notes a common pattern across various species, highlighting nest concealment as a potential factor in egg coloration.
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Merry Christmas
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