Obituary notes and local notices from Pilot Grove era
Obituaries for George W. Pope 85 and Mrs. Robert E. Morrow 83 appear alongside local life items from Pilot Grove and surrounding towns. Other brief items include bank leadership change J. T. McMillin at San Benito First National Bank, new moves to Texas City, and social events with the Katagree Bridge Club and Needlework Guild. The Pilot Grove News items reference marriages, showers, births, and a 4.01 inch rainfall.
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Marguerite Tree
J. T. McMillin
San Benito
Dangers of Home Dry Cleaning Warned by Health Officials
State Health Department records show Texans fatally killed in home accidents involving flammable cleaners and gases. Officials urge non explosive cleaners, outdoor use, and avoiding naptha or gasoline to reduce risk.
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Austin
State Health Department
Direct mail cancer screening pilot in Washington County Maryland
A pilot program in Washington County Maryland mails cervical cancer screening kits to women aged 30 to 45. Specimens are sent to Johns Hopkins University Gynecology for analysis and results go to the woman's physician. Dr. Hugh Davis promotes the test as an extra protection, not a substitute for regular care.
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Washington County
John Hopkins University
Denmark
Hugh Davis
Johns Hopkins
Maryland
Missing Book Call to Teach Economics in High Schools
The piece argues youths lack economic literacy with 62 percent believing government provides jobs and 52 percent wanting government ownership of key industries. It urges school boards to introduce economics courses in every high school to explain how a free competitive system actually enables ownership and prosperity.
Overnight Fame for Vaughn Meader Shifts to Las Vegas
One year after a Greenwich Village coffeehouse gig, Vaughn Meader now seeks 5000 dollars per night plus 60 percent of gross as his album The First Family racks up over 3 million copies. He headlines in Las Vegas this April at twenty thousand dollars weekly. The piece notes a moral about clever trapping and quotes the Alhambra’s circumference as two percent miles.
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Vaughn Meader
Phase II
New York
Greenwich Village
Meader
The
Show Biz
Meador
Las Vegas
Good Old Days In The Making
A Fort Worth Star Telegram retrospective notes how the winter of 1963 may be remembered as a harsh yet formative season. It recalls older winters, explains how crude heating and glazed streets defined the era, and predicts future generations will describe 63 as one of the toughest, a winter of record cold and widespread hardship.
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Ft. Worth
United States
Europe
Florida
Alaska
Fort Worth
Social Security Levy Surpasses Income Tax For Some Workers
With the new withholding rate for retirement insurance, some earners face higher Social Security deductions than income tax. A family with four children earning 4800 yearly pays 174 to Social Security and 150.80 in income tax. another with three children at 4000 pays 145 versus 119.60. The rate rose to 3 5/8 percent up to 4800, and management matches employee contributions, yielding seven and a quarter percent of payroll to the government.
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George W. Pope
A. J. Dillon
Davidson & Barbee
T. A. Taylor
Bonham
Clyde Craig
Texas City
W. H. King
Katagree Bridge Club
Neville Pierce
Waxahachie
Willie Ross
Robert E. Morrow
the Sun
Needlework Guild
Dorothy Hamilton
E. A. Douglas
R. R. Waldo
Gomer May
Ralph Sanders
Sidney Watson
Carl Reeves
O. L. Jones
C. W. Bryant Jr
Allen T. Short
Bob Sears
Clarence Pace
R. E. L. Binion
Sarah Binion
Pilot Grove
Frank Kitching
Elaine Kaiser
Fred Starr Jr
Amateene Rector
Whitewright
Haskell Sewell
Sherman
Bettie Currin
Roger Holcomb
Texas State Department of Health
U. S. Internal Revenue Service
NPH
Gomer and
Kirk May
North Travis
May
Medical Arts Clinic
N. Highland
Alhambra
Granada
Spain
Paul Cornelius
Chevrolet Trugk
Chevrolet
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Whitewright, Texas
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