Labor Secretary Sets Regulations On Farm Housing
Texas farmers must prove adequate housing for interstate farm labor under new Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell rules. The Texas Employment Commission now requires housing conforming to sanitary codes, separate facilities for female workers, and payment of prevailing wages and transportation costs. Domestic workers can be used if available, but out-of-state hires must meet standards and be certified.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Employment Commission
James P. Mitchell
TEC
Henry LaBlanc
Mitchell
LaBlanc
Soot from Cleveland plant sold to cement firms
Soot collected from the Municipal Light and Power Plant in Cleveland is sold to out-of-state cement companies for use in their products. The city earned $10,000 from these sales last year.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Retired military pay to reach 3 billion a year by late 1960s
The Defense Department estimated annual retirement pay will hit 3 billion dollars after 1975 as World War II veterans reach retirement age. Current costs are 700 million yearly, rising to 1.0 billion by 1965 and 1.5 billion by 1968 or 1969, with the total leveling near 3 billion later.
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Washington
Defense Department
J. A. Wylie
House
Wylie
Navy
Marine Corps
Local Classifieds Listings Include Tires and Services
Classified ads offer farm hay at 50c a bale and tire deals from Edwards Chevrolet and Whitewright Motor Co. Ford brake shoes installed for 17.95. Tax service by Floyd Bassett nearby Phillips Grocery. Re capped tires priced at 11.50 with various 14 inch sizes.
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Whitewright Motor Company
Automobile prices in local classified listings from 1955
Freemen offers a 1955 Chev half ton pickup for 695 dollars. A 1953 Studebaker is listed at 295 dollars. A 1953 Ford is priced at 165 dollars. The combined asking price shown is 495 dollars.
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Ford
Studebaker
Regents ban Young Democrats on Texas State Teachers campuses
The Young Democrats of Texas criticized regents ruling to remove all Young Republican clubs from Texas State Teachers colleges. Sam Houston State Club spokesman Bill Stinson said campus meetings were blocked as political in nature. The group scheduled its April convention in Houston.
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Houston
Texas State Teachers Colleges
Young Democrats of Texas
Regents
Sam Houston State Club
Bill Stinson
Whitewright Texas Announces City Election for 1960
The mayor of Whitewright Texas R R Summers orders an election on April 5 1960 to elect a mayor. The vote will be held in the City Hall Election Room with R C Vestal as judge and the city secretary to attest the notice. The post should be displayed thirty days before the election.
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The
Sun
Whitewright
R. R. Summers
Texas
City of
R. C. Vestal
Harold Doss
Doctor patient debate over medicine ads on TV
In a witty exchange the patient questions doctors on eight sinus cavities and fast relief remedies while mocking TV advertising and claiming medical knowledge from watching ads. The dialog contrasts home care, pills, and the influence of televised medical pitches.
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M. D
Doc
Crime Mobile drew 194 906 visitors in 1959
Texas Law Enforcement Foundation reports the Crimemobile tour reached 194 906 people across 63 Texas cities, traveling 11 786 miles to showcase crime fighting gear.
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Austin
Texas Law Enforcement Foundation
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Whitewright Sun
Sam Rayburn
Dean Martin
Joe M. Joiner
Iva Davidson
George Schumacher
Frank Westbrook
Russell R. Summers
Linda Theatre
Whitewright, Texas
Tonite
FBI
James Stewart
Vera Miles
Sterling Hayden, Zachary Scott and
Yvonne DeCarlo
Walt Disney
Michael Rennie
Janet Munro
James MacArthur
James Donald
United States
North and
South America
Johnson
Joe Johnson
South Bend Street
Sears Street
Paul Stephens
Edwards Chevrolet Co
Johnson Jewelry & Appliances
Johnson Jewelry & Appliance
Hannah’s
H. H. Taylor
Guy Hamilton
Alton McDowell
Highway 160
Stephens & Bryant
Bonham
Billy Waggoner
Hurst Barber Shop
Anna
G. A. Hurst
U. S
Whitewright Motor Co
Income Tax Service
Floyd Bassett
Phillips Grocery
Dixon Garage & Wrecking Yard
L. B. Burns
Church of Christ
Grit Thompson
McKelva Mattress Factory
N. Center St
Bonham, Texas
Chevrolet
Buick
Tudor
J. A
Alexander
W. Houston
Sherman
the Sun
State of Texas
Grayson
M. D. Or TV
May Pharmacy
Gomez and Ki K May
Ee UA
Lokey Edwards
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