Legislative Focus Shifts to Insurance and Education Reform
In Austin investigations and appointments dominate as a House committee probes the ICT Insurance Co. in receivership while proposals for tighter insurance regulation and a broad set of education bills gain traction. Reports detail stockholder losses, regulatory measures, and a push for new school funding mechanisms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
ICT Insurance Co
ICT
State Federation of Labor
BenJack Cage
Cage
James G. Cage
BenJack
House
Senate
Texas Press Association
Texas
Insurance Commission
Jack Welch
Marlin
TPA
Malnutrition Kills Dance Hall Queen Worth Half Million
Mrs Hulda Ford 83 once Alaska’s wealthiest woman and Fairbanks dance hall beauty died of an abdominal abscess linked to malnutrition. A loner who collected rags and junk, she built a fortune of about 500000 while living in shacks and abandoned buildings. Her tax records were a decade out of date.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairbanks
Alaska
Hulda Ford
Ford
Minneapolis
Internal Revenue Department
Grayson County Reports 1957 Voting Strength Surpasses Early Expectation
Final poll tax figures from Grayson County tax assessor-collector show 1957 voting strength of 13 716. Initial predictions to exceed 6 000 receipts were surpassed by late rushes and mail receipts delivering 10 016 receipts and 3 700 exemptions. The total falls 1 511 short of 1956 presidential year. Excludes residents over 60 outside Sherman and Denison without exemption certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grayson County
Iva Davidson
Sherman and Denison
Old Dobbin Didn't Have Any Lights
In Farmington New Mexico a 65 year old man was fined twenty dollars after a magistrate read a state police charge for drunkenness. The rider was drunk on horseback after dark with no lamps, fell into traffic and slept in the lane while the horse was described as sober and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmington, N. M
Notice to Creditors in the Estate of P J Waldrop
In Grayson County Texas the County Court granted Letters Testamentary to the executor on February 21 1957. Creditors must present their claims within the legal period to the executor at 517 West Texas Sherman Grayson Texas. Published in The Whitewright Sun February 28 March 7 14 and 21 1957.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. J. Waldrop
Grayson County
Texas
West
Sherman
County
Grayson
State of Texas
A. I. Gray
County Court
Nas
A. H. Gray
A. D
County Court of
Eustate
Easter Sherman
County of
State of
eNas
Executrix appointed in estate of A H Gray in Grayson County
Fay Frances Gray named executrix of the estate of A H Gray deceased by Grayson County Court on February 25 1957. All claims must be presented to the executrix at 417 East Sherman Grayson County Texas with proper formalities and dates published in The Whitewright Sun on February 2 March 7 14 and 21 1957.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fay Frances Gray
A. H. Gray
Whitewright Sun
Divorce Petition Served In Grayson County Case No 6307S
Court citation orders Howard M Prince to answer Bonnie Lois Prince in the 15th District Court of Grayson County Sherman by April 15 1957. The Second Amended petition filed February 28 1957 seeks divorce on grounds of cruel treatment with case number 6307S.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State OF Texas
Howard M. Prince
A. D
15Th District Court
Grayson County
Sherman
Texas
Bonnie Lois Prince
Earnest
Shirley Davis
Whitewright Sun
The Spice of Life and Sharp Punchlines
A collection of quips and jokes about marriage, law, and daily life. It includes a wife confronting a selfish husband with a life insurance barb, a lawyer’s call for acquittal, a fingerprinting child joke, and a pedestrian’s rights gag. An elderly couple’s quiet dispute ends with California retirement musings, and a hotel fire escape snafu yields a bath towel shocker.
Family quarrel over taking children to the zoo
A short exchange shows a wife asking her husband to take the children to the zoo. He refuses, saying the children must come and fetch them if they want the kids. The pair highlights a domestic dispute in a terse, humorous voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert
The Missing Husband and a Prize for the Bride
A wife describes her missing husband to the Missing Persons Bureau as tall and handsome. Her friend points out he is short and bald, prompting the wife to quip about a prize for the daughter’s suitor. The exchange teases a light wartime style mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missing Persons Bureau
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Vern Sanford
Texas Railroad Commission
U. S. Department of Agriculture
John C. White
Washington
Harold B. Parish
Taft
Truett Latimer
Abilene
University
Scott McDonald
Fort Worth
Wade Spilman
McAllen
F. W. Nietzsche
Farmer’s Comprehensive Liability
Stephens & Bryant
Insurance & Real Estate
Plymouth
Montgomery Motor Co
Dick Montgomery
Mer. & Co-Owner
Dodge-Plymouth
W. Main
Denison
Mama Firefly
Papa Firefly
Junior
Willie
California
Walker Pharmacy
Community Public
Service
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