American Legion Picnic Plans for Sherman and Denison
The American Legion announces a July 17 to 19 picnic in Sherman and Denison with Sherman Denison Night on July 18. Candidates Night opens the event with invited speakers including Lindley Beckworth and Reagan Brown, plus representation from Price Daniel and Sam Rayburn if possible.
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Sherman
Denison
American Legion
Earl Blanton
Legion Post
Chamber of Commerce
Freeman Carney
Denison Chamber
Good Neighbor Committee
Hugh Chestnut
Pottsboro
Bells
Grayson County
United States
Congress
Lindley Beckworth
Senate
Price Daniel
Sam _ Rayburn
Reagan Brown
Terrell
Polio Surges to New Texas Weekly High
Polio cases in Texas jumped to 206 for the week, 60 more than the prior week, setting a state record. State Health Officer George W. Cox urged strict sanitation and local health authorities received state personnel support as the annual total rose to 1,123.
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Austin
Texas
State Health Department
George W. Cox
Fair Trade Bill Clears Senate With 64 to 16 Vote
The Senate approved a fair trade bill allowing manufacturers to set minimum prices on brand-made goods by 64 to 16. Democratic Leader Earnest McFarland threatened an all-night session to push action, while opponents cited a possible presidential veto and the Justice Department opposed the measure. House already approved the law.
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Washington
D. C
Senate
Earnest W. McFarland
Arizona
Justice Department
House
Big Square Dance Planned at Bonham
Bonham Jaycees sponsor an open-air square dance on the west side of the square Saturday night July 5. Guest callers will join Mr and Mrs Jim Bybee at Lake Fannin. Dr J R Jackson JC president said thousands are expected.
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Bonham
Jim Bybee
Lake Fannin
Bonham Jaycees
J. R. Jackson
Safe and Sane Fourth of July in Texas
State Health Department warns to celebrate the national holiday safely. Dr George W Cox urges caution with fireworks and driving as roads will be crowded, stressing cleaning wounds and tetanus prevention and the need to obey ordinary precaution rules to protect life and health.
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Austin
Texas
State Department of Health
Geo. W. Cox
Live TV Arrives in Southwest Area Ahead of Schedule
Southwesterners tuned in Tuesday to live network television as coaxial cable and microwave links from American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and Southwestern Bell brought in the Democratic and Republican nominating conventions. The temporary setup runs until a permanent Kansas City to Southwest microwave system is finished, delivering live broadcasts six months early for Texas and Oklahoma.
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Southwest
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Chicago
Kansas City
Texas
Oklahoma
Roscoe Gillett New Rotary Proxy
New officers assumed duties at Fridays Rotary Club meeting with Roscoe A. Gillett as president and Jack Meador as vice president. Russell Summers remains secretary and Ed LaRoe treasurer. Board includes Hoover Kaiser Cummings. Guest speaker J Don Biggerstaff spoke of Lone Star Boys State. Visitors Sisk Owen Bryan attended. no meeting this week due to holiday.
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Rotary Club
Roscoe A. Gillett
Grant Hoover
Jack Meador
Russell Summers
Ed LaRoe
Wilson Kaiser
Curlee Cummings
Gomer May
J. Don Biggerstaff
Lone Star Boys State
Austin
Rotarians
Texas
John Biggerstaff
Melvin Sisk
Nick Owen
Sherman
W. J. Bryan
Gainesville
Homecoming Date Set at Cannon Church
Cannon church five miles east of Van Alyne and six miles southwest of Whitewright sets Sunday July 13 as homecoming day. All residents and friends are invited to an all day gathering with a 10 30 a m program and a noon basket lunch.
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Cannon Church
van Alstyne
Whitewright
Cannon
Absentee Balloting Date Set For July Primary
County Clerk Calvin Buchanan announced July 7 to July 22 as the absentee voting window for the July 26 Democratic primary. The new law changes place absentee ballots in a county voting box and have a special judge tabulate them on election day. Poll tax receipts will accompany ballots and be mailed to owners by the county clerk. Grayson County will operate 60 ballot boxes in this election.
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Calvin Buchanan
Buchanan
Grayson County
Churchill Beats Ouster Attempt In House Vote
London. Prime Minister Winston Churchill's Conservative government defeated a Labor motion to oust it over not knowing American plants planned to bomb power plants on the Yalu River. The vote was 300 to 270. Churchill warned against damaging U S opinion in a presidential year and praised American patience in Korea. The article notes 570000 people were injured on U S streets and highways last year.
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London
Winston Churchill
Yalu River
Churchill
House
House of Commons
Korea
Drowned Boy John Cagle Caused By Asphyxiation
The body of 14 year old John Cagle of North Fannin High School was found in Sycamore Creek on June 9. Dr J L Goforth, Dallas pathologist, ruled asphyxiation by submersion as the cause after autopsy. A 40 year old Ivanhoe man admitted being with Cagle in the morning of June 7 and said they drank gin and beer before swimming. He claimed to try to save the boy but fled. County Attorney A L Bartley Jr will decide next steps.
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Ivanhoe
Cagle
Bartley
Whitewright July 4 holiday to be observed locally
Friday, July 4 will be a general holiday in Whitewright with no formal observance planned. Banks, post office and most businesses will close for the day, the last holiday until Labor Day in September.
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Whitewright
Beckworth to Speak Here Saturday in Whitewright
Lindley Beckworth a U S Senator candidate will speak in Whitewright at 11 a m Saturday per Gladewater HQ. He will also address audiences in Leonard at 9 30 a m and Sherman at 2 p m Saturday as he seeks to succeed Tom Connally retiring after his term.
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Lindley Beckworth
United States
Whitewright
Gladewater
Beckworth
Congress
Texas
Leonard
Sherman
Tom Connally
Rules for Moving Large Objects on Texas Roads
Texas will regulate the movement of houses and other large objects on highways starting September 1. The State Highway Department will issue special permits for transporting prefab or factory built houses and storage tanks, with limits of 20 feet in width and weight limits aligned to overweight permits. Emergency exceptions allow wider moves for short distances.
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Austin
Texas
D. C. Greer
Highway Department
Greer
Houston polio GG inoculation test begins with 35000 children
In Houston thousands of children aged one to six receive injections of gamma globulin or gelatin as part of a polio immunity test. Half get GG, half gelatin, with a double blind setup to assess whether GG prevents paralysis amid a severe polio epidemic.
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Houston
University of Pittsburgh
New York
Allergic to Husband Spurs Separation Request
A Buenos Aires wife sought legal separation claiming she is allergic to her husband. She produced medical certificates stating she develops a painful rash in his presence. Divorces are not granted in Argentina and names of parties seeking separation are not made public.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Nossaman Barrett Set for GOP Meeting
Jack Nossaman of Whitewright and Sherman and Jack Barrett of Sherman prepare to fly to Chicago as Eisenhower delegates to the Republican National Convention. Texas Republicans split with rival delegations as a party hearing tackles the Taft Eisenhower contest.
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Jack Nossaman
Whitewright
Sherman
Jack Barrett
Chicago
Eisenhower
Nossaman
GOP
Fourth
Barrett
Texas
Grayson
Jim Hughes
Denison
Longview
Third
Taft
Grayson County
Eisehower
Agriculture Department overestimation costs farmers millions
A House subcommittee said the Agriculture Department over estimated the 1951 cotton crop, causing a serious price break and costing farmers millions. The report said the loss surpassed damage from insects floods or bad weather and the overestimate should have been avoided.
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Washington
House
Agriculture Department
Agriculture Subcommittee
Army sets replacement quotas as draft calls rise
The Army announced it would replace about 70,000 soldiers nearing end of service and forecast higher draft quotas starting in October. It ordered all units to provide trained enlisted men to replace overseas veterans, with a September call for 30,000 and an estimated 54,000 draftees monthly for the last quarter of the year.
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Washington
Army
United States
Federal Deficit Reaches 4.02 Billion in Year End
The Treasury reported a budget shortfall of 4.0166 billion dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30. Outlays totaled 66.1452 billion, the highest yearly level without war, while tax receipts reached 62.1286 billion, well above wartime peaks.
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Washington
Treasury
Truman
Teen Wins 140 Jackpot Then Names Neighbor for Payment
In Tuscaloosa 17 year old Sarah Crawford won a 140 dollar WTBC quiz prize. When asked to mail the check to her, she asked it be made out to a neighbor Mrs for a neighbor ill with an incurable disease. The act drew praise as typical of looking out for neighbors.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Sarah Crawford
Bert Banks
WTBC
Miss Crawford
Tough Law Proposed for Influence Sellers
Senate investigations subcommittee proposes a stringent law to punish influence peddlers and their intermediaries. Chairman Hoey states the bill aims to safeguard government operations from pernicious influences in a session televised from Washington.
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Washington
Senate
Hoey
Whitewright Trenton Highway Contract Sealed Proposals
Sealed proposals for constructing 6.09 miles of flexible base asphalt on U S Highway 69 between Whitewright and Trenton are requested by Joe Clark, Texas Highway Department, Bonham. Contract to be let July 16, 19XX. The route links with the concrete pavement south of town and with the Leonard road at Trenton. The project creates a 24 foot roadway with six foot shoulders and replaces the old winding road through Orangeville now kept as a farm to market road.
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Whitewright
Trenton
The
Sun
Joe Clark
Texas Highway Department
State
Ely
Ector
Truman Warns Voters In South At Bull Shoals Dams
President Truman appeals to Southern voters during a whistle stop in Arkansas dedicating Bull Shoals and Norfork dams and attacking private power interests and other special lobbies. He links New Deal and Fair Deal progress to the region and previews the 1952 platform focused on public power.
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Bull Shoals Dam
Ark
Truman
Arkansas
South
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Bull Shoals
White River
Norfork Dam
North Fork River
Southland
Democratic Party
American Medical Association
AMA
Senate OKs German Pact But No War Reservation
The Senate ratified the German peace contract 77 to 5 with a reservation that Congress must approve any military implementation. It approved a NATO extension for West Germany 72 to 5, while rejecting a military reservation in the NATO pact 51-25. Five Republicans opposed both pacts.
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Senate
Congress
West Germany
Dirksen
Illinois
Dworshak
Idaho
Jenner
Indiana
Langer
North Dakota
Welker
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