Weekend travel gossip fills local notes across many towns
Curlee Cummings spent the week end in Austin. Lonnie England of Greenville spent the weekend here. Numerous residents including Miss Ouida Nell Harris Dallas and Miss Carol Hughes Dallas visited relatives. Many trips extended to Sherman Mexia Los Angeles Whitesboro and Dallas with family and friends back home.
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Lonnie England of
Greenville
Ouida Nell Harris
Dallas
Mrs
Floyd Harris
Carol Hughes
Gene Hughes
U. S. Faces Resource Strain Warns of Long-Term Risk
The Truman administration faces a warning from the materials policy commission after 18 months of study. It reports the United States is exhausting basic minerals too quickly and risks future security and growth. The five volume report includes 70 recommendations to secure minerals for 25 years and urges international economic coordination.
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Washington
Truman
United States
Choice Moore Seeks Re-Election as Fannin County Judge
Choice Moore, county judge of Fannin County, submits his public office record and asks Whitewright and surrounding territory for support. He cites past service as Fannin District Clerk 1936–1940, Texas House in 1941, and Army service in World War II.
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Choice Moore
Fannin County
Whitewright
Choice
Fannin
Texas
North
East
Texas Highway Department
Grayson
Stark Veteran Candidate in 49F House Race
Richard S. Stark seeks re election to State Representative District 49F covering Grayson and Cooke Counties. A World War II Army veteran stationed in Korea, he chairs veterans groups in Gainesville and has aided veterans to purchase farms under the Veterans Land Program. He pledges support for beneficial veterans legislation.
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Richard S. Stark
Grayson
Cooke Counties
Stark
Korea
Cooke County
Veterans Land
U S Resource Use Soars Ahead of World History Records
A government commission notes the United States in 1950 used two and a half times more bituminous coal than 1900 and tripled copper, quadrupled zinc, and thirtyfold crude oil. It cites per person material use at about 36 thousand pounds in 1950 and projects population and output growth by 1975 alongside Alaska’s longer coast line.
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United States
Veteran Questions And Answers on GI Insurance and Benefits
A series of VA guidance replies on reinstating extended term permanent GI insurance, college eligibility after the July 1951 cutoff, GI home loan lending options, and Civil Service retirement pay counting for disability pension income. Reinstatement can occur anytime with back premiums plus interest. five year window waives medicals. College moves post high school allowed. If one lender rejects a GI loan, seek another. Civil Service retirement is not counted as income until full contributed amount is received, then counted for pension calculations.
Friendly Warning About Old Prescription
A note advises discarding a two year old prescription left on a shelf as medicines deteriorate with light and air. It stresses safety for family and children and urges returning to the doctor for a new prescription if illness returns and to bring it for compounding.
Have you any good after shave lotion
A humorous exchange features a shopper asking for after shave lotion and another man touting a number that supposedly drives the girls crazy, claiming it smells like money.
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Curlee Cummings
Austin
R. E. Hickman
Mexia
Walter Myrick
Sherman
D. B. Boles
Albany, Ky
John Miller
Gladys Ray
Ross May
Olivia Whedbee
Memphis, Tenn
Ben Patterson
R. R. Waldo
I. L. Neathery
Harley Self
Los Angeles
Calif
Lewis Cooper
Larry
Dorothy Hamilton
Guy Hamilton
Leslie Holland
Carl Holland
A. L. Groves of
Denison
W. A. Kirkpatrick
Jane Meador
NTSC
Denton
C. J. Meador
W. L. Shaw
Abilene
Glen Earnheart
Ben O. Simms of
Peggy
Joe Parnell
Edgar Ayers
Evelyn Johnson
Claud Thompson
Mike and
Mary Ellen Goode
Fort Worth
Charles Skaggs
Winnie
Sallye Hamilton
Mardell Pumphrey
Marlin
Eugene Reeves
of McKinney
John Reeves
D. W. Smith
J. E. Dickerson
Melissa
John Vestal
Jerry Smith
Robert Powell
Plainview
Pearl Hickson
Bob Carpenter
Ivanhoe
G. C. Allen
P. A. Carney
Commerce
Frank Phillips
Fred Truett
Charlie Truett
Olive Myrick
Adah Gillespie
Clay Horton
Janis
Connie
Sara Compton
Colorado
Points
Guy Dillon
Durant, Okla
Billie Joe Dillon
Comptroller of Currency
U. S
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Moore
Gainesville
Alaska
R.c.vaughan
Grayson County
Court At Law
Pol
Woking
Community Public Service Company
Your Friendly Electric Company
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