Ex-Student Held In Baby Murder at Texas College
Mary Justice, 19, formerly of Coleman and a former Tex as State College for Women student, is indicted by the district court grand jury for the murder of a newborn baby on the campus. The infant, born in a Austin Hall student bathroom, was found in a clothes bag with a throat cut. Justice was hospitalized and later released to her father for transfer to Dallas for treatment.
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Denton
Mary Justice
Coleman
Texas State College For Women
District Court
Grand
Roy Moore
W. K. Baldridge
Baldridge
Austin Hall
L. M. Justice
Dallas
Sun Honor Roll Names Add New Subscribers This Week
The Sun lists new names placed on this week’s honor roll including Set. O. E. Woodson, John Taylor, T. A. Holcomb, Mrs. Bill Thornhill, Mrs. Jim Brown, Mrs. J. C. Keeling, C. H. Craig. Several are first time subscribers.
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Sun
O. E. Woodson
John Taylor
T. A. Holcomb
Bill Thornhill
Jim Brown
J. C. Keeling
C. H. Craig
Tobacco Monopoly Conviction Upheld
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 0 that R. J. Reynolds, Liggett and Myers, and American Tobacco conspired to form a monopoly under the Sherman act. The decision held it unnecessary to prove actual exclusion of competitors in this first ruling on the point.
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Washington
Supreme Court
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Liggett and Myers Tobacco Company
American Tobacco Company
Wartime payroll cuts target 1.6 million federal workers
Washington reports the Federal Pay Act of 1946 sets a July 1 start and a 1,611,000 end-of-fiscal-year cap on federal employment, down from 2.5 million. Sen. Harry F. Byrd leads an economy group push to police appropriations, while debates over boosting pay for top administrators linger amid postwar fiscal pressure.
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Washington
Capitol Hill
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Senate
House
Congress
Byrd
Appropriations Committees
Predictions on Congress Carrying Out Law Intent
The text suggests administration will not enforce the law’s intent and will rely on Congress to devise methods to pare down appropriations to achieve the desired result.
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Washington
Administration
Congress
Breakfast cereals price hike set by OPA action
Washington. The OPA authorized higher prices effective June 14 for three breakfast cereals to offset higher grain costs and a production cut due to famine relief needs. Consumers will pay up to 3 cents more for a 1-ounce corn flakes box and up to 1 cent more for puffed wheat and puffed rice 4-ounce and 1/4-ounce packages respectively.
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Washington
OPA
Vestal Announces Candidacy for District Clerk
Harold H. Vestal, raised in Sherman, has announced his candidacy for district clerk in the upcoming primary on July 27. He served three years in the Navy as a machinist mate first class aboard a destroyer in both oceans.
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Harold H. Vestal
Sherman
Vestal
Navy
Cows Unharmed by Atomic Test Near Oak Ridge
About 50 rada cows shipped from New Mexico to Oak Ridge for examination after the first atomic bomb blast turned them gray overnight. Nine months later none has died from radioactivity and two have calved healthy offspring.
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Oak Ridge
Tenn
New Mexico
Parrot Offered for Sale in West Orange War Time Sale
Police Sgt. Benjamin Dangler in West Orange New Jersey offered his parrot for sale today citing wartime clock scarcity. He explained the bird can imitate alarm clock sounds helping households wake up without clocks.
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West Orange
N. J
Benjamin Dangler
Candidacy Announcements for County Judge and Sheriff
On July 27, 1946, J. N. Dickson and Vernie R. Henderson announced for County Judge while Grady Thompson, M. G. Dickens, Weldon Savage, and Fred Prestage announced for Sheriff subject to Democratic primary action. The Sun notes these declarations are authorized for publication.
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The
Sun
Grady Thompson
M. G
Markel
Dicken Weldon Savage
Fred Prestage
Parrot's Morning Screams Shift to Midnight
A parrot once trained to rouse Sarge with a sharp morning shout now screeches around midnight, disturbing the army camp routine. The bird’s yelling, once punctual, has become a nocturnal alarm that unsettles personnel and highlights the owner’s unusual training method.
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Dangler
Sarge
New Trick in Counterfeiting Emerges in Karachi
The smoothest counterfeiters print with thick ink that vanishes within hours. Victims who rush to police with bad bills are left with only a blank sheet as evidence.
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Karachi
India
Treasury's Baby Bond Goes Into Upper Bracket
The Treasury plans a July 1 issue of a $1,000,000 baby bond for large holders such as insurers, allowing smaller bonds totaling a million dollars to be converted into one larger bond. The current maximum is a $100,000 bond.
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Washington
Treasury
Employer Seeks New Path as Pat Transitions Careers
A former worker waits as the employer pens multiple pages of character references for Pat who plans a new vocation. While signing, the employer accidentally smears the document with ink.
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Pat
Want Ads and Small Classifieds Summary
Want ads list items for sale including fryers from H R Johnson in the J W Wilson home and O L Sears contact. Also ads offer a two room house in Badgett Addition for $800 terms, a Massey Harris tractor mower, a ladies wrist watch valued at $10 reward, and a Hannah’s flowers agency run by Mrs. Allen T. Short with phone 100.
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Badgett
G. V. Ford
Allen T. Short
Phone 100
Hannah's
Texas for Sale and School Board Sealed Bids
Items listed include a for sale Coolerator with 100 pounds ice capacity from Mrs Eugene Brown and the Ida school building near Tom Bean Texas with sealed bids due at the Tom Bean School Board meeting June 27. Envelopes to E C Gann secretary. Also a family note expressing thanks for sympathy after D M Rich’s death.
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Eugene Brown
Tom Bean
Ida
Tom _ Bean
E. C. Gann
Sandy’s vow to move on after a heartbreak
A distraught Sandy learned his former lover wed another. A year later he revealed he had also married, explaining with a wry line that he had struck another match. The remark shows his coping mindset and sense of humor about replacement.
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Sandy
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Carter
J. N
Jim) Dickson Vernie
R. Henderson
Robert Dean George Schumacher
Ss. V. Earnest
R. C
Carol
Neaves
Olan R. Vanzandt
E. P. Jackson
F. M
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Work F. F
Frank
Trimm Cany Hart
Fryers
H. R. Johnson
J. W. Wilson
Plymouth
O. L. Sears
Griffin Dollarhide Jr. le
Massey-Harris Tractor
Joe Johnson
Main Street
Tom Barbee
West Grand Avenue
Stephens & Bryant
C. P. Masters
Gaution
Texas
Karo Maxey
A. P. Stanford
Northwest Whitewright
Jack Mustein
A. Y. Creager
South Travis Street
Ribbons—The Sun
Stafford
Universal Typewriter
Ted Spinks
Good Road
Orangeville
Trenton
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
D. M. Rich
D. M Rich
Parker
Kingston Drug Store
Denison
Rexall
Mobilgas
Mobileil
G. C. Stateville
R. P. Childress
Glen Earnheart
Whitewright, Texas
Morning Glory
McCormick
Goodyear
C. J. Meador
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