Down Memory Lane notable deaths births and events listed
Obituaries note Charles Levi Truett 95 and J J Hogan 84 passing. Several births announced for Bryant, Ford, Leuschner. Local business moves include Ralph Sanders joining J L Kirkpatrick drug store and Batesville buys N R Childress tailor shop. Ah events include a Fat Stock Show visit and a grammar school baseball team list and senior class rose garden plan. Social notices cover parties, marriages Kermit Belew to Lucy Simmons and parish society officers elected.
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Charles Levi Truett
J. L. Truett
J. J. Hogan
Pink Hill
Ralph Sanders
J. L. Kirkpatrick Drug Store
C. B. Bryant Jr
Wm. J. Monday
H. R. Sanders
Batesville
Ark
N. R. Childress Tailor Shop
Farmers Find Stewed Birds Easy To Roast
Japanese officials in Tottori Prefecture use rice soaked in 70 proof alcohol to catch sparrows. Sparrows feed at dawn near chicken coops and become unable to fly after exposure. Farmers gather hundreds daily and roast the birds over charcoal. The Erie Canal opening boosted Albany commerce and industry.
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Tokyo
Tottori Prefecture
Japan
Albany
N. Y
Texas Democrats set June 14 for state convention
Austin will host about 5,000 Texas Democrats who will name delegates to the national convention and back Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson as favorite son nominee. Gov. Price Daniel and the party committee backed Johnson, while Dallas was chosen for the 1956 state convention on September 20.
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Austin
Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Los Angeles
Johnson
Price Daniel
Democratic Executive Committee
Dallas
Daniel
Legislative Budget Board
Sam Houston State Teachers College
Southwest Texas State College
Stephen F. Austin State College
James M. Cotten
House Committee On
Board of
Regents
What Is a Conservative American Pledge by Everingham
Harry T. Everingham of We The People defines a conservative pledge printed in The American Statesman. It vows to conserve personal freedom and opportunity for future generations and to conserve the Constitution and government by law with its original heritage.
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Harry T. Everingham
National Exec
We, the People
the American Statesman
Pledge to guard American heritage against socialism and world government
The speaker vows checks and balances to limit public power, preserve private property, and defend national independence. They urge conservatives to uphold the Constitution, resist welfare state pressures, and restore self-government and liberty under God, pledging life fortune and honor to awaken action against radical international forces.
Fire at Sincere Match Factory destroys two million matches
A blaze at the Sincere Match Factory in Kuala Lumpur Malaya wiped out about two million match sticks. Firemen said the cause of the $35 000 fire was a match.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
Sincere
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Ann
Morris Fogle Gillett
Lester LaRoe Jr
Edward Blair Montgomery
Betty Jo Miller
Joan Adams
Jack Sears
Ben Robert Jones
Sharon Mclver
Billy Jean Montgomery
Marjorie Montgomery
Harold Pace
Joe Pennington
Robert Emerson Sears
Thomas Kirk May
C. B. Bryant III
Melvin Ford
Kermit Belew
Lucy Simmons
Tom Bean
Nuell
Luther Skaggs
George Gordon Pope
Bennie
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Howard Ball
Fort Worth
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Charles Harrison
Billy Pritchett
Clifton Burchfield
G. W. Ford
J. B. Thornhill
Quinton Nicholson
Leroy Cowart
Rudolph Taylor
Hub Myrick
Wil
Liam England
Houston Darwin
Jack Thornhill
J. W. Jones
John N. Carter
Mac Mears
O. J. Mears
Sherman Hospital
R. L. Leuschner
Waco
R. C. Vestal
Whitewright
Tom Brice
North
Bond Street
P. L. Kilgree
Ida
Jim Hall
Lester Haile
Presbyterian Missionary Society
R. T. Pennington
Robert Sears
T. E. Sears
J. W. Henry
Cathleen Blackerby
Drunette Farley
Martha Jo Darwin
Claire Doss
Emma Joyce Hinton
Rudolph Russell
Howard Wallace
Brazwell Alexander
Robert Benson
George Hansard
Miami, Fla
Washington, D. C
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Farley
Pascal Farley
Vern Sanford
Texas Press Association
Houston
San Antonio
James R. Norvell
Texas Supreme Court
Texas Civil Judicial Council
Norvell
Supreme Court
High Court
Railroad Commission
Louisiana
Mississippi
Ben Lewis
Lewis
Banking House
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Federal Reserve Bank
United States Securities
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