Texas primary results signal shift in governor races and state offices
Eight candidates reach runoff as June 2 targets loom for governor and lieutenant governor contests. Cox wins GOP nomination to face Democratic nominee in November. Runoffs include Turman Smith for lieutenant governor and Beavley for attorney general. Also notes statewide textbook debates, highway funding questions, and Alabama Coushatta Reservation spending.
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Austin
John Connally
Don Yarborough
Texas
Jack Cox
Jimmy Turman
Texas House of Representatives
Preston Smith
Lubbock
Turman
Bill Hayes
Temple
GOP
Woodrow Bean
el Paso
Joe Pool
Dallas
Waggoner Carr
Tom Beavley
Board of Education
House
Wampum
Alabama-Coushatta
Livingston
State Hospitals and Special Schools Board
Alabamas
Coushattas
Mary Campbell quits eating cigarets and takes up smoking
In Edinburgh Mrs Mary Campbell reports a pregnancy related craving to eat cigarets ended after medical care. She now smokes about ten a day while previously consuming up to a hundred daily. Doctors cited mental stress as the cause and advised treatment. Stair climbing is noted as beneficial exercise.
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Edinburg
Scotland
Mary Campbell
Texas Court Issues Divorce Citation in Grayson County
The state issues a citation directing Esmond Miller to answer a divorce petition filed by Juanita Miller on April 23 1962 in the 15th District Court Grayson County Sherman Texas. The case No 68178 requires appearance by June 11 1962 with a cruelty grounds divorce.
Citation for Ettie L Gavette vs Raymond A Gavette
Legal notice from Grayson County District Court Sherman Texas dated May 2 1962 orders Ettie L Gavette as plaintiff against Raymond A Gavette as defendant with hearing set on June 18 1962 before 10 am at the court house in Sherman. If not served within 90 days return unserved. Published in The Whitewright Sun May 10 17 24 and 31 1962.
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State OF Texas
Esmond Miller
A. D
15Th District Court
Grayson County
Court House
Sherman
Texas
Juanita Miller
Sherman Texas
Eunice S. Earnest
Shirley Davis
Whitewright Sun
Raymond A. Gavette
Ettie L. Gavette
Pure Food Better Baby winners named in 1927
The Sun reports Pure Food Better Baby Contest winners Madgeline Phillips Guy Ben Garner Daisy Johnson Robert Dillard Montgomery Ann LaRoe and Clarence Martin. Also listed are local deaths births and moves including Mollie Burks J A Farrow and Sam Clark.
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the Sun
Madgeline Phillips
Guy Ben Garner
Daisy Johnson
Robert Dillard Montgomery
Ann LaRoe
Clarence Martin
Robert A. Bow
Manitou
Colorado
Mollie Burks
Tom Bean
Brown Leghorn Hen Adopted by W C Curt Brown
W C Curt Brown reports a brown Leghorn hen that has adopted a chick or chicks in a noteworthy farmyard incident. The story notes the unusual maternal behavior and the pair’s coop routine and may mention any observed hatchling outcomes.
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W. C
Curt) Brown
Half the Nation Moved Between 1955 and 1960
Census figures show nearly 47.3 percent of Americans aged five and older relocated homes from 1955 to 1960. Of the movers, most stayed within the same county, 14.1 million crossed state lines, and about 2 million entered the United States from abroad. The note adds diverse trivia on the horseshoe crab eye and blood type O ulcers.
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Washington
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. W. Edgar
R. W. Byram
Rep. W. T. Dungan
House Textbook Investigation Committee
Texas Highway Department
Daniel
D. C. Greer
Highway Department
Maine
Montana
Bitterpot
Democratic Party
J. A. Farrow
Ely
J. W. Davidson
Clarendon
Rocky McMillin
W. T. Burkhalter
Pilot Grove
Parent Teacher Association
R. T. Pennington
C. P. Johnson
C. B. Bryant Jr
H. T. Atterberry
Margaret Boone
R. A. Gillett
C. S. Witt
Sallye Hamilton
Gene Hughes
Floyd Low
Albert Merritt
Sam Clark
Town
William P. Kidd
Bells
John Henry Lance
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Chevrolet
Aera
Whitewright, Texas
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