Texans vote Saturday on four proposed constitutional amendments
Texans face four state constitution amendments including repeal of the poll tax to vote and funding changes. The poll tax repeal is viewed as key to broader liberal voting, while funds would expand the Veteran's Land Board bonds, raise welfare aid ceilings, and authorize Jefferson County drainage districts to offer retirement benefits. Editorials warn of potential bloc voting and shifts in state policy.
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Veteran’s Land Fund
Jefferson County
Veteran’s Land Board
Port Arthur
Texas
William Miller
Demo
GOP
Don Gladden
Preston A. Weatherred
Dallas
Television’s economic bias stifles controversial programming
Televisions rely on advertising, pressuring sponsors to favor nonpartisan entertainment. Controversial government finance and sociology topics find no buyers, leading networks to cancel such programs and place news shows in non-prime time. Eisenhower’s 1960 goals panel urged urgent reform.
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Chet Huntly
Eisenhower
Committee On National Goals
Egg Money Down Affects Farm Wives Hens Output
The article notes a steep decline in the role of farm wives in egg production. Egg money flocks now provide less than 20 percent of output, down from over half a decade ago. A few large commercial flocks exist, including one California unit with 750,000 hens and at least 150 producers above 100,000.
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California
Church Weekday Services and Meetings Schedule
A detailed list of church events outlines Sunday school and worship times across multiple churches including Missionary Society Thanksgiving service at 11:30 a.m. and noon lunch, WMU meeting, Dorcas and youth events, circle gatherings, choir rehearsals, and prayer meetings, with additional notes for First Methodist Bethel Baptist Central Christian Assembly of God Church of Christ and Church members.
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the Missionary Society
Bethel Baptist Church
Dorcas
Tom Bean
First Methodist Church
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Women’s Society of Christian Service
Wesleyan Service Guild
Central Christian Church Bible Study and Communion
Ross Orendorf
C. J. McKissack
The
First Christian Church of
Assembly OF God Church
Christ Ambassadors
The SPICE of LIFE and a Burglary Interlude
A bank burglary unfolds as thieves bind and gag the cashier and lock the staff in another room. The cashier pleads that she is five thousand dollars short, and one thief frees her to retrieve the missing funds along with the books. A preacher and organist exchange quips during the odd moment, with a Sunday school girl offering a witty misdefinition of Epistles.
Local quip and sermon quips at campus site
A tourist asks about local big men and a native jokes that only babies are available. A speaker questions campus men and a preacher tells the organist he will seek congregants to help pay the church mortgage.
Tense mishap and crabs prove funny at market
A fifth grade lesson on tense yields a pun about blood. At the fish market two crab tubs priced per dozen spark a comic incident when a crab hops from the $1.50 dozen tub to the $2 dozen tub prompting a remark about things that could only happen in America.
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America
Local social notes list visits and gatherings across Dallas area
Mrs Earl Jansson of Dallas visited her mother Mrs J B King in town. Several families from New Iberia Van Alstyne Bells Richardson Dallas and Plano visited relatives here this weekend including Doss Pritchard Hemphill Rich McCoy and others. Subscriptions renewed by J A Creecy and multiple visits to hospitals and churches are noted along with Rex Ray Circle meeting at Mrs Royce Lay's home.
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Earl Jansson of
Dallas
J. B. King
Rex Ray
The
Baptist Church
Tuessday
Royce Lay
O. L. Jones
J. P. Darwin
Fire destroys landmark Vittitoe home in Ken tuckytown
S O Pool watched TV when a wall of flame hit his kitchen as the Whitewright area landmark Vittitoe home burned Friday night. Pool had purchased the house years ago and described its destruction after being alerted by the blaze.
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S. O. Pool
Kentuckytown
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Jewel Wilkins
Emma Sharp
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Horace Lewis
J. H. Mynatt
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W. E. Mynatt
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Mattie Hughes
Phoenix
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Whitewright Nursing Home
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Pp&e
Whitewright Motor Sales
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