Wichita County votes to legalize alcohol sales in 1942 dry holdout
Wichita County voters backed ending the 1942 dry status by approving beer and alcohol sales 8,651 to 7,202. Other counties in Texas rejected or reaffirmed bans with Gaines County voting 1,151 to 382 against beer and wine sales, and Lub bock County continuing prohibition by 7,979 to 4,041. Hutchinson and Angelina Counties also rejected legalization proposals amid varied turnout from rain affected rural voting.
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Texas
Wichita
Wichita County
Dry
Gaines County
Seminole
Lubbock County
Hutchinson County
Angelina County
OPA Lowers Calf Price Ceilings After Error
Washington officials said the OPA Sunday night reduced price ceilings on calves under 500 pounds to 18 dollars per hundred pounds on a Chicago basis, restoring the June 30 level after a prior raise to 20.25 dollars on September 1. The rollback corrects what the agency called an error.
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Washington
OPA
Chicago
Army Pension Revision Seen
Representative Overton Brooks of Louisiana predicted in Washington that the next Congress will overhaul the Army pension system. He expects a new retirement bill requiring annual medical exams to verify permanent disability, aiming to curb pensions for about 125,800 retired officers and men.
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Washington
Overton Brooks
Louisiana
Congress
Brooks
House Military Committee
Rural Mail Serves 8 000 000 Families
The Southwest relies on rural mail routes in Texas and Oklahoma with 1659 routes in Texas covering 82552 miles and 927 routes in Oklahoma covering 55816 miles. Texas carriers earn about 3078.48 dollars yearly and Oklahoma 3011.88 dollars. The costs total 6 022 896 dollars in Texas and 3 982 000 dollars in Oklahoma, with nationwide deficits likely.
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Southwest
Texas
Oklahoma
Uncle Sam
Rural American Life —Exchange
Wheat Outlook Best Since 1940
Washington reports the 1940 global wheat crop will be the largest since 1940, about 5.875 billion bushels, up from 5.15 billion last year, near the prewar average of 5.914 billion. Department officials caution that not everyone will have as much to eat as they want, despite reduced famine fears.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
B 36 Bomb Range Talk From Polar Flight Claim
Col Irvine of St Paul Nebraska asserts the B 36 bomber could fly 11 000 miles with a bomb load, surpassing the B 29 Pacusan Dreamboat which did Hawaii to Cairo in about 39 1 2 hours, noting design ranges 10 000 miles with load vs 7 000 for the B 29.
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Cairo
Egypt
Col
C. S
Bill) Irvine
St. Paul
Neb
United States Army
Irvine
Hawaii
Sheriff’s Sale No 54705 Grayson County Texas
The State of Texas through Grayson County issues a sheriff sale for the judgment of 67 dollars plus costs from the 15th District Court. The sale of all of Block 35 Chelsea Park Addition Denison Grayson County occurs on the first Tuesday in November 1946 at the Sherman courthouse, with two hours for bidding. Proceeds go to satisfy the judgment and costs, with redemption rights for two years and other legal rights preserved.
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State of Texas
Grayson
15Th District Court
Grayson County
Texas
A. D
J. M. Varner
Nancy A. Hubbard
Loeta C. Humphries
Chelsea Park
Denison
Sherman
G. P. Gafford
Case County
M. G. Dicken
Price controls on newsprint urged for immediate lift
Washington. A House Interstate Commerce subcommittee on newsprint recommends removing price controls at once. In a letter to President Truman the committee states the move is needed to prevent serious difficulties and chaotic conditions in the newsprint supply.
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Washington
President Truman
House Interstate Commerce Subcommittee
Truman
Frnka's Son Dies From Football Injury
Henry Frnka Jr., 17, son of Henry Frnka Tu lane University coach, died early Sunday from a brain injury after a Tulsa Will Rogers High School and Tulsa Central High football game Friday night. The youth never regained consciousness as his parents, including the famed coach, were at his bedside near midnight.
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Tulsa
Okla
Henry Frnka Jr
Henry Frnka
Tulane University
Tulsa Will Rogers
Tulsa Central High
Husky
Sheriff Sale No 54793 in Van Alstyne Texas 1946
In Grayson County Texas the City of Van Alstyne is named as intervener in suit No 54793 with the sheriff sale noted as No 54793 and the parties including the tiff positioning the case within the 1946 docket.
Auction Notice of Grayson County Property Sale
In the 1946 judgment by the 15th District Court of Grayson County Texas the plaintiff and interveners seek to sell cash for taxes interest penalty and costs the defendants rights to a Grayson County Texas parcel on Sister Grove Creek within subdivision 7 and 8 division 4 Van Alstyne described as part of a James McKinney survey beginning at the northeast corner of a Carter lot and bounded by measured lines. The sale covers all defendant interests in the described real estate with six percent annual interest on the judgment from date.
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F. M. Stephens
15Th District Court
Grayson County
A. D
Court House
Sherman
Grayson
State of
Texas
State of Texas
Sister Grove Creek
James McKinney
van Alstyne
Theo Kosse
C. E. Carter
Wm. Gentry
Carter
Sheriff Sale Notice for Grayson County 1946
The proceeds of said sale to be applied to the satisfaction thereof and the remainder if any to be applied as the law directs. 26th day of September 1946. G. P. Gafford Sheriff Grayson Deputy 4031
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Sherman
Texas
G. P. Gafford
Grayson County
M. G. Dicken
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Joe Marsh
Seward’s Creek
Warag
United States Brewers Foundation
Stephens & Bryant
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Federal Reserve Bank
U. S. Securities
The
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Frnka
Miss Jones
Kirkpatrick Pharmacy
Fender and Body Work
Woody
Steet Ae SS
Community Public Service Company
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