Weekend Rains Threaten Floods Across Texas
Weekend downpours drenched western Texas with 11 inch totals in some areas causing widespread flooding and forced evacuations. Ballinger bore the heaviest impact while the triangle of San Angelo Abilene and Brownwood saw the heaviest rains in 25 years.
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Mississippi River
Mississippi
Ballinrer
San Angelo
Abilene
Brownwood
Cisco
Colorado River
Silver Dollars On Display At Shenandoah Valley Bank
A display of 336 silver dollars owned by The First National City Bank of New York is shown in the Shenandoah Valley National Bank lobby through November 2. The exhibit aims to educate, with coins dating to 1486 and a rare 1795 gold issue among other gold pieces, including the former traveling display.
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Shenandoah Valley National Bank
First National City Bank of New York
U. S
United States of America
Key Club Names 10 New Members
The James Wood Chapter of Kiwanis Key Club welcomed ten new members last week. Sophomores joining are Dickie Giles Carl Straw Tommy Watt Gary Albert and Charlies Gossard. Juniors are George Nixon Bobby Brown Henry Brown Joe Lee and Gary Strickler. Tickets for the Kiwanis pancake day on November 2 at the War Memorial Building will be sold by Key Club members. Club president is David Glover.
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James Wood
Kiwanis’ Key Club
Dickie Giles
Carl Straw
Tommy Watt
Gary &Ibert
Charlies Gossard
George Nixon
Bobby Brown
Henry Brown
Joe Lee
Gary Strickler
Kiwanis Club
War Memorial
David Glover
Truman Named Grandfather of the Year
Former President Harry S. Truman, 73, was named Grandfather of the Year by the National Grandmother and Grandfather of the Year, Inc. His daughter Margaret gave birth to a son last summer, but Truman did not attend to accept the award. Betty Highgate Clark of Chicago was named Grandmother of the Year.
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Chicago
Harry S. Truman
Inc
Truman
Margaret
Clifton Daniel
New York
Betty Highgate Clark
Shickle to Attend Virginia Food Dealers Convention
C B Shickle will attend the annual convention of the Virginia Food Dealers Association at the Hotel Chamberlin Old Point Comfort in October 2022 He will serve on the nominations committee The VFDA Convention is held with the state wide Food Trade Show More than 69 regional and national food manufacturers and distributors will exhibit food products
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C. B. Shickle
Virginia Food Dealers Association
Chamberlin
Old Point Comfort
VFDA
Wacs Win High Inspection Rating in Yokohama
The WAC detachment at Yokohama Army terminal and regional camp earned a high excellent inspection. Lt Jeane Wolcott of Kent Ohio led a makeover advising proper foundations for fitting uniforms and cosmetics while Lt Col Frederick G Ward ordered swift unit sharpening.
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Japan
WAC
Leutenant
Jeane Wolcott
Kent
Ohio
Wolcott
Frederick G. Ward
Harrington
Maine
Yokohama
Wacs
Army Transportation Terminal
North Carolina Plan Faces NAACP Challenge Over School Integration
Roy Wilkins told the North Carolina NAACP convention that if substantial progress toward school integration under the states pupil assignment plan is not shown the law will be challenged in court. He warned the state to act, noting the plan shifts assignment decisions from state to local boards and cited limited integration in Charlotte Winston-Salem and Greensboro as insufficient.
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North Carolina
Roy Wilkins
NAACP
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Wilkins
Winston-Salem
Greensboro
Bancroft Post of Spanish American War Veterans elects commander
Albert Baumann was elected commander of the Bancroft Post, a role he held 55 years ago when the post was chartered, marking a return to leadership in the veterans group despite the post’s long history.
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Albert Baumann
Bancroft
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Winchester-Frederick
W. H. Emmart & Son
Atlantic Heating Oil
Penneys
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Orlon-dynes
Penlura
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