Texas Aims for Ten Percent Drop in Traffic Fatalities
State officials push a 10 percent reduction in 1957 traffic deaths by year end 1958 as Christmas travel looms. Gov. Price Daniel backs a six point safety program including driver education in schools, stricter license laws, chemical tests for intoxication, and patrol funding to meet national standards. Hale-Aikin panel completes school reform plan calling for $110 million yearly increases in spending and expanded programs.
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Safety Crusade
Price Daniel
Texas
Governor’s Highway Safety Commission
Department of Public Safety
Highway Patrol
Texas Safety Association
Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers
Hale-Aikin Committee
Texas Eyes Tighter School Placement Laws Across States
Texas officials study how Texas pupil placement law compares to Alabama's. The Alabama statute was held constitutional on its face but may be unconstitutional in its application. Texas law, passed in 1957, assigns students using 17 nonracial factors. Attorney General Will Wilson notes ongoing court tests and aims to know the law by year’s end.
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Texas
Alabama
U.S. Supreme Court
Will Wilson
Texas Board of Corrections
Department of Corrections
Mrs. Naomi Hambright Celebrated On Eighty-Eighth Birthday
An informal party honored Mrs. Naomi Hambright on her 88th birthday at her daughter Mrs. Lillie Osborne's Crews home. Attendees included six of her 24 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. Born November 25, 1870 in Detroit Alabama, she lived in Hill County then Runnels County over 50 years, later Winters, now with her daughter in Crews. She remains active, attends church, and tends flowers.
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Naomi Hambright
Lillie Osborne
Crews
Effie Dietz
Marvin Hambright
Clarence Hambright
Carl Baldwin
Winters
Hambright
Detroit
Ala
Texas
Hill County
Runnels County
State Health Department unveils new Austin building
The State Department of Health premiered a $3 million facility on Austin's northern edge. Public Safety Director Col. Homer Garrison Jr. says Texas faces a teen age crime wave in 1958 with juvenile arrests up 16 percent from last year.
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State Department of Health
Austin
Texas
Dept. of Public Safety
Col
Homer Garrison Jr
Funeral Rites Held For Mrs De LaCruz In Winters
Funeral rites for Mrs Inocencia De LaCruz 52 a Winters resident of 28 years were held Tuesday morning at 10 in Mr Carmel Catholic Church with Rev Julius Johnson officiating Rosary was recited Monday at 8 p m in Spill Memorial Chapel Burial was in Lakeview Cemetery She died Sunday at Winters Municipal Hospital after a stroke Her survivors include five sons Louis Jose Paul Daniel all of Winters Juan of Ballinger two daughters Susie De La Cruz of Winters and Mrs Robert Guevara of Sanger 15 grandchildren two sisters and a brother
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Inocencia de LaCruz
Winters
Mr. Carmel Catholic Church
Julius Johnson
Spill Memorial Chapel
Lakeview
de LaCruz
Winters Municipal Hospital
Mexico
Texas
Big Spring
Evaristo de LaCruz
Mt. Carmel Catholic Church
Louis
Jose
Paul
Daniel
Juan
Ballinger
Robert Guevarra
Sanger
Women on time and taxes in a shopping quip
A humorous remark contrasts women's shopping pace with tax collection, joking about the IRS pursuing money. It quips that America was founded to avoid taxation and playfully implies women influence timing in decisions.
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America
Christmas Seal Sale Aids Tuberculosis Child Study
Dr John W Middleton announces four Texas centers Corpus Christi Dallas Houston El Paso join a large scale TB study for children. The U S Public Health Service coordinates and National TB Association funds the grant. About 3000 children observed. isoniazid given to some, aiming to prevent complications. A second study covers adolescent TB.
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John W. Middleton
Texas Tuberculosis Association
University of Texas
Texas
Driscoll Children’s Hospital
Corpus Christi
Dallas Pediatric Hospital
Houston Tuberculosis Hospital
Paso
U. S. Public Health Service
National Tuberculosis Association
Middleton
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Insurance Agency
Texas Education Agency
Texas Public Employes Association
TPEA
Texas Employment Commission
TEC
Texas Highway Commission
Commission
Blizzard Field
Spill Bros. & CO
N. Hambright
Mrs. Hambright
Guardians of Health
Wea
Bahlman Jewelers
Gulf Service
Roy E. Young
Robert Gans
Winters High School
Winters Lumber CO
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