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Five Texas girls, Virginia Rolfe, Sharon Allen, Pat Mc Elroy, Pat Emanuel
and Pat Compton, were signed up by Harry Conover as models for his New
York Cover Girl Agency when he and his wife, Candy Jones, visited in Dallas.Spanked by her 48-year-old
mother for going out nights, a
29-year-old Oak Cliff woman
asked Peace Justice Bill Rich-
burg to place her parent under
a peace bond. Said Richburg:
"If I hear of either of you creat-
ing a disturbance again, I'll
place both of you under bond."
At Commerce, Mrs. W. J. Cox
(75) received a surprise visit from
her sister, Mrs. Lilly Trent (71) of
London, England, whom she
hadn't seen in 61 years.
Hereafter Paul Reed (69) of
Dallas will stay out of the 1300-
block of all streets on the 13th
day of all months. As he
crossed Elm Street in the 1300
block on August 13, the door of
a passing car swung open,
struck Reed and sent him
sprawling.
Ray Andrews of Route 6, San
Antonio, won the old fiddlers'
contest attended by 5,000 people
at Seguin.
Here's why Dean Emeritus
J. Thomas Davis rides around
the Iohn Tarleton campus at
Stephenville these days on a
bright red motor scooter: A
man wanted to buy his automo-
bile. Davis quoted what he
thought was a price high
enough to discourage the pur-
chaser. The man bought the
car.Percy Parsons of Post aban-
doned his car near his home late
at night becaue of a flat tire.
The next morning he found that
vandals had broken every glass
and beaten out the headlights and
taillights.
Blind Walter B. Johnson covered
2,000 miles a month traveling over
the state in the interest of the San
Antonio Lighthouse for the Blind,
claims this to be a record for blind
travelers.
Congressman Sam Rayburn, va-
cationing at his home in Bonham
for the first time in seven years,
said he believed increasing pro-
duction soon will lower prices.
A romance beginning in Java
in 1942 finally led to marriage
in Lubbock for Lieutenant Robert
E. L. Michie and Dutch-English
Inge Raupp, who arrived from
Batavia on the SS Silver Teak.
Mrs. Grace Jewett Austin (74)
moved from Bloomington, Illinois,
to Dallas, bringing along 2,500
elephants - whatnot collection
made of everything from brass
to soap, teak and ivory, packed
in 16 barrels.
W h e n Rockport Drugstore
Owner Joe Johnson staged a
one-cent sale, one of his tenants
sent him a check for $30.01
with a note: "This should pay
for two months rent."Rankin's Toots Mansfield,.world
champion calf roper for five of the
last eight years, roped a dozen
calves in less than 31/2 minutes
at Levelland to defeat Lovington,
New Mexico's, Troy Fort.
Mrs. Ruth Kent of Paris had
to advertise in the paper for a
translator to read her letter of
thanks from Aslang Vedoy of
Norway, who found Mrs. Kent's
name and address in the pocket
of a coat she received through
the United Clothing Drive.
For the first time in history a
Texas girl, 10-year-old Clara Beth
Woodall of San Marcos, was
named junior maid-of-honor for a
commander-in-chief of the United
Confederate Veterans. This honor,
conferred last September after the
UVC election, failed to reach the
usual climax because the com-
manding officer, General William
Banks of Houston, died before an-
other Confederate Veterans' re-
union could be heldIn Los Angeles, Crash-Injured
Texas plane-maker H o w a r d
Hughes didn't like his hospital
bed, called in plant engineers
to design a bed: tailored to the
contour of his spines equipped
with hot and cold running water,
and built in six sections with
pushbutton adjustments. After
37 days in the hospital, he and
the bed went via ambulance to
the home of a friend where he
is recuperating.32 TEXAS WEEK 24 AUGUST 46
24 AUGUST 46
32 TEXAS WEEK
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