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In the Fall Fashions section
of the 14 October Life, there is
a picture of a Grecian-type
model wearing a "raspberry-red
jersey dress (which) is the work
of Mark Mooring, a Texan who
is one of three Bergdorf Good-
man designers. He is particularly
adept at swishing jersey. To get
into dress, wearer slips head
through noose," the magazine
explained.
Dr. Charles H. Winkler, pro-
fessor of psychology and former
dean of Texas A.&M.'s School of
Vocational Teaching, has re-
signed because of failing health
and pressing private business.
Kenneth Hackney of Dallas,
Southern Methodist University
graduate, has been added to the
A.&M. psychology-education fac-
ulty to succeed Doctor Winkler.
A Port Arthur shrimp fisher-
man, Floyd R. Hester, swam
two and one-half hours to
shore from the shrimp boat
Bertha Lee to get aid for two
fellow crewmen stranded on
the boat in the Gulf of Mexico
four days. Wearing a life
belt, he reached land about
six miles below the San Ber-
nard river which is 10 miles
from Freeport.
His companions aboard the
Bertha Lee, Captain Colum-
bus Constance of Sabine and
Joe Kelly of Beaumont had
plenty of food and water and
were not injured. With a
broken anchor and engine
trouble, the boat had been
drifting. The boat originally
left Sabine for a fishing spot
40 miles offshore.
Mrs. Joella Terrill Butler of
Wichita Falls received the Al-
trusa Club award for meritorious
service to her community the
past year. The award was based
on her work in behalf of the
Wichita County Tuberculosis As-
sociation of which she is presi-
dent, the YWCA and the com-
munity's hospital expansion pro-
grams.
Mrs. Pauline R. Brown, dis-
trict agent of the Negro Ex-
tension Service in Texas, hasNegro home demonstration
work and district agent, with
headquarters at Prairie View,
according to an announce-
ment by Director Ide P. Trot-
ter of the A. and M. College
Extension Service. Mrs. Brown
took office October 1, succeed-
ing Mrs. I. W. Rowan who re-
signed to become superinten-
dent of the home for delin-
quent Negro girls at Brady.
Mrs. J. H. Orton of Brownwood
and her sister, Mrs. Sarah Wal-
den of Indianapolis, Indiana, met
in Brownwood this month for the
first time in 65 years., Their half
sister, Mrs. Eva Flodter of Chi-
cago, also attended the reunin.
The older sisters were born at
Plano. Their mother died when
Mrs. Orton was a baby, and she
was reared by Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Berrigan who moved to Brown-
wood when she was 10. Mrs.
Walden was taken to Indiana-
polis by her father at the age of
eight.
The life of the present Labor
government of Great Britain will
be determined by its ability to
solve two pressing economic
problems-inadequate housing
and lack of textiles, in the
opinion of Dr. William A. Nie-
lander, who has returned to theUniversity of Texas after serv-
ing as chief of the marketing
branch of the U. S. army's
American University at Shriven-
ham, England.
DIED:
Mrs. Armanda Connally Smith
(74) of Waco, sister of U. S. Sen-
ator Tom Connally, of a five-
year illness in Dallas.
William Anderson Hasson (72)
of Houston said he wasn't in-
jured when his car struck a
train. At the hospital where his
wife was treated for head in-
juries, he insisted to doctors that
he wasn't hurt, then sat in a
chair and slumped over, dead.
Today and tomorrow (October
19-20) the Army Air Forces and
Civil Air Patrol are staging
"Texas' greatest air show" at
Midway Airport, halfway be-
tween Fort Worth and Dallas.
Helping with the plans and
publicity were William McCraw,
former Attorney General of Tex-
as; Major General Howard Tur-
ner, commander of the Tenth Air
Force, Brooks Field, San An-
tonio, and Colonel D. Harold
Byrd, CAP Texas Wing Com-
mander, who were photographed
at the "kickoff" dinner announc-
ing the show.been appointed supervisor of
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