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NOTICE TO THE CREDITORS OF HOME LIFE & ACCIDENT INSURANCE CO. DALLAS, TEXAS Home Life and Accident Insurance Company, Dallas, Texas, was placed in receivership by order of the 98th District Court of Travis County, Texas, and its affairs turned over to the Liquidator for the Board of Insurance Commissioners on March 14, 1956. The Court his ordered that all policies, contracts, and agreements under which Home Life & Accident Insurance Company was in any way bound as an insurer are cancelled as of 11:10 A. M. March 14, 1956, save and except, however, those policies and contracts of insurance on which Western Republic Life Insurance Company and Bankers General Life Insurance Company assumed liability by virtueof their respective contracts with the Receiver dated March 30, 1956, and April 6, 1956. All persons having a claim against Home Life &Accident Insurance Company are notified to present the same with legal proof thereof to Me at my office in Austin, Texas, within one hunBlank proof of claim will be furnished on request. P. 0. Austin J. D. WHEELER, Liquidator for the Board of Insurance Commissioners Box 13 61, Texas THE WEEK IN TEXAS Gov. Shivers secured passage of a resolution at the 48th annual Governor’s Conference in Atlantic City expressing “grave concern” over Supreme Court decisions which have encroached on state sovereignty. J. W. Cole of Abilene was elected the new commander of the Texas Veterans of Foreign Wars. N. B. Ison, Houston printer, said he is following the instructidns of Harris County Democratic chairman and printing the interposition questions on the July 28 primary absentee ballots. Liberal leaders are threatening to file legal action to block the move. The University of Texas per-. manent fund reached $259 million when oilmen paid a new high of $16.4 million in bonuses on 57,241 acres in a lease sale highlighted by a $4.2 million bid. Preliminary hearin’g on the state’s $1.4 million civil suit against George Parr has been set July 13 at Jourdanton. Humble Oil and Refinery Com pany officials announced plans . for construction of a new $25 million catalytic unit at Baytown. Fort Worth City Manager W. T. Williams asked the federal ,gov ernment to help the city prepare a he workable program” of federal ,,aid for rehabilitation of slum areas. THE TEXAS OBS-r.,RVER Page 7 July 4, 1956 Texas A & M College scicntist A-Irchie M. Kahan says experiments will eventually show the practical solution for demineralization of sea water to convert oceans info an endless supply of drinking water. The State Supreme Court ruled the Webb County Democratic ecutive committee must determine by drawing the order in which candidates’ names will appear on the July 28 primary ballot. Cornell University professorDr. Harrell DeGraff told dairymen and distributors at Houston that one of every six dollars spent for food goes for milk. Hidalgo County has been de clared a rabies epidemic area after eleven positive cases have been found in recent weeks. State Prison Board Chairman French Robertson says plans are being made for an $S, 7 million con less than the seven to seven and onehalf percent return to which it would. like to become accustomed, and since Bence felt sure regulation wouldn’t mean a decrease in rates, did he think regulation would , bring a rate increase? No, he didn’t think long distance rates would be any different. However, he added : “One thing, if you had state regulation, you wouldn’t have the cheap rates you have at Aus struction program to care for mare than 3,000 -prisoners. More than 400 are sleeping on the floor at the present time. Former Texas Supreme Court Justice James P. Hart. told the Travis County Voters . League that compliance with the US Supreme Court segregation rulings is the “only course for Texas and other states to follow.” Howard Johnson, eleven-year-old Corpus Christi boy, was severely bitten by a gar, shark, or some other fish while swimming in the North Beach area. One hundred stitches were required to close seven deep gashes. Millionaire Glenn McCarthy an nounced plans for construction of a $5 million, 17-storyapartment-hotel and office building directly across the street from the Shamrock Hilton;which be built and lost. All 42 students were safely evac uated when fire badly damaged the Moody State School for Cerebral , Palsied Children. tin. They are, I -won’t say stealing, but you are getting a bargain there.” Was this true in most towns ? He said it was so “in the bigger cities so far as local service was concerned.” WHILE Bence’s secretary typed his carefully prepared statement about how long distance rates are not computed on the basis of cost between two points but on average distances, he chatted about the key to the utility rate controversies in Texas. A 76-pound, eight-ounce charm pion watermelon b r o 11 g li t a world’s record price of $610 at the third annual Luling Watermelon . Thump. ” Figures from Secretary of State Tom Reavley record an increase in Texas corporations from 4,120 in 1953 to 8,032 in 1956 ; in the aggregate of securities qualified from .82 million in 1953 to $178 million this year; and in corporations which pay the franchise tax from 17,742 in 1951 to 26,620 this year. J. Loy Ramsour, 58-year-old Justice of the Peace at Edinburg, who is scheduled to be tried in September in connection with the fatal shooting of his son-in-law, ‘ Walter Benson, is currently campaigning for a second term. Twelve witnesses have been sub, poenaed to appear before a federal grand jury in Houston July 9 in connection with the investigation of Neal former Harris County deputy sheriff who was indicted in 1954 on charges of income tax evasion but has not been tried. The bone of contention is invaria .bly whether rates will be based on actual company investment or on the basis of a current, fair market value of ,property. The market value figure, of course, might far exceed the actual dollars invested in a plait. The ,telephone company has insisted on the higher “fair market value,” which makes their earnings percentages lower than they would be as fractions of the money actually invested. The Phone Company’s Explanation LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Sharon Lee Day, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 23rd day of July, 1956, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 104, 327, in which Fredrick Donald Day is Plaintiff and Sharon Lee Day is defendant, filed in said’ Court on the 1st day of June, 1956, and the nature of whirl said suit is as follows Being an action and prayer for judgment in fiivor of plaintiff and against defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties. Plaintiff alleges cruel trtatroent on the part of defendant toward plaintiff of such a ‘ nature as to render their further living .together as husband and wife altogether insupportable. Plaintiff further alleges that no children were born of said union and no community property was accumulated. Plaintiff further prays for costs of suit and relief, general and special; All of which more fully appears from plain,tiff’s original petition on file in this office, and to which reference is here made. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts ag Travis County, Texas. Issued and given -tinder my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 4th day of June, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By Eli Greer, Deputy. CITATION BY ‘PUBLICATION TO Raymond Hayes, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause : You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance. hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 6th day of August 1956, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 93,908, in which Dora Hayes is Plaintiff and Raymond Hayes is defendant, filed in said ‘Court on the 7th day of Nov., 1952, and the nature -of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of plaintiff and against Defendant, for decree of divorct dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties ; Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the part of Defendant towards her of such a nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable; Plaintiff further alleges that no children were born of said union and no community property accumulated ; Plaintiff further prays for change of name and for relief general and special; All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office and to which reference is here made ; If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 19th day of June, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy. CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Ruth Ann Huffman, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County,’I Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday after the expiration of .42 days from the date of issuance.hereof that is to sey, at or, before, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 6th day of August, 1956, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number .99,384, in which W. .D. Huffrhan is Plaintiff and Ruth Ann Huffman is defendant, filed in said Court on the 14th day of September, 1.954, and the nature of which said suit -is as follows : Being an action and prayer fob judgement in favor of Plaintiff and against Defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore .and now existing between said Parties ; Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the part of Defendant towards him of such a nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife altogether insupportable; Plaintiff further alleges that no children were born of said union and no community property was accumulated ; Plaintiff filrther prays for relief, general and special ; All of which more fully appeari from Plaintiff’s Original Petition on file in this office and to which reference is here made; If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance it shall be returned unserved. . WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 19th day of June, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas By GEO. W. BICKLER, Deputy. THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Rodger D. Chrisman, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: You are hereby`commanded to appear before the 126th District Court of Travis. County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 -days from the date of issuance hereof ; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A. M. of Monday the 6th day of August, 1956, and answer the petition of plaintiff in Cause Number .104,469, in which Nola Chrisman is Plaintiff and Rodger . D. Chrisrnan is defendant, filed in said Court on the 20th day of. June, 1956, eq, the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties ; Plaintiff alleges cruel treatment on the part of defendant toward plaintiff such a nature as to render their farther living together as ‘husband and wife altogether insupportable. Plaintiff further alleges that no children were born of said uniozf and no community property was accuanulated; Plaintiff further prays for costs of suit and relief, general and special; All of which more fully appears from plaintiff’s original petition on file in this office, and to which reference is here made. If this citation is not served within 90 clays after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travii County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the. seal of said Cciart at office in the City of Austin, this the 20th day of June, 1956. 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas. By ELI GREER, Deputy. THE STATE OF TEXAS To the Sheriff or any Constable within the State of Texas–GREETING: You are hereby commanded to cause to be published, ONCE, not less than ten days before the return day’ thereof, in a newspaper printed in Travis county, Texas, the accompanying citation, of which the herein following is a true copy-\(but if there be no newspaper so printed’ in said county, then that you cause the said citation to be posted for at least. TEN days before the return CITATION BY PULICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS To all persons interested in the estate of Howard S. Johnson, a minor, No. 14,881, County Court, Travis County, Texas. Howard E. Johnson, guardian thereof, filed in the County Court of Travis County, Texas, on the 25th day’ of June, A. D., 1956 his final account of the condition of the estate of said Howard S. Johnson, a minor, together with an application to be discharged from said estate. Said final account and application will be’ heard and acted on by said Court on the first Monday next after the expiration of ten days from .the posting or publishing this citation, the same being the 16th day of July, 1956, at the courthouse thereof in Austin, Texas, at which time and place all persons interested in the account for final settlement of said estate are required to appear by filing a written answer and contest said account and application should they