Word: houston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Houston school board, which runs the nation's largest (159,200 students) segregated school system, last week found itself in an unsettling situation-its newest member, 42-year-old Mrs. Hattie Mae White, is a Negro. A former public school teacher and mother of five children, Mrs. White startled Houston citizens when she announced her candidacy ten weeks ago. She was written off as a crusading eccentric when she ignored a vacant seat on the school board, decided instead to run against Board Member Dr. John K. Glen, a staunch segregationist...
...outset, the liberal Houston Association of Better Schools, of which Mrs. White is a member, proved itself not quite liberal enough to ignore her race, refused to endorse her candidacy. But a milk-bottle collection in Houston's Negro districts boosted funds to some $4,000, and Candidate White began a hard campaign. Pointedly, she talked of issues, e.g., Houston schoolchildren pay 4? more a half-pint for lunchtime milk than children in surrounding districts because the hyperconservative school board has refused to accept federal aid. She did not orate for integration. But she visited Negro schools, some...
Last week Moderate White won a handy victory over Segregationist Glen. That she outpulled her opponent in a surprising number of white districts holds real hope for Houston; almost inevitably during her four-year term, the city will have to choose between integration and the educational atrophy of a Little Rock...
Taller than egos, Stetsons or oil rigs, the tallest things in Texas are banks. Busting out all over in an unparalleled boom, their huge buildings dominate the skyline in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth. Texas has more banks than any other state: 968 with total deposits of $10.4 billion, combined resources of $11.6 billion. Texas bankers succeed by fighting for business like warring supermarket operators on a Saturday afternoon -while also wearing Homburg hats and speaking in muted tones. The man who best combines such Texas talents is taut, wiry, fiercely competitive Fred F. Florence, 67, head...
Born. To William Pettus Hobby Jr., 26, newspaperman, son of former Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare Oveta Gulp Hobby and ex-Governor of Texas (1917-21) William Hobby, and Diana Stallings Hobby, 27, daughter of Playwright Laurence (What Price Glory) Stallings: their first child, a daughter; in Houston. Name: Laura Poteet...