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...South Texas Association's field trials began 15 years ago. First day of last week's meet was devoted to the Bench Show, in which dogs are judged solely on build and looks. In this event a 13-month-old black, white & tan Walker "gyp" (Texan for bitch) named Bess, owned by Paul Johnson of Liberty Hill, took the grand championship. Inexperienced, she made no showing in the field trials of the next three days, in which judges picked a 3-year-old gyp named Keno, owned by Robert Spurgeon Guyness of Poteet, as best...
...pursue his given task and no official thought is paid to caste, creed, color, or previous condition of servitude, the average Harvard man finds it hard to see just what he can really agitate about. Student publications, for instance are not victimized by political censorship, such as "The Daily Texan" has had planted over its presses by local sulphur-mining interests. Faculty councils have not been bothered by dismissals, right or wrong, like the Davis case at Yale, University officials have not been pained by hot-headed and emotional strife such as Burke, however justifiably, stirred up at Columbia...
...Daily Texan...
...unveiled in Dallas a statue of Virginia's one & only Robert E. Lee. Orator at the dedication was RFChairman Jesse Jones, who, as the biggest man in Houston, founded by Texas' most famed Hero, rivals Vice President John Nance Garner for the current title of No. 1 Texan. Duty done, Mr. Jones hopped off for Houston by plane...
Jesse Jones rejected this plan last week in what even for that forthright Texan was blunt language. Banker Roosevelt's plan, he said, would make the road "a pawn, subject to abuses and manipulations that should not be tolerated...