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Texas History By Bartee Haile

Texas History By Bartee Haile

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Did Sundance’s Widow Live Out Her Life In Cowtown?

Texas History
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Was Eunice Gray, who burned to death in a Jan. 26, 1962 fire that destroyed the Fort Worth hotel she had run for the past four decades, in reality the woman of western mystery known as Etta Place?Yes, she could have been the widow of Harry Longabaugh, the Old West outlaw known as “The Sundance Kid.”
By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens

By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens

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Ask Rusty – About Investing Social Security Money in the Stock Market

News Staff
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American CitizensDear Rusty: For most folks collecting Social Security, you get back what you put in within 3-5 years, so for those that scream - “SS is not an entitlement, it...

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VISD Trustees approve $75,000 purchase of Vidor State Bank building

News Staff
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
5 years agoJanuary 8, 2020: A passenger car driver, forty-five year-old Randall Lee Castie of Vidor was killed when the car he was driving crashed head-on into an oncoming truck-tractor trailer on Highway 12 on Monday afternoon.A fifteen year-old boy from Vidor apparently shot himself accidentally...
State Capital Highlights

State Capital Highlights

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Legislative session begins on Jan. 14

News Staff
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The 89th Texas legislative session begins on Jan. 14 with a still-unresolved race for speaker of the Texas House of Representatives.State Reps.
By Bartee Haile

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For Once The Indians Win A Battle

Bartee Haile
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Texas HistoryAlthough everything was in their favor, the Kickapoos, who were only passing through West Texas en route to Mexico, went out of their way to avoid a fight on Jan. 8, 1865.The first sign of the Kickapoo exodus from the Indian Territory was detected the previous month at the headwaters...
By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens

By Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens

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Ask Rusty -- I Use only VA healthcare; Can I get back Medicare taxes paid?

News Staff
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Dear Rusty: I’m 72 years old with 20 years of military service. I am retired collecting Social Security, my military pension, and State retirement benefits. According to my SSA statement, over my working lifetime I paid $14,302 into Medicare, but I never used that medical plan.

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Sgt. E. H. Horn killed in Vietnam ambush

News Staff
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
5 Years agoJanuary 1, 2020: The City of Pine Forest City Council decided to terminate its agreement with Traylor and Associates to manage its $2 million U.S. Department of Housing CDBG Infrastructure grant and its $2 million U.S. Department of Housing CDBG Buyout & Acquisition Grant earlier this...
Vehicle inspections no longer required

Vehicle inspections no longer required

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Vehicle inspections no longer required

Austin—
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Drivers will no longer be required to get annual safety inspections beginning Jan. 1, the Texas Standard reported.
Baylor Tastes Sweet Victory In 1957 Sugar Bowl

Baylor Tastes Sweet Victory In 1957 Sugar Bowl

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Baylor Tastes Sweet Victory In 1957 Sugar Bowl

Bartee Haile
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Texas HistoryIn just their fourth post-season appearance in school history, the Bears of Baylor University squared off against the heavily favored Tennessee Volunteers in the Sugar Bowl on Jan. 1, 1957.It was not for nothing that the Baptist college was known as the hard-luck member of the...
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