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...Good Marriage. Shivers (rhymes with rivers) was born Oct. 5, 1907 at Lufkin, where his father, Robert A. Shivers, was clerking in a store. Later, the elder Shivers practiced law at Woodville, then became a district judge at Port Arthur. Young Allan, a studious boy, hung around the courthouse so much that he acquired a nickname: "Judge...
...shirts--Yale was now the aggressive unit, while Harvard held back in its own zone and let the Blue control the puck and take the offensive. Yale exploded with two goals within 32 seconds around the 16-minute mark. Archy Douglas flipped in a cross-risk pass from Dan Lufkin for the first one and Lufkin banged in the second...
Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Fort Worth, newsprint in the piny-woods country at Lufkin, saddles and cowboy boots in scores of small shops, and women's sport clothes in Dallas' burgeoning garment business. The West Texas town of Monahans (pop. 7,000) is popularly believed to produce the nation's healthiest and most intelligent trained fleas...
...Kingfish" is big (6 ft., 200 lbs.), shy, pink-cheeked Ernest Lynn Kurth, 64, a jack of all trades-lumber, insurance, banking, theaters, construction, utilities, machinery-and master of all as well. Kurth's dozen-odd enterprises employ 3,250, indirectly support 50% of Lufkin's population. But the Kurth achievement that most East Texans boast about, and the one that is of prime importance to the Southern economy, is newsprint. Set up only nine years ago as the South's first newsprint producer, Kurth's $18 million Southland Paper Mills, Inc. last week was rolling...
From the time he took over his father's lumber company and foundry in 1930, Kurth sought ways to make them bigger. Since his Lufkin Foundry & Machine Co. depended on outside companies for its castings, Kurth set up Texas Foundries, Inc. as his own supplier. It soon became the biggest Southern producer of malleable iron castings. The two companies now have combined sales of some $17.5 million a year...