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...meeting this week the 60 present members of the Club will elect new officers, and will lay plans for the Fall competition for new members. Licensed pilots desiring to fly at low rates, as well as beginners, will have a chance to compete, instruction being given in the Waco F open bi-plane, Warner engine; this ship which was purchased last May, is at present the only one in the possession of the club. The officers of the Flying Club are Thomas Eastland '33, president, and Brown, treasurer...
...Wichita, Kan., George W. Winters thought his three boys should work in summer, could find them no jobs. He bought the village of Waco Wego including garage, filling station, candy shop, general store, cafe, retired from real estate business, set his sons to running Waco Wego...
Died. Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks, 67, president since 1902 of Baylor University (Waco, Tex.) who sought vainly on his death bed to sign the 468 diplomas of this year's graduating class (TIME, May 18); of abdominal cancer; in Waco...
These words were in the minds of all the students of Baylor University at Waco, Tex. last week. In a hospital three miles from the quiet campus their 67-year-old president, Dr. Samuel Palmer Brooks, was dying. Pain racked, his once massive frame gutted by an abdominal cancer, he was spending his remaining force for his University: putting his signature to 468 diplomas for this year's senior class...
...Because doctors and relatives refused for several days to reveal Dr. Brooks's condition, the Waco papers?the News-Tribune and Times-Herald?carried little or no news on the city's biggest story. It was unearthed by United and Associated Pressmen...