Show H 0 S NEWS THIS WEEK iriri by LEMUEL F PARTON consolidated Comoli dattil features feature service T EW YORK it was last august NEW that mrs oveta gulp culp hobby ol of houston texas became head of the division of the army s bu reau of pub woman journalist lic relations scores for ladles ladies she said she i r t ca would organ in defense effort nize aze the division to tell women what they wanted to know about the army her success has been such that today her achievement is being nationally recognized as a bang up score for women in the defense effort mrs hobby bobby is executive vice president of the houston post and hence a specialist in telling people what they want to know newspaper women are happy in finding a government public relations bureau which offers some thing more than handouts hand outs cuts in press operation cooperation co the post is important as a liaison between soldiers and wives and mothers she is 35 years old pretty slender stylish brisk and businesslike the wife of william pettus hobby twice governor of texas her achievements in the above few years are such that they may only be briefed in the space available here in addition to running the houston post she is the active executive of radio station director of a national bank director of the southern newspaper publishers association a member of the board of regents of the texas state teachers college of the junior league the houston symphonic society and the national association of parliamentarians ta she studied law was admitted to the bar codified the state banking laws was parliamentarian for the texas assembly for several years was assistant city attorney of houston wrote a book on parliamentary law called mr chairman which is used as a text book in the schools of louisiana and texas syndicated a column on parliamentary law and served as research editor literary editor assistant editor and since 1938 executive editor of the houston housto n post in 1939 mrs hobby was awarded the annual certificate of merit of the national federation of press clubs for outstanding work in journalism she was born in temple texas the daughter of an attorney of the town with all the above activities she says she has had ample time for her children a boy of nine and girl of five 0 eighty year old rep joseph jef J aa ferson mansfield of texas has made a career of planned river and harbor development and control it rep mansfield at goes back to 0 his b oyd boyhood 80 Is still battling days in vir unruly waterways ginia when he was riding a horse to the grist mill with sacks of corn stowed fore and aft when he forded corded an angry stream corn and horse were swept away and he had a hard time making shore with no end of trouble thereafter then and there he became a flood battler ready to take on any undisciplined waterway for its own good and the well being of the commonwealth so naturally in his 25 years in congress he has been chairman of the rivers and harbors committee hes in form and in his stride today as he contends that only river and harbor projects qualify as bona fide defense undertakings der takings and rate advancement in the immediate construction st file he has been 54 years in politics a resident t of texas since 1881 when he settled in eagle lake city city attorney mayor county attorney county j judge for 10 terms and andona con gressman in 1926 he suffered a malady which cost him the use of his legs he campaigned cam paid and won ir in wheel a chair and carried on in con gress from his special wheel whee chair cr stance dais stance t to the right of the speakers speakers his father a confederate soldier EK was killed in battle six months after his ekys son was born ys he battles valiantly for a sea level panama and for transportation canal of texas oil oa eastward rt on 1 l inland wt waterways iro |