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.ROTANA INSTALLS At
Campaign DINNER
Many Guests AT Program Seat.
ing Miss Davis President
and Other Officers

The Rotana club installation ban
quet was held Monday at the Metho-
dist church with a large attendance
of members and guests. This being
election year the theme was "Ro-
tana Campaign Dinner" with dark
horses, elephants and donkeys pre-
dominating in the table decorations
and the place cards.
Miss Grace Stadalman, chairman
of the committee, welcomed the
guests and Mrs. Helen Toombs pre-
sided at keynoter. Introduction of
candidates and delegates included
guests from the Billings Business
and Professional Women's club, Bill
lings Rotana club, guests of the
Laurel Rotana club and members.
Attending from Billings were
Mary Alkaline Cook, national Ro-
tana president; Stellavee Wooters.
national secretary; Mrs. Elva Kirk
patrick, Louise Schrupp, Mrs. Ann
Paine, Mrs. Minnie Anderson, Mrs.
Gertrude Holmes, Mrs. Vicky Hig-
gins, Laura Stanton, Vera Throssel,
Willene R. Jacobson, Mrs. Lois
Thompson, Elizabeth Connolly, Vir-
.inia Trittelwitz, Mrs. Cecilia Ekern
and Grace R. Tourtelot.
Mrs. Jane Campbell was a guest
Livingston and the following
were in attendance from Laurel:
Mrs. Bertha Gehrett, Mrs. Clara
Traniscky, Mrs. Marguerite Palmer,
Nina Richert, Mrs. Shirley D. Pen
Mrs. D. H. McCauley, Ilene
2. Avery, Emile NJ. Nader, Mrs.
:. P. Stadalman, Mrs. Martha Fink,
Mrs. Margaret Belinak, Mrs. Cecilia
Jane Parks, Mrs. Carol In
graham, Mrs. Rose %Ingraham, Mrs.
elsie Johnston, Patricia Sallee, Pa
Marvel, Mrs. FATE Stocking,
Mrs. Helen Shearer, Mrs. John c.
Nelson, Mrs. Nancy Vaught, Mrs.
Jennie Starkey, Mrs. Helene Burke,
Hiss Rosetta Chopper and Mrs.
Joralyn Albertus.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick Of the Billings
Toastmistress club spoke on at Is
FOUR Responsibility" which covered
right to vote. Music on
he program included two piano
elections by Mrs. McCauley, sew
raj numbers by Mrs. j. H. Alber- Z,
u.s. Hillbillies and group singing.
Following the program was in I,
tallation of officers with Rosetta I
ritz, installing officer and Vera Z
anderson, installing marshal. Miss
earl Davis was seated as presi- {
ent; Mrs. Helen Toombs, first vice I
resident; Mrs. Elsie Goodenbour, {
Continued on Page Twelve)
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OPERATOR TOUCHES
OIL SAND NEAR HERE
Anderson On KOhle Farm Five
Miles South Prepares To
Drill In His Well

Gerald Anderson, drilling for oil
on the Anton Kohle farm on Davis
creek five miles south of Laurel,
went into the top of an oil-bearing
sand Sunday night and is preparing
to set casing and drill in. Although
a control head is in place, water
and gas is leaking from the head
and has broken out around the sur
face pipe. The gas and water, said
to come from material above the
oil sand, is accompanied by some oil.
The depth is approximately 1000
feet, drilled in the past several
weeks. Work stopped when the oil
sand was scratched Sunday. The
formation is said to be the Cloverly.
More than 100 barrels of oil pro
duced and stored during winter from
wells on Mosser dome, a few miles
south of the Anderson operation,
were shipped during March, accord
ing to a state report.
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THREE OLD MSS. ARE
READ TO ROTAR|ANS

A young woman school teacher
from central Michigan went into the
deep south 81 years ago to teach
the children of recently freed Ne
groes. She taught nine months
south of Vicksburg, Miss, and then
returned home. A little later, while
events and scenes were still fresh
in her memory, she wrote in long
hand a series of articles about her
observations, experiences and opin-
ions, which are now in the possession
of her grand niece, Mrs. Charles
Staiger. These were read Tuesday
at the weekly luncheon meeting of
the Rotary club and formed an I'M
usual and interesting program. The
reader was Ted Neville, a member
of the April program committee serv-
ing with Staiger.
The stories, written by a hand
long since dead, were an intimate
and sometimes appalling closeup of
conditions existing two years after
the close of the Civil war as viewed
by a n~orthern-bred m She
told of her trip to Chicago and the
by river steamer to Missis-
sippi. Along the way she saw some
of the famous battlefields and the
erected monuments to the
war dead.
Arriving at the plantation where
she was to teach, she found the
and his family cordial and
cultured. She assumed they had re-
ceived considerable formal education.
but discovered later that though
schooled to some extent they had
derived a large share of their edu-
cation from their superbly stocked
and that their courtly man.
1ers were inherited from generations
IF pleasant living.
The plantation owner quickly real
ized at the close of the war that
had changed and that for
he south to be preserved it was
necessary to educate the Negro
children. He accordingly applied to
he Freedman's bureau, an organiza-
ion then existing in the north, for
/ teacher, with the result thai n
Michigan girl was assigned to his
She taught the children, who were
lverage in intelligence with other
hildren of their ages, and heard
he stories of misery the Negroes
,ften experienced before their eman-
ipation. Immediately after they
we're freed they had unsuccessfully
ried to initiate the white people.
Is the whites eve worked, the
lacks assumed they also were re-
from labor; their sick Law
in their cabins; their
cad remained unburied, and while
he crops were not planted or garn-
red they danced and sang at par
les.
Hunger at last drove them back, y
0 their former masters-freedom
ad not relieved them from work, {
fe began anew for both the blacks !
Continued on Page Twelve) Il
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SCHOOLS ASK
FOR SPECIAL
25 MILL LEVY
Election Set For May 8
To Raise Funds Offset
ting Increased Costs

The voters of school district No.
Z will be asked to vote a special
levy of % mills to supplement the
revenue anticipated from usual
sources of taxation. Eighteen mills
will be for the elementary grades
and z mills for the high school. A
year ago the voters were asked to
authorize, and by a large majority
did authorize, the board to levy 20
mills. The proposition which will
be presented to the voters Satur-
day, May 8, is not in addition to
the previous 20 mills, for that levy
was only for the school year which
will close June 80. Special levies
are voted only for the duration of
one school year.
'The voters, of course, realize
that practically no school district
in the state of Montana could oper-
ate during these years of mounting
costs on the funds that are raised
through the ordinary taxing priv
ileges of the school districts" q
spokesman said. "The last legisla-
tive session did not meet the situa-
ton by adequate Legislative action
and consequently special levies are
unavoidable until the state legisla-
ture does either through the en-
largement of the taxing privileges
of the school district or through t-
rect state aid, increase available
revenues"
One of the rather heavy items of
expense anticipated by the board
for the coming school year will be
that of repairs and fitting up sever
additional rooms. Some removal
ing will be also done in some of the
buildings.
Laurel outlook., 1948-04-28

instructor at the theological semi
nary in Yankton, S. D., also report
ed on their work.
During each session a prepared
paper was read and discussed by
Rev. Fred Dodzuweit of Missoula
on "The Necessity of Spiritual Unity
in the Christian Church," Rev. R.
Opp of Plevna on Goods Ultimate
Purpose With His Church," and
Rev. G. X. Widmayer of Hardin on
"Sins Against the Holy Spirit"
Officers elected for the 1948-49
fiscal year are Rev. H. G. Pfeiff of
Billings, moderator; Rev. J.. Nicer
of Worden, vice moderator, and
Rev. H. C. Haemmelmann of Laurel.
registrar and treasurer. Two lay
delegates, Ismail Yost of Billings
and Jacob Dewalt of Hardin, are
serving with them on the executive
committee.
The Montana association voted to
accept the merger of the Evange-
lical and Reformed churches and the
Congregational. Final tabulation
Will DC Mdue dI IIc IldIlOIldl COullCIl
melting in Oberlin, Ohio, to which
the Montana association is sending
Rev. H. Schneider and Rev. Haem-
melmann as delegates.
The host pastor, Rev. Haemmel-
mann, was in charge of all worship
services and gave the address of
welcome Friday evening, followed by
Rev. Schneider who delivered the
first message to the Montana as
ISOLATION. A communion worship
service was conducted Saturday eve
ming at which Rev. H. G. Pfeiff de-
livered the communion message.
The church was filled to capacity
Sunday morning. Prof. Wilske de-
livered the message, "Sympathetic
Understanding" which the audience
found inspiring and challenging.
Rev. Grammar addressed the con-
gregation in the afternoon on mis-
sionary work and DR. John Reuling,
CONTINUED on Page Twelve)
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Sc SPORTSMAN
MEETING FOR MAY IS

Columbus, April Isl. A. Baker
president of the Southeastern Mon
tana Sportsmen's association has
announced that the associations an
nual meeting will be held Sunday,
May 16, at Firemen's Point near
Columbus, beginning at 1890 a. m.
The morning and early afternoon
sessions will be devoted to business,
with lunch served at noon by the
Columbus Rod and Gun club. At
ter the business meetings, trap
shooting and retriever trials will
entertain the sportsmen.
This will be the twenty-fifth an
nual meeting of the association and
is to be attended by representatives
of the fish and game commission
Bob Cooney, big game division; DR..
Stubblefield and A. A. O'Claire, fish
and law enforcement divisions; Al
Regal, Montana Wildlife federation.
and Kenneth Roahen, U. S. wild
life service.
The Southeastern Montana Sports
mems association is composed of
rod and gun clubs in Roundup, Bill
lings Columbus, Red Lodge, From
berg, Park City and Laurel.
All sportsmen of the area, wheth-
er or not members of an organized
rod and gun club, are invited to at
tend.
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Moose Order Plans
August Pilgrimage
To MOOseheart, iii.

William H. thinner, president of
the Montana Moose association, an
nounces that plans are being made
for a Montana Mooseheart pilgrim
age this summer.
The purpose of the pilgrimage will
be to give as many members of
the order as possible an opportunity
to visit the lodges Child City D.
Gated at Mooseheart, Ill.
While there the members will al
so attend the national convention
to be held at Mooseheart and Chi
from Aug. Is to 10, inclusive.
The caravan, made up of appro-
priately decorated cars from the
lodges of the state, will assemble
at Glendive on Aug. II and leave
there on the next day. The decor
atoms will not only be intended to
show that the occupants are Loyal
Moose, but will also show the state
from which they originate.
The route to be followed by the
caravan has not as yet been entirely
mapped out.
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LOCAL WOMAN DIES
ON WAY TO HOSPITAL
Mrs. Mary Kilwine, 80, Sue
cumbs Thursday-Funeral Is
Held Monday In FrOmberg

Mrs. Mary Kilwine, 80, wife of
Martin Kilwine of Fromberg and a
sister of Christ, Jr., and John HAITI
enbeler, both of Laurel, died Thurs
day while en- route to a Billings
hospital. She had been i'll Of in
fluenza for several days.
Other survivors are three daugh-
tiers, a son, her parents, five sis
tiers and another brother.
Funeral services were held Mon
day at st. Joseph's Catholic church
in Fromberg and burial was in
Rockville cemetery.
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Band Members To Sell
Tickets To Concert

Attention was called this week by
the Rotana club of Laurel high
school band concert which the club
will sponsor May 7 at 8 o'clock in
the gymnasium.
"a fine program will be presented
under the direction of John G. Bill
lings, band director" a spokesman
said, "for the purpose of raising
funds to help pay for the band
uniforms. All of the proceeds will
go to the band uniform fund"
The band will appear on downtown
streets Friday, April 80, at a p. M,
at which time tickets to the concert
will be sold.
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Musicians From Schools or Area
Participate In New Type Festival

cities where music festivals are held.
In times past these gatherings were
contests in the true sense of the
word, and the bands, choruses and
s%oloists We'd for first, second and
third places as do the contestants
in an athletic meet.
In recent years this strict contest
type Of festival has lost popularity
in favor of the type held in Laurel
high school last Saturday. Adjudi-
Gators Edmund p. Sedivy from the
state college mrsic department and
William A. Lynn from Fergus
ty high school music faculty did not
choose winners of first, second and
third places, but gave each band,
chorus and soloist a rating based on
national standards.
A school faculty member said:
"This kind of Judging compares the
work done in cur own school with
that in the nation as a whole, and
at the same time eliminates the I'M
fairness of comparing a band from
a very small school with one from
a large city. Along with the stand
ard points of judging, Lynn and
Sedivy prepared an analysis of each
groups strong and weak points, with
suggestions for correction and i'm
p%rovement. Thus the festival be-
comes much more worth while from
the standpoint of improvement and
advancement of the music depart
ments of the participating schools.
"The massed group rehearsals and
performances are another feature OF
great value. 1t is fine experience
for students from various schools to
play together under the baton of an
The spirit is that of crea-
tive cooperation rather than of
a~ntagonistic rivalry, as prevailed in
he old contest-type festival.
"While judges are present and
perform to be judged, it is
altogether a matter of constructive
analysis, the purpose being
% improve our school musicians and
maintain them at or above the ma
ional level" I
Two series were carried on stimuli ]
.aneously during the day. At the T
auditorium, beginning at 8, the Park g
,ity girls glee club sang, followed
y Billings junior high school girls
lee club, Laurel boys glee club, t
junior high school glee club, t
.aurel mixed chorus, Fromberg girls C
lee club, Roundup mixed chorus!
Columbus girls glee club, Bridger S
lixed chorus, Joliet girls glee club, t.
.aurel girls glee club and Roundup C
iris glee club.
Beginning at 2 in the afternoon p
at the auditorium were Alan Il
Usher, Joliet; May Huddleston, Jol- a
It; Nadine Hetland, Joliet; Dorothy Il
edel, Roundup, and James Chittick, a
aurel. Mr.. Macdonald was in 81
N
The series at the gymnasium fl
pened at 9 with the Laurel band
followed by bands from c;
romberg, Columbus, Bridger, Park m
ity, Billings junior high school,
oundup and Red Lodge; Billings
'chestra; mixed chorus massed re- R
earsal at 1, band massed rehearsal; o
I'd girls glee club massed rehearsal. o.
The bands paraded through the di
,wntown streets early in the eve Ell
ng. The evening program of mass W
groups opened at 8 at the gym NJ
Continued on Page Twelve) 81
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Plant $4,000 Trout
In Yellowstone River

The Laurel Rod and Gun club as,
sisted in planting of $4,000 loch.
laven trout Monday in the Yellow.
stone river between Laurel and Park
City.
The young trout were about an
inch and a half long. They We're
brought here from the states Big
Timber hatchery by the fisheries di-
vision of the Montana fish and game
commission.
Laurel outlook., 1948-04-28

All over the nation during the
spring season thousands of earnest
music students, coached by cores
of harassed teachers, are appearing
before adjudicators in towns and
The Nome nugget., 1948-01-07
Strife In India Before Security Council
tBY Larry Hauck)

LAKE SUCCESS, (P) - The strife and bloodshed touched off by the partitioning of India off cially came to the attention of the United Nations today when the security council took up 'India's complaint against Pakistan, her sister dominion, over fighting in Kashmir.
 The issue of Kashmir, a prince ly state about the size of Kansas in northernmost India, covers only the current focal point of fighting, but some observers be- lieved that other problems of splintered India might now be aired before the U. N.
 British India was carved up along Moslem- Hindu lines last Aug. Is, with most of the Moslems in Pakistan and the Hindus in In- dia. Much of the strife has en- tered on which of the two coun- tries some of the princely states with split populations should join. Three-fourths of Kashmir's four million inhabitants are Moslems, but their ruler, Hari Singh, is a Hindu, and tug-of-war has been under way over utilization. India charges that Pakistan is support ing an invasion of Kashmir.
The Nome nugget., 1948-01-07
Seek Injunction In Cable Strike

NEW YORK, (P)-Three struck cable companies sought court ac- ton today enjoining the CIO American communications asso- citation from refusing the handle foreign messages sent to or from interior domestic offices on land lines.
 The companies, involved since Friday in strike of overseas com munications workers, Monday ap- pealed to the national labor rela- tions board to seek federal court injunction against the union be- cause it allegedly had refused to handle struck copy" on domestic lines.
 The firms are the Mackay Radio and Telegraph Co.,, Commercial Cable Co.,, and All-America Cab les. A fourth firm, Western Union Telegraph Co.,, cables division, also was struck. The walkout in- wolves some $500 members of AGA and the independent All American Cables employees asso- citation.
The Nome nugget., 1948-01-07
u. s. And Canada Reach Agreement
 On Seal Protection

OTTAWA, R) - Canada an- nounced yesterday the conclusion of an interim agreement with the United States for continued pro- lection of the seal herds of the north Pacific against depletion.
 The external affairs department said the present provisional fur seal agreement will be continued until a permanent pact can be ar ranged.
 A conservation program was begun in 1911 after indiscriminate killing had greatly reduced the size of the Pribiloff Island herds. The United States, Britain, Japan and Russia were parties to the program, but Japan broke the agreement when war was declared on the United States in 1941. Dur ing the war Canada and the United States agreed to protect the herds.
 The Pribilof Island herds had been reduced to about 216,000 by 1912, but since then the program has built them up to more than 3,6OO,OO0 in a program adminiS- tered by the U. s. fish and wild life service. Canada receives 20 per cent of the years furs. The Dominion's proceeds in l946l94T amounted to $632,722.
The Nome nugget., 1948-01-07
Protest Red Cross Goal Too High

WASHINGTON (P)-The Amer ican Red Cross goal of $75,00O,00O for its l948 fund-raising campaign brought protest yesterday from the Fl Paso, Tex, chapter that quotas set by the national organ ization are too high.
 E. M. Kelley, Red Cross board chairman in Ell Paso, said in the Texas City that he is flatly reject ing a $33,800 quota there.
The Nome nugget., 1948-01-07
Greeks Increase Army Strength

ATHENS, tP)-With the con- sent of he United States, the strength of the Greek army is to be increased by l2,000 men and the manpower of the national guard is to be boosted to 50,000 men, Premier Themistokles Soph- pulis announced Monday night.
 The decision, he said, consti- tutes a reply to the help given Communist rebels by Greece's neighbors and is intended to en- courage hose who defended and liberated Konitsa in the last week of the old year. The announc- ement was issued after Souphou- lis conferred for two hours with Dwight P. Griswold, head of the American air mission to Greece.
 At the same time, the U. S. state department announced in Washington that as part of the program 10 aid Greece in its fight against Communism Britain had been given blanket authority to transfer or lease military equip ment 10 the Greek government.
The Nome nugget., 1948-01-07
Burglars Are Finicky About Housekeeping

BILLINGS, Mont. (P-B Burg lars who stole a rifle, two pipes and a can of tobacco from Joe Wersals house took time to cook themselves a snack and coffee.
 Wersal was bit less put out when he found the men had also stayed long enough to rinse off their dirty dishes and sweep the floor.
The Nome nugget., 1948-01-07

The VG,ume of Saturn is about T50 times that of the earth. It ex- reeds the earth in mass only about 95 times, however, because the density of Saturn is much less.
The Nome nugget., 1948-01-07
BEN GILLETTE MUCH IMPROVED

Ben Gillette has been confined to his home with the flu but is reported much improved.
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For RENT

For Rent: - Two-room furnished
Apt with bath; adults. Phone
232-J. 1c
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For Sale:-152 Acres, so tillable, 90
acres in Meadow and Grain. Sub
irrigated. Land is very productive.
Garden, two springs, family sized
bearing orchard consisting of 3
apple trees, pear, peach, prune,
! ounce, 2 cherries, 2 plums, 3
crabapples, and small fruit. Seven
room house with bath, hardwood
floors, full cement basement, fur
mace heated, plastered throughout
excellent condition inside and out,
city lights, telephone. Large lawn
with flowers. shrubbery and rose
bushes. Barn room for ten head Of
cattle, loft 30 ton of hay Water
piped into barn yard Two car
garage. Poultry house for $50
chickens. 3 miles from town on
good graveled road With place
goes 8 head of cattle, 100 chickens,
30-h.p Caterpillar in good shape,
plows, binder, and other farm
equipment Place will cut around
100000 feet of mixed saw timber.
All crops 60 with place. Priced
ready to go, S12,50O $500 down,
balance to be arranged.-E A.
STROUT REALTY. John F. Bowen,
Associate, Phone $50, Box 295. Res.
Phone 66M lc
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These trucks originally cost nearly
$4,000 and are brand new and
ready to go. For further details,
see or write L. L. Smith, Box GAG,
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If you have a vacant lot for sale,
contact H. F. Gotfredson, at Bur
CANS. 1c
WANTED:-30' and 35' Lodgepole
Pine Poles Not Peeled. J. Neils
Lumber Company. Aft.
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For Sale:-Two Rockers. Phone
l49-R. TX
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For Sale:-l Portable Sawmill with
So Tower edger, $165OOO; l single
drum, swinging boom gas TANNER,
$780,; l D4 Caterpillar 1900 hours,
with Hydraulic Angle dozer and
power take-off and belt pulley,
S570000. Robert Hewett, Box 90,
Boomers Ferry, Idaho. Blk
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ATTENTION!

LOGGERS CONTRACTORS:
Now is the chance that comes once
in a lifetime to own a I80-h.p. Fed
eral Prime Mover Truck at "a the
usual price. Tandem drive, double
reduction axles. Equipped with
Westinghouse air brakes, steering,
clutch and front shock absorbers.
Ten l1:OO by 20, l4-ply tires. These
trucks were owned by the Army
but never used. There are only
six available at $4,000, delivered.
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For Sale:-Round Oak heater; two
bird cages complete; several pint
and quart jars in perfect condition
Inquire Mrs. Shaw, Stryker TX
For Sale: 1899 Buick Special
Sedan Good Condition, new tires.
Phone 266-W-3. Peter V. Klinke.
92x
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For Roofing Neels. and Roll Brick
Siding, Call 174-J CANDLES, Lib
by. &c
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For Sale;-4-room house, not mod
ern, in Troy. Water piped into
kitchen. w. B. Lensing, Box 1865,
Troy eff.
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CLASSIFIED

For Sale at my Ranch near Eur
eka:-One icebox, shower bath with
fixtures, umbrella tent, two army
cots, all little used and in good
condition; also electric radio, two
burner electric plate, waffle iron,
flat irons, coasters, other small cleo
trio appliances, some bedding, fruit
jars and odds and ends of household
utensils. Frank L. Salter, Eureka.
TX
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MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED:-3O' and 35' Lodgepole
Pine Poles Not Peeled. J. Neils
Lumber Company. Aft.
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For Sale:-One All-steel wheel
trailer, with bitches. Mrs. Wenzler,
Box 1857 TX