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Died. William Pettus Hobby, 86, onetime Governor of Texas (1917-1921), longtime chairman of the Houston Post and husband of Oveta Gulp Hobby, Ike's first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, who gave his state women's suffrage and its first oil conservation laws, then rode off to the newspaper wars, supervising the Post's rise as one of Texas' most informative and widely read newspapers (circ. 224,-649); in Houston.