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Newspaper
Ada Weekly News
Location
Ada, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1934
Page
5
This piece extols sportsmanship as a life virtue beyond games. It frames a true sport as a dignified winner and smiling loser who accepts defeat, takes responsibility, and strives to improve, tying the ethic to character in daily life. It cites examples and moral lessons from sports and public figures.
Treasury forecast for fiscal year 1934 shows total federal outlay near 9.89 billion dollars with an operating deficit of about 6.63 billion. Woodin, still named secretary, predicts year end public debt around 28.68 billion, up from 22.5 billion last June as War costs and emergency spending drive record borrowing.
Six year old Wallace and four year old Henry Barber, missing in Texas hills since Christmas, were found by a passing horseman after a day and night of cold drizzle and rough terrain. News spread as Santa Claus arrived in messages from grateful donors and their community.
Washington reports the Roosevelt administration plans to seek Congress approval for a four billion dollar government guarantee of farm and home mortgage bonds. The move aims to place bonds on parity with government securities and ease sale, allowing direct exchange for farmers mortgages instead of cash.
The third Congress provision covers emergency activities funded by direct treasury appropriations and RFC advances. The plan also authorizes the Home Owners Loan Corporation and federal land banks to issue obligations with government guarantees for interest payments, and the Tennessee Valley Authority may issue bonds on U S credit.
The text states the domestically consumed portion of a farmer's crop, the farm allotment, will be 40 percent of the average annual cotton production on the farm for the base period 1928 through 1932. The clause links domestic use to past yields and sets a fixed share.
Light flurries fell in Guymon and the Texas Panhandle as a north wind persisted. Temperatures ranged from a morning low of 28 to a high of 34 degrees, with no ground cover due to scant snowfall. Rain fell in Enid and Oklahoma City and nearby areas.
Washington January 6 The radio commission's legal division prepared to recommend revocation of licenses of stations broadcasting hard liquor ads. They face a difficult legal question but believe stations must operate in the public interest and that liquor advertising from wet states reaching dry states may be objectionable and should be forbidden.
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