Sul Ross Faculty Members To Be Away During The Summer
Sul Ross faculty members will teach or study away during summer terms. Dr. C. B. Casey will teach at Southern Methodist University replacing Dr. H. A. Trexler. Miss Stather Elliott will study at the University of Texas and travel. Dr. J. W. Harris will teach at New Mexico Normal University in Las Vegas. Miss Miltia Hill plans to study in New York and attend the World's Fair. Miss Annie Kate Ferguson will study at the University of Southern California. Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde joins the Interior Department travel bureau at $1 a year to promote U S travel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sul Ross
C. B. Casey
H. A. Trexler
Sal Reas
J. W. Harris
New Mexico Normal University
Las Vegas
Miltia Hill
New York
Annie Kate Ferguson
University of Southern California
Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde
Travel Bureau of the Interior Department
United States
Five Low Priced Homes On HOLC Plan Offer Quick Sale
Several six and nine room houses described with down payments from 50 to 1000 dollars and monthly payments from about 14 to 31 dollars including 5 percent interest. Ads urge consulting a real estate dealer for title insurance and home protection options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward School
HOLC
College
Paved Street
Abbreviated star chase at McDonald Observatory telescope
A dramatic sequence shows astronomer Carl K. Seyfert guiding a 75 ton telescope through five and a half miles of wiring and 33 motors at McDonald Observatory. The display, a joint University of Texas Chicago project, captures the instrument tracking a distant star with precision and Earth rotation compensation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McDonald Observatory
Universities of Texas
Chicago
Carl K. Seyfert
Dr. Seyfert
Man Wins 30000 in Ugly Man Contest Donates Prize
R M Raney won a $30 000 ugly man contest and donated the prize to a Melbourne Australia hospital. Alfred Bell of Lemington England climbed a 130 foot chimney for three hours to rescue someone or something.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. M. Raney
Melbourne
Australia
Alfred Bell
Lemington
Eng
Woman Sells Birds To Buy Victorian Antiques
Mrs Parker of Sinton raises parrots love birds and other small birds to fund Victorian era furnishings. From eighteen birds she now owns 200 plus parrots and 35 to 40 love bird species. She shipped sixty four birds to St Louis with no losses. Ernest Parker keeps over 200 game birds including Mearns and Asiatic masked quail and various partridges and pheasants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinton
Texas
Ernest Parker
Brewster County Auction Of Land Tied To Latta Davenport Suit
A Brewster County Texas sheriff sale lists lands seized under an execution issued May 1939 in the Latta Davenport suit against Fred Woolf and W A Scott. The description covers 8860 acres in multiple surveys and tracts, excluding several parcels, with the sale to occur at the courthouse door by public auction for cash on the first Tuesday of June 1939 between 10 AM and 4 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brewster County
Texas
W. A. Scott
Tex-Mex Ry. Co
Tex-Mex Ry Co
Fred Woolf
Elmer Taylor
Lawrence Latta
Lorene Davenport
Brewster Co
A. D
Alabama to adopt new state seal with map design
After 71 years the state will replace the old seal adopted in 1868 deemed by the Daughters of the Confederacy as designed by a carpetbagger. The design features a map of Alabama and its principal rivers. The notice cites sheriff records from Brewster County Texas dated May 6, 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Daughters of the Confederacy
Bogus Money Vanishes During Police Lesson
In Butte Montana a counterfeit money lesson at the peace officers training school sponsored by Sheriff Al McLeod featured a secret operator using a few counterfeit dollars. During the session four dollars disappeared, providing a laugh for students and a minor embarrassment for the operator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Butte
Mont
Peace Officers Training School
al McLeod
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Trans-Pecos Abstract Company
Cardui
Alpine
Pink Phelps
Avalanche
Standard Oil Company OF Texas Presents
Walt Disneys
Little People
Victoria
A. Vice Winter
Alpine, Texas
Nash
Standard
Donald
Mickey
Standard Stations, Inc
Standard OK Dealers
Wolf
Standard Oil Company OF Texas
L.abeard Distributor
BIG Bend Motor CO
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