Urged $287,000,000 for Strategic Military Highways
Texas highway chief Brady Gentry urged Congress to appropriate at least 287 million dollars for strategic military highways and access roads to army and navy reservations. He testified that 7,000 miles of war department designated highways meet heavy military use specs and Texas could receive 8 to 10 million if 287 million is approved. R. L. Bobbitt to testify next day.
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Washington
Brady Gentry
Texas Highway Commission
House Roads Committee
Gentry
War Department
Congress
Texas
Public Roads Administration
Texas Highway Department
Department
R. L. Bobbitt
Top O Texas Fiesta Opens June 12 In Pampa
Pampa announces its tenth annual Top O Texas Fiesta June 12 to 14 with two parades dances and a rodeo at Recreation Park. Old timers groups 89ers 1900s and 1910s wear colored ribbons and receive a barbecue. native states societies will elect queens and enter floats.
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Pampa
Texas
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Organization of Native States Societies
Jaycees
Recreation Park
Bristol grandmother earns private pilot’s license at 49
Mrs. Alfred Zachary aged 49, grandmother of four and staff member at Sullins College, received her private pilot's license after 35 hours of flight instruction. She passed the CAA test and hopes to teach young men to fly as a flight instructor and contribute to national defense.
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Bristol
Alfred Zachary
Zachary
Sullins College
CAA
Friona Lions Club Organized In Friona
Friona Lions Club is organized with W. L. Edelmen as president and a slate of vice presidents, officers, and directors for two and one year terms. Charter members include A. A. Crow and others. The club will meet on the first and third Tuesdays at the Federated Club House.
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Friona Lions Club
Friona
W. L. Edelmen
Frank Spring
Slone Osborn
G. B. Burke
Eric Rushing
Charles McLain
H. T. Magness
Lion Tanner
Ray Landrum
R. J. McReynolds
Club
A. A. Crow
E. W. Greyson
S. H. Haile
O. F. Lange
J. R. Roden
Glen Reeve
Lions
Federated Club House
Rimrock Lake Faces Low Water for Irrigation
Rimrock Lake in the Cascades, a popular boating center, may shrink to a trickle as summer ends due to the poorest water supplies in years. Virtually all water behind Rimrock dam will be drawn off for Yakima valley irrigation, says Reclamation Chief D. E. Ball.
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Rimrock, Wash
Rimrock Lake
Cascades
Rimrock Dam
Yakima Valley
Reclamation
D. E. Ball
McLean Annual Rodeo Set for June 25 26
McLean to host annual dreo jubilee June 25 and 26 with first pioneers honored and visiting bands. A monster street parade will be staged and a cowgirls contest offers a $75 saddle and $25 boots for top prizes. A square dance on horseback features rodeo divisions and prizes, with old fiddlers contest and bands from nearby towns providing music both days.
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Mclean
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Soros
Denver
Zool
American Hotels Corp
Frank W. Case
Gen. Mgr
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Mae Rea Cen
BLACK
Luar
Schenley Distillers Corp
California
Cyt al Aah
Hollywood
Catalina
Blackburn's
Blackburn Bros
West Texas
Iods
E. W. Boedecker
Roy Clements
C. D. Holmes
ElRoy Wilson
L. G. Sympson
Jo Usewife
Phillips
Phillips 66
Araff
Lake
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Tone
Amarillo
Dumas
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