Utilities Bill Remains in Committee Deadlock in Washington
In Washington on June 12 a White House contact man, the speaker of the House, and a committee chairman failed to break a four month jam on a bill to abolish utilities holding companies. The Senate had passed the measure, with talks focusing on committee action and potential rewrite amid partisan splits.
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Washington
White House
House
Senate
Burns
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Charles H. West
Rayburn
Texas
Pettengill
Indiana
New ROTC Units Planned for Texas Colleges
San Antonio June 12 A Col T A Roberts of the Army ROTC Corps Area headquarters at Fort Sam Houston announced plans for new ROTC units at Texas and New Mexico colleges. He will confer with Texas School of Mines El Paso University of New Mexico St Michaels College Santa Fe. Funds for 12 new ROTC units were allotted from the army appropriation for the new fiscal year beginning July 1.
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San Antonio
R.O.T.C
Texas
New Mexico
Col. T. A. Roberts
Fort Sam Houston
Roberts
el Paso
Texas School of Mines
Albuquerque
University of New Mexico
St. Michaels College
Santa Fe
Army
White Squirrel Captured in Hardin County Texas 1933
A white squirrel was captured in Hardin County Texas in 1933. It was not albino because it lacked pink eyes.
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Hardin County
Texas
McKenzie Seeks Sanity Hearing Stay in Death Penalty Case
John M. McKenzie convicted of murder seeks a writ to bar a new sanity hearing. Attorney E B Simmons argues appellate court jurisdiction and challenges the act authorizing the hearing in Walker County. McKenzie was sentenced to death eight years ago for the murder of Sam Street in San Antonio.
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Austin
John M
Pete) McKenzie
Court of Criminal Appeals
McKenzie
E. B. Simmons
San Antonio
S. W. Dean
Huntsville
Simmons
Walker County
Bexay County
Sam Street
Ohio executes history shows no official executioner
Ohio lacks an official executioner with Warden J C Woodward naming three guards to operate switches so no one knows who delivers the current. A $100 cost is split among four people and burial expenses. Ohio has 217 executions, 189 by electrocution and 28 by hanging, dating back to 1885 with Valentin Wagner the first officially executed.
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Columbus
Ohio
J. C. Woodward
Woodward
Floyd Hermitt
Ashtabula County
William Haas
Hamilton County
Valentine Wagner
Morrow County
Marriage subsidy urged by pastor in Reading
Reverend Edward H. Bonsall Jr. urged Pennsylvania state subsidies for young couples lacking funds to marry. He cited a statewide decline of about 1,000 marriages last year as a reason for government aid to help reduce a perceived trend toward delaying marriage.
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Reading
Pennsylvania
Edward H. Bonsall
Commonwealth
CCC Companies to Be Raised 70 New Quota
Existing CCC units in the eighth corps area will be expanded to 225 men each from June 15 to 30. One hundred eleven new CCC companies will be recruited to 214 men each between July 1 and August 31. Quotas by state include Texas 24784 juniors and 2720 veterans, Oklahoma 12310 juniors and 1350 veterans, Colorado 5192 juniors and 560 veterans, Arizona and New Mexico 2268 juniors and 240 veterans, Wyoming 346 juniors and 90 veterans.
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Eighth Corps
East
Texas
Arizona-New Mexico
Oklahoma
Colorado
Arizona
New Mexico
Wyoming
Texas 1955 Railroad Empire milestone in mileage lead
The article notes Texas as the first state to achieve the highest railroad mileage and leads in rail pioneering, highlighting Texas as a pioneer in railway expansion and network reach during the era.
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Texas
Austin
United States
Union
Railroads Power Texas Growth Through Century of Expansion
June report highlights Texas rail mileage and impact with 17,300 miles of main line across 100+ companies. Notes early Texas rail start in 1830s and 1840s, growth to Dallas via Houston lines, and later revenue boosts from Panhandle wheat oil and East Texas oil.
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Illinois
Pennsylvania
Iowa
California
Japan
Italy
Poland
Sweden
Czechoslovakia
Great Britain
France
Great Panhandle
Rock Island
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Fort Worth
Denver City
East Texas
Texas and Pacific, Cotton Belt
Houston
Galveston
Marshall
Louisiana
Southern Pacific
Houston and
Texas Central
Dallas
State Line
Texas and Pacific
Cole 10 Offer Spicy Program For Nat Dance
Richard Cole leads a 16 piece orchestra from Oklahoma City to The Nat for a three and a half hour dance program on Monday night. The group will entertain Amarrilloans with spice and variety as popular admission of one dollar is charged for each person or a dollar twenty five for stags.
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Cole 10
Richard Cole
Oklahoma City
Skirvin Roof
Nat
Stags
New station seeks better sandy crops in Texas
The Cross Timbers sandy belt in Texas will host an agricultural experiment sub station to study crop varieties and fertilizers for sandy land. Located by A M College extension service, the station will serve a 100 by 50 mile area across multiple counties, with site choices in Brown Comanche Callahan Eastland or Erath.
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Brownwood
Cross Timbers Sandy Tana Belt
Texas
Brown, Comanche
Callahan
Eastland
Erath County
A. & M. College
Ted River
Cross Timbers
Jack, Palo Pinto
Stephens
Montague
Erath
Parker and Wise
Mills
Hamilton
Hood
Cook, Clay
Archer Young
Shackelford
Seven chain letter exchanges active in Cleveland
At least seven chain letter exchanges are operating in Cleveland. One chain is billed as the Whip of low mood and another calls itself the Golden Notarized Chain.
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Cleveland
U.P
Education level among six death row inmates at Tucker Prison Farm
UPI reports in Tucker Prison Farm Arkansas that the six men on death row had minimal schooling. One quit at fourth grade while two had no schooling and two reached third grade and one attended second grade.
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Tucker Prison Farm
Ark
U.P
Sleep Cure Promised by Vegetable Compound Advert
Mrs. Emma G Batchelder of 32 Heard St Chelsea Massachusetts says she was nervous and could not sleep. Her husband works hard at engineering and needed rest but she kept him awake until she tried the Vegetable Compound. She reports better sleep and newfound well being after using it. Get a bottle from your druggist now. Results will please you.
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Emma G. Batchelder
Chelsea
Massachusetts
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