Texas Highway Commission approves new state road projects
Austin June 14 The Texas Highway Commission announced over 3000000 in new highway orders and appropriations for road improvements and construction. A key item is a 2488000 free bridge on Highway 87 over the Neches River at Dryden Ferry linking Port Arthur and Orange with a planned 746000 to 1120028 federal grant and 618923 to 992000 state share. The next hearing is set for July 31 August 1.
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Austin
Texas Highway Commission
Public Works Administration
Neches River
Drydens Ferry
Port Arthur
Orange
Jefferson County
Bailey
Muleshoe
Lamb County
Childress
Get Team Fonds
Clarendon Crash Fatal. Tru man Parks Dies in Auto Rollover
Clarendon June 14 Tru man Parks 35 died from a broken neck after a car stolen in Amarillo missed a culvert and crashed 40 feet along the highway before hitting an embankment. Coroner's verdict ruled accidental. Body found shortly after midnight. parents from Texline. Funeral arrangements pending.
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Clarendon
Truman Parks
Parks
Amarillo
W. H. van Shaw
Texline
Tech Newspaper Changes Schedule
Lubbock June 14 The Toreador a semi weekly rather than weekly publication from fall. Salaries increase for editors and managers. Toreador editor to $40 monthly from $35, business manager on commission. La Ventana yearbook editor to $50 monthly from $35, business manager on commission, about $225 yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lubbock
Toreador
College
la Ventana
Son of Representative Wins in University Politics
Theodore Christianson Jr won the presidency of the University of Minnesota all university council on June 14, defeating two rivals. Son of U.S. Representative Theodore Christianson, he led the Gopher party to sweep most of the student ticket and extend the party's campus dominance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Theodore Christianson, Jr
All-University Council
Christiansoon
Theodore Christianson
Minnesota
Young Christianson
Gopher Party
Surf Riders to Exhibition at City Lake Sunday
Surf-board riding will debut in the Panhandle with a Sunday exhibition at City Lake southwest of Amarillo. Local youths Bo Hansen and Dick Garre join Lee Williams of Las Vegas New Mexico in demonstrations while Williams trains them for the Tri State Fair Association speedboat races. The event, free with lake gate admission, showcases a natural site suitable for a mile run and potential multiple entries.
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Hawaiian Islands
Panhandle
City Lake
Amarillo
Bo Hensen
Dick Garre
Lee Williams
Las Vegas
N. M
Hansen and
Garre
Mr. Williams
Notre Dame to Continue Huge Building Program
Notre Dame in South Bend plans to extend a 4 million dollar building drive with new contracts for a 250 thousand dollar students infirmary. Work to begin immediately as the Rockne memorial fieldhouse may start before September classes. The project also includes two residence halls a law building and engineering and commerce facilities.
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South Bend
Ind
University of Notre Dame
John F. O'Hara
Co. 8. C
Rockne Memorial
John F. Cushing
Edward N. Hurley
Soviet glider sets 21 hour 29 minute record flight
Comrade Rastorguyev, a Soviet gliding enthusiast, set a 21 hours 29 minutes record in a two seated glider at Crimea despite unfavorable weather conditions. The achievement highlights continued endurance feats in aviation sport by Soviet pilots.
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Crimea
Rastorguyev
Texas Cotton Committee Sets July 1 Public Hearing
A Texas Legislature committee, formed to study conditions affecting cotton, announced a public hearing for July 1 in Dallas. Invitations went to Henry A. Wallace and C A Cobb, with J B McDonald later included after objecting. Rep. Olsen withdrew a prior objection, F E Knetsch was elected chairman. urged attendance of all involved in growing, ginning, transporting, trading, and processing cotton.
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Austin
Texas
Dallas
Henry A. Wallace
C. A. Cobb
Cotton Division
Agriculture Administration
J. B. McDonald
J. J. Olsen
Yoakum
McDonald
Olsen
F. FE. Knetsch
Seguin
Oriental chess men from Canton brought to Richmond
A set of oriental chess pieces owned by J. G. Mitchell of Richmond was brought from Canton, China in 1823 by his grandfather. The pieces are beautifully carved with grotesque patterns.
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Richmond
J. G. Mitchell
Canton
China
Students Ditch Digging Funds College Education
Federal works projects including ditch digging let 112 Union College students earn 11,245 toward their education. A misfired line notes a secret African identity issue incorrectly, but the person is identified as Indian rather than African.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenectady
N. Y
U.P
Union College
Around the Clock KGNC Saturday Radio Schedule
A dense listing of KGNC Saturday programming from morning to late night includes musical programs, news segments, and live performances. Notable items feature Lou Childre, Betsy, Jane Walker, Isham Jones Orchestra, Lou Childre again, Blatz Baseball, and the Panhandle Christian Church program, with multiple news and variety segments throughout the day.
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Inson
Betsy
Parade Ground
Fehoos
Markel
Jane Walker
Home Economist
Anson Weeks
Cleo Brown
Isham Jones
Ted Lewis
Levine
Touis HH
Smith
Cal Parley
Lou Childre
Ray Noble
Lane Prescott
Florence Wentworth
Pred Mayer
Merle Mack
Nat
Spice of Life
Panhandle Christian Church
Texas League
Melody Time
Stables Plan Exhibit For Opening Day At Sunset Stables
Sunset Stables to host a public exhibition of the Panhandle’s finest saddle horses Sunday at 3 PM. R A Burnett built the 350 acre complex at the old Summers home near Georgia Street and Fifteenth Avenue with four barns for 60 horses completed.
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Sunset Stables
Panhandle
R. A. Burnett
J. L. Summers
Georgia Street
Fifteenth Avenue
Amarillo
Burnett
Everett, Scott
J. L. (Cotton) Wiley
Blind Happiness and Success From Texas School for the Blind
In Austin on June 14 the Texas School for the Blind, one of the state’s oldest institutions dating to 1856, has sent many graduates into teaching, music, and business. The school emphasizes training to overcome handicap, with 230 students and strong tracks in typing, stenography, and crafts, including woodwork, basketry, and weaving.
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State School For Sightless
Austin
Dallas
Fred Lory
Texas School For the Blind
Texas
William Parks
Chicago
Henry Lebermann
The
Christian Church
State University
W. FE. Allen
Amarillo Proclaims Better Housing Day
Mayor Ross D. Rogers designates Saturday June 15 1935 as Amarillo Better Housing Day to promote homes building and modernization under the Better Housing Program, aiming to boost employment and local recovery through civic observances.
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Amarillo
Ross D. Rogers
City of
Cole's Artists Broadcast on KGNC Monday Evening
Richard Cole orchestra guests on KGNC for a 15 minute Monday broadcast following a dance at The Nat from 9 30 p m to 1 a m Featuring Christie Wilson Melvin Winters Malon Gunn Larry Taylor Bennett Purnell and 16 musicians The group closes a Hotel Skirvin Oklahoma City engagement tonight and heads next to Colorado Springs Copper Grove Antlers Hotel admission 1 00 per person 1 25 for stags.
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Richard Cole
KGNC
Wilbur
Hawk
Tri-State Fair Association
Cole
MCA
Christie Wilson
Little Rock
Ark
Melvin Winters
San Antonio
Malon Gunn
Larry Taylor
Bennett Purnell
Woman Freed on $2,000 Bond in Texas Church Fatality
Alice Texas June 14 Mrs H L Morrisey 35 freed on $2 000 bond for murder of her husband Sunday at St Elizabeths Catholic Church as they prayed over marital troubles He survived long enough to report being shot twice in a struggle. Morrisey 40 a court reporter and VA Army reserve major died Monday Friends in San Diego posted the bond and she will stay with them until an October district court term.
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Alice
Tex
O.R
H. L. Morrisey
St. Elizabeth's Catholic Church
Flatonia
Fayette County
Morrisey
San Diego
Here
Maj
F. R. Raymond Stocker
St. Elizabeth's Church
Mission Presents The Nitwits for Midnight Matinee
Theater-goers have praised Wheeler and Woolsey for seasons and now the Mission presents The Nitwits as their latest film. The midnight matinee tonight at Mission theater opens at 11 30 with a 11 45 showtime. No advance in prices. A group of selected short subjects will accompany the feature.
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Wheeler and Woolsey
Daffy
Mission Theater
Robert Watson
Doorg
Watson
Cowboy Band to Appear in Vitaphone Movie Short
Hardin-Simmons University Cowboy Band was announced to film a Vitaphone short for Warner Bros Pi tutes. G. B. Sandefer hosted a chuckwagon barbecue on campus as the Vitaphone party, en route from a Texas visit, heard the news in Abilene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abilene
Hardin-Simmons University
Vitaphone Corporation
Warner Bros Pitutes, Inc
G. B. Sandefer
Los Angeles
Texas
Braille Education Replaces Point System in Texas School
The article explains Braille based reading and writing now taught with stiff paper tablets and punched holes to form shorthand. It notes Texas has about 2,600 blind residents and the United States around 65,000. It also mentions the Guilt Stream eroding 3000 times more water than the Mississippi.
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Texas
United States
Supervised Play Hours for Park to Open This Summer
Wellington residents will have supervised play hours at City Park this summer. The wading pool opens today under a responsible lady's supervision, with a weekly afternoon story hour during the season, announced by Mrs. C. E. High, chairman.
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News
Wellington
C. E. High
Fults to Stand Trial in Mississippi Bank Robbery Case
Gov Allred granted a requisition sending Texas convict Ralph Fults to Mississippi to answer a bank robbery charge connected to a Prentiss raid in March. Fults, with Raymond Hamilton, had been linked to the crime and is serving 10 years for theft robbery and burglary after a January conditional pardon was revoked in March.
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Austin
Allred
Ralph Fults
Texas
Mississippi
Fults
Raymond Hamilton Desperado
Prentiss
Miss
Historic Springs Developed by CCC at Balmorhea
San Solomon Springs at Balmorhea, once irrigating 21 million gallons daily for 400 years and serving Indigenous peoples, is being transformed by a CCC camp. A rock wall around the spring bath houses and a scenic rim road are part of the project.
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Pecos
San Solomon
Balmorhea
CCC
Schumann-Heink Plans Five More Years of Work
Coronado Calif June 14 Mme Ernestine Schumann Heink opera singer and actress says she has allotted herself five more years of work as she nears her 74th birthday tomorrow She will attend the wedding of her granddaughter and namesake to Henry Peterson Rumble former ensign of Philadelphia as part of her birthday observance.
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Coronado
Calif
Mme
Ernestine Schumann-Heink
Hollywood
Henry Peterson Rumble
Ensign
Philadelphia
Kidnaper Arthur Gooch Sentenced to Hang
Federal Judge R L Williams set June 19 in Muskogee for Arthur Gooch the first federal prisoner condemned to die for kidnapping He noted federal law allows death by hanging with no electrocution option and ordered Gooch the kidnapper of two Paris Texas policemen to be sentenced to hang.
Robbers Return Bradley’s Change After Hold Up
In Waterloo Iowa on June 14 two men robbed August Bradley early today. One man produced a gun while the other searched his pockets. The pair found only a few cents. they handed Bradley his small change and claimed they have more.
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Waterloo
Iowa
August Bradley
Bradley
Ground broken for two Model FHA Homes today
Ground will be broken for two Model FHA Homes this afternoon in observance of National Better Housing Day. Mayor Ross D. Roger will officiate at the ceremony in Bivins Addition at 1 30 o'clock. The event marks the start of construction on 10 000 such homes nationwide with public viewing of building designs during construction and after completion the homes will be offered for sale.
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Ross D. Roger
Bivins Addition
Sig West
Federal Housing Administration
United States
West
Abernathy Man To Head Tech Alumni
J Doyle Settle of Abernathy state representative was elected president of the Alumni and ex Students Association of Texas Technological College at a recent meeting in Lubbock. R L Hooten Shallowater school superintendent was chosen first vice president with Al Simmons second vice president J W Jackson representative to athletic council and Bill Collins three year director. Graduates of 1935 were welcomed by Holmes Webb of the class of 1930.
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Lubbock
J. Doyle Settle
Abernathy
Services Held for Mrs. E. L. Davis
Funeral services for 62 year old Emma L. Davis were conducted in Griggs Chapel with Rev. H. N. Hunt officiating. Burial followed at Llano Cemetery. She died Tuesday in Mesa Arizona. Survivors include husband W. L. Davis two sons H B Davis of Cameron Oklahoma and L E Davis of Woodward Oklahoma and three daughters Effie Davis of Clairn Oklahoma Opal Owens of Mesa Arizona and T C Ward of Borger.
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Emma L. Davis
Griggs Chapel
H. N. Hunt
First Baptist
Church of
Borger
Llano Cemetery
Davis
Mesa
Ariz
W. L. Davis
H. B. Davis
Cameron
Oklahoma
L. E. Davis
Woodward
Effie Davis
Clayin
Opal Owens
Arizona
T. C. Ward
Deadline Falls On Sunday For Tax Payments
Potter County Tax collector Jewell Davidson warned delinquent taxpayers that penalties and interest on the last half of 1934 taxes take effect July 1. The deadline June 30 falls on a Sunday, and legally extends to midnight that date, leaving the office likely open Sunday to collect taxes.
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Potter County
Jewell Davidson
Miss Davidson
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Itly
India
Africa
Paone
Pinkney Packing Company
the Pandoleers
Micro News
Gram
Larry and
Lalian
Black
Melody Pater
Verliena Stringer
Studio Grand
Robert T. Hilliard
Shamrock Street
Blatz
Capid Hotel
Edmund Pierson
Lawrence
New York
National Athletic Association For the
Mission Presents
Cowboy
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Madame Colette
France
Schumann-Heink
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Blackburn-Shaw
White Ambulance Service
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