Tax for Defense Prompts Possible Tax Increases
Washington reports indicate Congress may raise taxes before adjournment to help fund a new national defense program. Leaders from both parties are quietly polling members while the Treasury studies revenue options. A $32 million boost to defense outlays funds civilian pilot training and expands aircraft industry tooling for defense production.
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Congress
House
Senate
Treasury
Roosevelt
Budget Bureau
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Doughton
North Carolina
Rep
Treadway
Massachusetts
Harrison
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
Cooper
Tennessee
Morgenthau
White House
Floyd Jubilee Opens Today
Floydada May 26 Eight to ten thousand people expected for Floyd County Golden Anniversary celebration. Rodeo opens this afternoon and runs through Tuesday as part of the Floyd County Pioneers Reunion events led by president Joe McCollum. Parade at 2:30 with marshal C L Anderson. bands Spur Memphis and Floydada. Barbecue at noon and a formal program at 1 with speeches by McCollum Keeny and Dickson. Retha Robinson enters calf roping. Afternoon shows at 2 daily. night dances planned Tuesday by Ned Bradley of Lubbock.
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Floydada
Floyd County
Joe McCollum
Lockney
C. L. Anderson
Spur
Memphis
McCollum
Dana Thomas Harmon
C. H. Featherston
Wichita Falls
Charley Moore
Holdenville
Okla
Retha Robinson
R. B
Bob) Robinson
Matador
Westerfield
Ned Bradley
Lubbock
Showers Cover Panhandle Area
A north central Panhandle thunderstorm moved southeast drenching fields and pastures with more moisture expected overnight. Dumas led rainfall with over an inch and a half in an hour, while Boise City to Amarillo reported from a half inch to an inch. Hereford and Plainview saw rain totals near one inch and two-thirds of an inch respectively, with many Wichita Plains towns recording lighter showers Sunday night.
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Panhandle
Dumas
Oklahoma Panhandle
Boise City
Amarillo
Etter
Stinnett
Sanford
Pampa
Canyon
Channing
Texas
Oklahoma Panhandles
Plains
Hereford
Plainview
Dalhart
Dimmitt
Panhandle Brick Campaign Surges Toward 250000 Goal
Panhandle towns expect thousands more bricks for the Canyon Historical Museum as reports from Dalthart Pampa Childress Plainview and Borger arrive. Million bricks aim includes donations events and a Buffalo Lake dance headlined by Carlton Scales to raise funds. Maverick Club tops donors with 20213 bricks while Plainview and Amarillo groups contribute.
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Panhandle
Historical Museum
Canyon
Dalthart
Pampa
Childress
Plainview
Borger
Panhandie
Buffalo Lake
Carlton Scales
Jim Golding
Maverick Club
C. W. Farr
Maverick Boys
Farr
Amarillo
Clyde Rehmeyer
John Speer
Col
R. P. Smyth
John W. Murthison
Kiwanis Club
Museum
Sim Kelley
Grady Hazlewood
Mr. Hazlewood
Demos Organize For Meet Today in Texas
The Texas Democratic state executive committee backed George C. Butler for temporary chairmanship of the state convention and Mayor Tom Miller for keynote. Vann M. Kennedy, Oveta Hobby, and Ernest Boyett were endorsed for secretary, parliamentarian, and sergeant-at-arms. Harmony leaders favored instructing the Texas delegation to back Garner while not opposing Roosevelt. Roosevelt supporters held two rallies and a parade signaling a hard fight for convention control.
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Waco
Democratic State Executive Committee
George C. Butler
Houston
Tom Miller
Austin
Vann M. Kennedy
Oveta Culp Hobby
Ernest Boyett
Harmony
Texas
National Party
John N. Garner
Roosevelt
Dumas Boosters Parade Through Amarillo Ahead of Reunion
A crowd of about 300 Dumas cowboys and cowgirls arrive in Amarillo for a booster tour promoting the Rodeo and Old Settlers Reunion. A mounted unit, the Dumas High School Band, and nearly 100 cars lead a downtown parade from Fillmore to Polk. Mayor Ross Rogers welcomes them at the Amarillo Hotel where they broadcast on KGNC and join a Lions Club luncheon before heading to Panhandle, Pam pa, Borger and Stinnett.
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Amarillo
Fillmore Street
Twelfth Avenue
Polk Street
Amarillo Hotel
Dumas High School
Ross Rogers
KGNC
Lions Club
Dumas Booster
Dewey proposes nonpartisan defense board plan
Dallas May 27 1940 Thomas E Dewey Republican candidate sharply criticized the New Deal defense program calling for a five point plan including a nonpartisan national defense board with real power to plan and direct rearmament. He urged removing socialists and subversives from government and argued defense must be balanced and undertaken now with more than airpower. He tied national strength to U S morale and warned against entanglement in Europe.
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Dallas
Thomas E. Dewey
National Defense Board
Texas Republican Central Committee
Dewey
Army
Navy
U. S
United States
France
Britain
Weather summary for Amarillo and region
The Amarillo region will see Tuesday fair and warmer, with west Texas displaying fair skies and afternoon cloudiness along with scattered showers and thunderstorms. New Mexico experiences fair weather with afternoon clouds and showers in the east, while cooler conditions appear east-central Tuesday. Yesterday’s Amarillo highs reached 86 with a low of 39, and 10 inches of precipitation were recorded in the past 24 hours ending 4 PM yesterday.
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Amarillo
West Texas
New Mexico
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