Debugging newspapermen with DDT spray over Beltsville
Beltsville Maryland August 21 reporter describes a Department of Agriculture demonstration aboard a C 47 to test an automatic DDT aerosol spray against houseflies Jap beetles and grasshoppers. After five seconds of spray the insects die or lose mobility with the crew noting the pests were dead or DOA upon landing and the spray is to replace hand applications in flight.
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Harmon W. Nichols
Beltsville
Department of Agriculture
Beltsville Research Center
Uncle Sam
Army
Ralph Bolnick
Bill Sullivan
Sullivan
Franklin Mayes
Luray
Sullivann
Aggies From Plains Area To Meet Here
Amarillo A&M Club hosts a Panhandle gathering with guest Aggies from the region. Bill Carmichael, E. E. McQuillen, Dick Hervey, and George Smith will discuss athletics development and scholarships at 7 PM in the Blackstone Hotel Coffee Shop. Three scholarship winners, Joe Gardner, Ralph Biestle, and J L McFarling, will attend as special guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo A&m Club
Panhandle
Texas A&m College
Bill Carmichael
A&m
E. E. McQuillen
College Development Fund
Dick Hervey
Students Association
George Smith
Houston
Aggie
Blackstone Hotel
Tenth and
Tyler
Thad Ansley
C. B. Marsh, Jr
C. B. Williams
Ansley
Carl Miller
Amarillo
Ted Lokey
Joe B. Gardner
West
Ralph G. Biestle
East Tae
J. L. McFarling
Herford
Panhandle officials plan evidence meeting for Cana dian dam
A Tuesday morning gathering in Amarillo aims to draft evidence to persuade Army engineers a dam on the Cana dian is needed. Attending are Amarillo Mayor Lawrence Hagg, Winfield Holbrook of Plainview, Lubbock Mayor W. H Rogers, Hutchinson County Commissioner Fritz Thompson, and others. The mayor's committee includes John McCarty Ed Hardin Gene Klein Jack Cunningham and Jay Taylor. The session starts at 10 in the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Army
Amarilo
Lawrence Hagg
Winfield Holbrook
Plainview
W. H Rogers
Lubbock
Fritz Thompson
Hutchinson County
Berger
John McCarty
Ed Hardin
Gene Klein
Jack Cunningham
Jay Taylor
Amarillo
Bridges Hotel Destroyed by Fire in Troup Tex
One of Troup's landmarks the Bridges Hotel a two story frame structure burned last night in Smith County Texas. Damages estimated at 25000 by owner Mrs Pearl Bridges. Fire origin unknown occupants escaped with some belongings lost. Fireman F P Johnson from Tyler was overcome by smoke and treated in oxygen tent. Troup located about 18 miles southeast of Tyler in Smith County.
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Troup
Tex
Bridges
Pearl Bridges
F. P. Johnson
Tyler
Smith County
From childhood dreams to present work stories from Amarillo
A group of residents recount how their current jobs compare with early ambitions. Mrs Kalka planned stenography and married young to become a homemaker, while Szalkowski shifted from commercial art to photography and teaching others. Singleton pursued fashion design and clerical work, Phipps hoped for medicine but works in a drug store, Mullins remains a dancer, Mathews moved from engineering to telegraph work, and each finds satisfaction in their chosen path.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Kalka
Fuilimore
Amarillo
Chet Szalkowski
Hughes
Amarillo Air Field
Vernie Singleton
Lipscomb
Texas Tech
An Appeal for Refugee Aid
Eleanor Roosevelt appeals for urgent refugee relief in Palestine. She cites Count Folke Bernadotte on 330000 Arab and 7000 Jewish refugees living in dire conditions with food and medical shortages as rains approach. She urges private groups to supply aid through government channels to avert famine and disease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleanor Roosevelt
United Features Syn
Hyde Park
Palestine
Folke Bernadotte
United States
Degrees Awarded to 568 East Texas State Grads
Degrees were conferred on 568 graduates of East Texas State College yesterday in a commencement ceremony. President J. W. Converse announced honors and urged graduates to apply their education to public service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commerce
East Texas State College
San Marcos Doctor Ernest Rose Dies at 48
Funeral services are held for Dr. Ernest Rose a prominent San Marcos physician who died yesterday at Brooke General Hospital San Antonio after a six month illness. He was 48.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SAN Marcos
Ernest Rose
Brooke General Hospital
San Antonio
Rose
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B.f.goodrich
F. Goodrich
Fillmore
Hunt
OLEO
Money Bavers
Lever Circus Sale
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bail
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Ibs
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Fillmore No. 2
N. Fillmore
Hal Martin
G. B. Phipps
North
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Parkland
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Canada
Mexico
J. M. Mathews
Army Tech Village
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Griffin
Baker-Rogers CO. Opfice Supplies
Hall’s Safes
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Sherman
Henry Taubert, Sr
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Kirthstone
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Optometry
Barfield
Khoury Bros
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