New Santa Fe line to Spearman to Morse starts January
Twenty miles of track from Spearman to Morse to fill the last gap in the Santa Fe extension to Amarillo will begin around January 1. A. R. Bandy is resident engineer under W. H. Rochester. contract awarded to Sharp & Fellows of Los Angeles. Right-of-way secured. joint track with Rock Island from Morse north of Dumas to connect with Amarillo line.
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Spearman
Morse
Santa Fe
Amarillo
Boise City
A. R. Bandy
W. H. Rochester
Sharp & Fellows of
Los Angeles
Rochester
Rock Island
Dumas
Heaton
Pampa
Lefors
William A. Smith
Straford
Canadian River
Bivins Ranch
Beaver River
Mrs Maynard Heads Church Women in First Congregational
Mrs John Maynard has been elected to lead the Woman's Association of the First Congregational Church for the coming year. Officers include Mrs Paul V Reed first vice president Mrs R N Blackwell second vice president Mrs C L Miller third vice president Mrs La Mar Jones secretary and Mrs F A Gantz treasurer. The association chose a needy family to aid until after Christmas.
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John Maynard
Woman's Association
First Congregational Church
Maynard
Paul V. Reed
R. N. Blackwell
C. L. Miller
la Mar Jones
F. A. Gantz
University to teach students art of waiting
The Ohio State University will train students through a waiting on table course designed for those working through school. The program provides special textbooks examinations and laboratory work in table waiting to prepare graduates for future waiter or waitress positions.
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ART OF
United Press
Columbus
Ohio State University
Faculty group to rule on frats Monday
A faculty committee on social organization in Austin will decide Monday whether the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity as a group bears responsibility for the alcoholic poisoning death of Mildred Woodruff after a basement drinking party. Two students have been expelled from the university over the incident.
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Associated Press
Austin
Dec
Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity
Mildred Woodruff
Flashes of Life and Quick Wits in Docket of Night Notices
A collage of brief UI scenes from Newark to New York. Romeo Daitz sustains a chest wound during a Shakespearean office incident. Mrs Lyons and Romeo exchange quips as the pistol misfires. Senator Vander berg meets President Hoover over a car, not politics. A London tenant mails a gas leak note, and an explorer crew brings a rabbit’s foot for luck in a quest to find Inca cities.
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Associated Press
Newark
N. J
Romeo Daitz
Elizabeth C. Lyons
Romeo
Juliet
New York
George R. Johnson
U D C to name officers for year at Austin convention
Election of officers for the coming year dominated the United Daughters of the Confederacy convention in Austin. Two candidates vied for division president to replace Miss Katie Daffan, with Mrs B B Knolle and Mrs Whit Boyd the Houston contenders. Scholarships at the University of Texas were awarded to Ike T Moore Miss Larue Pardon and David Walsh.
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Austin
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Katie Daffan
B. B. Knolle
Houston
Whit Boyd
Council of Historians
Buchanan Methodists Calendar Supper
The Buchanan Street Methodist Church Sunday School holds a calendar supper Friday at 6 pm in the Buchanan Street School cafeteria. Tables arranged by month and birth date. Proceeds from a turkey dinner go to the Sunday school. Revered J S Huckabee leads.
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Buchanan Street
State approves two cent fare for Texas and Pacific
The Texas and Pacific Railway gains state commission approval for a two cent per mile passenger fare on certain Texarkana Fort Worth trains, effective December 8, after earlier permission for a Big Spring Fort Worth route. The railroad seeks the lower rate to curb automobile travel.
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Austin
Texas and Pacific Railway
Texarkana
Fort Worth
State Railroad Commission
Big Spring
Expert urges deeper study of quake action
John R Freeman of Providence Rhode Island calls for urgent engineering research on earthquake motion and forces to design shock resistant structures. The American Engineering Council plans federal aid via the Coast and Geodetic Survey to pursue extensive studies as seismology lags in providing precise data for building safety.
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United Press
Washington
John R. Freeman
Providence
R. I
American Engineering Council
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
Commerce Department
Freeman
American Society of Civil Engineers
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
United States
Amarillo Firemen Pursue Morning Calisthenics to Stay Fit
Amarillo fire chief G B Cooper enforces mandatory pre shift exercises for all stations. Firemen endure 15 minutes of calisthenics then a nine pound medicine ball routine, with two sessions daily to fit all shifts. Despite soreness, the program aims to build endurance for irregular fires.
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Amarillo
G. B. Cooper
Cooper
Chester Moore
Moore
Princess Alice Bars Corset Fashion From War Board
New York December 5 The corstage ceased to be a feminine accessory when Alice Roosevelt Longworth urged the War Board that stays were unnecessary and steel be redirected to battleships. The claim appears in They Told Barron a new book by Samuel Taylor Moore and Arthur Pound based on notes by Clarence W Barron.
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New York
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
War Board
Barron
Samuel Taylor Moore
Arthur Pound
Clarence W. Barron
The
Wall Street Journal
Rockefeller
Livemore
Morgan
Ford
Schwab
Raskob
Seismic Research Urged to Guide Engineering Safeguards
Freeman argues for private gifts to fund data on earthquake stress and resisting designs, urging colleges to expand structural engineering texts to stress earthquake dangers and safeguards. He calls for support for research in economic seismology and better public technical outreach.
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Freeman
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