State Board Awards Road Jobs Tuesday in Texas
Texas highway contracts totaling 3.79 million dollars were awarded after two days of meetings by the State Highway Commission. Projects cover 21 counties and 155 miles of highways with grading drainage paving and bridges. Awards include concrete bridges over Sycamore Creek and overpasses in Fort Worth and Waco along with multiple county paving and grading jobs across Ellis Navarro Galveston Kerr Lubbock and others.
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Austin
Texas
State Highway Commission
Gibb Gilchrist
Erath County
Anderson
Houston
Wheeler
Erath
Kimble
Tarrant County
Sycamore Creek
Purvis and
Bertram
Fort Worth
Ward
Ellis County
Ennis
Navarro County
F. P. McElwrath
Corsicana
Galveston County
Brazoria
Harrison Engineering and Construction Company
Kansas City
Fort Bend County
Brazos River
Rosenberg
Brown and Root
Lubbock
Lubbock County
J. W. Zempter
Amarillo
Cottle County
Paducah
L. E. Whitman
Wichita Falls
Houston County
Crockett
Pennington
J. GC
Kelly Con
Trinity
San Jacinto County
Cold Springs
Walker County
Titus County
Mt. Pleasant
Harts Creek Bottom
J. D. George
Donna
Wheeler County
Collingsworth
Shamrock
Scurry
Mitchell
Nolan County
Hermleigh
Dozier Construction Co
Brazos
Burleson Counties
Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co
Dallas
Kerr County
Wilson
Bluff
Steel
Silver
Ward and
Morrell
Itasca
Amarillo Chamber Urges Freight Rate Cut
The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce sent a wire to the Interstate Commerce Commission urging a reduction in can goods freight rates from California. The proposed 23¢ to 15¢ per hundred pounds cut would apply to boats through the Panama Canal and faces Gulf port opposition. Local wholesalers and consumers would benefit.
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California
Amarillo
Camps for Children by Mrs Agnes Lyne
Mrs Agnes Lyne discusses how summer camps vary in size and style from rigidly organized to intimate. She argues camps emancipate children from home dependence, aiding independence through impersonal when suitable settings and daily cooperative activities.
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Agnes Lyne
Kansan Steals From Truck To Get Food And Bed
Unemployed 55 year old John Hicks of Kansas City stole a package from a U S mail truck in Sunbury Pennsylvania. He said jail would be paradise after his experiences and hoped for circus work with no vacancies. He surrendered to a policeman and asked to be jailed. Federal authorities likely to take over for the mail theft.
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Sunbury
U.P
John Hicks
Kansas City
United States
Hicks
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