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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1941
Page
20
Tax office notes 9500 car tags will be sold here with a rush typical of year end. Age fifteen and older must renew, bring the 1940 receipt. Cars from other states pay a small extra fee. Tag validity extends through March. must be on by April 2.
Townsend Club No. 6 under President F. W. Zimmerman will meet at the courthouse at 7 30 tonight. The session promises unusual interest with reports on two states where both branches of the legislature convene. The notice also notes county tag sales and license renewals looming toward April 1.
The record shows 74.6 acres per farm in 1930 with 495 489 farms at 251 7 acres on average. Total farm land in the estate last spring was 127 733 372 acres, compared with 137 597 389 in 1935 and 124 707 130 in 1930. Last year cropland harvested 26 443 186 acres. crop failure 2 082 933. cropland idle 4 890 101. plowable pasture 12 851 451. woodland 14 074 165. other classifications 17 391 536. Farm land and building value in the state was 2 590 337 654 with buildings at 417 269 553. 1935 land and buildings valued at 2 573 704 972 and 1930 at 3 957 406 986. The Secret Service made 3 107 arrests in 1940.
In a poverty shack, Mrs. Alvin Majors delivered male negro twins joined at the abdomen and sharing one heart. Weighing 10 pounds, they have fused lower torsos but separate heads, arms, and legs on each side. A midwife assisted after a delayed doctor arrival. The twins were moved to a hospital. the heart weakened but then stabilized. Father L. C. Majors, 32, once WPA worker, is idle now.
The Census Bureau reported Texas had 418 002 farms in its most recent count, down from 501 017 in 1935. The agency noted no farm site figures but said average farm size appears to have risen, reflecting a shift toward larger farms as the count progressed.
Fio rello H. La Guardia appears in a principal role in a playlet he wrote produced and directed to explain how the federal food stamp plan works. The performance was presented to 400 New York food dealers at the plan’s inception.
A stark poster campaign in Paris blames Britain for French suffering, showing a Christlike figure and panels praising Joan of Arc, Napoleon, and a 1940 French soldier bearing a cross, reflecting wartime propaganda dynamics under German control.
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