Northwest Texas Education Conference Opens in Amarillo
About 2,500 teachers principals and superintendents from across the Panhandle are converging on Amarillo for a one day Northwest Texas Conference for Education with the theme Education for more complete Living. The event starts at 9 am tomorrow at Municipal Auditorium with speakers Dr W T White and Dr Royal B M Embree Jr. plus a high school English section chaired by Nelle Alexander. The closing session at 8 pm features A R Dick Bivins and Dr Henry Otto with talks on state education and the elementary school of tomorrow.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Northwest Texas
District
Texas State Teachers Association
Municipal Auditorium
W. T. White
Dallas
American Association of School Administrators
Young People’s Assembly
First Baptist Church
Neal Miller Cross
Colorado State College of Education
Greeley
Cross
Nelle Alexander
A. R. “Dick” Bivins
Amarillo District IX
State Board of Education
Henry Otto
University of Texas
Otto
Liquor Blamed for Divorces by Ohio Judge
In Cleveland Judge Roy C. Scott attributes about 60 percent of divorces last session to liquor. He calls liquor the chief home wrecker, noting wartime income shrinkage and in-law troubles as other factors. He adds both men and many women end up in divorce court due to excessive drinking.
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Cleveland
L.P
Roy C. Scott
Scott
Burglars Foiled by Tear Gas Bomb at Tacoma Safe
In Tacoma Washington burglars failed to loot a safe when a tear gas bomb placed on the inner door triggered as they pried it open. The gas drove them back and the safe’s contents remained undisturbed. Police did not fire tear gas.
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Tacoma
Wash
U.P
Young Herman Melville Went to Sea at Twelve
Pittsfield collector Samuel Sukel uncovers a 1835 magazine article by a Massachusetts youth claiming his whaling voyage began early. He suggests the author could be Herman Melville, age 16, who later wrote Moby Dick from real seafaring experiences rather than solely from books.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Herman Melville
Samuel T. Sukes
Massachusetts
Sukel
Melville
Jack London
Sukey
Scrap System Of Tax Appraisals: AOA Recommends Change
National Association of Assessing Officers urges abandoning prewar valuations for property taxes. The Amarillo area uses 1939 values about 80 percent of prewar level, misrepresenting true market value. Report warns economy likely never returns to prewar levels and calls for modern price-based assessments.
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National Association of Assessing Officers
Association
Amarillo
Six Swedes Stay Connected Across Oceans
In 1891 six Hoganas boys Axel Fernberg Anton Olson Oke Cook John Anderson Harold Pearson and Algor Sandine began school together. Now decades later they remain united across continents, celebrating enduring friendship despite distance and time.
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Worcester
Mass
U.P
Hoganas
Skane
Sweden
Axel Fernberg
Anton E. Olson
Oke Cook
John W. Anderson
Harold Pearson
Algor A. Sandine
Retir
Rhode Islander’s nail-cutting machine born in 1777
A Rhode Islander named Jeremiah Wilkinson devised a machine in 1777 that could cut nails from a sheet of cold metal, marking an early advance in metalworking. The text notes long service for workers at a Worcester pottery plant, with some having over four decades on the job this year.
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Jeremiah Wilkinson
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Smith
Georgia
Neal Cross
Royal B. Embree, Jr
Watson Smith
Globe-News
First National Bank
Harold E. Watkins, D.D.S
Washington
Worcester Pottery
Kentucky
Sittian Histoory
Louisville, Kentucky
IRBON
Time-The- Skyways
ENT
Pioneer Air Lines
Baylor
Pioneer
Zale’s
Ibaylor
Polk
TRIE
Ewelry Co
Baylor Watchless
C. C
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