Amarillo College adopts point grading and study hall plan
Amarillo College introduces a four to zero point system where A four points B three C two D one and E F zero with plus and minus adjustments. Students must pass three courses and total at least four and a half points to stay in college. A study hall starts October 17 for students failing courses.
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McPherson and Hutton Head East for Quiet Vacation
Aimee Semple McPherson and husband David Hutton travel by Sunset Limited toward a two week rest “some place where reporters and publicity ain’t.” They boarded in El Paso and declined interview requests, later writing answers to questions on a pad.
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Southern Pacific
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Los Angeles
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Central States
Dave & Aimee
State Fair of Texas Hosts Meat for Health Week Features
Exhibitors at the State Fair of Texas present eight feeder-breeder parades as part of meat for health week. The Texas Feeder-Breeder Association holds its annual banquet, and the Southwestern Aviation Conference readies awards for Friday in the Model Airplane Contest. Colonel Clarence Young, Maj. Jimmy Doolittle, and Lieut. Lester Maitland will join the aviation ceremony along with tomorrow’s feeder cattle and lambs auction. Cook County day attracts residents by rail, and Children’s Day offers free grounds admission and entertainment for Texas children.
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Prospective Jury Hears Dying Man
Seattle coroner William J. Jones outlined an inquest plan after Frank Simpson a Seattle restaurant operator who was pushed over a cliff during a hunting dispute said he might die. The coroner proposed impaneling six men at the hospital to hear Simpson’s account once an arrest is made.
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William J. Jones
Frank Simpson
Simpson
Jones
Six men to hear case as Simpson accuses secrecy kept
Authorities plan a six man group to hear the case while they withhold the accuser’s name until the defendant is found. A lightning flash during a storm can release up to 1,000,000 kilowatts of power.
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Rail officers push for rate cut in cotton transport
Dallas report on a two agency hearing where Fort Worth and Denver City railways pressed for a new rate structure to move interior Texas and Oklahoma cotton to Gulf ports. Opponents argued reduced rates raise costs for farmers and hurt interior compresses while Houston Galveston interests back the plan. The hearing before the Interstate Commerce Commission and Texas Railroad Commission may continue for days.
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Oklahoma
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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J. K. Moore
American Cotton Cooperative Association
Hart
George Finberg
Lubbock
Hogsett
Houston
Galveston
Highway 81 project in Gonzales County opens bids
The State Highway Commission adds limestone rock asphalt surfacing contract on five miles of Highway 81 in Gonzales County. Bids will be received October 25. Work extends from five and a half miles east of Smiley to the DeWitt County line.
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State Highway Commission
Gonzales County
Smiley
Dewitt County
Bonus Expeditionary Force chiefs accuse Hoover of misjudgment
Hoke Smith, B E F field commander, says President Hoover did not understand the true situation or was misinformed when directing the eviction of bonus marchers. He spoke after a B E F delegation met with the President, arguing the protesters were not a criminal group as claimed by the attorney general.
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Hoover
Hoke Smith
Bonus Expeditionary Force
May Move Offices
The assessor tax collector offices may be relocated to City Hall with space formerly used by the building department to be repurposed.
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City Hall
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