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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1937
Page
9
A 1936 study shows Texas state government spending reached 125 million dollars, about 15 times the 1900 total of 8 million. Education at 45 million and highway construction at 53 million dominated the budget, comprising four fifths of all outlays. The piece notes population growth and new agencies expanding state operations.
The passage emphasizes that energetic children often succeed but many need help to build blood strength especially after illness or when they look pale underweight or lack appetite. It highlights mothers recognizing this need and guiding health support.
Tonic builds up red blood cells to improve children's health and regain lost weight for greater strength and vitality. Directions appear on each bottle of S.S.S. Tonic, offered in two sizes with the larger at a price saving. Start a course now to make the grade.
The report shows government outgo surpassing income by about $15 million with public school costs rising from $18 million in 1923 to $37 million in 1936. Rural school aid grew to $4 million, while college education expenditures reached about $8.5 million. University of Texas expansion reflects broader trends in funding, staffing, and pay over two decades.
Texas Highway Commission plans a toll free international Rio Grande span at Laredo four blocks below the existing bridge. State funds totaling 1,019,525 dollars are approved for contracts including paving on Highway 2 in Laredo and other federal aid projects. Bids for several 1938 federal aid projects will be opened November 5 across multiple counties.
The article traces Texas highway funding from 1924 to recent years, noting a surge in salaries for university leaders and coaches funded by gate receipts. It explains how state road improvements expanded with federal aid, gasoline taxes, and a growing network of engineers and planners shaping a dense transport system.
A list of real estate transfers shows Otis Reid et ux selling lots 11-12 bik 125 O T to Delbert Hulsey for 550 dollars. Ralph Randel et ux to Mrs FE Law for 2010 dollars. Various other deeds list buyers, parcels and prices up to 4000 dollars. Vehicle registrations include several makes and owners such as Chrysler sedan for C S Weir and Plymouth sedan for Toney Chisum Inc. Marriage licenses record Carl Weller with Geraldine Hall and others.
In Bexar County two more deaths raised the 1937 traffic fatality toll. Const ance Stewart, 5, died after being struck by a car driven by Eugene Saunders, who took the child to a hospital and notified officers. W. J. Bradley, 68, a filling station operator, was killed when his car overturned near Bandera on Wednesday.
Four people were injured yesterday when an automobile collided with an ambulance in Houston. Mrs. D J Edson, 35, wife of Edson Petroleum Company president, sustained a serious head injury. her three year old son David had a slight chin cut. Ambulance driver Carl Smith, 23, and attendant Lee Gordon, 20, suffered minor cuts and bruises.
Archie Fuller, 18, a Harrison County sharecropper, was found guilty of killing Raymond Henderson, a farm overseer, near Hallsville on May 29. A Dallas County jury, after a venue shift from Marshall, deliberated about two hours and sentenced Fuller to 99 years.
Luther and John Blanton vanished on a hunting trip near King Ranch in November. A seven member search party including four Texas Rangers probed 12 miles into the ranch brush chasing a tip that the bodies were dumped in a lagoon, but the search yielded nothing. Justice of the Peace Thomas Heath has hinted testimony may form an important link in the case, with a court inquiry in session in San Perlita.
West Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South opened its 1937 session in San Antonio with balloting on uniting the three national Methodist bodies. Dr Sterling Fisher was elected secretary with assistants Fisher Simpson Olin Nail and R F Curl. Bishop H A Boaz of Fort Worth presiding. Resolutions were adopted opposing drinking scenes in films and liquor sales by the drink.
Early era students debated how birds migrate with ideas ranging from buried in mud to spending winters on the moon, reflecting limited natural history understanding of avian travel.
SAN ANTONIO Oct 21 Charles M Hair and Floyd M Jones operators of the Southern Brokerage Co of San Antonio were sentenced to four years in the federal reformatory at El Reno Oklahoma for using the mails to defraud. Federal District Judge R J McMillan fined them $3000 each after they pleaded guilty to operating the company from 1934 to 1937 and taking money for stocks that were never sold. McMillan denied leniency.
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