Potter County Quota for School Aid Filled
Potter County's quota for the school aid program for relief families has been filled with 49 students now receiving aid. District FERA head M. W. Compton outlined Washington rulings allowing eligible elementary pupils aged 16 to 25 to participate, earning up to six dollars monthly, with pay scales set by the school. Officials expect possible quota expansion if more funds become available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter County
Virginia Woodley
Case
Woodley
M. W. Compton
FERA
Washington
Compton
Seale
Weather continues across Texas with showers and warmth ahead
Weather report notes light showers and warmer conditions tonight and Friday across the state. A wet norther brings cool, damp weather from Texico to Fort Worth, with rain totals around an inch in Wichita Falls and mist from Tex line to Fort Worth. Temperatures range from mid 30s to upper 40s, with showers and drizzle across many regions.
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H T. Coleman
U. S. Weather Bureau
North and
South Plains
Texico
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Panhandle
Plainview
Lubbock
Santa Fe
Dalhart
Tucumcari
Sayre
Oklo
Rock Island
Texline
Fort Worth
Denver
Associated Press
Gulf Coast
Texas
Laredo
Rio Grande Valley
Wichita Falls
San Anerlo
Corsicana
Austin
Sherman
Paris
Abilene
Veterda
Dear Tack Writ A Tack Wants Cow For Milk Feed
A reader asks Tack to help obtain a cow for milk to feed a child. She promises a good place to keep and best attention, and offers references. Contact dial 4028. Also a colored woman seeks hourly or half day housework and references.
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Tam
North Hayes Street
Radio Schedule Highlights From KGRC Week Schedule
A dense listing of KGRC radio programs across Thursday, Friday schedules, and reader notices. Entries include musical broadcasts, talk shows, sports wrap, and drama, with numerous time slots and station names like WBS WHS and WRS. Also appears are public notices offering pets for free and personal ads requesting work or assistance.
WPA Projects and Relief Funds Under McCarl Policy
Relief center reports the second largest allotment at 18 984 513 of 265 381 956 in WPA approved projects. McCarl empowered state WPA heads to start work totaling 99 120 124 and projects aimed to employ about 2 250 000 of 3 500 000 needy. Official WPA status shows applications received 7 798 636 204 while president approved 2 702 918 117 and McCarl 1 762 728 630. construction approvals total 1 004 072 989 by president and 902 709 270 by McCarl. Construction not set to start until December 15 per Roosevelt deadline. The administration plans to end direct relief at least a month earlier.
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McCarl
Works Progress
WPA
McCarls
Hopkins
Roosevelt
Pierson relative recalls Howard as shy and teased at school
Pierson testified Howard was shy at home and called a sissy and Frenchy at school after returning from a French school. He could not achieve UT grades due to health and lost an oil field job when employers deemed him queer. Cross exam revealed a questionable letter to Mrs. Pierson. William, administrator of his father’s estate, described $18,000 life and accident insurance as part of the estate. Rev A L Aulick and Dr N D Buie labeled Howard insane and delusional.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Texas
William
Pierson
James P. Hart
A. L. Aulick
Howard
N. D. Buie
Marlin
U. S
Tom Connally
Gambling Charges Bring Dozen Fines
A dozen men arrested in two police raids were fined for gambling. Four men faced bonds after a raid near Fourth Avenue and Polk Street, while the rest paid $14 fines each in corporation court at city hall, with Justice Charles Carder issuing the penalties.
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Sheriff's Department
Charles Carder
Fourth Avenue
Polk Street
Corporation Court
City Hall
Work Wanted by Tama Boy Seeks Cafe Jobs
16 year old Tama boy seeks after school and weekend work in a cafe or cafeteria. Experience in cooking and dishwashing. Available evenings at 1405 Hayden Street Tama. Contact 1406 Hayden Street Pa. for interested employers.
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Tama
Hayden Street
Hall Childress and Panhandle hometowns noted
Hall Childress is referenced as having Amarillo roots with ties to Tucumcari New Mexico and other Panhandle cities. The fragment suggests a biographical or local history mention of his boyhood home and movements through regional towns.
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Childress
Amarillo
Tucumcari
N. M
Panhandle
Secret Agents Watch Singapore After Dynamite Cache
Secret service men in Singapore monitor Japanese activity amid a fresh dynamite cache found in a private house long linked to Japanese residents. Police recovered sacks of cocaine during the raid setting off renewed anxiety about espionage near the Singapore Base and prior December spy scares involving Nishimura and deportations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Singapore
U.P
Secret Service
Changi
Shanghai
Nishimura
Night Death of Mrs Sliwinski Divides Party Witnesses
A car trip ended in the death of Mrs Sliwinski after a party involving Agatha Mackinson and Saunders. Schaeffer and Saunders disputed earlier statements, with accounts claiming the group was intoxicated and that Mrs Sliwinski left the car due to illness. Schaeffer said he later returned to find her body on the road and drove away to Louisville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schaeffer
Louisville
Jail Escape-Proof Bars Hardened at Potter County Jail
Jailer Gib Landis announced the seventh floor Potter County jail now features case hardened bars with tool proof alloy melted along two sides. The grand jury, meeting Saturday, urged the method as a cheaper alternative to hiring additional guards and recommended it to prevent escapes.
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Potter County
Gib Landis
Grand Jury
Hall Family Remains Returned From Odessa
In a brief obituary the deceased is noted to have made his home in Hereford and Memphis. Survived by his immediate family and three brothers Johnnie Hall Amarillo Jesse Hall Plainview and Robert Hall Childress. No funeral arrangements set today. A Griggs ambulance took the body from Odessa to the town.
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Hereford
Memphis
Mr. Hall
Johnnie Hall
Amarillo
Jesse Hall
Plainview
Robert Hall
Childress
Griggs
Odessa
Walker to Return to Gotham Amid Parade Fears
James J. Walker, former New York mayor, travels from Dorking England toward home aboard the liner Manhattan due October 31. He fears a hero’s parade and vows to resume his law practice after resigning during the Seabury inquiry. His actress-wife Retty Compton accompanied him as his home was lost to fire years ago.
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Dorking
Surrey
England
James J. Walker
New York City
Ecity
Seabury
Wayside Inn
Retty Compton
New York
Walker
Manhattan
Comvic
Grover Whalen
Ramsay MacDonald
Pierre Laval
Queen Marie
Crown Prince
Sweden
Japan
Colonel Lindbergh
Marshal Foch
Tenth Avenue
Gertrude Fderle
Kansas City live stock and New Orleans cotton markets report
Market notes from Kansas City show hogs 2,000 head fairly active and down about 25 cents, cattle and calves largely steady with beef steers above 11.40 and early fed steers 8.25 to 10.50, while sheep begin at 8.50 and higher. New Orleans cotton futures ease on limited fresh demand as December opens near 19.98 and March around 10.94. several large American stocks lists accompany the market snapshot.
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Sky
Missouri Hill Billies
Picardy
John Josey & Company
Pinky Hunter
Studio Grand
Betty Crocker
WHS
WBS
Grocery News
United Press News
Parade Tunes
Jane Walker
the Home Economist
Manhattan Singers
The
Singing Cowboys
Pinky Hunter's
Boake Carter
Betty
Bob
Daniel Lieberfield
Paul Lindley
Aileen Ballew
Cosmopolitan Singers
WRS
Jack Armstrong
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
New Orleans
Wheat Moguls Hold Session in Texas Board Meet
State and national wheat officials convened for the Texas Wheat Board year start with John R. Edmonds as chairman. Members include Mike Wink Amarillo A H Montgomery Carrouzett John Hix Canyon and F E Finley Austin. Washington colleagues C E Carter and Carl Robertson plus W G Hill and Hugo Bochle attend. Discussion centers on 1936 39 wheat contracts and special applications. Williamson to meet this afternoon.
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Texas Wheat Board
John R. Edmonds
Mike Wink
Amarillo
A. H. Montgomery
Carrouzett
John Hix
Canyon
F. E. Finley
Austin
Washington
State Board
C. E. Carter
George A. Farrell
AAA
Carl Robertson
W. G. Hill
Hugo Bochle
Bureau of Crop Estimates
H. H. Williamson
State Extension Service
Plans for Brazos River first dam move forward
On October 24 in San Antonio plans advanced for the first of 13 dams in the Brazos River conservation and reclamation project. H. P. Drought approved WPA funding of 3,001,598 dollars for a concrete dam 15 miles north west of Mineral Wells in Palo Pinto County, with sponsor adding 530,650 dollars, totaling 3,532,248. The dam would be named Morris Sheppard Dam in honor of Senator Morris Sheppard.
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San Antonio
Brazos River
H. P. Drought
WPA
Brazos
Mineral Wells
Palo Pinto County
Norris
Drought
Morris Sheppard
Eleven Million WPA Projects Authorized for Texas
Comptroller General J R McCar approved eleven point seven eight million dollars in Works Progress Administration projects for Texas. The list, greenlighted by President Roosevelt on October nine, covers projects across the state. Seven new comets were sighted during 1932.
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Washington
J. R. McCartoday
Works Progress Administration
Texas
Roosevelt
School Children To Ride Train For First Time
Thirty five Conway school children will board the Rock Island at Conway for a day trip to Amarillo. Principal Mrs John J Shires and Miss Grace Weigman will supervise. The group will tour Amarillos industrial and amusement establishments in a sight seeing excursion, marking many youngsters first train ride.
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Conway
Rock Island
Amarillo
John J. Shires
Grace Weigman
Half Million in Road Jobs to Be Let in Texas
Austin officials announced nearly 500000 in road improvements to be let soon by the state highway department. Three projects involve roadside work around Wichita Falls on Highways 5 and 66. A Travis County contract calls for concrete paving on 2.2 miles of Highway 2 from the Austin city limits with bids set for November 5.
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Austin
State Highway Department
Wichita Falls
Travis County
Local highway projects set for early start in Terrell and Smith counties
The report notes an extension on Lozier Cane on Highway 3 in Terrell County eighteen miles east of Dryden and a Smith County project for grading and drainage on five miles of Highway 31 northeast of Tyler, both slated to begin early.
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Lozier Caneyon Bridge
Highway 3
Terrell County
Dryden
Smith County
Tyler
New Powder FASTEETH Improves Denture Fit
A new powder called FASTEETH promises all day comfort and tighter denture fit when sprinkled on plates each morning. It claims not to thin out or wash away and is available at City Drug Stores Fox Drug Co and other drug stores.
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City Drug
Fox Drug Co
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James Landry
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DeWitt Landis
Micro News
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Arthur Street
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France
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FE. A. Pierce & Amarillo
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Allis Chalmers
Amer
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Seee
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Armour & Co
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Bile Bis
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Ceeeeee
Bernadall Oi
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Renaix Aviation
Rethlehem Steel RR
Borden
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Boeing Aircraft
Rudd
Soelventa
With & South
Consol
Crucible Steel
Curtiss Wright
Cuban Amn Sugar Celane
Firestone
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Nash Motora
Nat Distillers
Nail Dairy
National Steel
Power & Light
Ugentral
North American ‘Aviation
North American, Co
Northern Pacific RR
Otis Steel
Packarl Motors
Paramount Penney Co
J. C. Penneylvania
Phillips Petrol Pure
Remington Rand
Steel Reynolds Tobacco
St. Joseph
Seaboard
Schulte United Sears Roebuck
Socony-Vacuum Reeve South Pac RR
Sses Southern Railway
Sercece
Stmd Gas & Elee
Ély Server
Sperry Comm
Stewart-Warner
Studebaker Thy Seitt & Co
Tee Texas Corp
Eae
Texas Gulf Sulfur
Texas Inc Coal & Oil
Tuste Water
Vintken Mall Bear
FB A Pierce & Company
Rory
Big
Roy
Dee
Vogue
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U S Steell
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Warner Bros
I'S
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Arkansas
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Humble
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VEIL
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Pampas
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