Bailey Sheppard Runs For Texas Railroad Commissioner
Longview Texas June 2 Bailey Sheppard a Longview attorney and former assistant attorney general announced his candidacy for Texas Railroad Commissioner He stressed oil reserve safeguards and defense needs urging a fair deal for all Texas oil fields and alignment with federal defense programs He cited experience in oil law and public service as preparation for the commission role
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Longview
Texas
Winis
Bailey Sheppard
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America
Sheppard
Texas Railroad Commissons
Roosevel
Texas Railroad
Decis Nichols
Olty
Attorney recounts Texas proration cases and service
The speaker recalls work from 1933 to 1935 as assistant to Texas Attorney General James V Allred in the oil and gas division at Longview handling over a thousand proration law suits with more than 1 million dollars in judgments. He also served as special county judge in Gregg county in 1939 and cites Baylor University education and Limestone County roots. He pledges not to seek another office while Railroad Commission post.
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James V. Allred
Oil and Gas Division
Longview
Texas
Gregg County
Baylor University
Southwestern
Limestone County
Railroad Commission
Diction expert urges flexible speech standards
Miss Katharine Whatley of the University of Texas linguistics and diction department says speech varies with time and place. She notes that standard is what passes in actual use among those representing community traditions, not fixed dictionary rules.
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Austin
Texas
Katherine Whatley
University of Texas Linguis
England
South
America
George Krapp
Austin teacher Mrs Grimes wins second UT summer scholarship
Mrs Leona J Grimes of Austin mother of students and a teacher student in her family has been awarded the Mary Cornelia Gregory summer session scholarship for teachers at the University of Texas announced by Dr Homer P Rainey UT president.
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Austin
Texas
Leona J. Grimes
Mary Cornelia Gregory
University of Texas
Homer P. Rainey
Lost trunk and farm items advertised across Texas notices
A lost brown trunk between Andrews and Seminole highway is sought by Billy Hart Pinnell. Beckham Bros of Lamesa and Maudie’s Florist of Odessa advertise seeds and florals. An oil and gas lease listing covers section 22 block A-48 Andrews County, via Mrs A J Bradford Sweetwater.
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Andrews
Seminole Highway
Billy Hart Pinnell
Beckham Bros
Lamesa
Texas
Maudie
Midland Highway
Odessa
Andrews County
A. J. Bradford
Sweetwater
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