Houston Oil Hearing Planned Today
The Texas oil commission prepares for a March proration hearing in Austin amid talk of another West Texas cut. Chairman William J. Murray Jr. said any statewide reduction would apply across all districts. West Texas supplied about 60,758 of 139,305 barrels daily cut in March nominations, continuing a three month decline.
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West Texas
Commission
William J. Murray Jr
Nounced
Austin
East Texas
Hoover Commission Proposes Office of General Services
The Hoover commission urges creation of a centralized Office of General Services to cut red tape and manage about a billion dollars in civilian federal purchasing annually. It would absorb records and building management, consolidate supply operations, and curb excess stocks while extending noncompetitive bidding limits across government.
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Washington
Hoover Commission
Office of General Services
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Bureau of Federal Supply
Treasury
National Archives
Executive Branch
Ordinance to Grant Bell Long Franchise Slated
The Austin American reports an ordinance to grant Southwestern Bell a 25 year operating franchise in Austin with a $1,250 annual franchise tax and a 2 percent gross receipts tax. First reading Thursday, with three readings and a 60 day effective period, and possible voter referendum if 500 signatures are gathered.
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William J. Weeg
Austin American Staff
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Austin
City of
Fighting in Burma Insein Suburb Quieted by Blackout
A government order cut off news from Insein, Rangoon, where Karen rebels and troops have clashed for over two weeks. Earlier word suggested a lull, but fighting was expected to resume as both sides regrouped.
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Rangoon
Burma
Insein
Court records from 126th and 98th district courts
Court records list multiple divorce filings and grants in the 126th and 98th district courts. Also noted are trespass to title actions, damages, antitrust judgment in favor of the State, removal of disabilities for a minor, and probation on a robbery by assault and theft plea.
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98Th District Court
Betts
Howard B. Clagett
Ambros
Joe Brooks
Kathryn Pinget Newman
William R. Newman
A. Johnson
C. M. Johnson
Willis H. Bledsoe
Vance E. Nichols
Leroy W. Vaughan
Margaret Mae Vaughan
Rose Mary Miller
Clarence Miller
Melvin O. C. Swan
James William Swan
William H. Wren
Pearl Harrison Shaw
Arthur Shaw
State Vs. Goodall Company
John Gaston Wells
Paul W. Prather
Thurman
State
James Essary
C. F. York
Kate
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Houston
Road Commission
Mays
Hon’ Stillbrook
HE American Distilling CO. Inc
Sausalito
New York
Spender
Liberal
Willie
San Jacinto
Hoover
Bell Long
Texas
Trueman O’quinn
Tom G. Die
Emma Long
Taylor Glass
Beaumont
Federal Communications Commission
O’quinn
C. S. Slatton
Blosser’s
United States
Texas County
Public Utility
126Th District Court
Roberts
Clyde Cooper Jr
Bettie Helen Cooper
Botello
Joe Botello
Barbara Taylor
Hubert B. Taylor
Clara Nell Davis
Calvin Thomas Davis
Mary Louise Curry
Willie Curry
Grant H. Maner
Billie Jean Herrin Maner
Nell Pogue
James Pogue
53Rd District Court
Gardner
Justice Court
Blakeslee
J. P
Elmo Robinson
Roy E. George
Earl Naumann
Limberg
Sayers G. Walker
Dorothy Perkins
Arthur Lee Johnson
Bertha Jean Moffett
Albert L. Eyhorg
Gladys Blomquist
Apolonio Leon Losoya
Manuela Torres
Roy L. Cowan
Ruby Rasco
Oliver Sponberg
Anita Mae Dumke
Pete Rodriguez Moreno
Marelea Ramirez
Thomas V. Sassman
Annie Sefcik
Irvin Belmont Mullgraw
Alma Dawson
Heffington
Sam C. Stadler
Redes
S. W. Kendrick
Ford
Harry Griffiths
Lincoln
R. L. O'Dea
Plymouth
W. E. Lewis Jr
M. R. Robson Jr
Prefect
Albert Dearing
Chevrolet
Bob Wyrick
M. Vaughan
F. Kuempel
Bernice Foy
Dodge
L. D. Spears
Pontiac
Walter Collin
G. McMurtrie
L. Summers
Buick
Dilla Gordon
Mercury
Katy T. Bailey
The
Sherwin-Williams Co
Atic Advancements
Automobile
Mr. G. E. Rutledge the Sherwin
Alden Comfort
East Brown
Ennis, Texas
Alaska
Venezuela
CIA
Employers Casualty Company
Dallas
Abilene
Fort Worth
Port Arthur
Amarillo
Galveston
San Antonio
Austin Hai
Sherman
Homer R. Mitchell
Ust
Corpus Christi
Lubbock
EL Paso
Midland
Waco
Wichita Falls
A. F. Allen
Littlefield
Frank W. Moore
CLU
George W. Chaney
W. G
Bill
Frieda Dean
James Ralph Wood
Dexter S. Dickson
Otha Reed
Walter Staehely
E. J. Tucker
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