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Newspaper
Bonham Daily Favorite
Location
Bonham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1939
Page
6
In a terse dispatch the headline notes a French submarine reported down with 67 lost while the U S waits developments in the Japanese blockade. Secretary Hull said the U S would hold calm and monitor foreign settlements in China as officials weigh any protest.
Texas Bank robbed at Tenaha near Center with 32 cents and cheap watches as loot. An amateur knocked the vault knob but made no entry into the safe. Delinquent taxes may be paid without interest for 60 days as City Council ordinance takes effect June 13. Bonham schools urged tax payments to avoid arrears for 1938-39 term amid reduced state funding.
DEL RIO June 16 An outbreak of infantile paralysis reported from Sonora has claimed two lives. Sutton county officials posted placards warning of the disease and ordered the theater closed and all public gatherings prohibited.
President Roosevelt said the income tax base should be broadened with higher rates in the middle brackets to strengthen citizenship duties. The House Ways and Means Committee sent to the House a bill replacing the undistributed profits tax with a flat 18 percent income levy on corporations.
Dallas and Amarillo report extreme heat as Texas endures a blistering spell. Lubbock peaks at 109 degrees per 28 year station record, Amarillo records 107 or higher, and other cities like Wichita Falls El Paso and San Antonio see 100s. No relief expected for two days.
President Roosevelt said he still hoped the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations could work out a plan to end their three year conflict. He noted no formal report on the peace conferences he launched March 7. In Swissvale Pennsylvania a new 246 inch wheelbase fire truck costing 11997.98 causes wide street issues as its rear wheels strike curbs and sidewalks.
Foeust Fires Sweep Mountain Regions OF West Brenken Pores. Forest fires fanned by 460 mile an hour winds destroyed timber in Colorado, New Mexico. Nearly 2,000 Forestry Service workers mobilized to combat flames across tinder dry forests. At Bonham Texas State Employment Service, 627 people found work in first half of June, a dramatic rise from 1938. Among placements, 114 private positions, 11 public firm jobs, 494 farm jobs.
An old-fashioned revival service by evangelist Mrs Gerald Bonney at the First Methodist will echo ancestors prayers with Rev Bonney assisting In a gospel program the sermon will be God's Warnings and hymn singing by the Bonneys tonight men and boys are special guests and will be recognized like the women and girls were last night on the revival campaign back page
Strong steady marriage license market reported by Olvin Gross as 17 couples wed so far this month in Fannin County. With heat waves and high temperatures across Texas, families anticipate more licenses this month, suggesting about 30 couples may wed. Local weather and social notes accompany the report.
Oleta Yarbrough, Ellis and Fannin county home demonstration agent, outlines ambitions to balance a happy home with interior decorating, gardening, and cooking. A former East Texas State Teachers College graduate, she recalls teaching before joining extension work in 1936, tests recipes, enjoys T bone steak and fresh strawberries, and values frankness and sincerity in others. She once froze on stage as Lions club host and hopes to travel Texas with time and money.
Asbury Park New Jersey June 16 Attorney General Frank Murphy urged a billion dollar operation to cut more than 1 600 000 public employees from national state and local rolls in a broadcast to the Eastern Regional Conference of the Civil Service Assembly He argued 13 percent of a family income goes to the public payroll and proposed reducing it to less than five billion a year while preserving essential functions He warned against using jobs as political favors and blamed machine politics for waste and inefficiency in the public payroll Murphy recalled President Cleveland's message to Congress 46 years ago see BILLION Back Page.
Paris June 16 The French submarine Phenix with 60 or more men aboard has gone down off Saigon Indo China. Authorities abandoned all hope of saving any crew members normally 67, after being underwater for more than 30 hours. Relatives were notified of the probable loss. The vessel had no escape hatches and was not equipped with Davis lungs. It was on detached duty in shark infested waters.
A District 12 Nurses Association meeting in Bonham drew nurses from Texarkana Paris Sherman Denison Gainesville and Bonham with a luncheon at 12 30 and a pavilion program led by Dick Waits stringed band readings by Lara McKelva and a kids’ hokum by Hobbie Leemand and his Nickey Cinnamon. The event ended with a business session and boat rides as visitors departed.
In Bowie Texas on June 16 the bodies of Vivian Lewellen aged 18 and her fiance Lawrence Edgin aged 20 were recovered from Lake Bowie where they drowned in a motorboat accident last night Two companions Wendell Cloud and Lola Bell Jackson were rescued from the incident.
Bona fide dippers of pulverized tobacco plan the annual snuff dippers convention in Grenada Mississippi on July 1. The event opens to the public though non regular dippers must display brown lip stains or be kissed by a female addict. Roscoe Fowler, head dipper up for the area, said no formal program had been announced. See DIPPERS Back Page.
Randolph Texas report shows First State Bank stockholders electing directors TL Avenathy C A Cox Roy Owens G E Carpenter and Mrs G E B Carpenter for the remainder of the year. Officers elected G O Carpenter president L M Odom cashier TL Abernathy vice president and Roy Richardson Jr assistant cashier. Owens leaves as cashier to join Bonham State Bank as assistant cashier when new cashier arrives. Columbia S C Luther A Moore reveals plans to celebrate his 73rd birthday with a bicycle jaunt to Miami Florida next Monday.
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