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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1930
Page
4
The notice states the Associated Press holds exclusive reprint rights for all news dispatches credited or not, including local news, and reserves rights for special dispatches published in the paper.
A United States Chamber of Commerce quarterly map shows Texas and Oklahoma the only states with good business areas. Texas remains ahead in oil cotton grain and cattle with prospects stronger through crop diversification and dairying growth.
Regents of the University of Texas and A and M College reach a formal agreement to share oil income from state lands. Through 1934 A and M will receive 150000 dollars yearly. thereafter the university will get two thirds and A and M one third. The deal centers on the university permanent fund, now about 14500000 dollars, funded by oil leases and royalties. The arrangement awaits legislative ratification amid debates over the constitutional status of A and M as a branch, not a mere beneficiary.
Texas highway patrol chief L G Phares announces an intensive campaign to stop hogging the road by trucks and reckless driving. He warns that loaded cotton trucks riding the crown cause inconvenience and accidents, with emphasis on improving brakes and lights.
State highway patrol to curb reckless driving and speed tests on state highways. Officials cite overloaded trucks and speeding motorists as a daily threat with injuries and fatalities mounting nationwide. The push aims to educate drivers and make travel safer for peaceful motorists nationwide.
City commissioners adopted regrets over the resignation of J. Bryan Miller after about five and a half years of service. Reports praise his vision, steady leadership, and the unresolved progress in Bryan including lower taxes, better utilities, paving, and municipal ownership. Miller departs for new work in Lubbock with public esteem intact.
The Bryan City Commission on Monday night adopted formal resolutions regretting the resignation of City Manager J. Bryan Miller after five years of service. The action commended his courteous, energetic management and directed copies be given to Mr. Miller and spread in the minutes.
Conferences at College Station outlined field meetings to be held the last two weeks in May on the twelve or fifteen best pastures in East Texas. Meetings will be under the county agents with the judging committee of the regional contest inspecting the pastures. Committee members include Roger Davis chairman O C Teller J Lynn Thomas E A Miller Eugene Butler H M Madison and H M Evans.
Opinion cites tripling the Chicago police to curb crime while noting past grafted leadership could have worsened conditions. Other items critique banditry in China, speculate on solar eclipse studies, and praise family banquets and California driving slogans for safety.
The Catholic Daughters of America held an initiation Sunday April 27 in the K of C hall. The hall was decorated with baskets of flowers in purple and gold. Mrs. Joe Sosolik, grand regent, led the ceremony.
Members completed initiation at Sunday services with Mrs Sam Scardino Miss Frances Cantevespi Miss Frances Kuntz and Miss Marek of Cameron Mrs W Stasney and Miss Mary Vitopil named. A brick ice cream and cake colored purple and gold accompanied the social half hour. Out of town guests came from Cameron Calvert and Hearne.
The Bryan public schools held their third regular teachers meeting at Stephen F. Austin high school. Postponed from the 14th, the session ran from 10 to 12 in the morning and drew added interest. Miss Wesa Weddington presided with Miss Malcolm McInnis and G. C. Cox presenting on modern tendencies in mathematics and why college freshmen fail in the subject.
Texas college leaders report a shift toward practical and elective math, replacing tough theoretical problems with engaging material. They note widespread freshman apathy and fear courses are overly softened, reducing seriousness and causing higher failure rates.
Miss Nin Bess Astin entertained about 60 Allen Academy band members at her mother Mrs. R. Q. Astin’s home on West 26th Street Saturday evening. The group gathered at 5:30 on the veranda and lawn, enjoyed a picnic style barbecue, then danced into the night.
Lamar Bethea 54 of Brazos Grimes counties announces candidacy for Representative District No 26. A Bryan lawyer and former Brazos County Attorney with law degrees from the University of Texas, Bethea emphasizes good roads and party loyalty while pledging to support Democratic nominees from constable to president. He notes prior service on the Court of Criminal Appeals and says he will publish a fuller statement before the July primary.
A controversial call for dialogue with Napoleon is reported as a symbolic rally in which the American public grows at about one person every twenty three seconds and voices push for open discourse.
Bryan and Brazos county chamber directors hear plans to sell 60 advance registrations for the 4th annual Fast Texas Convention at Port Arthur May 11 to 13. Badges, priced 2.50, admit holders to all events. A canvass of Bryan business district planned to move at least the quota.
George FE Hadley received a Veteran's Jewel from Brazos Lodge No. 64 and a white gold watch from Bryan Lodge No. 476 recognizing twenty five years of faithful Knights of Pythias service. Judge W C Davis praised Hadley for his untiring effort in advancing the order nationwide and in Bryan.
A firecracker lit by S. M. Hunter on south Washington Avenue sparked a false murder scare in Bryan. Mrs. Hunter fired at a supposed intruder, wounding a man who died at a hospital. Police found only the harmless cracker remains as the case unfolded Monday.
Sidney Wright of Bryan is charged with embezzling about $15 in a case filed Monday by Dallas officials S. H. Goodson and J. H. Ramsey of the Better Patch Company. Wright, sick for weeks, has not accounted for supplies as an agent and was released on bond signed by Griff Cloud after arrest by Sheriff J. H. Reed.
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