March Entry Brings Storms and Rain Across Regions
March opened with storms and rain as temperatures dropped. In Cameron area expected colder night with no frost. Dallas reported 38 at 6 am. A Panhandle dust storm reduced Fort Worth visibility to a few hundred yards. Central Texas saw rain and hail with some storms and potential Trinity River flooding threats.
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Cameron
Dallas
Panhandle
Fort Worth
Texas
Trinity River
Changeable Wednesday Weather Brought by Two Cold Fronts
A cloudy Wednesday is expected as two cold fronts pass in quick succession. Despite the unsettled conditions, the day should remain mild with a gentle air mass and light winds.
No Flood Damage Expected Despite Rising Little River
Rain fell across Cameron on Thursday night with L inches. The Little River rose two feet between 8 and 9 am Friday due to flash floods. Coleman reported $100,000 in damage while Itasca saw high winds. The Leon River exceeded banks upstream but no regional flood danger remained.
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Little River
L. W. Smith
Cameron
Coleman
Itasca
Leon
Navy crewman sees world aboard USS Valley Forge
Claude M. Kirkland now a chief boatsman mate has learned that the slogan Join the navy and see the world is no joke. He is a crew member of the aircraft carrier USS Valley Forge and has visited Sydney, Australia. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Kirkland of Milano.
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Claude M. Kirkland
Mrs. Rogers Ritchie Moves to Brownwood for Railroad Foreman
Mrs. Rogers Ritchie and her two children have moved to Brownwood where Mr. Ritchie is employed as foreman for the AT and SF Railroad Company.
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Rogers Ritchie
Brownwood
Ritchie
AT & SF Railroad Co
Detention by Soviets Like A Movie During Finnish Zone Hold
Anne Blumenfeld, 20, of San Rafael, and companions Robert Storch and Gordon Lawson recount nearly four weeks in the Russian leased Porkkala zone in Finland. They describe stripped belongings, long interrogations, and odd hospitality with meals and cigarettes as they stayed aboard Lawson's yacht Smeorach.
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Stockholm
Anne Blumenfeld
San Rafael Calif
Porkkala
Finland
Robert Storch
Newark
N. J
Gordon Thomas McGill Lawson
Glasgow
Scotland
Helsinki
Storch
Lawson
Anne
Bob
Smeorach
Alabama Court Rules Hitler Same as Skunk
The Alabama Court of Appeals upheld a $900 judgment after a defendant posted a cotton bale sign likening a plaintiff to Adolf Hitler, ruling that such a comparison is libelous as equating a person with an odious figure. The decision treats calling someone Hitler as legally akin to calling them a skunk.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Adolf Hitler
State Court of Appeals
Hitler
Churchmen Plan To Enlist Youth In Sunday Schools
Local clergy leaders plan a city wide drive to enroll schoolchildren in Sunday Schools across denominations. The campaign, led by church superintendents, aims to boost church consciousness with posters in central locations and a religious census of the school group.
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Drayton McLane
First Presbyterian
A. W. McCullin
First Methodist Church
Bill Harsha
First Christian Church
Grady Cooper
First Baptist Church
Mrs Harman Hosts Sister In San Antonio Visit
Bessie Dunham spent the weekend with her sister and her husband Mr W W Harman in San Antonio.
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Bessie Dunham
Mrs. W. W. Harman
San Antonio
Troy Cooper Patient at Newton Memorial Hospital
Troy Cooper of Maysfield is listed as a patient at Newton Memorial Hospital with no further details provided in the available text.
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Troy Cooper
Maysfield
Newton Memorial Hospital
Toy Train Travels Over 200,000 Miles in 24 Years
A miniature Union Pacific freight train built in 1923 for a Safety Day parade has logged over 200000 miles in 24 years without cargo or coal. It travels on a tractor and tractor trailers, pulling a tender stock car box car coal car and caboose.
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Omaha
Neb
Union Pacific Railroad
Pacific Coast
New Baby Boom at 37 Year High Reported
In a Washington briefing, native American white women born in 1921 show 958 births per 1000 by age 25, the highest since 1910. The 1900-04 cohort reached 1068 per 1000, suggesting the current fertility peak reflects births postponed during the Depression.
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Washington
International Statistical Institute
Pascal K. Whelpton
Miami University
Oxford
Ohio
Whelpton
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Life Insurance
Baskin
Brook Mays
Massey-Harris
P.T
Green Motor Company
Telephone
Howell and
Seventh Streets
Camreon, Texas
Trio
Skunk
Cameron, Texas
Avey Lumber
Cae
Pve
Sys
Aluminum
Tin
Horstmann Bros
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