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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1939
Page
3
A district examiner explains unemployment rules in Texas, detailing how the employment service matches individuals with suitable work and the penalties for refusing offers. The supervisor notes that benefits can be cut for failing to accept suitable employment or to engage with the service, while law reinforces the fair obligation to seek work.
Community notes from Lanes Chapel report a Methodists revival led by Rev. Peank Suid ath of Glen Howe drawing daily large crowds. Services sunrise and evening offerings, with choir singing and special Sunday events including a church lawn lunch. Attendees include families from Waco, Hico, McGregor, Gladewater, Midlothian, and Fort Worth areas. Charley Dawson family visited, plus others from Turneraville and beyond.
In Meridian eight applicants seek the Meridian postmastership, with Civil Service tests conducted May 27. A Baptist revival begins August 18 under Rev. L. W. Hardcastle, while scientist talk on Neanderthal origins frames local interest in ancient humanity.
Ancient bloodlines mingle with living people amid Ice Age remnants as Russian explorers uncover a buried noble and ten horses in permafrost. Folsom New Mexico reveals stone tools older than local Indians, suggesting early human life in America millennia ago.
A 17-year-old youth, once jailed on theft suspicions, died in County Jail as Sheriff Dave Montgomery left for another posting. The article notes his background as a descendant of a long lineage of flintknappers and describes the prison break and the stale state of the jail door.
President Roosevelt approved Works Progress Administration projects in Texas after notification to Texas members of Congress. The Hamilton County work covers improvements at Hiteo School and street facilities at University Park and Highland Park. additional funds total 15 808 for storm and sanitary sewers in alias County.
The passage argues that progress comes from accessing more facts than earlier ages. It asserts that science aims to discover facts and that no theory can stand against a fact that contradicts it.
San Angelo Texas August 10 The automobile technology used to combat prairie dogs in West Texas ranching areas uses car exhaust to poison holes in the ground The method involves drilling holes in prairie dog towns and inserting exhaust tubes The car then blows exhaust into the burrows killing the animals within minutes One ranchman estimated about 5000 holes across two land sections with a 200 acre area heavily perforated by holes
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