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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1934
Page
7
Fragmented clippings mention a political dictator's rise and a 1984 year with scarce home amenities. Notes cover kidnappers’ lawyers, a Vermont cow barn radio experiment, criminal face beautification proposals, and global oddities from Christmas to bowls, with 80,000 Bowl tickets sold for charity and Japan restructuring long standing pacts.
Harmony School report covers the Booster Club meeting of December 14 1984 with Walter May Estes Hovend and performances by students under Mrs E M Erickson and Hovend String Band. Dancers Doranne Poulson Ruth Calvert and Mins Linn Webster introduced. Piano purchase discussed for Christmas program December 21 at 7:16 PM. Programs include A Greeting Mite Christmas Cards Joy to the World Away in a Manger and more with dialogue songs and pantomime. Girls lost to Meridian Creek and boys defeated Meridian Creek 36 to 7. Notes end with a remark on citrus fruit derived radioactivity and table salt experiments.
A large crowd gathered for the annual Christmas tree event at Lanes Chapel, with community spirit strong. After the program, local youths visited couples to sing carols, and the evening featured generous support from Mr. P. E. Dansby and others. Families from Clifton to Mt Keim joined relatives for Christmas Eve and Day visits, with ongoing entertainments throughout the week.
New Orleans December 14 United States income tax investigators indicted Seymour Weiss Huey Long s political treasurer on seven counts of trying to defeat and evade the income tax Conviction could bring a maximum $10 000 fine five years imprisonment or both per count The indictment cites an aggregate net income for Weiss and his wife of 232 006 71 for 1929 to 1988 while reporting only 55 123 47 an understatement of 176 972 26 It also accuses Weiss of reporting just 22 percent of the correct net income and that the government was due 26 1298 86 in five years Mrs Weiss was not indicted
Washington reports 1934 cash farm income at 611 million dollars, up from 583 million in September and 564 million in October 1983. Ten month total shows 35.045 billion, with 4.612 billion from farm product sales and 4.349 billion from rents and payments. 1933 ten month cash income was 4.009 billion. At full moon the moon is between the earth and the sun.
The Oklahoma state board of affairs ordered a hearing on sterilizing 68 insane patients at Central State Hospital in Norman, the largest number since the law passed. The measure targets hereditary cases and third term prisoners, with the operation for released prisoners under challenge. The piece also notes the easternmost United States point in Maine and urges Christmas Seal buyers to track their impact as an investment.
Austin reports from the Bureau of Business Research at the University of Texas show higher priced car registrations rising while the lowest bracket falls. Fifteen counties counted 2,005 new registrations versus 3,388 in October and 2,986 in November. Total for the first months of 1083 is 26. Tuberculosis remains a leading killer of school age children. seals are being sold to fund fight by the Temper Tuberculosis Association.
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