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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1941
Page
6
Fragmentary notes describe a college event for May 1 1941 with seniors and guests preparing for ceremonies and party activities. Mentions Mrs Avirett and bereavements, final exams, proms, and a display of student participants.
May 19 report outlines the Montay Blankenship measure to require licensure for drugstores and physicians, with restrictions on prescriptions for whisky in dry areas. It sets costs for permits, a two year record of whisky prescriptions, and state board oversight. Also notes new officers for the American Legion Auxiliary and mentions Poppy Day appeals for veterans' children welfare funds.
We express appreciation to Rev. H M Baurm and Rev. Walter T Glestad for hope and encouragement. Thanks to the choirs for consolation in song and to friends for floral offerings and messages of sympathy to our deep sorrow in the death of Lda Knust Hoel, devoted wife, mother, daughter and sister.
A rambling first person recollection centers on a stubborn well digger and a risky business in land and water rights. The narrator recalls meetings with a judge, a partnership dispute, and threats to cut water, revealing rough humor and the era's frontier mood. Names are fragmentary but the core depicts a tense, informal negotiation over a well and property.
A jumble of notices from Stanford, Gatesville, Zwanilla Gay and surrounding areas records funerals, weddings, births and social events. Items include a funeral for Stes. GM Nelann, the birth of two baby boys to Mr. and Mrs. Ingmar ohne, a daughter Florences to Mr. Homer Pieres Jr., and society meetings of the Woman's Society of Christian Service with plans for study at the church.
Detroit May 16 Ford Motor Company disclosed it granted wage increases totaling 18 482 482 for 54 024 workers since June 1 as part of a company wide readjustment to keep pay rates competitive with other auto firms The wage rise followed a 10 cent per hour raise negotiated by the United Automobile Workers for General Motors workers and was framed by Ford personnel director Harry Bennett as aligning with industry standards
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