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Newspaper
Clifton Record
Location
Clifton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1938
Page
7
The page lists numerous household visits and family updates across cities like Dallas, Grapevine, Waco, Temple and Mexia. It discusses Texas NYA programs aiding rural youths with 2000 new rural assignments and 11000 already placed, detailing job types and training at colleges and foundations, plus coastal tide facts from Nova Scotia and a divorce suit involving Ada Leonard.
The piece surveys the impact of Mexican expropriation of oil properties on Texas markets. It notes potential price cuts, continued Sunday shutdowns, and possible Saturday cuts as Mexican oil arrivals flood Houston. It links oil income to local employment, merchant sales, and school revenues while signaling policy reform in Texas insurance and casualty sectors.
An English electrician proposes an electric eye system to halt cars at red lights. A photowheel device would shine on approach and only allow motion when lights turn green, reducing driver discretion and eliminating the risk of running red. The concept mirrors television imagery and has been used in doors burglar alarms and jail weapon detectors.
Roosevelt writes to Col. Callan for Army Navy Journal’s seventy-fifth anniversary, affirming the United States will reduce armaments if other nations do the same. He notes constitutional duties to defend the nation and promote peace through treaties, removal of trade barriers, and disarmament talks, while denying any intent to threaten aggression. He pledges reduction alongside others to meet global conditions and protect U S interests.
Clifton Texan reports a Saturday night dance at Bosque Tavern with music by Harney Lee and Kindoy Boys. A note mentions 496 men and a dion tree, while the fragment hints at early plowmen using crooked tree branches.
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