Rail line push meets Edwards County petition efforts
Delegates from Somos Rocksprings Crystal City Carrise Springs and Camp Wood joined Uvalde officials to push a connecting rail line. The Edwards County Chamber of Commerce drafted a petition to Southern Pacific Santa Fe Missouri Pacific and other railroads seeking a link from Sonora or Menard to Camp Wood and with Uvalde Northern. Negotiations began two years ago but stalled. locals urge new service to move woolMohair livestock and other goods, fearing truck costs and scalping price pressures.
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Somos Rocksprings
Crystal City
Carrise
Amd
Camp Wood
Uvalde
Edwards County
Comapete
Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
Free
Missouri Pacific
Osabe
Northern
Wee Ath
County Boetera Cam
State Finances Per Capita Aid For Schools In May
Austin May 2 The State will pay 82 per pupil on May 16 as part of the $17.4 per cap distribution. State Superintendent M. N Marrs announced the allotment leaves a balance of 1 per pupil due the school with 1 deferred until Oct 1 to await receipts from the new 1 cent cigarette tax law.
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Austin
Schoula
M. N Marrs
Pani Promoted to Third Class Consul
Jose Flizemdo Pani, acting Mexican consul during Pena's vacation, was notified Friday of appointment to consul third class. Pani has served in Mexican government for months and studied Mexican law in Mexico City before being sent to Del Rio as assistant to L. Pega.
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Jose Flizemdo Pani
I. Pena
Mexico City
Pani
Mexico
del Rio
L. Pega
Refund plan shocks Lane Wool Co op members at San Angelo
Surprising move involves returning over advances to growers of the Lane Wool and Mohair Co operative Association. Officials in Del Rio question collection prospects as 1930 wool prices remain uncertain. Mayer and EF Mayer president announce no action until wool value is known. Some members fear self funding of potential over advances if wool sale results differ from advances.
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Lane Btar Wool- Mohett Co-perative Association
del Rio
San Angelo
EF & Mayer
Southwest Teans Wool and
Motwsr Co-Operative Assortation
Mayer
National Wood Marketing Corporation
Del Rio Housewives Targeted by Varied Racketeers
Del Rio residents report daily visits by door to door peddlers offering cheap goods. Photographers, traveling hosiery and grocery salesmen, toilet goods and hair care products, and other solicitors promise bargains and quick delivery. A local housewife summed up the caution: she buys only what she can see to know what she is getting.
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del Rio
New York
Cincinnati
Only Choice Wools Are Selling Across Markets Reported
Curtailed movement of lower grades noted on eastern docks with tight prices. Texas Arizona and London sales show varied quotes, with highest rates for top wools and lower activity in other regions. Prices mostly steady to down slightly as buyers favor certain grades amid uncertain outlook.
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Texas
Arizona
London
Zion Leader Voliva Names Successor Amid Death Forecast
Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva selects Mr. Mintern, described as Zion Church’s youngest apostle, as his successor. The exact succession date remains undetermined as Voliva, a flat-earth advocate and wealthy figure, contemplates his impending death projected for 1976 at age 106 and plans to organize his estate.
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Mr. Mintern
Church of Zion, Sr
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Voliva
Lisbon revolt leaders quit in surrender
May 2 194? Lisbon Portgual rebellion leaders surrender to prevent bloodshed as government forces prevail according to the Minister of Martine.
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Lisbon
Portgual
Madeira
Martine
Uvalde Woman Stops Lightning Fire at Home
Special Correspondence in Uvalde May 2. Mrs Joe W Davis quickly acted to stop a likely costly fire when lightning struck electric wires attached to her residence. She ran into the attic and extinguished the fire. The same bolt knocked Mrs B Geale to the floor by a kitchen sink and left her slightly bruised.
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Uvalde
Joe W Davis
House Votes County Road Bond Refund
The Texas House approved a bill by Representative Coke Stevenson to use current Highway Department revenues to pay interest and sinking fund on county bonds for highway purposes. The bill passed 66 to 45 with an amendment reducing the annual appropriation from 6 million to 5 million for the next biennium. The measure, labeled a relief act, would not reimburse counties for bonds already retired.
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Austin
House
Coke Stevenson
Junction
State Highway Department
Satterwhite
Odessa
Stevenson
Brooks
Bagwell
Highway Department
Youth Sleeping on T. P. Track Killed
SWEETWATER May 2. J. FE. Wiliams 17 was killed and W. Butler Jr 21 seriously injured when struck by a Texas and Pacific train near here. Both boys were from Gainesville, Fla. Trainmen said they were asleep on the railroad dump.
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Sweetwater
J. FE. Wiliams
W. ©. Butler Jr
Texas and Pacific
Gainesvile
Fla
Tragedy Near Del Rio In Fort Clark Vehicle Crash
An accident on Highway 90 about 16 miles east of Del Rio fatally injured Davy Denton and seriously wounded Erwin Stapelton, both soldiers from Fort Clark Brackettville. Five men in a Model T were returning from Villa Acuña when slippery roads caused the collision with a truck.
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Fort Clark
Brackettville
Highway 90
del Rio
Port Clark Barracks
Doran Funeral
Davy Denton
Alabama City
Fort Clark Hospital
Erwin Stapelton
Stapelton
Villa Acuna
Juvenile Court Tries Policeman As Pick-pocket
Tom Meyers a city patrolman was arrested on charges of pocket picking but denied the theft of a dollar from A Herzing. Henry Bridge a prosecution witness called the case slander and false arrest were leveled against Herzing who was sought by boy police with capture imminent.
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Tom Meyers
Tom
A. Herzing
Henry Bridge
Meyers
Herzing
Car Carrying College Students Struck by Freight Train
In Commerce Texas East Texas State Teachers College students were injured when a freight train struck their car at a crossing. Two couples were rushed to hospitals with serious injuries and Marjorie Summerlin 17 was believed fatally injured. Eldon Thompson lost toes in the crash.
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Commerce
Texas
East Texas State Teachers’ College
Greenville
Marjorie Summerlin
Eldon Thompson
Enloe
Robertson
Oil Code Unlikely At Present Texas Session
Austin May 2. No hope was held here today for adoption of an oil code for Texas at the present session of the Legislature. The Legislature has only a week to act after the oil conference here unless the session is extended.
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Austin
Texas
Oklahoma City
S P Cut Not To Affect Del Rio
The Sunset Lines will not implement a four day week at Del Rio due to staffing shortages. General manager L B McDonald said Houston San Antonio El Paso and other main yards will adopt a four day week and Del Rio will stay on five days with workers agreeing to a four day week instead of wage cuts or job losses.
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L. B. McDonald
Sunset
Pine Texas
del Rio
Houston
San Antonio
el Paso
McDonald
Camp Wood Road Boosters Seek 200000 Bond Issue
Real County voters may approve a 200000 road bond to improve Camp Wood area roads and southern county access. Residents want 50000 for local road building and a future hard surfaced link from Uvalde through Camp Wood to Rocksprings and Sonora with eventual county road care beyond the highway 4. The drive from M Rocksprings to Uvalde is noted as especially scenic.
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Real
Camp Wood
Uvalde
Camp+ Wood
Rocksprings
Sonora
M Rocksprings
Honduran City in Grasp of Revolters
In Tegucigalpa on May 2 UM troops moved toward Santa Rosa to defend the city from rebels led by General Gregorio Ferrera. The capital city faced a likely fall if reinforcements do not arrive in time.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Santa Rosa
Gregorio Ferrera
Truth in News Bothering Uvalde Leader News
The weekly Uvalde Leader-News denies that Texas Rangers from Del Rio were summoned to quiet a threatened outbreak after the Kerrville Hunter trial acquittal. The editor denounces the slur as unfounded while noting residents seek fuller reports from other papers.
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Uvalde Leader- News
Texas Rangers
del Rio
Hunter
Kerrville
Leader-News
Waxet
Uvalde
Tran
State Forgery Probe Expands To More Counties
A Dallas attorney for John W Bowen announced bond would be furnished for Bowen after nine forgery charges tied to state witness fee claims. Bond set at 1500 per case. Assistant Attorney General Ebert Hooper said only two counties were checked so far in the statewide probe and more forgeries may be found.
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Ebert Hooper
New Season Rainfall Reaches 10.84 Inches in Del Rio District
Record rainfall drenched Del Rio and surrounding districts with 2.34 inches Friday night into Saturday morning. The town reported rivers and creeks rising as floodwaters swept the area and two U.S. soldiers narrowly escaped drowning when their machine was washed off a bridge over the Nueces River about ten miles west of Uvalde.
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del Rio
Texas
Deltic
Port Clarke
Nueces River
Uvalde
Weather outlook for Del Rio area turns to showers
The Del Rio vicinity forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies with likely showers tonight and Sunday. Temperatures remain steady with a high around 83 and a low near 64, following a morning low of 61.
Weekend Showers Likely with Temperate Shift
Showers likely tonight and Sunday with a noticeable temperature change. Occasional showers are expected in the southwest portion and near the west coast tonight and on Sunday.
New Mayor Hands Out Choices Fire and Police Posts
Del Rio turns boy minded as youths take charge after Friday’s ballot. Curt Brandenstein first on throne appoints fire chief George Netts and staff Martin McNutt E W Billings Jr John Wilbur Easterling Sonny Weathersbee Innis Jones. Police list includes Ted Griset Vestel Askew Marcus de Leon Lawrence Munnerlyn Peter Adams Rayden Reis Esker Montgomery Reedy Rose Chino Graf Pershing Linney Snooky Almond Albert Benson B D Roberts T N White. Chief and force move to enforce laws with swift authority.
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Brandenstein
George Netts
Netts
Martin McNutt
E. W. Billings Jr
John Wilbur Easterling
Sonny” Weathersbee
Innis Jones
Ted
Griset
Vestel Askew
Marcus de Leon
Lawrence Munnerlyn
Peter Adams
Rayden Reis
Esker Montgomery
Reedy Rose
Chino” Graf
Pershing Linney
Snooky” Almond
Albert Benson
B. D. Roberts
T. N. White
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Tunas
New Wool Moves
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Bill
Solons
T. P
Undertaker
S. P
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Camp Wood Road
Honduran
Comptroller’s Office
U.P
Ted Mon
Hooper
Comptroller's Office
San Antonio Road
West Texas
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