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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1939
Page
8
The F H S Echo outlines democratic ideals in schools with notes on student self government and honor systems. It reports on University of Texas visitors, local family visits, library acquisitions, and upcoming library and classroom topics including Civil War studies and debates on democracy versus dictatorship.
Students across science and other classes learn there will be one week of review after the Christmas and New Year holidays before semester examinations. They are currently studying the concept of absolute zero on the thermometer.
Fire of undetermined origin ravaged the business section north of the Plaza in Brady Sunday. The flames hit Skelton's Dry Goods Store hardest, causing several thousand dollars in damage from fire smoke and water, with a neighboring variety store also damaged.
Authorities urge careful fire prevention during the holidays. Advice covers fuse use replacing fuses not pennies, keeping chimneys clean, separating trash, and storing rags in metal cans. Emphasis on safe exits, ventilation, and avoiding lighted candles on trees, plus cautions about decorations and fireworks. Arson risk and prompt investigations highlighted, with pursuit of prosecutions when needed.
Dr. R. S. Norris, 41, supervisor of the children's hospital at the State Tuberculosis Hospital in Sanatorium Texas, died at the Sanatorium last week. Norris had served there since 1931 and died of the disease he had fought as a physician and surgeon.
The U S Department of Agriculture and the American Red Cross recommend treating trees by cutting the trunk at a V shape, weighing the tree, calculating ammonium sulfate needed, dissolving it in water, and soaking the tree in the solution to reduce combustibility. Inflammable decorations may also be treated.
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