Reduced Rates for Pec Consumers Announced by Co op
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Rural Electrification Administration LGRA and PEC with Lower Colorado River Authority Cooperative met with two local cooperatives to outline a working agreement. The plan allows LCRA to operate distribution facilities for Pedernales and Lower Colorado River Electric Cooperatives and purchase rural lines and town systems including San Marcos Buda Kyle Wimberley Marble Falls Cedar Park Leander and Liberty Hill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Rural Electric Administration
LGRA
PEC
Lower Colorado River Authority
Poe
Lower Colorado River Electric Cooperative
Austin
Texas Power and Light Company
Pedernales Co-op
San Marcos
Buda
Kyle
Wimberley
Burnet
Marble Falls
Cedar Park
Leander
Liberty Hill
Lower
Colorado River Co
Stehling Electric Representatives At Westinghouse Showing
Hugo Stehling proprietor of Stehling Electric Co and Otto Prochnow attend a Westinghouse convention in Houston to view a showing of Westinghouse refrigerators and the complete line of appliances with merchandising plans discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stehling Electric
Hugo Stehling
Stehling Electric Co
Otto Prochnow
Westinghouse
Houston
Op Will Purchase Rural Lines and Substations in Texas
The plan covers acquiring the Giddings sub-station rural lines Brenham Lockhart sub stations and distribution facilities from Dale sub-station. It also includes distribution facilities south of San Marcos serving Maxwell Reedville Staples Martindale and Red wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manor
Giddings
Brenham
Lockhart
Dale
San Marcos
Maxwell
Reedville
Staples
Martindale
Redwood
Proclamation by the Mayor for Texas Health Clean Up Week
The mayor proclaims March 31 to April 6 1940 as Texas Health Clean Up and Safety Week per Governor O Daniels proclamation. The State Health Department Fire Insurance Department and Public Safety join city officials in observance to promote health safety and community action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Lee O'Dannel
Texas
Texas State Health Department
State Fire Insurance Department
State Department of Public Safety
Krauskopf
Fredericksburg
Insurance Department
First May Queen 1940 Suzanne Sommers of Maplewood
Suzanne Sommers of Maplewood New Jersey chosen as May queen for Duke University May festival in Durham North Carolina where she is a senior. She was named yearbook beauty in 193s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suzanne Sommers
Maplewood
N. J
Duke University
Durham
N. C
Proud Papa Primo Carera Remembers World Champion Past
Primo Carera, once heavyweight champ, now a peace-loving resident of Sequals Italy, shown with his month-old son Umberto. He also pursues work as a movie actor in his spare time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Primo Carera
Joe Louis
da Preem
Sequals
Italy
Umberto
Primo
WPA projects in Gillespie County tally miles and bridges built
In the San Antonio district WPA crews have completed 139 miles of caliche and gravel roads and 2 miles of paved roads in Gillespie County since July 1935. A 9 mile Salt Branch road segment near Doss is under construction, with curbs and city streets also being built. The program also added a 350 foot low water bridge near Stonewall and hundreds of miles of roads, bridges, culverts, and park drives across 39 counties, including 76 bridges and viaducts and 756 culverts statewide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillespie County
Works Progress Administration
J. Arthur Hazelrigg
San Antonio
Doss
Salt Branch
Stonewall
Hazelrigg
Hazelrige
WPA
Seventeen Gillespie Crippled Children Receive Aid
Seventeen Gillespie County crippled children received medical aid and hospitalization from 1933 to 1989 through the Crippled Children's Division of the State Department of Education. Total aid amounted to $4,417.59, with $175,000 yearly state funding matched by federal funds under the Social Security Act. The division, created in 1933, began receiving federal funds in 1936 and serves children eligible under the act who can be improved through medical or surgical care or artificial appliances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gillespie County
State Department of Education
W.L. Platt
Fredericksburg
State Board of Health
Texas
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Little America
Byrd American Antarctic Expedition
North Star
Co-Op
Shaker
Fconts
Schoo
A. D
E Krauskopf
Habenicht
Alfied Roosevelt
Roosevelt
England
Fellowes-Gordon
Knockespoch
Aberdeenshire
Proud Papa
Miles Road
Gillespie
nFi
Woerner’s
Erwein Woerner
Wochenblatt
Publishing Co
Fredericksburg Publishing Co. ,Inc
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