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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1930
Page
5
Fredericksburg Standard details publishing staff including managing editor R S Klett sports editor R Jordan feature editor Wm Petmecky and business manager Wm Habenicht. Paper is issued weekly with fredericksburg Texas post office filing as second class matter.
Instructions direct readers to contact Fredericksburg Publishing Co. for communications. Purely business matters go to Bookkeeper's Dept while all other issues go to Editor's Dept.
The Dallas Morning News urges Texans to vote for a constitutional amendment on the legislature and warns against overreaching on special sessions. It argues for a long term program for growth, reforestation, farming ownership, local industry, and broad public investment to make Texas an empire state with educated, productive citizens. It notes related developments in Beaumont, Laredo, Henderson, and San Antonio including refinery expansion, a hat company charter, hotel plans, and a new Swis Plaza Apartment project.
Governor Moody heard two requests for a special session for farm relief from West Texas bankers and central Texas farmers. He did not commit but signaled such a session remains unlikely before the November election.
A brief notice states the owner may redeem the item by filing a description and paying for the advertisement at the office. The notice implies a sale or reclamation process and directs action through the office.
Corpus Christi seeks 1,659,000 for waterfront improvements while Pampa approves 125,000 theater funding and Port Isabel prepares a 300,000 general municipal bond. Laredo plans 500,000 for a new high school and 100,000 for a second junior high. Gray County road bond supporters seek 2,120,000 after two defeats. Fort Worth and Denver Railway spends 756,000 on a new bridge over the South Canadian near Tascosa.
Alsdorf Germany Oct 22 The Anna mine disaster after a ton of dynamite exploded in No 2 shaft killed 96 to 131 workers as rescuers worked through the night. Survivors and the entombed numbered many among 666 on site with reports of 98 injured and 35 believed dead still beneath debris.
Rescue teams race to reach entombed miners as ventilation and pumping gear are repaired after a blast. Officials note additional danger from depth and rising debris while workers cut through to reach them. Poultry advice urges confinement away from young stock.
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