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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1930
Page
5
The page lists R. S. Klett as Managing Editor R E Jordan as Sports Editor Wm Petmechy as Feature Editor and Wm Habenicht as Business Manager reflecting the paper’s editorial team.
Texas voters will decide two amendments to reform legislative procedure and five in all in a general election. Proposals include regular 120 day sessions, non overlapping special sessions, and new rules for university land taxation and investment. Critics warn against sweeping support, while proponents urge adopting all amendments for efficiency and accountability.
A Texas article notes constitutional changes to lawmaker pay. Current rates: five dollars a day for 60 days of regular sessions, two dollars for extra days. special sessions set at five dollars for 30 days, two dollars thereafter. Proposed amend ment would set ten dollars daily for a 120 day session and halve mileage, aiming to curb cost and reduce reliance on frequent specials. The piece predicts broad voter support pending the swat em all policy.
Randall Falls aged 4 and Billy Falls aged 1 died in a Highland Addition fire that destroyed their two room residence. Mrs Falls was visiting neighbors when the blaze began, and Mildred Davidson died shortly after at a hospital. A car accident nearby killed no one. witnesses call it unavoidable.
The report notes 900 million acres of virgin pine and similar expanse of standing timber with 313 million acres of second growth pine and 245 million acres of second growth hardwood, outlining extensive forest assets.
Advertisement notes a subscription offer for the Standard newspaper priced at 1.50 per year. It emphasizes an affordable yearly rate to entice readers to sign up.
Leaders Hoover MacDonald Hamaguchi herald a London naval treaty marking first trio bound to limits on warships. They hope France and Italy join, pledging mutual trust over competition. treaty aims to reduce armaments and ease future talks for disarmament.
The Texas Supreme Court granted a writ of error in the river bed suit against C. W Bradford and others, joined by W. T. Caswell and M. H. Reed, to recover river bed lands along the Red River north fork in Gray and Wheeler counties for the free public school fund. The third civil appeals court had held the Small land bill constitutional. The state argues the bill was invalid and not applicable since the suit was pending when it passed, and claims the right to challenge the fund under the 1900 partition. The state also contends the bill violates the conservation amendment of the state constitution.
Police guards escorted the body of Joe Aiello Peck, a notorious Chicago gangster nicknamed the kingpin of Little Italy. A grand funeral featured an $11,000 bronze and silver casket, display at the Aiello home, and a rose arch with doves. Thousands gathered as police kept order after arrival.
The state argues patents on stream surveys encroaching on river beds and the free school fund should be canceled. It contends the Small act would make the law retroactive and affect lands already appropriated for the free school fund.
Ray Derver a 57 year old blacksmith died in a hospital after a nail struck his eye near Burger Texas late yesterday Blood clot pressed against the brain appears to have caused death though he had seemed well shortly before Dexter removed the nail earlier and he was brought to the hospital
The bereaved family expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for assistance and sympathy during illness and after the death of Ernst Herbert Br They name Line Keller A Weber Wm Kunz Keidel Entz Robt Mer Rev Koerner Holy Ghost church choir and the floral offering.
Temple secures a $500000 refinery for the Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Co. Beaumont voters consider $1400000 in bonds to upgrade the water system. Liberty County issues $500000 of its $2250000 road bonds and starts major highway work. Amarillo opens a new packing plant to boost cattle and hog feeding. Lone Star Gas plans a Red River bridge north of Gainesville to protect pipeline service. Lamesa gains dependable power as Texas Electric Service Co completes a high line from Big Spring. old plant to be standby.
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