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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1940
Page
2
The description notes faulty horn files in College Station with incomplete details. Officials indicated issues affecting the equipment and potential safety or procedural impacts pending further inspection. Local sources offered limited information as the situation developed.
A new horn fly trap by W G Bruce of the USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine is tested on Texas ranches. The carnival like trap forces cattle to pass through, catching flies with weighted flaps. Plans and an illustration are available from Cameron Siddall at Texas A and M Extension Service College Station.
The nationwide CCC anniversary event at Longhorn Cavern State Park Burnet Texas announces an open house for April 5 1940 with CCC Company 854 led by William D Holland and Robert M Rayls. Visitors may tour camp buildings view the cavern at half price with guided tours at 10 am 2 pm and 4 pm. A dance by Buddy Hancock and Orchestra begins at night with Burnet High School Band music and light refreshments planned. A Camp vs NYA Inks Lake softball and basketball game is scheduled.
A daily fashion piece celebrates spring and summer styles with a youthful silhouette. It highlights button fronts from neck to waist and a buttoned panel down the skirt, with wide collar and pockets enhancing the look. Teal blue dusty rose and Holland blue with contrasting buttons are suggested colors.
Paramount stars Errol Flynn Miriam Hopkins and Randolph Scott headline the November premiere of Virginia City at the Rialto Theatre Kerrville. The film portrays a Confederate gold convoy sought by Union agents with action filmed in Arizona's Painted Desert and set amid 1864 Virginia City's boom days.
Charles F. Kettering, GM vice-president, told a New Orleans audience that the South’s cotton, sugar, pine, citrus, and peanuts position it for rapid expansion of new industries through research. He urged broader industrial research, predicted labor needs, and proposed sending technical graduates into labs to spark local projects. He cited ample resources and called for coordinated effort among technicians, engineers, and government to start new industries, warning against premature scale. His remarks accompanied the General Motors Parade of Progress tour in the region.
A schoolteacher trains a class of boys to respond to air raid sirens. As she dramatizes the warning a single boy, Sammy, sits with chin in hands and asks if there are heroes. The scene reflects wartime fear and curiosity.
A six year old girl jokes that the minister’s stomach aches are due to emptiness. She notes lunch is missing and quips that food would help. The minister replies he has a severe head ache from emptiness, suggesting his own need for sustenance.
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