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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1939
Page
2
Traffic through Harper has greatly increased since the opening of the new highway to Junction. Local officials report smoother flow and higher vehicle counts as travelers adopt the faster route.
Texas police rely on laboratory analysis to prove or disprove intoxication in DWI cases. State chemist J H Arnette describes two tests blood and purine to chart intoxication levels and counters the idea that drinkers always show obvious signs.
A planned chemurgic exhibit will debut in Texas showing progress in Castor beans soybeans sweet potatoes Tung trees cellulose products and other crops for farm use. The project is directed by J. Torn with committees led by Victor Schoffelmayer Gilbert Wilson Hubert Harrison D H Pace and Tom Walker. An advisory group includes Texas leaders backing new crop uses to replace cotton, plus hydroponic soil less cultivation demonstrations.
State Health Department warns against common cancer myths and urges early medical advice. It lists ten key facts including cancer not being contagious, not a blood disease, and that diet or aluminum utensils do not prevent or cause cancer. Prolonged delay in diagnosis worsens outcomes. early detection improves treatment results.
The Agricultural show at the 1939 State Fair of Texas runs Oct 7 to 22. A garden growing without soil will be showcased with flowers vegetables and field crops grown in water or by hydroponic cultivation. Chemurgy features also highlighted.
State police report a six month survey showing drinking drivers caused about 24 percent of highway fatalities and 17 percent overall. Head on collisions accounted for over a quarter of highway crashes, with other high risk behaviors noted among drivers and pedestrians.
An electrical resistivity instrument developed by the Public Roads Administration aids Texas in locating hidden base materials for pavement. The Texas Highway Department reports economies from nearby deposits found with the device, reducing haul distances and costs. In one case a 0.5 mile local deposit saved about 5,150 dollars. in another, material found 2 miles away cut costs versus a 10 mile haul by 1,156 dollars per mile. In late 1938, 200,000 cubic yards of base material were found where scarce, saving shipping costs.
Sunday at Seipps park a 2 30 p m double leader All Star softball clash is set between the Cracker Jacks led by Richard Jost and Gillespie County All Stars managed by the author Only fourteen of the twenty All Stars will play September 8 draws include Kurt Lindenberg Werner Lindenberg Hardy Mosel Hans Bergner Victor Stahl Norman Dietel Maxie Arhens Werner Olfers Elmer Luckenbach Leroy Seipp PeteCreweige Elgin Jost Leroy Rosenbusch and the manager Labor Day September 4 sees a match between Cyclones and married men of Doss community in ball action
John M Carmody first administrator of the Federal Works Agency argues for expanded highway system, rural road relief, and highway beautification. He emphasizes safer roads, larger rights of way, roadside development, and road building as employment stimulus while coordinating with existing agencies and leveraging research.
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The University of Texas built a one ton fifteen foot device named multiharmonograph that performs 61 mathematical operations at once and can solve complex equations that would take an expert computer a month to do on paper. Dr L Brown, head of physics, says it runs on electric wave impulse. The text notes other UT projects and local notices.
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