At The Palace Weekends Film Showcase April 11 12
The Palace screens Flight From Destiny on Friday and Saturday April 11 and 12 with Thomas Mitchell and Geraldine Fitzgerald in a tale of a philosophy professor facing six months to live and choosing to enrich others. Also on the bill are Trailing Double Trouble with Ray Corrigan and the Range Busters. The Thief of Bagdad with Sabu and John Justin. Long Voyage Home starring John Wayne. Buck Privates with Abbott and Costello. and other acts, newsreels, and acts continuing through Easter week.
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Thomas Mitchell
Geraldine Fitzgerald
Alfred Lange
Ray Corrigan
Max Terhune
Dusty King
Bob Horner
Marian
Horner
Rex Felker
Texas
Rough Riders Band
Sabu
Conrad Welt
June Duprez
John Justin
Basra
Bagdad
Jaffar
John Wayne
Ian Hunter
W. A. Hopf
New Texas truck law sets 38000 pound gross limit
Texas Motor Transportation Association official Lynn B. Shaw explains the new truck load limit formula. Vehicle weight depends on axle distance plus 40 then times 700, with overall caps 38000 pounds and per axle and per wheel limits varying by tire pressure.
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Austin
Lynn B. Shaw
Texas Motor Transportation Association
Shaw
Legislature Advances Key Measures and Anti-Strike Bill Passed
Austin Texas April 7 1941 Penrose B Metcalfe reports the Legislature passed several acts including the anti-strike bill signed by the Governor to curb violence in strikes and protect national defense work. A truck license fee revision is before a conference committee with adoption expected by April 10. The omnibus tax bill faces redrafting. the Eleemosynary appropriation bill passed to expand state hospital capacity for about 1200 patients and add facilities for epileptics and tuberculars.
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Senate
Conference Committee
Senate Committee On State Affairs
House
Penrose B. Metcalfe
Austin
Texas
Cotton Mattress Deadline Warns Texas Farmers
The April 30 deadline for cotton and ticking applications under the 1941 mattress demonstration program is announced by Elberta Martin Gillespie County Home Demonstration Agent. Eligible farm and ranch families in Harper Morris Ranch Stonewall Willow City and Frederickaburg may file at local offices of A A A and Home Demonstration.
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Texas
Department of Agriculture
Elberta Martin
Gillespie County
Harper
Fred Wedekind
Morris Ranch
Hugo Usener
Stonewall
Emil Schlaudt
Willow City
H. J. Robinson
Frederickaburg
A.A
Home
Suggestions For Tomato Plants
College Station April 10 The time for transplanting tomato plants is near. Extension horticulturist J F Rosborough offers tips to help growers. Keep covers off above 40 degrees. Water lightly to harden plants. water thoroughly morning of transplanting. set out in late evening. mound soil around stems. scatter bran mash poison at first cutworm signs. Spacing varies by soil. five to six foot rows, two to three feet between plants. Wide rows aid drainage. on hills four foot rows with three foot plant spacing. If April is wet and cool side dress with 100 pounds of nitrate or ammonium sulfate when blooms appear.
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College Station
J. F. Rosborough
Texas A
M. College
Paris
Demonstration Agent's Offices Report Mattress Processing Progress
The 1941 program has processed 226 mattresses, totaling 494 for 1940-41. Work resumes after April 15 on 250 more for already certified applicants. Ongoing defense orders halt further percale and comfort cotton for applications beyond current orders in Washington. Percale for Gillespie County prior to the halt totaled 500 yards, enough for 500 comforts with ten yards per unit, work underway to supply 250 remnants already received.
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Army
Defense
Washington
Gillespie County
Tenant Purchase Opportunity for Texas Tenants
Farm Security Administration opens applications on April 15 for long term low interest loans enabling eligible tenants sharecroppers and farm laborers to buy farms. Preference given to families with livestock and equipment. Loans repayable over 40 years with a variable payment plan and funds for home improvements.
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College Station
Texas
Farm Security Administration
FSA
C. M. Evans
Control fruit pests after bloom says extension horticulturist
J F Rosborough notes the time to curb curculia worms and brown rot in peach and plum trees. Spray a mix of five pounds wet table sulphur, three pounds zinc sulphate, three pounds hydrated lime and one pound arsenate of lead in fifty gallons of water, with zinc omitted if rainfall under thirty inches. Repeat about ten days after blossoms fall. The Texas Agricultural Experiment Station reports five research projects on using commercial seeds to grow fatten and finish livestock and poultry.
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College Station
J. F. Rosborough
The
Texas Agricultural Experiment Station
Texas Magazine
Miss Patsy Gamel as Guest of Miss Mildred Markworth
Miss Patsy Gamel is visiting Miss Mildred Markworth this week as a guest. The arrangement focuses on social visit and companionship within their household.
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Patsy Gamel
Mildred Markworth
Work Starts After Center Mattresses Are Finished
Work will commence as soon as the mattresses in each center are completed, marking the start of the next phase. The statement ties progress to the completion of mattress installations across all centers.
Cotton Comforter Material Discontinued for Texas
C D Walker acting director southern division AAA informs B F Vance Texas that discontinuance affects applications for comfort material beyond on hand orders in Washington. The program begun in February to supplement cotton mattress aid is halted due to army purchases. Percale ordered for Texas program totaled 2 903 030 yards, enough for 290 308 comforts.
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College Station
C. D. Walker
Southern Division
The
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
B. F. Vance
AAA
Texas
Washington
Walker
Army
Surplus Marketing Administration
Fish Hatcheries Boost Texas Fish Production In 1941 Target
Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission reports progress in ten hatcheries across the state. Brood fish of fourteen varieties prepared in cleaned fertilized ponds, with fertilization continuing. New scientific methods to increase fingerlings aim for 10,000,000 in 1941. Release planned in public and private waters to ease pressure on public lakes and streams.
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Austin
Texas
Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Commission
Game Department
Richard Crooks to Sing in San Antonio Recital
Metropolitan Opera tenor Richard Crooks appears in recital at the Municipal Auditorium in San Antonio on Friday evening April 18. The singer began as a boy soprano in a Trenton church and progressed through All Angels Church in New York, showing diligence and persistence.
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Metropolitan Opera
Massenet
Manon
Crooks
San Antonio
Richard Crooks
Municipal Auditorium
Trenton
All Angel’s Church
New
Concert closes Friends of Music series in San Antonio
The program features operatic arias and classical pieces as the finale of the Friends of Music series. Reservations are encouraged via Mrs. James 2K Devoo at the St. Anthony Hotel, San Antonio. Also noted is a regional cooperative freezer locker plant growth and corn production figures from a 1940 to 1980 comparison.
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Texas
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