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Newspaper
Junction Eagle
Location
Junction, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1937
Page
6
A World War I era poem from Alex E. McGee at the U S Veterans Hospital in Tucson Arizona honors fallen comrades. It laments fading gratitude, recalls battles at Meuse Moselle Bois Bellau and Puvenelle, and asks for relief from pain to join the dead where poppies bloom in Flanders Fields.
Modern prairie schooners, trailers, show marked growth in Texas with 45,000 now owned, over five times more than in 1926, while automobile ownership rose only 25 percent. The article highlights the advertising value of this trend.
Texas hosts about 250 generating stations run by around fifteen major firms and numerous locals. Total investment exceeds 300 million dollars, with 1936 marking a key year in expanding rural electrification across the state.
Enrollments in public high school vocational classes are expected to exceed last year’s 1,382,000 students and adults studying trades home economics and vocational agriculture.
In 1936 more than 420 000 persons attended summer schools in public schools or colleges.
The text notes a 10.3 percent rise in federal automotive taxes for the first nine months of the year versus last year, amounting to over 26 million dollars. If continued, the year end total would rise by about 35 million dollars compared with 1936.
Reports to the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research show 35 Texas cities issued permits totaling 4 810 785 in October, up 11 3 percent from September but down 21 percent from a year earlier. Cities with higher permits than both prior periods include Austin Brownsville Cleburne Denison El Paso Jacksonville Lubbock Marshall and Pampa.
Chaplain William B. Arnold, a Catholic priest ordained in 1908 and who joined the Army in 1913, is named by the President as chief of chaplains of the U S Army, the first Catholic to hold the post.
A friend refutes reports that Tommy Manville has exhausted his fortune claiming he remains a shrewd businessman with funds to cover Finland’s debt and still buy a carload of blondes. Oscar Shires receives one to two years for robbery in Alma Wisconsin after netting only three cents.
A pretended English minister conducted sixty five marriages without authority, and the ceremonies have been declared illegal. The case highlights fraudulent officiants and the consequences for mistaken spouses and involved families.
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