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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
1
A Texas schoolteacher recounts a charity song book scheme that used a hard pressed advertising firm to pressure merchants into buying space on school song book covers. The firm charged $3.40 for a small ad and planned to print ads on song books sold at about $13 per hundred, exploiting the wife of the teacher to solicit merchants.
The Texas Outlook warns of a quieter era as birthrates fall and life expectancy rises. It cites smaller families and stricter immigration as factors, noting projections for 1966 population growth with fewer youths and longer lifespans across generations.
Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz born in Fredericksburg in 1885 spends noon hours with relatives and friends at the Nimitz Hotel during a stop en route to Washington. He recalls the city’s growth and accepts a four year term as Chief of the Bureau of Navigation.
Forecast describes gradual aging of the population with fewer youths in productive labor and more middle aged workers. It anticipates reduced need for schools, rising interest in mild sports and travel, and a fading jitterbug era. Projections touch on misread terms but suggest benefits to government experience and public health as society adapts.
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