DeBerry to Act as Texas Governor This Week
Senator Tom DeBerry Gogota will serve as acting governor of Texas this week while Governor Allred and Lieutenant Governor Woodul attend an interstate parole conference in New Orleans December 3 4 and 5. As president pro tempore he will be chief executive with Senators Reagan Redditt and Collie noted for prior practice. Roy Sanderford preceded DeBerry and did not act as governor.
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Roy Sanderford
DeBerry
Senate
Senator Small advocates rough but clean football for UT
Senator Clint C. Small, father of UT captain Clint Small, attended the Texas game in Minnesota where the Longhorns posted their largest score against the Golden Gophers since 1933. He praised the rough yet clean style and recalled advising his son to tackle with maximum effort.
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Clint C. Small
University of Texas
Texas
Clint
Minnesota
Texans
Minnesota Golden Gophers
Small
Papa Small
State Board of Welfare Bill Draft To Be Considered In Austin
A final draft of a bill to create a state board of welfare will be prepared at a December 12 meeting in Austin by the Social Aspects committee of the state planning board. The plan unites the old age assistance commission Texas relief commission and Child Welfare division under one organization without changing agency control. The state board of control already includes members who serve as old age assistance and relief commissioners. Earlier this week the water re-
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State Board of Welfare
Austin
State Planning Board
Old Age Assistance Commission
Texas Relief Commission
Child Welfare Division
State Board of Control
Bootlegging Coal Trade Report Recalls Large-scale Bust
The report claims nearly one million people are involved in a $50,000,000 per year coal bootlegging business. Officials describe widespread activity and indicate significant illicit profits and organized participation across regions.
State to draft bill on underground water control
The sources committee of the planning board will review a proposed bill giving the state control of underground water supplies. Major E A Wood, director, warns that unrestrained irrigation drilling could deplete the underground resource and raise costs, while normal farm and community needs will be protected.
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Planning Board
E. A. Wood
Governor Allred Seeks Liberalized State Expense Accounts
Governor Allred argues for broader state expense coverage for assistant attorneys general. He recalls Texas lacked representation in several U. S. Supreme Court appeals due to travel costs when he was attorney general. He estimates assistants spent over $100 of personal funds to represent Texas in Washington during an appeal.
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Allred
U. S. Supreme Court
Legal Department
Texas
Washington
Allred seeks travel funds for AG representatives
Governor Allred plans to urge the appropriations committee to allow travel expenses for attorney general department representatives at 3.60 dollars a day plus fare, with a policy to reimburse all expenditures regardless of days or period. He cites the E H R Green inheritance case in New York and the Texas versus New Mexico water rights suit as requiring constant legal presence in the near term.
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Attorney General’s Department
Allred
Appropriations Committee
Texas
E. H. R. Green
New York City
U. S
Highway officials to attend national meeting in San Francisco
The Texas Highway Commission authorized State Highway Engineer Gibb Gilchrist to select a representative group of state highway department heads for the American Association of Highway Officials meeting in San Francisco, December 7 to 10. Gilchrist, president of the national association, will choose the number and names.
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Texas Highway Commission
Gibb Gilchrist
State
American Association of Highway Officials
San Francisco
Gilchrist
National Association
Citation notice in Reeves County Texas declaring tax suit against George W Stough
The state of Texas directs the Reeves County Sheriff to summon George W Stough the unknown heirs and legal representatives of George W Stough the unknown owners of property described as Lot 14 Block 44 Original Town Pecos City Reeves County Texas to appear at the 109th District Court in Pecos on January 4 1937 to answer a petition for delinquent taxes 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 totaling 67 87 plus penalties interest and costs and to foreclose the tax lien and sell the land. notice is to be published weekly for four weeks and served by publication to all interested parties.
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George W. Stough
Reeves County
Pecos City
Texas
State of Texas
State OF
Reeves
County of Reeves
Pecos
Hollis Smith
M. E. Church Plans Xmas Program
The First Methodist church will host a Christmas program next Sunday at 7:30 PM. The public is invited. The program includes Noel, Christmas carols, scripture readings by A C Douglas and others, anthems by the choir, a five minute talk, offertory, and the sermon The Gift of Self and Service.
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First Methodist Church
Julia Williams
Young People’s Choir
A. C. Douglas
Wilson
Transformation of three girls at Methodist Home in Waco
In Waco Texas the Methodist Home aids three young girls saved from filth and hunger. Superintendent Hubert T Johnson leads a program that teaches self sufficiency through farming chores cooking and laundering. The home serves hundreds of children with annual support reduced to about one hundred thousand dollars thanks to their work. Rev A C Douglas invites questions about the home.
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Waco
Texas
Methodist Home
Hubert T. Johnson
Methodist
Car Registrations Show Big Increase
University of Texas bureau of business research reports November registrations of new automobiles in fifteen counties totaled 6 284, up 52.3 percent from October and 11.1 percent from November 1935. Year to date through November rose 14.7 percent with higher gains in upper price brackets.
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Austin
University of Texas Bureau of Business Research
Bureau
Meaning of Christmas and its gift of unselfishness
The first meaning of Christmas is generosity inspired by God’s gift to mankind. The worldly selfishness is broken for a time and the Christ spirit is born in our hearts. The exchange of presents can become burdensome, but anything that makes the world more unselfish is beautiful and good.
December fund drive aims to boost church home donations
Douglas notes December is set aside for church donations to the annual budget. First Methodist Church members are intensely interested in the home and hope more transformations like the pictured ones can be funded by ongoing support.
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Douglas
First Methodist Church
Meaning of Noel in Christmas carols traced back
The article explains Noel as a French name linked to carols sung at Christmastide. It discusses its derivation from the Latin natalis meaning birth and notes the evolution of the word to novel in Chaucer and early writers.
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Rome
Christ
Chaucer - i -T
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