FSA Expands Farm Purchase Aid to Texas and Oklahoma Counties
The Farm Security Administration expands aid to buy farms in 51 Texas counties and 37 Oklahoma counties. Loans of 40 years at 3 percent with no down payment target purchase of about 542 Texas farms and 264 Oklahoma farms, with emphasis on tenants, sharecroppers, and laborers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Oklahoma
Farm Security Administration
Wallace
Department of Agriculture
Congress
FSA
Toyah Social Notes Announce Fannie Gaines Wedding
Announcement of the marriage of Miss Fannie Gaines daughter of Mr and Mrs G A Gaines Toyah to Virgil Graham of Miami Arizona in Globe Arizona at the First Christian Church Friday July 21 at 700 pm Rev R O Bishop of Globe officiating. The couple will reside in Miami. Several local residents are mentioned visiting returning from Austin Ruidosa and other towns with brief notes on revival meetings and visits.
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Fannie Gaines
G. A. Gaines
Toyah
Virgil Graham
Maimi
Arizona
Globe
R. O. Bishop
J. W. Maggart
Shirley
Austin
Maggart
University of Texas
W. F. Grant
Big Spring
Jack Burchard
Ruidosa
A. L. McDaniel
Byron Fletcher
McDaniel
Toyah Baptist Church
East Texas
Producers Earning 39 Cents Of Farm Dollar Back
C E Bowles of Texas A and M Extension Service notes farmers can cut costs by lowering purchase prices rather than raising sale prices. He cites the shift from 55 cents to 39 cents of the farm commodity dollar returned to producers since 1913 1920, with distributors gaining to 61 cents. He advocates stronger farmer cooperatives to compete with bulk buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. E. Bowles
Texas A
M. College Extension Service
Bowles
Texas Fur Harvest and Beaver Dam Echoes in 1938 News
A Texas report shows 1938 fur pelts totaled 590 400 with Texas leading five species badgers ringtail cats wolves Canada lynx and foxes. The 1939 output rose to 729 244 pelts amid a statewide decline since 1933. Beaver dams near Eagle Pass reveal beavers restore disrupted water. Fishermen saved fish as Low Colorado River gates briefly released water to sustain bass and crappie before closure.
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Texas
U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey
United States
Ohio
Louisiana
J. G. Burr
State Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
State Game Department
Arthur Cook
John Mason
Eagle Pass
West
East
Game Department
John Taylor
Marble Falls
Colorado River
Buchanan
Eagles Chase Coyotes Across Texan Plains
State game warden Po. & Maggard in Amarillo reports seeing two massive eagles pursue two coyotes across the plains. The birds struck with beaks and talons, knocking each coyote to the ground before the pair vanished from sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Po. & Maggard
Amarillo
Houston Man Catches Catfish From Front Steps
Loy W. Duddleston faced five feet of floodwater in Houston and used a fishing pole from his front steps to reel in three catfish, illustrating the sudden local rise of water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loy W. Duddleston
Houston
Duddleston
Conservation education grows in Texas schools
Will J. Tucker executive secretary of the game department Phil Goodrum director of research and education and Dan Lay region game manager reported after lectures before conservation classes in ten leading state schools. Each speaker spoke to more than 2000 students as conservation as a summer school course spreads from North Texas State Teachers College Denton to many other schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will J. Tucker
Game Department
Phil Goodrum
Dan Lay
Mer
North Texas State Teachers College of
Denton
Keen sighted wild mountain sheep of West Texas
Bob Snow of the game department reports that the mountains of west Texas host several hundred wild mountain sheep. These animals are extremely wary and take fright at moving objects as far as two miles away.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Texas
Bob Snow
Game Department
Undercover Doctor to Premiere at Grand Theatre
A dramatic true incident tale will debut Saturday at the Grand Theatre with the Paramount picture Undercover Doctor. The film follows a renegade doctor a crooked politician and ruthless killers in a corrupt connection exposed on screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G-Man
J. Edgar Hoover
Grand Theatre
Changes in refund motor fuel law prompt dealer licensing
Farmers and all within the refund tax system are urged by Comptroller George Sheppard to study a new state law effective September 1. It requires licensed dealers for refunds, licenses for dealers, serial numbered invoices, two year sales records, and delivery time invoicing to prevent confusion.
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George Sheppard
Sheppard
Comptroller
Comptroller’s Department
Market trip for Sisk family to fall clothing markets
Mr and Mrs Albert Sisk Mrs C M Holloway and Suzanne Ross traveled Saturday to Fort Worth and Dallas to attend fall clothing markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Sisk
C. M. Holloway
Suzanne Ross
Fort Worth
Dallas
Turpin Couple Visit El Paso for Business and Pleasure
A note asserts Mr and Mrs Bill Turpin traveled to El Paso this week for a combined business and pleasure trip and warns that many refund claims will not be payable. It stresses filers must learn the new tax refund provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Turpin
el Paso
San Francisco to Return to Grand Theater Spotlight
W. S. Van Dyke directs the musical drama San Francisco at the Grand Theatre Friday. Stars Clark Gable Jeanette MacDonald and Spencer Tracy depict the Barbary Coast era before and after the 1906 earthquake as the city rises from ruin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Grand
W. S. van Dyke
Clark Gable
Jeanette MacDonald
Spencer Tracey
Grand Theatre
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