4 H Clubs In Program Details and Incentives
4 H boys and girls will survey farms and communities as part of a national rural electrification effort. The program, supported by Westinghouse, offers college scholarships of 400 800 and 200 to top reporters and trips to the National Club Congress in Chicago. Loans at three percent for twenty years support rural line construction through the Rural Electrification Administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
National
4-H Committee
4-H
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
4&S
National Club Congress
Chicago
Agricultural Colleges
Federal Rural Electrification Administration
Little Theatre Plans Summer Children's Course
Mrs. Bill Ross Jr announces a summer Little Theatre course for ages five to 12. The five week program begins in June and avoids Paisano and Bloys camp schedules with storytelling pantomime and play interpretation. Two public appearances will feature a trio of one act plays and a final full length three act production by the youngsters. Further plans will be announced later. Phil Cummins leaves for Jal New Mexico to live with his parents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Ross, Jr
Little Theatre
Ross
Nursery Judge's Court Joins Texas Centennial Exposition
Roy Bean's saloon will host nursery rhymes and fairy tales during an eight day National Folk Festival at the Exposition June 14 to 21. The recreated Bean bar and courtroom will display his rough justice past and museum pieces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Roy Bean
Texas
Pecos
Soil Committee Approves New Texas Conservation Rules
The Texas Soil Conservation program announces three new rulings approved by the Secretary of Agriculture. Soil conserving crops include any crop on land with an approved soil-building practice in 1936 with no soil-depleting crop harvested that year. Sorghum or millet seeded on crop land between January 1 1936 and July 1 1956 that leaves or plows under all crop qualifies as soil conserving. A soil-building payment of one dollar per acre is authorized for sorghum sudan grass or millet seeded on crop land with all crop left or plowed under and grant requirements met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Texas State Committee of the Soil Conservation Program
Secretary of Agriculture
A. L. Smith
Teacher Ray Whitley Leaves Pecos for Hallettville Visit
Ray Whitley, Pecos grammar school teacher and athletic coach, departed Sunday for his Hallettville Texas home to spend a month with family. He plans to attend San Marcos State Teachers College after the visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Whitley
Pecos
Halletville
Texas
Whitley
San Marcos
San Marcos State Teachers College
Visitors From Towns Gather in Pecos and Nearby Areas
In and Out of Town notes list Louie Lundin from Red Bluff visiting Pecos, Charles Justis from Jal, Max Stool from Wink, Mr. and Mrs. Keith Camp in El Paso, C. E. Armstrong in Midland, Charley Splitgarber and family from Balmorhea, Miss Betty Haile of Abilene with Mrs. Haile in Pecos, Charley and Mrs. Boyd from Balmorhea, Hill Hudson and a new Buick, Mrs. Lee Martin from Mentone shopping, Pete Crow from Balmorhea, Dan English and George Deck from Wink on business, Miss Joyce Piper and Cecile Ulrich in Mentone, and Lowell Pulley visiting locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty Haile
Abilene
Pecos
Woodylee Haile
Dan English
George Deck
Wink
Town Teasday
Shoppers Called In From Mentone and Bal Morhea
Mrs. Howard Pitts a Mentone shopper browsed the area stores on Saturday. Tatum Moore from Bal Morhea visited town to handle business on the same day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tatum Moore
Midland press conference attendance noted for Ben Smith
Ben Smith attended a Midland press conference last Friday and Saturday. Miss Frances West of Pecos schools has returned to her Alpine home for the summer visit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Smith
Midland
Frances West
Pecos
Alpine
Miss Opal Stroade Visits Bal morhea Friends Week
Miss Opal Stroade of Bal morhea is spending the week in town with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ross.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Opal Jane Stroade
Balmorhea
Mrs
Harry Ross
Monahans Visitors Shop In Pecos And Midland Area
Mr and Mrs T A Tence of Monahans were in Pecos Monday for shopping and business. Mrs Jack Love and Miss Aileen Love visited with Mr and Mrs Stan Brunsen on their ranch near Midland. Cecile Ulrich has returned home to Mentone after studying in Pecos for a year. Novella Simmons is recovering at home after an appendicitis operation and is up and around as usual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. A. Tence
Monahans
Pecos
Jack Love
Aileen Love
Stan Brunsen
Midland
Cecile Ulrich
Mentone
Novella Simmons
Miss Julia Williams Plans Dallas Visit and Reunion
Miss Julia Williams departed Wednesday for her Dallas home to visit for a short time then proceed to Sherman Texas for a family reunion. She intends to return to Pecos near the end of July.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia Williams
Dallas
Sherman
Texas
Miss Williams
Pecos
Texan Named New Public Safety Director in Austin
Col H H Carmichael, a 251 pound native of Hillsboro, Texas, was appointed to lead the Public Safety Department in Austin. A former national guard member, he served as captain of a machine gun company in Camp Bowie and saw Meuse Ar gonne combat with the 36th and 56th divisions before returning overseas in 1919. He previously held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Ordinance Department as assistant adjutant general.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin. Tex
H. H. Carmichael
Public Safety Department
Hillsboro
National Guard of Texas
Camp Bowie
Meuse-Argonne
Public Safety Commission
L. G. Phares
Carmichael
San Benito
Texas Sheriffs
Carl Nesbitt
College Station
Miss Margaret Daniel Heads to Abilene for Summer Visit
Miss Margaret Daniel an English teacher at Pecos grammar school leaves Sunday night for Abilene to spend the summer visiting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Daniel
Pecos Grammar School
Abilene
Local couple returns from El Paso visit
Mr and Mrs Dick Hinkle have returned from a short stay in El Paso and are hosting friends at their home once occupied by Mr and Mrs K K Prestridge and family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Hinkle
el Paso
K. K. Prestridge
Texas Officials and Projects Face Financing Pressures
The article details Texas officials including Carmichael and Phares changing posts amid pay raises and resignations. It notes a surge in construction costs due to steel demand, with bids for state projects like the Neches River bridge and Dallas Centennial building plans trimmed to fit funding. It also mentions delays and joint funding talks with Louisiana for Highway 87.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae West
Neches River
George Wickline
Department
Port Arthur
Wickline
Neches
University of Texas
Galveston
Louisiana
Texas
Mus
State targets cigarette tax debts under new interdepartmental drive
The Attorney General and State Comptroller, buoyed by a Texas Supreme Court ruling, pursue back cigarette taxes believed owed to the state. Since the decision, more than $4,000 has been collected near Beaumont with others pursued. An estimated $160,000 in tax may be paid, including a $98,000 judgment against a dealer and a major suit against Glenn W. Musser of Fort Worth seeking $220,605.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Texas
Beaumont
Glenn W. Musser
Fort Worth
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Harvey Beauchamp
Jal
New Mexico
Air
Curley Cummins
Ummer
Hotel Paso
Norte
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Soil Committee
Beegle Himself
Mr.beegle
Louie Lundin
Red Bluff
Charles Justis
Max Stool
Keith Camp
C. E. Armstrong
Charley Splitgarber
Charley Boyd
Lee Martin
Pete Crow
Joyce Piper
Lowell Pulley
Howard Pitts
Elite Cafe
West Texas Refining Co
Dixie
Nee Fe Cou
Richard
West Point
Texas National Guard
James V. Allred
Houston
Arabia Shrine
Austin
Maskat
Wichita Falls
Gibb Gilchrist
el Mina
State Highway Department
Gilchrist
Kexaco
John Doll
Cedar
Oldsmobile
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