Muscle Shoals power sale and government revenue plan
Washington May 5 The government sells one quarter of Muscle Shoals capacity for under 600000 annually to Alabama Power. Major General Lytle Brown told the appropriations committee that revenue from power sold yields about two mills per kilowatt hour, totaling 600000 yearly. Brown defended the deal against Representative Collins saying congress has yet to settle Muscle Shoals. The supply bill also asks 244509 for dam No 2 operations next fiscal year, with modest savings versus current appropriations and budget estimates.
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Washington, D. C
Lytle Brown
Army Goginerrs
House Appropriations Committee
War Department
Albama Power Company
Tata
Muscle Shoals
Representave Collins
Democrat
Mississippi
Congress
Brown
Cuero High School to Graduate 30 in 1992 class
Cuero Texas May fifth commencement will award diplomas to thirty graduates. Miss Demeris Buchel daughter of Dr and Mrs F W Buchel named valedictorian and Miss Velma Hamps daughter of Mrs Bertha Hamps named salutatorian.
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Cuero
Texas
Cuero High School
Honers
Melton
Demeris Buchel
F. W. Buchel
Velma Hamps
Bertha Hamps
Harbors and Rivers Funding Approved by Committee
The House appropriations committee recommended 37 519 050 dollars for new rivers and harbors works to boost transportation and commerce. The package, part of a 60 million dollar total for new and ongoing projects, includes 154 000 for Galveston Harbor Texas City channel 44 000 for Houston ship channel 1 682 000 for New Orleans Sabine River section and 772 090 for Sabine River Corpus Christi sections.
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Washington
Uw. W
House Appropriations Committee
Congress
House
War Department
New York
Galveston Harbor
Texas City Channel
Texas
Houston Ship Channel
New Orleans
Sabine River
Louisiana-Texas
Coast defense funding shifts with smaller guns
Washington May 1 The War Department revises coast defenses after noting changes in ship sizes. Major General John W Gulick told the House Appropriations Committee that next year s budget totals 2 334816 for coastal defenses in the U S Hawaii and Panama. He said defenses should expect attacks from lighter cruisers with 8 inch guns, reducing the need for many large weapons while noting the value of a 16 inch gun capable of about 23 miles versus 19 miles for an 8 inch gun.
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Washington, D. C
War Department
John W. Gulick
Coast Artillery
Unis
House Appropriations Committee
United States
Hawaii
Panama
Gulick
Army budget debate trims expansion plan and military costs
The report notes a stalled 1926 expansion program needing 2058 airplanes and 1400 active units, with 12 1 2 percent unserviceable. It highlights an $81,414,000 total for the intitle bureau, cuts across training and reserve programs, West Point funding at $2,383,000, and a set of restrictions including caps on army bands and travel expenses.
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Army
Laney
Intitle Bureau
Gil Gors
Naional Guard
West Point
Lighter-Than-Air Fund Cut to 100 Dollars
Washington May 4. The army appropriation bill reduces lighter than air equipment funds from 3 million to 100 dollars and keeps enlisted strength at 11850 with rules against retired men below enlisted rank serving. Army ration falls from 37 to 5 cents a day, saving more than 3.2 million. Lower food prices blamed.
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Washington, D. C
Army
Boys Occupy Policing Jobs on Boys Day
Grizzled veterans step aside as city hall police station court house and jail run by youths ages 13 to 19 on the annual Boys Day. City officials include Boy County Judge F A Blackwood and district attorney Jesse Sancos. many local students from Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Texas Military Institute Edison High School and others fill roles such as sheriff tax collector and constable.
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Court House
F. A. Blackwood
Bay
Jesse Sancos
H. M. Albaugh
Nathaniel
Alex UN
Edgewood
M. Chambers
Arthur
Ebeforth
Melvin White
Jim Gunmins
Edwitt Dubose
Pal
Jack Gill
Fred G. Cox
Fred Silvey
Arnold Gatza
South Wimendart Street
Bastrop High School Commencement Set for May 27
Bastrop high school will hold commencement on May 27 at the high school. De J Moore dean of students at the University of Texas will deliver the commencement address to 22 graduates. Listings for the thirteenth issue of the Tighter Fren Rental Directory appeared Sunday. Get property by calling Gr 2400.
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Bastrop
Bastrop High School
Startuim
de ¥ J. Moore
Mle
University of Texas
Passenger Agent Farr Visits San Antonio in May
M. P. passenger agent A. E. A. Farr, formerly with Missouri Pacific in San Antonio and now in St. Louis, was seen in San Antonio on Thursday. New York notes a Paris-style crowds and a bird nesting near Broadway as police disperse a gap in Times Square traffic.
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M. P
A. E. A. Farr
Missouri Pacific Lines
San Antoni
St. Lows
San Antonio
New York
Broadway
Times Square
Gilda Gray Won't Confirm Betrothal
New York May 4 Broadway gossip catalogs a rumor that dancer Gilda Gray plans to marry again. A wealthy Bostonian was named as a prospective husband at the Savoy Plaza hotel but Gray declined to confirm or deny the report, saying she might address it later.
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Usi
Broadway
Gilda Gray
Savoy Plaza
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