Low bids tabulated for Bexar county highway projects
The highway commission in Austin tabulated low bids for three Bexar county improvement projects. Field Brothers of Lubbock bid 87006 for 6 to 7 miles of flexible base work on Highway No. 2 near the Bexar Atascosa line through Natalia. Heldenfels Brothers of Rockport bid 9995 for 22.1 miles of leveling and seal coat on Highway No. 3 from Macdona to the Medina county line. Colglazier and Hoff of San Antonio bid 21316 for 7.7 miles of leveling base and seal coat on Highways Nos. 1 and 2 from San Antonio south to the 66 intersection and toward Tuna Artesia Wells. B. B. Smith of San Antonio offered the lowest bid on seven miles of reconditioning of flexible base in Gonzales county.
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Bexar County
Highway Commission
Austin
Field Brothers
Lubbock
Bexay-Atascase
Natalia
Heldenfels Brothers
Rockport
Macdona
Meding County Lne
Duniny
Dhannis
Uvalde
Colglazier and Hoff
San Antonio
Devine
Frio
Artesia Wells
B. B. Smith
Gonzales County
Stromboli in Sicily Erupts with Lava Flow and Ash
Mount Stromboli on Sicily erupted today with violent explosions and heavy lava flows. Ash showers and volcanic debris prompted warnings as authorities assessed damage and impact near Messina.
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Mount Stromboli
Sicily
Messina
Balbo Leads King on First Libyan Air Ride
King Vittorio Emanuele completed his first airborne journey from Nalut to Ghadames in a plane piloted by Marshal Italo Balbo, with three Colonial air force planes as escorts. In Cambridge, Professor Peter Kohler of Harvard, a renowned organic chemist, died at 72 after a storied career.
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Balbo
Ghadames
Libya
Vittorio Emanuele
Nalut
Italo Balbo
Cambridge
Mass
Peter Kohler
Harvard University
Eucharistic Meet Opens in Budapest During Congress
DeVout prelates celebrated 2000 masses in Budapest as the thirty-fourth Eucharistic congress opened. Seventy-one archbishops and 22 bishops attended, with about 1,060,000 people from 37 countries expected to view ceremonies. Cardinal Dougherty led American pilgrims, and Eugenia Cardinal Pacelli visited with Admiral Horthy at the royal palace.
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Budapest
Caroinal Dougherty
Philadelphia
San Antonio cab inspector defended amid budget cuts
Tax Commissioner Frank Bushick called for abolishing some city offices including the cab inspector’s, as J M Harris of the Yellow Cap and Baggage firm defended Hing Kennon’s department saying it safeguards safety with a $12,000 budget funded by cab operators paying $20 per cab. Harris noted no taxi fatal accidents in San Antonio in the past year.
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Frank Bushiek
J. M. Harris
Yellow Cap and Baggage Company
Hing Kennon
Harris
San Antonio
Aubus Challenge
Bushick
Kennon
Port Arthur to Be 1939 Host to Lions
Port Arthur will host the 1939 convention of District 25 Lions clubs after being chosen at the closing session. RC Black of Beaumont was elected governor, succeeding Jean Shotwell of Lufkin, to head the Texas delegation at the international convention in Oakland, California.
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Houston
Port Arthur
Lions Clubs
Gulf City
RC. Black
Beaumont
Black
Jean Shotwell
Lufkin
Texas
Oakland
Calif
Poundkeeper Takes Stranger Literally
In Lafayette Indiana May 25 a stranger rushed into the pound with a Spitz and asked poundkeeper Hernes to shoot the dog to end its suffering. After Hernes led the dog outside two pistol shots rang out. The stranger reacted with shock while the poundkeeper confessed he had shot the dog. The man insisted the dog wanted to be vaccinated.
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Lafayette
Ind
Hernes
Herneg
Steel operations show slight drop in capacity use
New York May 23 The Iron Age reports operations at the nation's steel mills this week averaging 23 percent of capacity, down two points from last week. The publication notes hopes for a moderate upturn by August as political conditions brighten and a more favorable business atmosphere develops.
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New York
Iron Age
Dogs and wolf resume chase after rescue in water
At Tipton Missouri on May 25 a wolf and three dogs fell into an abandoned farm well and floated in five feet of water until their owners saved all four. The dogs then resumed the hunt and killed the wolf in a dramatic incident reflecting a rough encounter between predator and pets.
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Tipton
Fete at Old Arsenal Marks 75th Anniversary
Rock Island Illinois May 25 The ceremony marking the seventy fifth anniversary of the Rock Island Arsenal highlighted its shift from a Union prison and World War II artillery site to the army s main source of tanks combat cars and gun carriages. The Army Ordnance Association held its nineteenth annual meeting there in recognition of the Arsenal s long service.
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Rock Island
Romme
Unitarsenal
mid-Mississippi
Mechanica
Army
The
Army Ordnance Association
Nationewice Society of Engineers and Manufacturers
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