Heavy Rainfall Reaches 6.59 Inches In Two Days
The city water plant gauge records 6.59 inches from Friday to Saturday, the largest two day total in years. Rain began Friday morning with varying intensities, causing widespread flooding of creeks and farmland. forecasts warn of continued rain and freezing temperatures that could damage crops.
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City
Bois d’Arc
Oak Hill Cemetery
Pilot Grove Creek
Weather Bureau
Dallas
Drunk Driver's Five Year Term Upheld in Cuero Fatal
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed Leo Brewer's five year murder conviction tied to a fatal Cuero area crash that killed a five month old child. The ruling found malice and recklessness based on continuous dangerous conduct despite Brewer not driving.
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Schaefer
Brewer
Dam Outlet Works Machinery Arrives at Denison Dam Site
Machinery and equipment arrive for the Denison Dam outlet works under a $3.47 million contract. Julian C Field Co prepares 148 500 tons of refined sand and stores vast quantities near the river. Field has leased Oklahoma land and bought large trucks and shovels to move sand. Lytle Co has towers and mixing equipment ready to start construction in a 2.5 year project.
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Denison
C. F. Lytle Company
Denison Dam
Julian C. Field Company
Field
Oklahoma
Lytle Company
Whitewright School Board Reelects Two Members
In Saturday’s election two incumbents, C. J. Meador and Grover Stateville, were reelected to the Whitewright School Board with 31 votes for a three year term. Meador serves as board president. The board renewed a contract with the Blanks district sending 15 grade and 10 high school students to Whitewright.
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Whitewright
C. J. Meador
Grover
Revival Meeting at Baptist Church Sets April Start
The Baptist Church will hold its annual spring revival starting Sunday April 14 with Rev. E P Wootten preaching. Fort Worth singer Billie Young will lead the singing after Wootten traveled Friday to contact him. Services occur at 10 am and 7 45 pm daily all week with morning worship lasting one hour to allow attendees time for lunch.
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The
Baptist Church
E. P. Wootten
Billie Young
Fort Worth
Wootten
Young
Cooperative Gin Elects Directors
At a Tuesday night meeting of Whitewright Cooperative Gin Association stockholders at the Grammar School building, seven directors were elected for the coming year: T. A. Gray O. G. Bow T. B. Autrey M. R. Smith W. B. Holcomb N. E. Skaggs J. E. Coggins. L. E. Alexander remains manager. The last season showed a profit and the plant, bought at the start of the 1939 cotton season, was formerly owned by a Greenville corporation. A directors’ meeting was set for tonight to elect officers and handle other business.
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Whitewright Cooperative Gin Association
Grammar School
T. A. Gray
O. G. Bow
T. B. Autrey
M. R. Smith
W. B. Holcomb
N. E. Skaggs
J. E. Coggins
Greenville Corporation
L. E. Alexander
Old Fund Plan Adopted Again in Sherman County
Sherman county commissioners reheard the old division plan for road and bridge fund revenue for 1940. Precincts 1 and 2 get 30 percent, Precinct 3 24 percent, and Precinct 4 16 percent, funded mainly from license plates and fines. The court also approved payments to W. R. Russell for four days work as investigator and to Ben F. Sykes for a cow burn on a WPA project. A land strip near Whitewright was authorized for sale. The auditor may place 20 from Precinct 2 to reimburse E. E. Badgett for right‑of‑way and 20 from Precinct 1 to pay Harry R. Stephen and wife for a narrow road widening tract.
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Whitewright
E. E. Badgett
Harry R. Stephen
Elsie
Kate Smith Tops Radio Salaries With Record Deal
New York reports Kate Smith of Broadway and Lake Placid earns the highest salary in radio history. A three year contract is believed to be worth more than 3 million dollars, reflecting her hour weekly broadcast and daily noon chats.
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New York
Kate Smith
Broadway
Lake Placid
Whitewright Becomes Mattress Center For Low Income Families
A community center in Whitewright will produce cotton mattresses funded by the Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation. The program aims to serve about 1,000 Grayson County families with 50 pounds of cotton and 10 yards of ticking per approved household, at a 50 cent fee for needles thread and instruction.
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Whitewright
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Grayson County
Bethel
Pilot Grove
Kentuckytown
Canaan
Bells
Myrtle Badgett
Miss Badgett
LaRoe
Pascal Farley
Dallas County
Report on Condition of Whitewright School Buildings
Sherman contractor L. W. Wentzel inspected Whitewright High and Grammar Schools to assess safety and repairs. He notes limited urgent fixes for the High School and proposes attention to cracks and framing, brickwork, plaster, roofing, sash replacement, caulking, and a switch to steam heating.
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L. W. Wentzel
Sherman
Wentzel
H. W. Key
Board of Education
Whitewright
Grammar School
Mann declines appointment as Chief Justice of Texas Supreme Court
Texas Attorney General Gerald C. Mann declines Gov. W. Lee O Daniel s offer of chief justice. Mann says he is better fit to serve as attorney general and notes constitutional eligibility concerns. The governor had previously offered Sept 1940 appointment, with Mann weighing the decision as the court nears vacation.
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Austin
Gerald C. Mann
Supreme Court
W. Lee O'Daniel
Mann
Lee O'Daniel
Gerald Mann
Dallas
Walter C. Woodub
Houston
O'Daniel
O’daniel
Coke Stevenson
Junction
Parity Payments For 1940 Crops Announced
Parity payment rates for 1940 set by AAA include cotton 1.55 cents per pound corn 5 cents per bushel wheat 10 cents per bushel rice 1.7 cents per hundredweight Tobacco to receive no price adjustment payments as 1939 season averages above 75 percent parity. Parity fund expected at 225 million dollars distributed chiefly to cotton corn wheat and rice with specified shares. Agricultural conservation parity and total payments listed per crop: cotton 1.6c conservation 1.55c parity total 3.15c. corn 10c conservation 5c parity total 15c. wheat 9c conservation 10c parity total 19c.
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AAA
Uncle Billy Reinheimer Quits City Finance Post
William Reinheimer a forty year member of the Richmond finance department resigns, saying he did not think he earned the salary. Revenue Commissioner Goode refuses the resignation, but Reinheimer remains determined and will turn 90 on April 22.
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Richmond
William
Uncle Billy) Reinheimer
City Finance Department
John C. Goode
Billy
Thompson Asked to Run for Congress
Friends of Col. E. O. Thompson in Amarillo asked him to become a candidate to succeed Marvin Jones as congressman. Thompson, a gubernatorial aspirant, declined but agreed to attend a conference with neighbors in Amarillo.
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Austin
Col. E. O. Thompson
Amarillo
Congress
Marvin Jones
United States Court of Claims
Thompson
Hurry Home Minister- Home! Ma's going to spank me
A humorous exchange captures a boy fleeing for home as his father disciplines him. The minister and boy tease each other about spankings, the boy insisting he must reach home first to avoid punishment from his father.
Mariners Compass Known to the Chinese by 1115 B C
The ancient mariners compass is documented as known in China by 1115 B C. The claim places early navigational knowledge in East Asia well before common era maritime exploration.
Grayson College Exes Set June 6 Homecoming
The Grayson College Ex-students Association executive committee met at Rev. J. L. Truett's home and designated June 6 for the second annual homecoming. Officers and committee members from Fort Worth Sherman Whitewright Denton Trenton and Whitewright attended. The first reunion was held last September with many exes from several states.
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Grayson College Ex-students Association
J. L. Truett
Grayson College
B. B. Cobb
Fort Worth
E. L. Silliman
Sherman
J. B. Hamilton
Whitewright
J. C. Gillespie
C. T. Freeman
J. W. Pender
Denton
Roy G. Robinson
Trenton
T. E. Barbee
Old Grayson College
Exstudents Organization
Three Cows Killed by Lightning Near Town
C. B. Young, three miles east of town, reported three cows killed by a single lightning bolt Wednesday night. The animals lay together and all perished as rainfall reached 0.95 inches with heavy lightning in one cloud earlier in the night.
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C. B. Young
Mrs. Miriam Ferguson Preparing Bid for Texas Governor
The Daily Times Herald reports from reliable sources that former Texas governor Miriam A. Ferguson will announce her candidacy next Sunday. Proposed platform planks include backing a third Roosevelt term and a gross receipts tax to fund pensions, plus less discrimination against workers over 45.
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Dallas
Daily Times-Herald
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas
O'Daniel Paper Makes Its Debut
O Daniel runs The W Lee O Daniel News from Fort Worth publishing four pages eight columns. Over 100000 copies distributed Texas wide with 50000 to subscribers and rest to newsstands. Proceeds to Red Cross. features Governor's re election news and radio broadcast times. Molly O Daniel writes a column predicting re election.
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W. Lee O’daniel
Texas
Fort Worth
O'Daniel
Red Cross
Molly
O’daniel
Mike O’daniel
The
Concern
Pat
Bill Karn
East Texas
Lufkin
Leonard Underpass Bids Set For April 15
Bids for the construction of an underpass and approaches under the Missouri Kansas Texas railroad at Leonard on Highway 78 will be opened and tabulated at the April 15 session of the Texas Highway Commission. The commission recently increased the project allotment to 101000 dollars to ensure adequate design and construction.
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Skjold
Cooperative Gin
Post Office Department
India
Mrs. Ferguson
Leonard
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