Scout Campfire Drive Successful
Funds for the Boy Scouts and Campfire Girls activities reached 312 dollars with 65 percent to Scouts and 35 percent to Campfire Girls. Pledges from G. C. Stateville, Palace Theatre, Rotary Club and others are listed, with officers named for both organizations and a meeting at the library for girls over 10 and mothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boy Scouts
Campfire Girls
F. M. Echols
T. W. Ayres & Son
G. C. Stateville
J. A. Yeager
Ovate. OG Whitewright Lumber Co
de Lac Craigé
Palace Theatre
Southern Ice Co
Grammar School
Hugh Trotter
Community Gas Co
Dhsondeig Rom Whitewright Sun
Cole & Davis Co
Lester Harlems
Ie LaRoe & Co
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Dyer & Childress
Sou City
Phewis Necayeca
Reeves
Palace features and star lineup at the Palace theatre
At the Palace Jane Withers is the feature in Holy Terror tonight and Friday. Saturday sees Charles Starrett in Dodge City Trail. Preview and Monday Joins Will Rogers in Doctor Bull. Tuesday and Wednesday bargain nights show the Jones Family in Off to the Races with Slim Summerville. Thursday and Friday next week Dick Powell and Frances Lankford star in On the Avenue.
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Jane Withers
Palace Theatre
Charles Starrett
Dodge City Trail
Will Rogers
Doctor Bull
Jones Family
Slim Summerville
Dick Powell
Frances Lankford
the Avenue
F D R Forces to Continue Court Fight
Washington report notes Senator Ashurst and Judge John Knox spar over Roosevelt court reorganization, asserting Wagner Act rulings bolster support for the plan. Ashurst urges renewed vigor, while Knox warns on constitutional bounds amid court changes. Illinois department also dynamited 150,000 crows last winter.
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Washington, D. C
Ashurst
Dem
Arizona
Supreme Court
John Clark Knox
New York
Knox
The
Illinois Conservation Department
Allred Opposes 2-Cent Sales Tax in Texas
Governor Allred urged the Legislature not to submit a constitutional amendment for a 2 percent general sales tax. He favors his tax plan first, proposing higher natural resource and corporate taxes, property classification, and valuation reforms to curb inequalities and tax evasion. He argued the sales tax would burden the poor and called for ensuring the able pay their fair share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Allred
Senate
Alfred
Resignations Forecast From Supreme Court Conservatives
Washington reports suggest one or more of the court's conservative justices McReynolds Van Devanter Sutherland and Butler may retire soon. Senators cite rumors tied to fixed retirement pay and potential realignment allowing Roosevelt to name a replacement. The Sumners act guaranteeing $20 000 a year to retired justices removes pay as a barrier and pending decisions signal a court already shifting.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Roosevelt Urges Government Economy to Curb Deficit
President Roosevelt announced disappointing tax receipts and ordered immediate economies across all agencies to prevent a larger than expected deficit. He sent a letter urging heads to cut nonessential expenditures. Secretary Wallace said 850 Agricultural Adjustment Administration workers will be laid off this month, leaving 4 183 of 7 278 employees.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wallace
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
AAA
Simpler Security Form For Lump Sum Social Security
Dallas field agent E L Tutt announces new simplified claim forms for lump sum pensions under the old age Social Security Act. Forms are available at 1530 Allen Building and aid claimants such as workers in covered employment after 1936 aged 65 and heirs. Lump sum payments take effect now. monthly payments start in 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
E. L. Tutt
Driver Mistakes Cause Most Auto Fatalities
An analysis of 1936 accident reports by Travelers Insurance statisticians finds the leading driver error is exceeding the speed limit, followed by driving on the wrong side, and driving off the roadway. Other common faults include failing to grant right of way, reckless driving, cutting in, passing on curves and hills, failing to signal, and passing standing street cars.
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Travelers Insurance Company
Black Topping For Bells Road Promised Soon
Sherman reports funds will be available this summer to gravel No. 14 from Dorchester north to No. 5 west of Sherman under federal allocations for secondary roads. No funds exist now to blacktop Denison to Bells No. 160, but the plan is favored when money becomes available. County officials seek WPA aid and plan a Dallas meeting with WPA director Gus W. Thomasson to push relief projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
No. 14
Dorchester
No. 5
John Wood
Jake J. Loy
Austin
Judge Loy
B. M. Whiteacre
House
Senate
Grayson County
Dallas
Gus W. Thomasson
WPA
Supreme Court OKs Wagner Act Across Manufacturing Sector
The Supreme Court ruled the Wagner Act constitutional by a 5 to 4 decision, extending federal regulation to manufacturing activities linked to interstate commerce. The ruling bolsters collective bargaining, requiring employers to bargain with workers’ representatives while protecting the right to organize. The dissent argued manufacturing processes had only indirect effects on commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
High Tribunal
Grayson auditor named buying agent by state bill
Sherman reports the Grayson County auditor is established as the county purchasing agent with a $900 annual salary increase for additional duties. The measure, introduced by Rep. Joe Keith and Sen. Olan R. Van Zandt, targets counties with 65 000 to 70 000 population and two or more towns of 13 500+ residents. Billie M Whiteacre remains under the commissioners court while serving as purchasing agent. A Grayson delegation visited Austin to push the bill, including Judge R M Carter and Sheriff Benton Davis. A second Grayson bill, to allow deduction of duty expenses from precinct road and bridge funds, was not voted on.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
Grayson County
House of Representatives
Austin
Senate
House
Joe Keith
Olan R. van Zandt
Billie M. Whiteacre
Grayson
Commissioners’ Court
R. M. Carter
J. J. Loy
Benton
Juicer device uses wire reamer inside citrus half
A spring handle operates a wire reamer inside a citrus half to extract juice into a bowl. The mechanism squeezes the fruit to press out juice while retaining the pulp within the device.
Singing Convention Postponed to Next Sunday at Bethel
The Third Sunday Singing Convention was moved from last Sunday and will meet next Sunday at 2 p m at Bethel. Public invitation extended to all.
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Bethel
Canaan School Close Week Program and Graduation
Canaan school hosts a closing exercise on April 21 7 45 p m with dialogues readings songs and numbers. On April 22 a play Two Days to Mar ry is shown at the school building under Mr W W Elrod. On April 23 the seventh grade graduation features salutatorian Tommie Burchfield and valedictorian Dortha Hickson with Rev G B Bradshaw delivering the graduation address and diplomas awarded by principal W W Elrod.
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Canaan
W. W. Elrod
Tommie Burchfield
Dortha Hickson
G. B. Bradshaw
Whitewright
Two Students Sentenced for Grave Desecration in Hammond
In Hammond Indiana two local high school students George Buege 16 and Lynn Shepherd 18 were sentenced to three to ten years suspended penitentiaries for desecrating a grave. They opened a coffin in the cemetery took a woman's skull painted it and paraded it before a secret society. Judge William Murray imposed the sentence at Crown Point.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hammond
Ind
George Buege
Lynn Shepherd
William Murray
Crown Point
Board of Education Re Elects Teachers in Whitewright
At a Whitewright Board of Education meeting, all faculty and staff were re elected. John H Burma remains High School principal and N L Manning continues as Grammar School principal. Superintendent H W Key was re elected earlier. High School teachers include Dorothy Lackey Jewel Kennemer Virginia Draper A M Gaddis J C Jernigan Lurline Travis and J T Bean. Grammar School teachers include Kathryn Roddy Mary Pumphrey Sallye Hamilton Carter Fletcher Nadine Blanton and L E Ricketts. Janitor P A Short stays at High School with G V Ford at Grammar School. Mrs Carrie Kirkpatrick is re elected teacher of the Negro school. Board asks faculty to spend three out of four weekends in Whitewright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitewright Board of Education
John H. Burma
N. L. Manning
H. W. Key
Dorothy Lackey
Jewel Kennemer
Virginia Draper
A. M. Gaddis
J. C. Jernigan
Lurline Travis
J. T. Bean
Kathryn Roddy
Mary Pumphrey
Sallye Hamilton
Carter Fletcher
Nadine Blanton
L. E. Ricketts
P. A. Short
G. V. Ford
Carrie Kirkpatrick
Whitewright
Campaign to wipe out Methodist debts targets half a million
Fort Worth report notes thousands of Southern Methodism banquets on April 23 and a church wide Bishop's Crusade drive on April 25 to liquidate nearly $500,000 in foreign debt. Church leaders hope funds beyond that amount will finance more missionaries abroad. Debt funded overseas work and to avoid stranding missionaries during the depression.
Campfire Girls Invite Girls To Organize Saturday
Campfire girls ten years and older and their guardians are invited to the library room above Cole and Davis Store Saturday afternoon from 3 to 4. Mrs H E Hall of Sherman will meet with the group as the committee plans to form two charter groups, Grammar and High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scout Organization
Boy Scout Organization
B. W. Newman
Mack Pierson
N. L. Manning
J. R. Waldrum
John Reeves
Sidney Watson
J. T. Bean
S. A. White
James Hughes
Rattlesnake Patrol
Jack Meador
Lone Eagle Patrol
Dale Watson
Wolf Patrol
Lucian Vestal
Flying Eagle Patrol
Jack Lewis Yeager
Hamilton Vestal
H. T. Atterberry
Floyd Everheart
A. L. Jackson
Earl Hill
Gomer May
H. W. Key
Lillian Slusher
George Clark
Cole & Davis Co
Cole & Davis
H. E. Hall of Sherman
F. E. Everheart
AAA Leaders Are Changed in Texas
E N Holmgreen becomes administrative officer in charge of the AAA in Texas. A L Smith moves from AAA head to extension animal husbandman focusing on range conservation. B F Vance becomes assistant administrative officer in charge of AAA. J A Scofield replaces Vance as district agent. Announcement by Jack Shelton, vice director and State agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Scofield
Vance
Jack Shelton
Extension Service
President of Arlington Bank Dies by Self Inflicted Shot
Thomas Spruance, 41, president of the First State Bank of Arlington, was found dead by a bullet in his car at 8 p.m. Monday, less than six hours after the bank was ordered closed by the State Banking Commission. His body lay slumped over the steering wheel seven miles south of Grand Prairie on Florence Hill road near Bethel Church. Justice of the Peace Tom King returned a death by own action verdict.
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Arlington
Thomas Spruance
First State Bank of
State Banking Commission
Grand Prairie
Florence Hill Road
Bethel Church
Elbert Glenn
Justice of the Peace
Tom King
Youthful Offenders in Juvenile Court
Five youths aged 9 to 15 faced County Probation Officer Durrett after a wave of petty crimes including theft and housebreaks. Constable E B Simmons had recaptured them following Sunday incidents at residences, a church, and a grammar school. Durrett to supervise. mayor Echols blamed lax parenting after 20 years of observation.
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Durrett
E. B. Simmons
F. M. Echols
County Receipts From Auto Plates Reach $93,512.51
Sherman Grayson County highway receipts show $93,512.51 from 11,307 motor vehicle plates issued Feb 1 through Apr 3. Gross receipts total $141,583.06. the state gets $43,515.45 and the local highway office $4,555.10 as a commission. County retention varies by plate type, with projections of a few thousand dollars more than last year. Plate counts by office include Sherman and Denison totals across passenger cars, commercials, trailers, dealers, motorcycles, and farm trucks.
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Sherman
Grayson County
George Schumacher
Highway Department
Schumacher
Denison
Six Per Cent Car Finance Ads To Stop
Washington reports a group of leading automobile producers and financiers agreed to end Federal Trade Commission complaints by clarifying ads on 6 percent financing. The firms say the 6 percent refers to percent of total debt rather than annual interest, while FTC contends buyers pay 10 to 12 percent in effect.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
President Opposes School Aid Bill Amid Roosevelt Rejection
President Roosevelt reportedly turns thumbs down on the Harrison-Fletcher plan to fund schools nationwide. The bill would start with $100 million the first year, rising by $50 million yearly to $300 million, with Texas receiving $5,081,723 initially and $15,245,169 at peak.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Texas
WPA cuts material grants on projects option
WPA cuts material grants on projects force local governments to cover more costs. Gus W. Thomasson, district WPA administrator, announced the reduction from $9 to $5 per month per man employed. The curtailment follows a transfer of $245,000,000 from WPA projects to flood relief in Mississippi. The article notes the first kindergarten began less than a century ago.
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Gus W. Thomasson
WPA
Mississippi
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Grayson Auditor
Singing
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