1934 Prison Board report shows gains in education and production
Lee Simmons released the 1934 Prison Board annual report praising education progress with 624 inmates taught and 2,234 enrolled, and noting the new automobile license plate plant paid for itself. Other highlights include a 252 dollar per convict operating cost, a drop in net cost from 293 in 1920 to 76 in 1934, and plans for brick and canning programs plus possible legislative changes.
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Lee Simmons
Prison Board
Simmons
Highway Department
Harlem Farm
Central State Farm
Board of Control
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Austin
Huntsville
Tiny odds of living to a hundred in the United States
In a Greenville Herald item the chance of reaching age 100 is noted as under 4,000 people in the nation. With a U S population near 123 million, each person has about one chance in 30 750 to reach a century.
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United States
Greenville Herald
Western Plains Drouth Worse Than Last Year
The Agriculture Department reported April 1 drouth conditions in the western Great Plains are worse than a year earlier. Winter wheat prospects are very poor and pastures at the record low for April 1. Subsoil moisture deficit hints at lower yields and possible wheat imports next winter.
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Western Plains
Washington
Great Plains
Agriculture Department
North Dakota
Texas
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
Great Drouth
Drouth
United States
Four Million Bales of Cotton Held by AAA
Washington reports the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has 4,270,000 bales on 12 cent loans totaling about 256.2 million dollars. The program mirrors the old Farm Board but lacks price pegging, with market values below loan values and a looming 9 million bale carryover. Officials fear a major disaster as production cuts in 1936 are discussed and warehouse receipts backed by reductions are proposed.
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Washington
AAA
Federal Farm Board
The
Farm Board
Five Officials Named To County School Trustees
Final returns from a canvass by the Commissioners' Court select five trustees. Winners include D. C. Wallace Gunter. J. L. Ladd Sherman. E. B. Scott Celtic. S. C. Hall Sadler. G. C. Leary Gordonville. Precinct tallies listed with rivals in each race.
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J. L. Ladd
Sherman
C. A. Barnett
Howe
E. B. Scott
Celtic
H. D. Dodge
Denison
J. W. Washburn
Pink Hill
S. C. Hall
Sadler
C. J. Patterson
Range Creek
G. C. Leary
Gordonville
H. M. Godwin
D. Steedman
Hagerman
Spare Rod, Save Child Mom of 14 in Atlanta Declares View
A 38 year old Atlanta mother Dora Mote, mother of fourteen with ten living children, rejects spanking as harmful and says she has never whipped a child. She married at 13 and had her first child before 14. she now has a two year old granddaughter and two daughters married. She prefers girls and notes boys are more troublesome. The East Texas oil field remains the world’s largest with 16000 wells and a potential flow of 11900000 barrels daily though allowable production sits at 436000 barrels daily.
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Atlanta
Dora Mote
East Texas
Young Oklahoma divorce grants custody to underage mother
In WeWoka Oklahoma Mrs Audrey Sisney aged 14 was granted a divorce from W A Sisney 24 by District Judge H H Edwards and awarded custody of their eight month old daughter The marriage began when she was 12 and the divorce was filed by her father J H Schlitz filed The couple wed in Ozark Arkansas
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Wewoka
Okla
Audrey Sisney
Sisney
W. A. Sisney
H. H. Edwards
J. H. Schlitzfield
Sisneys
Ozark
Ark
Liberal G O P chiefs push to oust old guards in party clash
In Washington, Borah and liberal Republicans press for a strong anti old guard stance at the Midwest conference in Kansas City to shape the 1936 campaign. They seek to remove key standpat leaders and limit Eastern influence. The meeting aims to revitalize the party, with Hoover as a potential 1936 candidate discussed by insiders.
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Washington
Borah
Kansas City
Herbert Hoover
Henry P. Fletcher
Charles D. Hilles
Blackboard Eraser Cleaners Windows Dust Efficiently
A blackboard eraser doubles as a dry window cleaner for ordinary powders left on glass. Wipe with the eraser to remove the dust evenly and reach corners easily.
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W. A. Paddock
Barbee-Bassett
Insurance Agency
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Uly
OLD Guards
Mitteeman
New York
Republican National Committee
Hastings
Delaware
Republican Senatorial
Roosevelt
A. F. Nossaman
O. L
Pig) Jones
Stephens & Bryant
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