Penitentiary reports education and industry gains in 1934
Lee Simmons releases the 1934 Prison Board annual, showing 624 inmates taught to read and write, 2,234 average enrollment, 276 teachers, and a drop in repeat offenders to 25 percent. The report notes the auto license plate plant funded itself, a brick plant at Harlem farm, a thriving canning operation, and shoe production while cut costs per convict fell to 76 dollars. Several prison bills loom in the Legislature, including a nine to three board restructure and state printing contracts.
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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
One Chance in Thirty Thousand Seven Hundred Fifty
A Greenville Herald note cites that fewer than 4,000 Americans have reached age 100, given a U S population near 123 million this yields roughly one chance in 30 750 to attain a century of life.
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United States
Greenville Herald
Western Plains Drouth Worse Than Last Year
The Agriculture Department reports drouth in the western Great Plains worse on April 1 than a year earlier. Winter wheat prospects are very poor and pastures are at a record low, with spring crops not yet planted and much cattle feed at risk. Projections suggest possible wheat imports this coming 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
AAA Holds 4.27 Million Bales of Cotton on Loan
Washington reports the AAA controls 4,270,000 bales on loans at 12 cents a pound totaling 256.2 million dollars. Prices have fallen below loan value and export demand wanes. Officials fear a major disaster for the program as a 5,000,000 bale stock looms and talks turn to drastic 1936 production cuts in exchange for warehouse receipts.
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Washington
AAA
Federal Farm Board
The
Farm Board
Five Officials Chosen in Races For School Jobs
Final returns in five county school trustee races were announced after a canvass by the Commissioners Court. Winners include D. C. Wallace Gunter. J. L. Ladd Sherman. E. B. Scott Celtic. S. C. Hall Sadler. G. C. Leary Gordonville. Vote totals detail trustee at large and precinct results.
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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: Atlanta Mother Of 14 Defies Spanking
Dora Mote of Atlanta at 38 is mother to fourteen with ten living, two married, and a two year old granddaughter. She renounces spanking as harmful and notes half her children are boys, wishing for more girls for peace. Also, East Texas oil field shows 16,000 producing wells and potential flow of 11.9 million barrels daily with 436,000 barrels permitted.
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Atlanta
Dora Mote
United States
East Texas
Divorce at Fourteen Awarded Custody in WeWoka Case
In WeWoka Oklahoma Audrey Sisney, a bride at 12 and mother at 13, was granted a divorce from W A Sisney 24. District Judge H H Edwards also awarded custody of her eight month old daughter. The divorce was filed by her father J H Schlitzfield since Audrey was underage. They married at 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 Chief To War On Old Guards
Sen Borah and other liberals press a Kan sas City meeting of Middle West Republicans to condemn old guard control as a 1936 campaign move. Hying rivals clash on resolutions while Hoover 1936 speculation grows. Hastings accuses Roosevelt of breaking 1932 pledges.
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OLD Guards
Washington
Borah
Kansas City
Herbert Hoover
Henry P. Fletcher
Charles D. Hilles
Mitteeman
New York
Republican National Committee
Hastings
Delaware
Republican Senatorial
Roosevelt
Blackboard eraser used as dry window cleaner
A simple technique cleans dusty glass after using ordinary commercial powders. A blackboard eraser wipes the dry abrasive powder from windows smoothly and reaches corners easily.
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W. A. Paddock
Barbee-Bassett
Insurance Agency
FERC
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
A. F. Nossaman
O. L
Pig) Jones
Stephens & Bryant
Ly AM
Public Service
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