Farmers Organize To Administer New Program
COLLEGE STATION That the Soil Conservation Allotment program is progressing with hundreds of meetings statewide. County boards will administer the farm program through county demonstration councils and three committee men per community of about 500 farmers. Crops classified into soil depleting and soil conserving with a neutral idle land category. payments will be made for replacing depleting crops and using soil building practices. Base acreages set from old contracts for 1936 with 20 percent of base depleting land needing conversion. Cotton paid five cents per pound, peanuts 1½ cents, rice 20 cents per 100 pounds, based on farm yield and quotas with specified agreements.
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College Station
County Soil Conservation Board
Soil Conservatory
U. S. TO CHECK FARM BENEFITS
Washington reports a cooperative research program by the Soil Conservation Service and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics to measure economic and social benefits of erosion control. The study will compare uncontrolled erosion with planned measures, assess current conditions, and project future effects nationwide under Dr. Walter J. Roth.
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Washington
Soil Conservation Service
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace
Wallace
Walter J. Roth
Barrett Seeks Promotion for Grayson County Clerk
Barrett announces candidacy for County Clerk of Grayson County in the Democratic primary on July 25, 1936. A native of the county born December 11, 1905, he details lifelong residence, education in Sherman and Austin College, and service history from post office to deputy and chief clerk under C. M. Cole, pledging an honest, efficient and courteous administration and personal outreach to voters.
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Grayson County
Cedar Community
Sherman
Austin College
Sherman Post Office
Keith’s
J. L. Doggett
C. M. Cole
Co. H
Shorty
Barrett
Hunter Tells Stand On Age Pensions
Dallas. Tom Hunter, candidate for Governor, released a three point plan for old age pensions tied to the Federal Social Security Act. The plan calls for universal pension payments, a gross income tax with exemptions for small earners, and administration by county commissioners with state department oversight to save money for the aged.
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Dallas
Tom Hunter
Hunter
Hitler's My Struggle Sells Over Two Million Copies
In Berlin more than 2 180 000 copies of Adolf Hitler's My Struggle have been sold reaching its 173rd edition. First editions fetch 120 marks and total sales are about 15 000 000 marks. The work has been translated into English Hungarian and Spanish.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
March of Science and Aviation Advances Highlighted
Reports describe experiments by Dr. Gregory Pincus on fertilized rabbit ova showing heat can activate fertility and that some activated ova produce only females. Aviation progress at Wright Field includes wire‑fed spot and continuous seam welding to reduce drag. A death regulator in dogs, linked to hereditary genes, explains early limb paralysis and parallels human motor neuron disease.
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Gregory Pincus
Harvard
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Sity Medical College
American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia
Charles R. Stockard
The
Medical College
Society
United States
Stockard
Werding-Hoffman
Death toll climbs among Texas Confederate veterans
Texas pension rolls show 802 veterans and about 6,600 widows still on the books as age and death deplete the ranks of the state’s Confederate veterans. Annual death rate among pensioners runs around 1,300, with payments averaging roughly 186 thousand dollars a month in the first half of this year as funds lean red and forecast balance around 1945.
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Austin
Texas
Gettysburg
Vicksburg
Lee
Jackson
Mexico
Woodul Substitutes for Governor in Allred Absence
Lieutenant Governor Woodul of Houston became acting Governor Monday while Governor Allred traveled to promote the centennial. Allred planned to visit Southern Eastern and Northern states and return within a week. This marked Woodul's fourth stint as acting Governor, with prior brief stretches when the president pro tempore of the Senate served. Senators Ken Regan Pecos John S. Redditt Lufkin and Wilbourne Collie Eastland also acted as chief executive on prior occasions.
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Lufkin
Wilbourne Collie
Eastland
Modern Eve Professor and Student Exchange Quip
A playful exchange features a Modern Eve professor asking for an example of a commercial appliance used in ancient times and a student answering with a pun about the loose-leaf system in the Garden of Eden. The remark blends biblical imagery with wordplay about record keeping.
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Garden of Eden
Mirror of the town paper faced by residents
A short Exchange column quotes Arthur Brisbane on the newspaper as a national mirror and urges readers to reflect inward rather than attack the paper. It ends with a humorous quip about a man delaying his morning due to an argument.
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Arthur Brisbane
National Mirror
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Lem Tittsworth
Tittsworth
Claude Brent Hardware
Lem Tittsworth, Bonham
Whitewright
Whitewright Sun
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