Whitewright Votes 359 in Primary Falloff Cites Poll Tax Ruling
Whitewright voters cast 359 ballots in Saturday's primary, 63 fewer than 1938. The drop is blamed on the Supreme Court city poll tax ruling and lack of contested local races. Governor O Daniel led with 148 votes, Ernest O Thompson had 167, and Sam Rayburn led in Congress race with 319.
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Whitewright
Supreme Court
W. Lee O'Daniel
Ernest O. Thompson
Sam Rayburn
Bevin R. Galbraith
W. Lee Odaniel
Harry Hines
R. P. Condron
Arton B. Cyclone Davis
Jerry Sadler
Miriam A. Ferguson
Coke R. Stevenson
Alton M. Mead
Charles Lavergne
Clifford E. Butler
Geo. H. Sheppard
Small Farmers Get Bulk of AAA Payments
Texas AAA data show three fourths of 1940s payments went to small farms with most checks under 100 dollars. Only 45 payments ranged 5 000 to 10 000 dollars out of 594 304. George Slaughter notes the program favors small farmers and will continue in 1941.
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College Station
Texas
AAA
George Slaughter
O'Daniel Pushes Cash Basis Plan for Texas Government
Governor W Lee O Daniel urged Texans to back his program as he called for a cash basis state government The address outlined ten fiscal priorities including funding social security education and mental health reform while proposing budget control a revised State Auditor appointment and a move to consolidate departments He thanked supporters and asked for bipartisan cooperation to enact the platform for Texas six million residents
Methodists Attack Training Bill As Totalitarian
The Methodist Church commission on world peace denounces Burke-Wadsworth compulsory military training as threatening civil and religious liberty and edging toward dictatorship. It calls conscription unnecessary for defense and reaffirms nonintervention in European and Far East conflicts.
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Chicago
Ill
Commission On World Peace of the
Methodist Church
Burke-Wadsworth
United States
Commission
General Conference of the Church
Atlantic City
N. J
Government tests automatic desert island weather reporter
Two federal researchers at the Bureau of Standards developed an automatic weather reporter to collect data from remote areas. Placed on islands plains or mountains it operates without personnel and relays wind velocity rainfall temperature humidity and barometer readings by radio to provide timely weather updates.
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Washington
W. S. Hinman
Harry Diamond
Bureau of Standards
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Jim) Waggoner
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Hubert Bookout
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Charley Lock
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