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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1937
Page
5
The social security board halted all federal grants for aid to the aged in Illinois over alleged administrative inefficiencies. About 115,000 needy aged residents face suspended support as audits and procedural reforms are demanded, with $9.5 million in yearly federal matching funds at stake.
Texas livestock shipments in June totaled 8 177 cars a 90 percent rise from last year with cattle up 112 percent calf up 33 percent and sheep up 136 percent hogs down nearly 20 percent. First six months total 46 681 cars up 40 percent from last year as Fort Worth cattle and sheep shipments rose markedly.
Whittier California. W Trent German newly appointed chairman of the national traffic safety committee says traffic safety is in chaos. He notes varied highway signs and city speed limits up to 25 mph differences. He outlines two programs, research and education, to standardize signaling and limits. Sell it with a Sun Want Ad.
E O Pollock USDA hay specialist surveys the South, outlining three quality factors green color purity and leafiness, plus methods to maximize leafiness in legumes and maintain color through careful cutting and curing. He warns against late cutting which lowers protein and suggests stage-by-crop guidelines for alfalfa soybeans lespedeza cowpeas oats vetch Johnson grass oats and wheat and Bermuda grasses.
Charlottesville Va The federal social security law is not perfect and never will be perfect but is a fair start says Dr Arthur J Altmeyer chairman of the social security board at the University of Virginia institute of public affairs He notes state variations in aid to the aged dependent children and the blind and suggests a variable federal grant system to fit each state’s finances Typewriter carbon paper and ribbons for sale at Sun office.
Texas reports a near doubling of poultry shipments in June compared with 1936. Sixty three cars left the state, up from 32. Egg shipments totaled 43 cars, nearly the same as last year. Interstate egg receipts were 11 cars, down from 17. Most incoming eggs came from Kansas, with smaller amounts from Nebraska. Data also show last year’s inbound shipments from Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
Jacob Harris aged 72 shot himself amid distress over July pension checks for Illinois aged persons held up for a month. The delay followed a halt in federal donations to old age assistance in the state. The death underscores the strain of late payments on elderly residents and the broader funding disruption.
In a lively magazine style, the article explains static on radio waves as natural lightning noise. It details how modern sets use razor sharp tuning to reduce static, why thunderstorms amplify interference, and how most static in the U S originates from warm Gulf waters and the Gulf Stream.
Columbus Massachusetts farmers hold that Charles M. Gardner is the new deal as he explains that Christopher Columbus was the first new dealer. Gardner, a National Grange official, notes Columbus sailed without knowing his route and returned unsure where he had been, doing it all on other people's money.
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