Quirks In The World News 2 000 Families Pay $25 a Year For Medical Care
Elk City Oklahoma story on Dr Michael A Shadid founding Americas first cooperative hospital The Farmers Union Cooperative Hospital Association serves 2000 stockholder families for 25 a year with doctors surgeons and dentists 85 beds The plan faces ethics and marketing criticism and legal challenges yet members defend low charges and ownership by patients
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Elk City
Okla
Oklahoma
Michael A. Shadid
America
Farmers Union Co- Operative Hospital Association
United States
Shadid
Dr. Shadid
County Medical Society
Elk City Hospital
Birthday memory from dying son of congressman
In Texarkana 10 year old Charles Patman, son of Rep Wright Patman, asked his mother for a birthday remembrance for his father. She bought it and placed it under his pillow, but Charles died Sunday morning before his father’s birthday. The story notes the present was found under the boy’s pillow.
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Texarkana
Charles Patman
Wright Patman
Patman
Charles
Brothers chalk up new airplane endurance mark
Springfield, Il. Hunter and Humphrey Moody set a light plane endurance record in the monoplane Miss Springfield. They landed at the municipal airport after 343 hours 46 minutes aloft starting July 23, then went to a hotel with a do not disturb sign guarded by two policemen.
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Springfield
Hunter
Humphrey Moody
Tax hikes loom in 1940 Texas governor race
In Austin the State Automatic Tax Board set ad valorem at 77 cents per $100 while the legislature fixed a $22.50 per capita school apportionment. The Board of Education kept the per capita at $22.50 under the maximum to cover a $4.5 million deficit. The levy components are 35 cents general fund, 7 cents Confederate pension, and 35 cents school purposes. Opponents of Gov. ODaniels will attack tax increases amid his economy rhetoric and the remission bill, as critics say the first year raises taxes to the highest since 1934. Rumors tag Bill McCraw as a possible candidate for Railroad Commissioner, with Lon Smith's seat in play.
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Austin
State Automatic Tax Board
Board of Education
General Fund
Allied Administration
O’daniel
Race for Railroad Commissioner Draws Strong Houston and Fort Worth Names
The Austin political scene centers on the Railroad Commissioner race seen as a major 1940 campaign issue. Incumbent Lon A. Smith faces early opposition with Roy Hoffheinz and Jake Loy among leading challengers, joined by Bob Steward Bill McCraw Carl Nesbitt Pierce Brooks and other hopefuls.
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Austin
Lon A. Smith
Texas
Smith
Roy Hoffheinz
Houston
Jake Loy
Sherman
Bob Steward
Fort Worth
C. V. Terrell
Jerry Sadler
Bill McCraw
Carl Nesbitt
Pierce Brooks
Thompson Emerges as Possible Governor Candidate
Railroad Commissioner Ernest Thompson, runner up to Gov. O'Daniel last year, is discussed by friends as a potential governor candidate. He has spoken against a sales tax in the Constitution during a pivotal Senate fight, while oil industry turmoil and federal control debates occupy his attention.
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Ernest Thompson
O’daniel
Amarillo
Thompson
Crockett Legislator Defends Race Track Betting Bid
Bailey Ragsdale from Crockett leads Texas House backing soil conservation and Gov. O'Daniel's sales tax plan while also authoring a bill to restore race track betting. He rebuked Gov O'Daniel's radio attack on supporters as pawns of gamblers, saying his actions serve ranchers and stock raisers and deny gambling ties.
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Bailey Ragsdale
Crockett
Texas
O’daniel
Ragsdale
Purpose and decisiveness in a life pursuit
Two significant words define a life: purpose and decisiveness. Warren Hastings vows to repossess his ancestral estate and pursues it relentlessly, illustrating how determination can overcome obstacles. The passage ends with noting Texas lawyer Martin N. Littleton’s death in New York while at school.
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Warren Hastings
Martin N. Littleton
Texas
New York
Thoughtful address on choosing a life work in Parker County
A speaker from Parker County urges students to decide on a chosen career early and pursue it with effort. He cites examples from law and medicine, noting examples of perseverance from a classmate who became a doctor and served in World War I. The speech closes with a line from a poem and a note on the British Empire’s vast expanse.
Child’s tearful plea delays death by own action
In the Bronx a 11-year-old boy Frank Kantor pleaded with his mother Miriam Kantor 32 not to kill herself. She smiled and said she was fooling. Early Monday she went to the roof and jumped to her death, leaving husband Isadore and two younger children. Despondence over financial reverses was cited.
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New York
Frank Kantor
Miriam Kantor
Norman
Ruth
Miss Esther English Sentenced for Market Trading While On Relief
In Chicago Miss Esther English, 46, was given a three month sentence in the house of correction for playing the stock market while receiving relief. Judge Gibson Gorman also ordered her to repay more than $1,000 obtained from the Chicago relief administration. Evidence showed she held $900 in securities and a postal savings account when she took a pauper oath in 1937.
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Chicago
Esther English
House of Correction
Gibson Gorman
Miss English
Chicago Relief Administration
Girl dies after fall from Ferris wheel in Hermosa Beach
In Hermosa Beach California Marie Louise Borel 22 died after a 35 foot fall from a Ferris wheel chair where the safety bar broke as she and companion Jack Brue nig 22 began their descent. Brue nig was slightly injured and Borel died at Community Hospital after landing on a ticket booth. Captain Frank Lapham reported the accident.
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Hermosa Beach
Calif
Marie Louise Borel
Jack Bruenig
Frank Lapham
Police Department
Miss Borel
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