State Needs More Taxes, Opinion of 3 House Members
Three representatives on a joint committee studying rural school aid dissented from colleagues who urged economies over new levies. G C Morris Edgar Keefe and Marvin London urged increases in natural resource taxes to raise about 12 million dollars, with oil tax hikes likely. They were appointed by Speaker Calvert. others favored no new taxes.
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Cameron
Harry L. McKee
Port Arthur
House
McKee
California
Texas
Vernon Lemens
Rainbow
Lemens
Indiana
Alf Roark
Saratoga
Roark
James
Senate
Morris
Keefe
London
Hot dry weather hurting cotton and pests easing
Texas Extension Service reports extended heat and drought wilt cotton and shed young squares and bolls, with boll weevil damage easing in North East Texas yet some upper coastal damage possible. Fleahoppers persist in Northwest Texas while leafworms stay mostly unchanged.
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College Station
F. L. Thomas
Division of Entomology
Texas Extension Service
Smith County
Texas
New Deal Experts Would Store Cash As Rainy Day Aid
Washington experts propose an ever normal cash box for unemployment relief. Commerce Department advisers draft plan to store funds in the Treasury in boom years for public works during depressions. Amounts of 500 million to 1 billion yearly floated to build a multi billion dollar reserve to ease tax burdens and aid long range public works planning.
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New Deal
Washington
Commerce Department
Business Advisory Council
Council
Treasury
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
Texas school apportionment sparks political storm
The $22 per capita school apportionment becomes a flashpoint as Atty Gen McCraw plans to urge dissolution of an injunction blocking cuts while the board resists. Gov Allred defends, Woods faces rural aid scrutiny, and Montgomery to become chief highway engineer amid Texas political maneuvering.
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Austin
District Court
San Antonio
State Board of Education
Bill McCraw
McCraw
Ghent Sanderford
Ferguson
State Automatic Tax Board
L. A. Woods
Texas
Allred
George Sheppard
Alred
Mexico City
Montgomery
Julian Montgomery
Gibb Gilchrist
A. & M., College
PWA
Ickes
Highway Department
Big Melon Grower Outlines Formula For 100 Pounders
WEIMAR. W C Brown, Colorado County watermelon grower, describes a method to produce 100 pound melons using elbow grease, soil, and fertilizer. He plans 20,000 market melons on a three quarter acre plot, with a 102 pounder already from his crops, aiming for 124 pounds. He emphasizes damp sandy soil, seed choice, and a 6 10 7 fertilizer mix, about one pint per plant or per unit as guidance.
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Weimar
W. C. Brown
Colorado County
Brown
Texas Leaders Praise Governor Isbell At Tribute Dinner
More than 100 friends gathered at a hotel to honor Gov Isbell and his wife with ex Senator George Purl as toastmaster. Notables including Myron Blaylock and Dr C W Butler Jr discussed training, the state insane hospital project at Big Spring, prison farm reforms, and Chesnutt joining the board to improve conditions.
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Isbell
Rockwall
Texas
Claude Isbell
Senate
Alfred
Mexico
Walter Woodal
Okla
Palacios
National Guard
Myron Blaylock
State Democratic Committee
Ernest O. Thompson
Railroad Commission
Ed Clark
Big Spring
C. W. Butler Jr
Crockett
Denver Chesnutt
Kennedy
Chesnutt
Texas Press Association
New Post
Plan To Minimize Teaching Loads in County Is Offered
Sherman Grayson County board of trustees met all day to adopt a policy keeping pupils in home districts to support teacher loads in small rural schools. They requested a 15 day postponement in submitting a tax schedule to gain time for elections to approve a 50 cent maintenance tax. Seven pupils sought transfer from Tom Bean to Kentuckytown. Pilot Grove was re classified to seven grades. The board approved selling the old Whitemound school and discussed private sale with Roe Miller for Tom Bean buildings.
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Tom Bean
Kentuckytown
Pilot Grove
Whitemound
Tom Bean Consolidated School
Roe Miller
Mammoth Melon Grower Details Planting and Vines
The article notes Brown’s method to space hills ten by ten feet and rake soil two weeks before planting to let commercial ingredients soak in. It states his vines typically yield about three melons, though larger fruit may appear if only one melon remains per vine, highlighting Brown’s statewide fame.
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Brown
Notice of Sun charge for notices and events
The Sun states a charge of one cent per word for notices of banks pie suppers entertainments with admission charges. If no money is raised it is a news item and no charge applies. Reminders to send payment with notices and to avoid submitting pie suppers without funds.
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