NYA project expands capacity to 500 at Inks Dam center
The National Youth Administration plans to expand the Inks Dam Center near Burnet Texas from 300 to 500 boys by adding two barracks for 75 more youths and other buildings. Instructors from the State Department of Vocational Education supervise training in machine shop radio electrical sheet metal foundry welding plumbing and woodwork with 12 NYA staffers. Each enrolled boy gets 30 dollars monthly with 12 dollars for personal use and deductions for room board medical care recreation and laundry.
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Austin
Texas
National
Inks Dam
Burnet
J. C. Kellam
NYA
Colorado River
State Department of Vocational Education
National Youth Administration
Marshall
Dallas
Houston
Fort Worth
Waco
San Antonio
McAllen
Amarillo
Lubbock
San Angelo
el Paso
Count Your Blessings in a Time of Fear and Censorship
A Detroit News column urges readers to count daily blessings amid wartime strain. It contrasts normal freedoms with wartime restrictions such as censorship, evacuation fears, blackouts, and air raids, ending with a patriotic note: Thank God I am an American.
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Detroit News
Santa bought toys and a tin watch joke on Christmas
A Christmas morning quip has Tommy asking where Santa gets his goods and Mamma suggesting he buys them. The boy quips that Santa would be a fool to accept a tin watch. Australia’s 1939 40 wheat crop is estimated at 215000000 bushels.
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Tommy
Santa Claus
Mamma
Australia
Texas Game Department Sets Deer Trapping Plans for Next Winter
The Texas Game Fish and Oyster Commission plans expanded deer trapping next winter with 122 traps in use. Fifty plus junior club members patrol Twin Lakes Beaumont area, reducing damage and increasing fish stocks. The Gulf Coast Red and Reef Club backs universal license regulation efforts.
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Austin
Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Hill
Game Department
N. E. LeBlanc
Gulf Coast Red and Reef Club
Beaumont
Twin Lakes
Gulf Coast Rod and Reef Club
Game Departments
Rabbit rescue by cotton tail family stops snake near Comanche
In Comanche at Lake Eanes Odel Morris watched a small rabbit stalked by a snake. Two full grown cotton tail rabbits leaped the snake and freed the baby. El bert Stewart, a witness, confirmed the odd event near the pump station.
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Odel Morris
Comanche
Lake Eanes
Papa
Mamma
Baby Rabbit
Elbert Stewart
Beaumont Junior Red and Ree Club Aids Texas Boys
The Beaumont Junior Red and Ree Club coordinates youth service in Texas as boys assist community projects. Members engage in local charity, teamwork, and civic participation through organized activities and guidance from club leaders.
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Beaumont Junior Red and
Texas
White spotted peccary reported near Pearsall
A cowboy on the Crane Ranch nine miles from Pearsall reports a white spotted peccary resembling an albino javelina. Multiple sightings of spotted javelinas have been noted, with a few albino captures recorded nearby.
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Crane Ranch
Pearsall
Pheasants Struggle to Thrive in Texas Wild
The Texas Game Department notes pheasants rarely do well in the wild outside captivity. In Colorado County 50 of 152 birds released in 1938 remain, seven broods formed in 1939, and eggs were found in March 1940. Birds have wandered up to five miles from release points. A concluding aphorism by Maurice Maeterlinck closes the item.
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Texas
Game Department
Colorado County
Board Rules On Hatch Act Clarified By Civil Service Commission
The Civil Service Commission ruled that the Hatch Act does not bar state and local employees from discussing general social or economic issues but limits partisan political activity. The act, extended in 1939 and by a Roosevelt amendment, targets federally financed work. enforcement rests with federal agencies for classified staff and with department heads for non classified staff. Penalties include removal. criminal prosecutions are by the Justice Department.
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Washington
The
Civil Service Commission
Roosevelt
United States
Traffic Rules Frustrate Father and Son
Humorous exchange features a Sunday school teacher asking about commandments and a child replying that the father struggles to keep traffic regulations, reflecting a playful misfit between moral duties and daily rules.
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Little Mary
Attic Fans Offer Summer Comfort For Homes
The Texas A M Engineering Experiment Station publishes Bulletin No. 52 The Installation and Use of Attic Fans by W H Badgett. It explains attic fan function costs selection installation window fans and operation for residential cooling. Copies available by writing the Texas A M College Engineering Experiment Station College Station Texas.
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College Station
Texas A. & M. Engineering Experiment Station
W. H. Badgett
Texas A. & M. College Engineering Experiment Station
Texas
Willkie Says People Have Gooled poorer and wiser since 1928
Wendell L. Willkie said Roosevelt’s remark that he was poorer and wiser since 1928 rings true for many, arguing Americans have grown poorer and wiser since entering public office. He spoke after Roosevelt’s press conference responding to Willkie’s call for asset filings by federal officials.
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Colorado Springs
Wendell L. Willkie
Roosevelt
New York
Sea worms revealed as mainly carnivorous feeders
A study notes most sea worms feed on animal matter. Researchers observed predatory behavior in several worm species and documented appetite for small invertebrates, altering prior assumptions about their diet.
Smaller Farm Loans Planned By FSA For More Families
Sherman reports Farm Security Administration will issue smaller loans to tenants and farm laborers this year to cover more families. Ernest H. Gunn notes past loans were large, limiting reach. about 200 applicants in Grayson County this year. Applications for standard rehabilitation loans now open for new clients to be served promptly.
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Grayson County
Gunn
FSA
Early American pin making and traffic death contrasts
The article notes the US manufactures about thirty billion pins yearly and traces the first pin making machine to Rhode Island during 1776 to 1780. It also observes that deaths from automobile accidents are lower in crowded areas than in sparsely populated regions.
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United States
Rhode Island
O. H. Woodrow Resumes Law Practice in Sherman
O H Woodrow announces he has resumed the practice of law in the M and P bank building Sherman Texas He also expresses gratitude for the loyal support of friends in his candidacy for Chief Justice of the Court of Civil Appeals Adv 21
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O. H. Woodrow
M. & P. Bank
Sherman
Texas
Court of Civil Appeals
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Count Your
A. & M. College
BIG Aid
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Javelina
Maurice Maeterlinck
Hatch
By Clayton Rand
Scottsville
Citizen-Times
A. &M. Bulletin
Willkie
First National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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