Whitewright schools plan September 12 opening
Whitewright Public Schools set Thursday September 12 as opening day for the 1935 36 year announced by Supt Harold W Key The calendar lists vacations graduations new courses and staff changes including two new grammar school teachers three in the high school and Spanish and world history offerings along with budget details and bus and janitor assignments.
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Whitewright
Harold W. Key
Grammar School
Nadine Blanton
Carter Fletcher
Sallye Hamilton
Mary Pumphrey
Dorothy Hamilton
Katherine Roddy
Newton W. Manning
H. W. Key
J. T. Bryant
Dorothy Tapscott
Jan Dawson
J. H. Burma
Jewel Kennemer
John Bean
Lurlyne Travis
Canton
Texas
University of Texas
Travis
Margaret O'Dell
O’dell
Key
Ww. S. Cunningham
Earl Jenkins
Fred Cook
Pp. A. Short
Claud Phillips
Oil discovery reported at Trenton test well
A Hancock farm test well half a mile south of Trenton hit oil at 660 feet with several feet of oil sand and 40 to 50 feet of oil in the well. Warner Moore of Dallas drills. N B Moore of Trenton and C C Smith of Dallas supervise. small quantities were drawn and given to onlookers as leaseholders move to perfect titles.
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Trenton Tribune
Trenton
Hancock Farm
Warner Moore
Dallas
N. B. Moore
C. C. Smith
Mr. Witherspoon
King
the Tribune
Ennis and Ferris approve beer sale tallies
Ennis justice precinct backed beer with 1100 to 692 in a Saturday vote. Ferris city limits approved beer 112 to 79 in an election confined to Ferris.
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Ennis
Ferris
Mass Meeting at City Hall Tonight
A mass meeting at City Hall at 8 pm Thursday will discuss applying for a Works Progress Administration grant and loan to repair Grammar School and build a gym. WPA would cover 45 percent grant and 55 percent loan at low interest. attendees may voice views.
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Works Progress Administration
Whitewright Votes in Constitutional Amendment Poll
About 250 of roughly 400 qualified voters cast ballots in Whitewright for the constitutional amendments. Proposals approved included old age pensions and courts and probation while repeal of state wide prohibition failed. Notable turnout included 25 elderly Black voters, with results matching statewide trends except for prohibition repeal.
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Saan Vaeetelavest
High Spots in New Federal Legislation Affecting Industry and Agriculture
Washington reports a sweeping first session of the seventy fourth congress enacting major reforms. Key actions include coal wage and price codes, railroad bankruptcy adjustments, a utilities regulation bill, TVA amendments, stricter ship owner liability, added air mail regulation, oil production pacts, interstate bus and truck control, a restructured Federal Reserve open market committee, a new liquor agency, and extended NRA measures with a national labor board. The package also funds 4.8 billion dollars to spur job creation and capital goods, and AAA amendments empower farm administration to manage crop production and grant mortgage moratoriums up to three years.
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Washington
Coal
National
Bituminous Coal Commission
Securities Corporation
Tennessee Valley Authority
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal Reserve Board
NRA
National Labor Board
Whitewright Artists slated for Denison Forest Park show
Whitewright and surrounding communities will provide a weekly program in Forest Park Denison on Friday evening September 6. Miss Madge Sears sponsors and invites local groups to contribute numbers as 1500 to 3000 Denison residents attend from neighbor towns for what organizers expect to be a top show of the season. Pete Langston and Ralph Geisenhower helped arrange the event and Denison anticipates a strong audience.
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Whitewright
Forest Park
Denison
Madge Sears
Pete Langston
Ralph Geisenhower
Six States Remain Dry After Texas Repeal
In the wake of Texas voters repealing prohibition, six states stay dry. Constitutional prohibition remains in Kansas, with Oklahoma dry by law but not constitutionally. Alabama Georgia Mississippi Tennessee continue liquor bans.
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Washington
Texas
Kansas
Oklahoma
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
Tennessee
Legislature Sets Sept 16 Special Session on Liquor Control
Gov Allred plans a Sept 16 noon convening of the Forty Fourth Legislature for a thirty day special session to enact liquor control measures implementing the repeal of prohibition. He may add other topics including old age pensions and Dean law status provisions, with the canvassing board to meet after full election returns arrive.
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Austin
James V. Allred
Allred
Walter Woodul
Coke Stevenson
Emmet Morse
Dean Law
Texas
Secretary of State
Sheppard Praises Texas Repeal Showing
Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas, co author of the prohibition amendment, says he is gratified by the Texas repeal election result amid national trends toward repeal. He notes the favorable showing reflects the country’s trend in recent years.
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Washington
Morris Sheppard
Texas
54 577 Votes To Repeal Credited In Texas Election
Dallas report from the Texas Election Bureau shows repeal votes at 262 785 for and 207 608 against with 240 of 253 counties reporting. Amendment and private school textbook measures also outlined with large majorities for or against. Old age pensions and other issues appear final from earlier tallies.
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Dallas
Texas
Texas Election Bureau
A. F. Henning
Henning
Will Rogers At Palace Theatre Here Next Week
The Palace Theatre in Whitewright will show The Farmer Takes a Wife as a pre release with Janet Gaynor Henry Fonda and others on Saturday night and again Monday and Tuesday at 10 and 15 cents. Will Rogers in Doubting Thomas comes Wednesday and Thursday with 10 and 20 cent pricing. To offset higher Will Rogers prices the manager cut The Farmer Takes a Wife to 10 and 15 cents.
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Palace Theatre
Thatre Goers
Farmer
Janet Gaynor
Henry Fonda
Charles Bickford
Slim Summerville
Andy Devine
Roger Imhof
Jane Withers
Clay Horton
The
Palace
Whitewright
Texas
Will Rogers
Thomas
Horton
Hunter gunfire kills piano prodigy in California
In San Bernardino California officers seek the hunter who fired at a bobcat and fatally wounded 7 year old piano prodigy Carol Ann Barry of Altadena. The child vacationing with her parents at a Swarthout Canyon lodge was struck on the porch as her father M J Barry watched. She died in his arms.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Carol Ann Barry
Altadena
Swarthout Canyon
M. J. Barry
Special Officer Squires Found Fatally Shot at Home
Denison reports Jasper W. Squires about 60 a M K T Railroad special officer was found dead with a revolver at his side. He had been ill for several men.
Cotton 15 Shipped to Port for Government Sale
The government loaned 806 bales of cotton last fall and moved the stock from Whitewright to Galveston this week. It is stored in Donigan bonded warehouse and will be kept in Galveston warehouses until sale. A 12 cent per pound loan backed the cotton. Moving the cotton frees Whitewright storage for new crop loans.
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Galveston
Donigan
Whitewright
AAA Fixes 10c Loan 2c Grant on Cotton Policy Shift
Washington officials outlined 1935 cotton support rules with loans of 10 cents per pound and a 2 cent subsidy limit. The plan links Bankhead allotment loans to price protection, with an estimated $150 million needed. A national pool for sale of surplus cotton tax certificates opens September 4, and a 6 cent ginning tax applies to cotton above allotments.
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Washington
AAA
Congress
Farm Administration
Agriculture Department
Treasury
White House
Chester C. Davis
Jesse H. Jones
RFC
Commodity Credit Corporation
Jones
Department of Agriculture
National Pool
Bankhead
Texas Gets Four National Youth District Offices
Lyndon B. Johnson announced district offices to be located in Dallas Lubbock Houston and Austin for the National Youth Administration. He said the program will be perfected soon and will involve cooperation with cities to gain WPA approval for Federal projects employing youths age 15 to 25. About 123 860 eligible youths on relief rolls. Five camps for unemployed unmarried women planned at Dallas and Houston with more sites later.
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Austin
Lyndon B. Johnson
National Youth Administration
Dallas
Lubbock
Houston
Johnson
Texas
WPA
Fedreal
Filibuster Halts Ginner Cost Payments Under Bankhead Law
Senate filibuster halts funds to pay cotton ginners under the Bankhead control law. Farm officials fear no funds will be available to cover ginners expenses as the AAA amendments set 25 cents per bale with a 3 million dollar deficiency appropriation awaiting resolution.
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Washington
Huey Long
AAA
Whitewright Leads Whitewright In Cotton Ginning Ahead Of Grayson County
Whitewright leads the Grayson County section in ginned cotton this season and was first to receive the season’s first bale. The season opens later than in 1933 and 1934 with government loan guarantees raising producer prices to 12 cents per pound. Web worms affect fields as picking starts, weather delays halt operations, and October picking is anticipated due to late season.
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Whitewright
Grayson County
Bankhead law changes noted for farmers and gin owners
The Bankhead cotton tax changes set surplus tax at six cents per pound down from 567 ten-thousandths, require tagging on ginned date, and outline three tagging options with exemptions, cash tax, or lien cards. Exemption certificates transfer restrictions, weekly inspections, and penalties for un tagged bales are described along with rules for selling seed cotton and handling exemptions and metal tags.
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Dallas
Bankhead
Fannin Voters Reject Refunding Road District Bonds
Voters in Fannin County rejected a proposal to retire existing road district bonds by issuing county bonds at a lower interest rate. County officials estimated a potential saving of about 300000 but the measure failed to achieve the required two thirds majority.
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Fannin County
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