Texas Oil Industry Ads Highlight State’s Role
The Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association will launch institutional and educational adverts in December papers to stress oil’s role in Texas. Executive VP George C. Gibbons notes Texas supplies 25 percent of world oil and 40 percent of U.S. oil, with 134 counties in production. The campaign argues careful management, home use of products, and attracting new industry to Texas support employment, tax revenue, and wealth distribution.
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Texas Oil Industry
Texas Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association
Texas
George C. Gibbons
Oil and Gas Group
America
Lufkin
Whitewash Formula and Uses Across Homes
A practical guide notes whitewash benefits for Southern Colonial and ranch homes. It presents a recipe using ten pounds of lime per eight quarts of water, with adjustments for brushing or spraying, plus optional blueing for brightness and alum to prevent rubbing off. The piece also includes a brief literary aside.
County Voters Set December 9 for Cotton Marketing Quotas
Farmers in this county will vote December 9 on whether marketing quotas are to be made effective for the 1940 cotton crop. A sample ballot is shown. The nation has about 12 million bales of annual cotton demand. In 1937 a record crop nearly 19 million bales was produced, due to high yields and large plantings. Cotton growers approved quotas for 1938 and 1939, each about 11.9 million bales, but the 1937 surplus still pressures the market. Marketing quotas aim to prevent further increases and keep nonparticipants from unfairly benefiting.
Pleasant Sunday Visits Noted in Porter News
Weather holds fair as families across Porter spend Sunday with relatives and neighbors. Mrs. A F Robinson and children visited her in laws the Robinsons. the Wilkinsons and Peggy Ann visited. Hugh Hunter and family from Ector joined Jim Hicks family. and many others connected to McCord Hicks Lock and Williams communities were seen visiting. Sunday also marked church day with invitations to attend and visitors welcomed.
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A. F. Robinson
J. F. Robinson
Marl Wilkinson
Peggy Ann
A. E. Wilkinson
Hugh Hunter
Ector
Jim Hicks
Joe Rich
Ernest McCoy
Dorotha Jean McCord
Bonnie Ray Hicks
Ina Lee
Sara Hicks
Hazel and
Imogent Lambert
Alvie Lock
Harlie Howell
Lara Cooper
Claude McCord
Lon
Nie Redman
Randolph
J. J. Stewart
Horace Morris
Lilly Stewart
Tennessee
J. W. Gunter
Elbert Bennett
Charlie Williams
Mattie McCord
Raymond
C. E. McCord
Edith Dendy
For Sale Dwellings and Farms in Whitewright
Several dwellings in Whitewright and multiple farms offered for sale by Stephens Bryant Insurance and Real Estate and T. E. Barbee. Bargains noted as land value shifts, contact agents to buy or sell.
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Whitewright
Stephens & Bryant
T. E. Barbee
New Merit System For Pension Workers
The Texas Welfare Board awaits federal merit-system rules to govern state personnel management for old-age pensions. With the 1940 Social Security Act, states must install a merit system or risk losing federal funds. Texas aims to submit its plan within 60 days while monthly federal matching funds continue.
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Austin
State Welfare Board
Federal Social Security Board
Texas
Federal Board
Welfare Department
Welfare Board
Texas Board
Washington
Doctor links brain power to skin trouble in dermatology talk
Dr. Samuel W. Becker of the University of Chicago told the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology that highly powered nervous systems may trigger skin diseases. He explained overstimulated brains intensify sensations, exhaust energy, and cause nervous hematoses, noting these conditions occur in humans with superior brain development.
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Philadelphia
Samuel W. Becker
University of Chicago
American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology
Chicago
After Last Christmas Lad Seeks Insurance
Nine year old Bobby of Snow Hill asks a Snow Hill columnist to relay his Christmas wishes to Santa Claus. He explains he does not want his parents to be dealt with this year and recounts a past request to Pocomoke City authorities about his father.
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Snow Hill
Bobby
Santa Claus
Pocomoke City
Child Christmas Wishes Contrast With Parents Habits
A department store Santa recounts a child named Bobby asking for an electric train BB rifle and games. His mother notes he desires a bicycle and roller skates. The father still enjoys the train and rifle with neighbors while the mother uses the skates and rides the bicycle to town for shopping.
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Bobby
Free cigarettes offered to pupils at United Provinces schools
In Lucknow, United Provinces, the government plans to provide free smoking for pupils at 16,000 new adult schools as part of an anti illiteracy drive. Illiterate villagers, resting after fieldwork, prefer smoking to studying, prompting the experimental measure amid proposals to attract attendees. The Sun sells typewriter paper.
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Lucknow
United Provinces
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Becker
U. & Department
Aupitultugh
Adicrtment Administration
Remy
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Porter News
T. W. Ayres & Son
Pascal Farley
Stafford Typewriter
Sun
Whitewright Paint and Paper
Johnnie James
Bethel Dramatic Club
Bethel
Manning & Meador, Tf
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
S. Travis St
Sherman
Dallas
Texas Department
Lad
the Sun
Madden
Denison
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