Few Don'ts For Auto Driving During Holidays
The Texas Department of Public Safety urged safer travel amid heavy holiday traffic. It advised pre trip checks on brakes horn steering and windshield and offered practical don ts such as keeping to the right on hills and curves sounding horns on sharp curves and before passing and observing 45 mph on open highways 20 mph in towns. It warned against mistaking red lights for tail lights speeding up when overtaken signaling turns and driving the same pace at night noting a human in every car.
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Austin
Department of Public Safety
Highway Engineer Pass Killed in Embankment Crash Near Sherman
Sherman news reports William Franklin Pass 40 regional engineer for the State Highway Department, based in McKinney, died when his car left the Frisco underpass south of Sherman. Pass was thrown from the vehicle. passengers in a following car, Mrs. Pass and Mrs. L. L. Hendrick, witnessed the wreck and reached the scene first. Autopsy cites crushed skull and forehead as the cause. car was completely demolished.
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Sherman
William Franklin Pass
State Highway Department
McKinney
Frisco
Pass
L. L. Hendrick
Dallas
Mr. Pass
Frazier to offer New Farm Refinance Bill
Senator Frazier of North Dakota will introduce a farm refinancing bill in the new Congress. It fixes a 1 percent interest rate for refinanced farm mortgages by the federal government and caps farm loan bond issuance at 3 billion dollars. If bonds fail on the open market, the Fed will issue notes against them.
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Washington
House
Congress
Frazier
North Dakota
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve
County May Face Suit By Hospital
Sherman County eyes a potential lawsuit from Wilson N. Jones Hospital over indigent care fees of 2 per day. Trustees allege the county owes 3049.54 for past services, warning nonpayment by January 1, 1937 will trigger collection. Judge Loy says county will redirect needy patients to other hospitals if rate demands rise.
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Sherman
Grayson County
Wilson N. Jones Hospital
Commissioners’ Court
J. J. Loy
21 338 000 Apply Under Social Act
Washington A Post Office Department survey shows over 21 338 000 workers applied for pension accounts under the Social Security Act. Account cards have been issued to over 12 563 000. About 3 500 000 employers affected, 2 157 064 have applied for identification numbers. Applications continue to arrive. IRS deadlines have expired with no indication of punitive action.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Social Security Board
Internal Revenue Department
Five Cents Bequest To Hang Children Upheld
The will of Giuseppe Gallo left five cents to each of five children to buy rope for hanging themselves. Surrogate John Hetherington upheld the will finding no unsound mind or undue influence. Only 25 cents for the children was set aside as an abnormal bequest.
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New York
Giuseppe Gallo
John Hetherington
Emelia Mozzara
Gallo
Texas Onion Growers Facing Bad Situation
Texas onion growers face the largest storage of high quality late crop in state history as low prices push about 23 million bushels into storage until around May 15. Late onions will reach markets with reduced transport costs, while early 1937 crops are expected to match 1936 shipments. U.S. growers study marketing controls, with Colorado and Utah moving to prepared shipment restrictions if 1937 market needs are firmer.
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College Station
Texas
J. F. Rosborough
United States
Rosborough
Colorado
Utah
Drouth
Conscription in Britain Foreseen by Sunday Pictorial
The Sunday Pictorial warned that conscription in Britain is bound to come unless 1937 yields broad recruitment gains. It said all fighting services, except possibly the royal air force, are under peacetime strength and the government is being forced toward conscription.
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London
Britain
The
Sunday Pictorial
Royal Air Force
People With A Purpose Christmas Card Fund
A Seattle brewing company secretary proposed using Christmas card funds to help a poor family. The idea united 60 employees who contributed $432 to supply clothes fuel toys and blankets, with a bathtub installed. The fund became an annual community effort.
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Sue Wilson
Seattle
Children Prank Held Responsible For Train Wreck
In Texarkana area a brake shoe planted on the Cotton Belt track caused a derailment that killed fireman H. W. Wynn. Three African American children, Eloise Matthews 9 and siblings Albert 14 and Dorothy Mae 12, confessed and face murder charges in juvenile court in Boston Texas.
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Texarkana
Cotton Belt
H. W. Wynn
Corley
Boston
Tex
Harry Monsarrat
Eloise Matthews
Albert
Dorothy Mae Matthews
Faithful Toiler Grain of Rural Talk
Dialogue depicts a rural wife and husband exchange about work and fishing. The husband asserts his wife works as hard as he does and does not need supervision, reflecting gender roles in a domestic setting.
Reward of Experience Sunday School Teacher Bee Lesson
A humorous dialogue features a Sunday School teacher asking what lesson is learned from the bee and a smart boy replying that it is not to get stung. The quip reflects a light communal moment likely printed in a paper’s humor column. It underscores simple, rural wit of the era.
Whistle Confusion at Work Stirs Minor Tension
A light moment at the workplace centers on Alfred who jokes that he was whistling rather than working when his employer admonishes him. The exchange highlights workplace humor rather than discipline.
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Alfred
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