Texas Driver Licenses Set to Begin February 14
Texas launches a major road safety program issuing motor vehicle drivers licenses when the law takes effect February 14. Licenses, valid three years, will be issued by county tax collectors with 2.5 million Texans and about 1.25 million vehicles affected. Violations revoke licenses. automatic penalties follow each offense, with suspensions and possible imprisonment for six months on certain cases. Families driving the same car must obtain licenses. noncompliant individuals face strict penalties and eligibility limits.
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Austin
Texas
L. G. Phares
Department of Public Safety
J. D. Moffatt
Veteran Highway Patrol
Phares
Safety Department
Ford Farm Almanac To Aid Rural Readers Nationwide
Publication announced by Ford Motor Co for 1936 distribution to rural populations. Pocket sized 48 page book with handy tables charts and calendars including sunrise sunset length of day a yearly weather guide and farm and citizenship notes. Features on Ford history Edison Institute Museum and Greenfield Village.
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Ford Motor Company
United States
Ford Motor Co
Ford Rouge
Edison Institute
Greenfield Village
Rouge
Ford Farm
Texas Relief Commission Ends Program Balance
Relief Balance Now is 1 500 000 in the final two months of a program aiding unemployables for winter. Director Adam R Johnson says funds will cover about 36 000 cases or 180 000 individuals through March, with relief limited to unemployables in the close out phase after starting January 1.
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Austin
Texas Relief Commission
Adam R. Johnson
WPA Loafers Warned by Hopkins on Jobs
Washington reports Harry L Hopkins warned WPA workers who loaf on the job and the bosses who allow it of suspension or dismissal. He said a small portion are shirking and hindering project efficiency, with penalties applying to regular workers foremen and supervisors.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
WPA
New Frazier Lemke Act Declared Unconstitutional
Federal Judge T M Kennerly in Houston ruled the Frazier Lemke bankruptcy act as amended last August unconstitutional in the case of Henry and Mrs Tschoepe owners of a 400 acre Nueces County farm. The act was found to violate the Fifth Amendment.
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Houston
T. M. Kennerly
Henry Tschoepe
Tschoepe
Nueces County
Rural Libraries Do Good Work in Grayson County
Mrs. Dick O Bannon of Sherman and county CWA library leaders addressed Denison librarians in the new Denison Public Library. The gathering highlighted distributed checks and a program featuring leaders from Denison High, the Alpha Delphi Club, and local women’s groups. The county project now serves 1,200 readers with twenty two families paid as library workers.
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Denison
Dick O’bannon
Sherman
CWA
Alice L. Camp
Ambrose
Jerry Hackworth
Sadler
Floyd G. Olson
Dorchester
Mattie Lane
Bells
Tom Ramsey
Ruth Jopling
Whitewright
Lena Green
Claudine Lane
W. H. Lucas
Grayson County
Ollie Bird
O’bannon
Victor Hurt Named Tulsa University Head Coach
Victor Hurt, first assistant to Matty Bell at Southern Methodist University, is named head football coach at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa Oklahoma. The appointment shifts Tulsa's coaching lineup as Hurt takes the helm.
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Vic Hurt
Tulsa University
Tulsa
Okla
Victor Hurt
Matty Bell
Southern Methodist University
University of Tulsa
Old World and American Recipes in a Sun Want Ad
A kitchen outline covers cookies with fat and sugar dough and a cinnamon glaze, then describes sauerbraten from German cookery with vinegar and spices, plus a beef dish with onions tomatoes and peppers. It ends noting the Sun want ad for buying selling or trading investments.
Heart Disease Deaths Mount Report Shows
A Minneapolis insurer's 1936 mortality forecast flags 250000 potential heart disease deaths in the United States with rates rising from 165 to 178 per 100000 policy holders between 1934 and 1935. The report links deaths to modern life and notes higher risk across workers and policy holders.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis Insurance Company
Price Control Charged To Firms In Cotton Markets
Washington report before the Senate Agriculture Committee named Anderson, Clayton & Co. of Houston and George H. McFadden & Brothers of Philadelphia as firms exerting price influence through future sales far beyond their spot operations. The preliminary finding notes these two firms controlled about 20 percent of the U.S. cotton crop over the past six years.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Arthur S. Wylie
Anderson, Clayton & Co
Houston
George H. McFadden & Brothers
Philadelphia
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P. S
Whitewright Lumber Co
FORD
Ford Finance Plan of Universal Credit Co
UCC
Detroit
Anteurtue NY
Sun
L. LaRoe & Co
O. L
Pig) Jones the
Denison Auto Company
Adares
Denison, Texas
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