Thomasson Inspects Dallas WPA Sewing Room Project
District Director Gus W. Thomasson and WPA officials inspected the Dallas city hall sewing room. They reported good order and satisfactory progress, noting high workmanship and that efficient workers would be retained during quota reductions.
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WPA
City Hall
Gus W. Thomasson
Dallas
Thomasson
Mildred Holcomb
Sherman
Evelyn Nash McKinney
Earl Bowden
Lydia Ballard
Grayson
Fannin
Whitewright
Ely
Legion luncheon honors Daniel Doherty in Greenville
W O Houston Allen T Short H L Gordon and Ronald Vestal attended a Greenville luncheon for Daniel Doherty national commander of the American Legion. More than 150 joined as Doherty urged stronger national defense and universal conscription if a new war comes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. O. Houston
Allen T. Short
H. L. Gordon
Ronald Vestal
Preston
Doherty
Palace Showing Tovarich Tonight at Palace Theater
The 1937 Academy Award picture Tovarich starring Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer is the feature tonight and tomorrow. Saturday brings The Three Mesquiters in Come On Cowboy, with previews and Monday A Damsel in Distress starring Fred Astaire George Burns and Gracie Allen. Tuesday and Wednesday bargain nights present Charlie Chan on Broadway with Warner Oland. Thursday and Friday next week feature The Firefly with Jeanette MacDonald and Allan Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tovarich
Claudette Colbert
Charles Boyer
Palace Theatre
Fred Astaire
George Burns
Gracie Allen
Charlie Chan
Warner Oland
Jeanette McDonald
Allan Jones
Texas and A. and M. chalk up records
The University of Texas reports 8,861 active students with a total yearly registration of 10,030 a new record. Texas A and M College records show full session enrollment surpassing 5,000 with 4,933 first semester and 205 midyear students pushing the year total to 5,138. second semester enrollment ongoing at 4,306.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
University of Texas
College Station
Texas A. & M
One Chance in Eighteen to Join Road Patrol
Austin public safety officials announced that 1,879 of 3,300 applicants chose to take the highway patrol elimination tests for 100 patrolmen. In the first test to fill 140 vacancies, 2,300 applied and 816 took the exam, with better pay up to 165 dollars monthly boosting interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Public Safety Commissioners
Highway Patrol
Sunlight Declared The Strongest Power Worldwide
A bold claim cites sunlight as the world’s strongest force. Experts weigh energy potential against other power sources and emphasize sustainability.
American Legion Aids Men Past 40 in Texas
The American Legion of Texas launches a state wide campaign to place unemployed veterans past age 40. S. B. Parsons notes that these men, often heads of families, remain in their productive prime and face age based hiring barriers. Post committees seek out jobs, urging businesses to hire the veteran population beyond 40.
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Austin
S. B. Parsons
Veterans Employment Committee of the American Legion
Department of Texas
Parsons
American Legion
Texas
Roosevelt
Flat Railway Fare Proposal Aims to Boost Travel
John A. Hastings of New York City urges the Interstate Commerce Commission to adopt a postal style fare for railroads. He suggests a universal $1 fare for most trips and $3 on limited trains, backed by a government underwriter. Hastings argues the plan would expand travel, save railroads from nationalization, and could be tested for three years.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
John A. Hastings
New York City
Hastings
Commission
Eastern Railroads
New York
Jersey City
San Francisco
Dark Horse Tobacco Spitter Triumphs at Mason County Fair
E L Weaver of Orangeburg wins the Mason County tobacco spitting title with a 17 1/2 foot spit, earning 2 dollars prize money. Runner-up Sherwood Stitt of Mayslick takes 1 dollar. Ellwood Dillin plans to widen the purse and hold open tournament prelims in December with finals in February.
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Maysville
House of Supreme Court
Stanley F. Reed
E. L. Weaver
Orangeburg Way
Mason County
Main Street
Sherwood Stitt
Down
Amacheners
Dillin
Weaver
Ballyhoo
House clears crop control bill 263 to 135
The House approved a revised crop control program by 263 to 135 and sent it to the Senate. The plan aims to smooth supply for cotton, tobacco, rice, wheat and corn through production and marketing controls, loans, and a $100 million crop insurance corporation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Senate
Senate House Conference Committee
Congress
the Sun
Grayson-Collin Electric Project Cash Approved
The Grayson Collin County Electric Co operative of Texas received the first funding of 43 300 from the Rural Electrification Administration. Funds will fund poles wire transformers and substations for 107 miles of line serving 300 rural customers in Grayson and Collin counties. Texas Power and Light Company will supply current. Spain imposes a tax on imported wood charcoal to aid domestic industry.
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Washington
Grayson-Collin County
F D R Plans Relief Aid as Unemployment Crisis Grows
President Roosevelt said he and aides study relief needs and expect a deficiency appropriation request. Chicago Mayor Kelly delivered a memo from 13 industrial city mayors warning 500000 WPA cuts unless $400 million is provided through Congress by June 30. Roosevelt met with Treasury Secretary Morgenthau Budget Chief Bell Jesse Jones Aubrey Williams to discuss relief.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Edward J. Kelly
Chicago
Works Progress Administration
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau Jr
Daniel Bell
Jesse Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Finance Corporation
WPA
Aubrey Williams
Advertising Faith Pledges Rain in Kansas Town
Kinsley Kansas businessmen publish a bold page ad in the Weekly Graphic calling for one half inch of moisture by February 17. They promise to double the value of ads upon receipt of rain, and cover the Graphic’s costs if the moisture fails to arrive.
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Kinsley
Kan
Wig Mirth and Mystery: Bald Women Equal Bald Men
A New York survey of barbers and beauty parlors by Albert Simonson claims there are as many bald women as bald men in the United States. He notes wigs and hairpieces conceal sparseness, and cites examples from Lillian Russell to industrial figures. He notes costs, technique, and social attitudes toward wigs as a national enterprise.
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New York
United States
Albert Simonson
Lillian Russell
Nellie
Fifth Avenue
Simonson
Broadway
Leslie Carter
Richard Mansfield
Grayson Teachers to Organize Meeting in Sherman
Grayson County teachers under the Texas State Teachers Association plan to meet at Sherman High School on Monday February 14 at 730 p m. R L Speer Sherman superintendent and committee chair approves the county delegation plan for the state convention. B B Cobb will discuss the new constitution and program. Professor R E Jackson from Denton Women's College will speak briefly. Officers to be elected.
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Sherman
Grayson County
Texas State Teachers Association
Sherman High
R. L. Speer
Teachers Association
B. B. Cobb
B. McDaniel
Gunter
W. B. Cooke
Harold W. Key
Whitewright
Ralph Yeakley
van Alstyne
Ray B. Short
Pottsboro
Texas A&M study: one third of soil and water goals met
A Texas A and M College Extension Service annual report shows conservation progress from 1937. Survey data indicate 20,389,492 acres need protection while 10,587,744 acres are protected. In 1937, 890,781 acres terraced, 2,166,898 contoured, and 232,632 protected on pasture. county machinery built 373,009 terraces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Texas
M. R. Bentley
Texas A. and
M. College Extension Service
Bentley
Bently
Famous Lullaby Turns Fifty On Winthrop Porch
In Winthrop Massachusetts a Boston school girl wrote the lullaby Rock-a-bye Baby on a porch and had it published under a fictitious name to avoid her parents wrath. The song reaches its 50th anniversary in 1938 as mothers have used it for half a century to lull babies.
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Winthrop
Mass
Boston
Burglar Strikes Savoy Lumber Yard
A Savoy Lumber Company yard building was broken into early Wednesday. A door was forced, a safe knob knocked off, and $40 in cash plus $150 in merchandise stolen. Part of the money came from the town waterworks fund.
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Savoy Lumber Company
Savoy
Watch Your Step Reflects Mindset, Marshall Expert Says
Huntington West Virginia Dr E V Bowers head of Marshall college psychology notes a person’s view of self shapes their gait. Those who see themselves as superior tend to take a more forceful stride while those who view themselves as inferior walk differently.
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Huntington
W. Va
E. V. Bowers
Marshall College
Union Service In Observance Of National Boy Scout Week
A union church service at the Methodist Church Sunday night at 7 o clock will be led by Boy Scouts who plan an educational and entertaining program. The event features songs a worship call a candle lighting of each Scout Law prayer by Dr B Wrenn Webb sermon by Rev J M Connally and a recommitment to oath followed by benediction and blessing prayers.
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America
L. O. Evans
B. Wrenn Webb
J. M. Connally
Methodist Church
Cost Of Living Edges Down Across 32 Cities
The Labor Department reported a slight overall drop in living costs 0.6 percent for the three months ending December 15 across 32 large cities. Food fell 3.7 percent while other items rose, with San Francisco Memphis Detroit Cleveland and Buffalo showing small increases.
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Washington
Labor Department
Department
San Francisco
Memphis
Detroit
Cleveland
Buffalo
N. Y
State University Assets Increase Nearly 3 Million
An audit shows the University of Texas and medical branch assets rose by 2.831 million to 59.444 million. Endowment funds grew by 2.158 million. regent bonds total 3.5 million. operating income reached 2.968 million with sources including state revenue and student fees.
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Regent
A. & M. College
Main University
Young Man Found Dead at Edhube
Herbert Vaught 28 was found dead at the family home near Edhube about 9 a m Wednesday with a pistol wound in the right side of his head. Justice of peace Raleigh Abernathy ruled death by own action. Funeral services tentatively set for Thursday afternoon. His sister Iva Loy Vaught heard a shot and found him on the floor in front of a dresser mirror.
Texas Vet Aid Amounts to Over Twenty Million
Veterans Administrator Frank T. Hines released the 1937 annual report showing Texas received 20,214,780 dollars in veteran benefits for the year ending June 30. The total covers direct and indirect benefits, excluding loans, but includes operating and construction costs at all Texas facilities.
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Washington
Frank T. Hines
Texas
Sun Office Sells Adding Machine Paper
Local office offers adding machine paper for sale indicating availability and pricing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sun Office
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American Society For the Promotion of Jomper
Joseph Ruffner
Supreme Court
Samoset
Plymouth Colony
General Hardee
Charleston
Jefferson Davis
Confederate States
Wny
Dark Horse
Grayson-Collin
Spain
F.D.R
Social Register
Grayson Teachers
Union Service
Edhube
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