Crippled Children Fund Tournament Set For Jan. 25
A games tournament will be held Thursday night at the Community Public Service Co. building to benefit crippled children. Admission is 25 cents per person with a prize at each table. Donations may be given via a jar at the First National Bank. The Grayson County Crippled Children's Society oversees funds and forwards 25 percent to the national committee. Numerous communities participate in birthday and entertainment events to support the fund.
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Community Public Service Co
Whitewright
First National Bank
Grayson County
Crippled Children’s Society
Sherman
National Committee For
Crippled Children’s Fund
Woman Faints After All-Day Wait For Governor Visit
A sobbing woman fainted outside the Governor's office in Austin after waiting from 8 AM to 5 PM with her young daughter in the rail area. She declined to give her name as reporters noted lengthy, uninterrupted waiting and no seating for visitors beyond the outer guard.
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O’daniel
Austin
Railroad Commission
Farm Loans To Be Made Again In Grayson County
About 375 Grayson County farm families in the rehabilitation program of the farm security administration are set to receive roughly $70 000 in loans to grow 1940 crops. Loans accompany live at home agreements to aid self sufficiency. Grayson County led the district with 154 borrowers paying all obligations in 1939 and 105 percent of 1939 obligations retired.
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Ernest H. Gunn
FSA
Grayson County
Gunn
Hugh Johnson Predicts Roosevelt's Re election
Gen Hugh S Johnson predicts Franklin D Roosevelt will win a third term after a crown of gold nomination speech at the Philadelphia Merchants Association dinner He also says Vice President Garner may retire as a presidential candidate and foresees Roosevelt's nomination by acclamation in a broad coalition. The remarks reflect Johnsons view of a rout in the race.
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Philadelphia
Hugh S. Johnson
Roosevelt
NRA
Philadelphia Merchants Association
Garner
Johnson
United States
New Year Subscriptions Boost The Sun Honor Roll
The New Year brings many new and renewing Sun subscriptions. January typically strong, and despite expectations of a dip due to fall campaign, results look set to stay high. An honor roll lists numerous subscribers including Mrs Grady Haliburton and Roy Benson among others.
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Sun
The
Grady Haliburton
O'Daniel Proclaims Single Texas Thanksgiving Day 1940
Governor O'Daniel announced Texas will observe only one Thanksgiving Day in 1940, aligned with the national proclamation by President Roosevelt. He noted Texas had two celebrations in 1939 due to planning already under way before the President’s date change.
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Austin
O’daniel
Texas
Roosevelt
United States
Disappointed Mike Complains On Pay Envelope
Dialect exchange shows Mike frustrated with pay, calling employer stingy. Pat questions why, and Mike admits counting on more than expected but received the amount anticipated.
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Mike
Pat
Rotary Club Enjoys Musical Program Friday
Rotary Club Friday heard a musical program by East Texas State Teachers College of Commerce and three students. Roy J. Johnson hosted and sang, Maury Jones played piano and accompanied others, while Davis Boswell Hathaway and Orgie Boswell performed as a vocal trio. Guests included B C Fielder and Dr Herman Klapproth with others.
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Daniel Russ
Whitewright High School
Rotary Club
East Texas State Teachers College of Commerce
Roy J. Johnson
Commerce School
Johnson
Maury Jones
Davis
Orgie Boswell
Roy Glen Hathaway
B. C. Fielder
Farmersville Rotary Club
Whitewright Rotary Club
Farmersville Club
Herman Klapproth
B. W. Dulaney
Sherman
E. P. Wootten
Whitewright to host Leonard and Bells in basketball tilts
Whitewright hosts Leonard on Friday night with the first game at 7 30 p m The same night Whitewright teams meet Bells in conference tilts also at 7 30 p m Both games count as county playoff action for the local high school basketball squads.
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Whitewright High School
Leonard High School
Bells High School
Collin's First Doomed Man Goes to Prison
McKinney sheriff E B Moore and two deputies left for Huntsville with J W Rickman who has been sentenced as the first person from Collin County to die in the electric chair. Rickman was found guilty May 5 1938 of murder in the fatal shooting of City Motorcycle Officer Marion Taylor March 2 near McKinney. He admitted drinking and fear at the time. Witnesses testified he hijacked a taxi in Dallas and forced the driver to take him to McKinney where Taylor tried to stop the cab and Rickman shot him.
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Mckinney
Collin County
E. B. Moore
Huntsville
J. W. Rickman
Rickman
Marion Taylor
Court of Criminal Appeals
Opposites in a Schoolroom Exchange
A teacher asks for opposites of sorrow misery and woe. The pupil answers Joy Happiness and Giddap respectively showing a playful use of language in a classroom exchange.
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Giddap
Treat a Cold With Respect in Order to Avoid Pneumonia
Austin report from State Health Officer Dr Geo W Cox urges pneumonia prevention in Texas. Emphasizes protecting babies from colds, masking caregivers, and washing hands. Warns that under one year olds face higher death risk, and urges regular physician supervision for children’s health.
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Austin
Geo. W. Cox
Texas
State Health Department
Four Grayson WPA Projects Get Under Way
Work orders issued in San Antonio authorize four Grayson County WPA projects totaling 119 306 in WPA funds and 43 405 in local money. Projects include Locust Georgetown road 19 088 WPA 11 070 county with 88 workers Pilot Grove road 66 550 WPA 15 108 county with 200 workers Van Alstyne streets 27 994 WPA 11 628 city with 195 workers and Denison streets 5 674 WPA 5 500 city with 64 workers. There are 12 000 red cap porters in America.
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Grayson County
Works Progress Administration
Texas
San Antonio
Grayson
Locust-Georgetown
Derden Enters Governor's Race
State Rep. Albert Derden of Marlin announced his candidacy for Texas governor on a strictly anti sales tax platform. He advocates a natural resources tax to fund old age pensions and proposes severing major oil firms from pipelines, making pipelines independent carriers. He cites his record in the Legislature and opposition to S J R 12 as supporting points.
Liquor Board Pushes for Stricter Control Statewide
Chairman W D Bradfield urged the Texas Liquor Control Board to adopt a tougher policy, seeking to rescind executive authority given to the administrator and to align with a stricter enforcement stance amid rising highway alcohol concerns. He cited 1939 highway fatalities and economic losses from drinking drivers to justify broader permit denial power and insisted the Legislature did not foresee the current crisis on state highways.
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Austin
State Liquor Control Board
W. D. Bradfield
Bradfield
Gerald Mann
Texas
State Highway Department
Texas Treasury
Liquor Control Board
Pension unit personnel plan offered to Federal Social Security Board
Texas considers a merit based selection plan for the old age pension division drafted by Adam Johnson. Senator Connally pushes for approval and argues the plan keeps politics out of appointments while the federal board awaits a decision. Further talks target unemployment and needy WPA certification issues.
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Washington
Texas Public Welfare Department
Adam Johnson
Federal Social Security Board
Senator Connally
Merit Council
Federal Board
Connally
Congress
Texas
Public Welfare Department
J. Altmeyer
Johnson
Altmeyer
Welfare
Social Security Board
Texas Old-Age Assistance Division
Sheppard
Sheppard Urges Ban on Liquor Advertising
Washington Senator Sheppard of Texas spoke to the Senate on the anniversary of prohibition urging Congress to ban liquor ads in newspapers and magazines and beer ads on radio He proposed prohibiting sale of alcohol in stores handling other commodities He authored the prohibition amendment enacted twenty years ago and repealed fourteen years later.
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Washington
Sheppard
Texas
Senate
Congress
Highways policing and liquor law concerns raised by officials
A official argues that highway safety is compromised by an inadequate police force and criticizes requiring licensees to police their own premises. He notes liquor intoxication contributes to 45 percent of crime and questions the liquor business motive of profit over public safety.
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Charles R. Gow
P. J. Russell
Roy Benson
W. E. Kidd
F. C. Williams
Bennie Ooten
Cecil Head
W. J. Hargett
Vera Chesser
H. D. Benson
Alma Everett
Homer Hall
P. S. Emerson
G. D. Carter
P. H. Hall
J. H. Adams
Sim Hassler
J. N. Love
T. P. Moore
Gene Clark
Nellie Lee
Martha Spencer
Joe
M. J. Hunnicutt
W. E. Rice
Jake Brown
W. H. Medearis
Collin
America
Texas Highway Department
Centerfire
Derden
Liquor Board
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