Connally Bill Aims to Raise Federal Old Age Support
Texas Senator Connally introduces a bill to boost the federal share of old age assistance and adopts a reverse-income formula. Social Security Board chair A J Altmeyer endorses, citing a move toward uniform national pension levels and higher Texas payments up to 27.85 dollars per month with state contributions.
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Washington, D. C
Tom Connally
Texas
Senate Committee On Finance
Connally
A. J. Altmeyer
Social Security Board
Senate
Legislature of
Wake Up Your Feet For Summer Health
Foot specialists urge a daily foot awakening routine to boost circulation before walking. Rub or exercise the feet after waking to prepare them for summer activity and prevent misery from the season's pounding sidewalks.
Georgian Kills Calf To Recover $21 In Currency
In Moultrie Georgia Eschel Sears killed his calf after it bit into a total of twenty one dollars from a barn crack. He retrieved the currency and sent it to the treasury department with the required affidavit for replacement money.
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Moultrie
Eschel Sears
Sears
Treasury Department
Rural Mail Carriers Sell Defense Stamps Nationwide
Thirty two thousand rural mail carriers are acting as agents in selling Defense Savings Stamps, with stamps priced from ten cents to five dollars. Purchasers receive albums to mount stamps, exchangeable for Defense Savings Bonds when filled. This mirrors earlier WWI campaigns by rural carriers in 1917 and 1918.
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Defense Savings
Treasury Department
Post Office Department
Postoffice
Sunday School Attendance and Local Visits Highlight Porter News
Porter news notes 39 in Sunday school with visitors and singing. List of local gatherings includes Booher dinner honoring Claude Duckworth on furlough, plus a parade of visits in several nearby towns. Ends with a fact about the Arctic tern’s record three month long flight.
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Leon Booher
Frank Price
Ravenna
Jim Edens
Bells
W. J. Duckworth
Trenton
Roy Smith
Ector
Logan Johnson
San Angelo
Joe Ross
Joe Rich
Sherman and Denison
W. K. Alexander
J. M. Harper
Randolph
J. W. Gunter
Grandma Dale
Bonham
Carl Hicks
Carl Newton
Denison
Genette
Genelte
Willard White Jr
E. W. White
Robert Morris
Johnny Bowman
Mildred Ruth Duckworth
Tom Booher
Southland
Texas
Clovis
New Mexico
Morris Glenn Bowman
Joy
Billy Morris
Cotton
Audra Bennett
Whitewright
Fairy
W. D. White
Doris
Georgann Hunter
G. D. Bennett
Labrador
Africa
Still heavier taxes forecast by House committee
Washington D C Chairman Doughton of the House ways and means committee forecast this week that Congress would need to impose a general consumption tax and broaden income tax payment. He urged approval of parliamentary procedure to bring up a $3 5292 million tax bill with only ways and means amendments. After his remarks the rules committee approved a three day general debate window with amendments limited to the committee’s proposals.
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Washington, D. C
Doughton
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Rules Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Cotton Substitutes for Rayon Shortage in War Era
A Rayon Organon report notes European war cuts imports from Great Britain causing a rayon fiber shortage. Domestic rayon weavers use cotton and wool as adulterants, effectively turning cotton into a partial substitute for wool in rayon production.
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New York
Rayon Organon
Great Britain
Stevenson Inaugural Set For August 8 in Austin
Inauguration of Lieut. Gov. Coke R. Stevenson to the Texas governorship is tentatively planned for Friday, August 8, with the joint inauguration committee led by Senator Houghton Brownlee assuring the date barring any delay to Gov. Lee O Daniel. Meantime workers moved O Daniel’s personal files from his office.
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Austin
Coke R. Stevenson
Houghton Brownlee
Joint Inauguration Committee
Lee O’daniel
Coke Stevenson
O’daniel
Senate Freeszees U S Cotton Wheat Stocks
Senate passes legislation freezing all government loan stocks of cotton and wheat during the European war. The rider to a wheat marketing penalties bill aims to lift market prices by restricting sale of cotton and wheat held in warehouse loans. It now goes to the House for action.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
House
Iceland Bases and the Debate Over National Defense
The piece argues that Iceland and other Atlantic base extensions are essential for defending the United States against Nazi expansion. It contrasts isolationist critiques with the need to train and deploy a larger army and marines, noting politicians' concerns and the potential consequences of delaying defense readiness. It cites General Marshall and discusses base garrisoning, training timelines, and looming legislative action.
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Hitler
America
Wheeler
Iceland
Portugal
Azores
Cape Verde Islands
Germany
Greenland
Canada
Cape Verdes
Dakar
Holland
France
Atlantic
England
Martinique
French Guiana
Russia
North Pacific
Bering Sea
Vancouver
Pacific
Siberia
United States
Newfoundland
British Guiana
General Marshall
Army
Congress
National Guard
Hawaii
Alaska
Marshall
Japan
Stalin
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Porter News
T. W. Ayres & Son Gossard
Stevenson
U. S
Will Smith
Haile
S. H. Montgomery Insurance Agency
Sun
McCormick- Deering
Fordson
Manning & Meadow
Sherman
Star Credit Company
Grayson County State Bank
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mer
Travis, Sherman
Arctic
Tropics
the Sun
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