Methodists Hold Week of Dedication in Whitewright
The First Methodist Church completed a Week of Dedication with a 47.00 collection to aid missions in Brazil under the North Texas Conference. Rev. Jameson hopes Whitewright church can sponsor a Brazilian student at Southern Methodist University. Evening communion services were held daily and the noon bell rang as a reminder.
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First Methodist Church
North Texas Conference
Brazil
Methodist Church
Jameson
Whitewright Methodist Church
Southern Methodist University
Topsoil Losses and Costs Drive Texas Soil Fund Plan
Rep J A Luedmann outlines a 12 month projection of 798 746 000 tons of topsoil washing and blowing from Texas fields. He seeks a 10 million dollar revolving capital fund to be administered by a five man board for 175 districts to finance soil conservation work with no additional legislative requests.
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Austin
Texas
Temple
Galveston
Lykes Brothers Steamship Lines
Havana
J. A. Luedmann
Brenham
Boswell
Texas soil conservation fund eyed to aid small farms
Boswell argued that a proposed bill would speed up the soil conservation program in Texas by making equipment and supplies available at reasonable costs to small farm operators. He said $10,000,000 already allocated to districts could be far more effective now than if delayed for ten years.
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Boswell
Texas
Bats First To Use Echo Devices Says British Naturalist
The Smithsonian report features Dr Brian Vesey Fitzgerald stating bats predated humans in developing echo sounding. He says bats emit squeaks from 25 000 to 75 000 cycles per second and rely on echoes to locate prey and navigate in darkness.
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New York
Smithsonian Institution
Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald
Vesey-Fitzgerald
Guadalupe Has Gone To Dogs In California Town
City Clerk Loraine Spicer reports Guadalupe California now has 9 000 dogs and 3 000 humans with stray dogs rising after fence damage at the pound. The humane society opposes fatal measures and notes few dogs are licensed while motorists bring pets to the town. Mayor Paul Carlin cites a changing balance as locals comment on the city plight and stray canine issue.
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Guadalupe
Calif
Loraine Spicer
Santa Barbara
Humane Society
Paul Carlin
Local for sale ads mixed with brief notes and jokes
Classified advertisement page offering homes, vehicles, appliances, seeds, flowers, and farm services in Whitewright area. Items include a 1937 Chevrolet sedan, 1949 Ford Eight, John Deere tractor, Maytag and Frigidaire appliances, fertilizers, and butane. Also brief notes on loans, estray horse, and two short jokes about ships and robots.
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Bob Sears
East Whitewright
Tom Barbee
O. W. Barker
J. L. McSpedden
Allen T. Short
Hannah’s
Johnson Jewelry
Griffin Dollarhide Jr
C. J. Meador & Son
John Deere
J. G. Burks
Route Four
Whitewright
Tom Bean
Hannah Florist
Sherman
J. E. Moran
Johnson Jewelry & Appliance
N. B. Nicholson
Pat Murphy
Babcock Auto Store
Pyramid Club Member Indicted in Washington
Daniel A. Thomas twenty eight, bricklayer, was indicted on a lottery charge in Washington in connection with a pyramid club. Denis K. Lane, counsel for Thomas, said his client helped start a chain payoff organization in which his wife and sister in law also collected. The lawyer argued no lottery was involved and said he would test the indictment's legality.
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Washington
Daniel A. Thomas
Denis K. Lane
Thomas
Church Schedule Grid Led by Local Pastors
Local churches publish weekly schedules with details for services Sunday school and youth activities. Listings include First Presbyterian Assembly of God Church Church of Christ Central Christian Enterprise Baptist and First Methodist First Baptist with their pastors and service times.
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Assembly OF God Church
E. A. Doty
Central Christian Church
James R. Wright Jr
Enterprise Baptist Church
First Baptist Church
Weldon R. Drake
W. T. Simmons
W. R. Drake
Roy Blanton
Brotherhood
Carl May
Training Union
Crippled Fisherman Uses Cane to Land Big Catfish
Ne burg Indiana justice of the peace John Stacer a crippled man walking with a cane says he landed a 70 pound catfish in the Ohio River with his walking stick after a trotline hook snapped He grabbed the crook of his cane slipped it into the fish s gills and jerked the big catch into his boat The end notes a separate line about plaster not cracking if the nail is heated first.
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Neburg
Ind
John Stacer
Justice of the Peace
Stacer
Ohio River
Also Mentioned on This Page
R. J. Greenshields
Wood River
Ill
Sun Office
Indiana
India
Rigger
T. W. Ayres & Son
Stetson
Dawson Butane
Lucian Jones
J. E. Aoe
Flowers of
Auto Finance Co
F. W. Creager
Mgr
Travis, Sherman
Hoboken
Philadelphia
John Stevens
Phoenix
General Electric Co
San Francisco
Pyramid Club
First Presbyterian Church
James I. Logan Jr
Church OF Christ
Ashley D. Jameson
William
Sherwin-Williams
The
NEW
Home Decorator
Sherwin-Williams Home Decorator
Sherwin-Williams Paints
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