County Rates Announced For Crop Insurance
COLLEGE STATION Crop insurance will guarantee three fourths of an average wheat crop in 1939 at county rates of 1.4 bushels per acre in Grayson County and 1.1 in Fannin with half rates 0.7 and 0.5 respectively. Premiums depend on county losses and individual farm variability. rates computed by the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation through local offices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Station
Grayson County
Amarillo
Fannin County
Federal Crop Insurance Corporation
E. N. Homlgreen
Texas Aaa
Texas A. and
M. College
Freshmen Protest Lipstick Presence On Princeton Kissing Strike
In Princeton New Jersey more than seven thousand party guests were shocked as five freshmen picketed campus events in a lipstick protest. Dressed in bedraggled evening clothes they carried signs denouncing painted lips and urging a kiss strike. The protesters were candidates for the Princeton Tiger humor magazine staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Princeton
N. J
Princeton Tiger
U S Loans To Farmers In Texas Revealed
A C Williams president of the Federal Land Bank of Houston said at a Dallas meeting that the bank had loaned about 3 366 000 to Texas farmers and ranchers in four months. Associations from 82 Northeast and North Central Texas communities attended the two day meeting. Crops were late in many areas but generally fair in condition. Geraniums convert humble Tyro lean cottages into cheerful homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
A. C. Williams
Federal Land Bank of Houston
National Farm Loan Association
Texas
List of Candidates for State Office
A long list of announced candidates across state offices including Governor Lieutenant Governor and various judges attorneys general comptroller railroad commissioner land commissioner state treasurer state superintendent commissioner of agriculture and other posts. Names include S T Brogdon Joseph King Ernest O Thompson Clarence E Farmer William McCraw Earl Crowley Tom Hunter P D Renfro Lee O'Daniel Marcus Haesley Coke R Stevenson G H Nelson Pierce Brooks John Lee Smith Richard Critz Tom Smiley Harry Graves Charles A Pippen Lewis Goodrich Robert W Calvert Gerald C Mann Walter Woodul Ralph Yarborough George H Sheppard O P Lockhart Lane Terrell J J Biffle G A Jerry Sadler C V Terrell Robert A Stuart Frank Morris John Wood Will A Martin W H McDonald Morris Browning Bascom Giles Larry Mills Charley Lockhart E B Barnes S R LeMay L A Woods W E James Leonard Westfall J E McDonald R O Lattimore
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. T. Brogdon
Stephenville
Joseph King
Houston
Ernest O. Thompson
Amarillo
Clarence E. Farmer
Fort Worth
William McCraw
Dallas
Earl Crowley
Tom Hunter
Wichita Falls
P. D. Renfro
Beaumont
W. Lee O’daniel
P. Pierce Brooks
John Lee Smith
Throckmorton
Supreme Court
Richard Critz
Austin
Tom Smiley
Karnes City
Court of Criminal Appeals
Harry Graves
Georgetown
Charles A. Pippen
Lewis Goodrich
Shamrock
Robert W. Calvert
Hillsboro
Gerald C. Mann
Walter Woodul
Ralph Yarborough
George H. Sheppard
O. P. Lockhart
Lane Terrell
J. J. Biffle
G. A. Jerry Sadler
Longview
C. V. Terrell
Robert A. Stuart
Frank Morris
John Wood
Will A. Martin
W. H. McDonald
Eastland
Morris Browning
Bascom Giles
Larry Mills
Eckener Arrives In U S to Urge Helium Delivery
German airship designer Dr Hugo Eckener arrives in New York to press the United States to release helium for Reich use. He argues politics delays harmful, says Germany needs U S for dirigible transport while the airship remains a commercial vessel. He notes U S coastlines and sea scouting value for airships and urges cooperation.
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New York
Hugo Eckener
Hinderburg
Reich
United States
Germany
Eckener
Married Women Should Quit Jobs Says NYA Director
Urbana Illinois April 26 William J Campbell State Director of the National Youth Administration told a conference on higher education that about half of the 5,000,000 married women now employed in the United States could give up work without serious financial distress and free jobs for youths He noted exceptions when the wife is the family breadwinner and emphasized that unemployed youth need opportunities or society must educate them for idleness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Urbana
United States
William J. Campbell
National Youth Administration
Campbell
In Memory of Loren Neal Sumpkins
A commemorative poem by Gwendolyn Russell lamenting the loss of Loren Neal Sumpkins. The verses express longing for a infant gone to heaven, describe the vacancy in the family and heart, and invoke faith in reunion beyond life. An added quote attributes a reflection on stillness and conscience to Benjamin F. Farber and a note about olive trees aging to 1,000 years.
Faith Work and Moderation Leads To Longevity
In Longview, 109 year old William F. Kelley and 105 year old wife Mrs. Kelley credit faith in the Creator, hard work, and moderation for their long lives. The couple, married 81 years, came from a farm 12 miles away. He recalls voting for Lincoln, then moving with Lip and Tuck in an ox wagon to Texas.
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Longview
Kelleys
William F. Kelley
Kelley
Madison County
Alabama
Abraham Lincoln
Louisiana
Lip and
Tuck
Texas
Lip
New Electric Installation At Huntsville Prison
The Huntsville penitentiary will get a complete new electric system including the execution chamber. A Diesel motor costing about 80000 dollars will be installed to power the entire prison, prompting replacement of all supplementary equipment. Total for motor and gear ranges from 25000 to 50000 dollars. Ailing death chamber generator caused two postponements but will be used until the new setup is ready.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Huntsville
Board of Control
Automobile Fuel From Farm Products in Denison
Agrol motor alcohol made from grain sorghums will be introduced in Grayson Cooke and Collin Counties by Foster Pecan Company with G P Foster. Several Denison filling stations will sell the motor fuel next week. The product is made from grain sorghums kaffir milo and corn and is already sold in about 2000 stations across 12 Midwest states.
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Foster
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Midwest
Atchison
Films to Cease False Portrayal of Newspaper Men
Col Frank Knox publisher of the Chicago Daily News reported at the American Newspaper Publishers Association convention that motion picture producers promised to stop portraying newspaper men in an unfavorable light. He and Paul Bellamy of the Cleveland Plain Dealer met with Will Hays, who said he had received complaints and had raised the issue with producers who assured no further misrepresentations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Col
Frank Knox
Chicago Daily News
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Colonel Knox
Paul Bellamy
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Will Hays
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Hays
Studio Surrenders to Gene Autry Demands
Gene Autry won a salary dispute with Republic Studio as the studio agreed to restore him to the fold at the pay increase he demanded. The exact amount was not disclosed. Autry had left the studio last December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gene Autry
Hollywood
Republic Studio
Autry
Georgia Schools Teach Temperance in New Curriculum
Atlanta Georgia public school students must study a textbook on the effects of alcohol and habit forming drugs. High school students must earn credit toward graduation. The book by Grant Donnelly was chosen for its completeness and lack of propaganda. This marks temperance teaching as a formal part of Georgia curricula despite legalized liquor.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Melvin Thompson
Grant Donnelly
Thompson
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U. S
U.S
Little Brother
T. W. Ayres & Son
Certer’s Underwear
Gossard
Nya Man
Loren Neal Sumpkins
Gwendolyn Russell
Baby
Angel
Jesus
Benjamin F. Farber, D. D
R. S. Mooreheadle
H. T. Atterberry
Floyd Bassett
Allen T. Short
Stewart Warner
Johnson Jewelry
H. P. Boss Shoe Shop
Grayson, Fannin
Collin Counties
S. H. Montgomery Agency
Tom Barbee
Whitewright Hatchery
McCormick-Deering
Chevrolet
Manning & Meador
Auto Finance Company
F. W. Creager
Mgr
S. Travis St
Sherman
Whitewright
Sun Office
Bac
Pascal Farley
Rat As
Fehae Laeel
Jennings
North Side
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