Nothing-But-Taxes Session Labeled by Texas Legislature
A long analysis by Raymond Brooks examines why no tax bills passed in Texas amid a split legislature and Gov. Allred's firm stand on state appropriations. He notes three factions clashing over pension expansion, economy drives, and overall spending, with a pivotal vote by pension liberals and Allred’s resistance to trimming major budgets.
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Texas
Raymond Brooks
Austin
Frank Rawlings
Senate
Gov
Gov. Allred
Calvert
Allred
Big Bend
House
Renovated Kitchen Provides Light Conditioning
A shopper recalls a visit to a modern light conditioned kitchen with ample cupboard space and a refrigerator large enough for a steel. The article explains light conditioning as adding right tone and amount of lighting to kitchens, ensuring no shadows on work areas. It describes side-wall fixtures, 60-watt task lamps, and ceiling bulbs.
Newspapers Face Increased Costs Reported Across Nation
New York. W G Chandler head of the ANPA newsprint committee warns many newspapers may be forced to raise circulation rates due to fast rising newsprint and production costs. He says publishers have been urged to protest price increases for 1938. Over fifty cities have already raised rates as publishing costs rise much faster than advertising and circulation revenues.
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New York
W.G. Chandler
American Newspaper Publishers Association
Chandler
Italian surgeon shows beating heart during rare operation
Milan report details a pioneering Italian surgery in which a surgeon held a patient Adolfo Lelli's beating heart in his hand while delivering a new passage to the heart. The 50-year-old store clerk recovered quickly, leaving bed in fifteen days after an eight minute procedure.
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Milan
Italy
Adolfo Lelli
Europe
Lelli
Texas Counties Grow Yams for Commercial Shipments
More than 40 Texas counties produced yams for commercial shipment, signaling a notable regional agricultural effort. The report highlights the scale and potential market impact across the state’s farming communities.
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Texas
Security Plan Major Changes To Be Weighed
Washington report on a Friday meeting of the Social Security Advisory Council a 24 member group with public industry and labor representation tasked to study amendments to the act The council will present recommendations to Congress amid criticism of the Treasury reserve fund for the old age program and calls for pay as you go financing while the Social Security Board continues its own inquiry and weighs broader changes including unemployment reserve concerns
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Social Security Board
Washington
Social Security Advisory Council
Congress
Arthur Vandenberg
Michigan
Vandenberg
Treasury
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Proposals for Social Security Changes Deliberated in Denver
At the American Federation of Labor convention in Denver speakers discussed expanding social security. Ideas include higher monthly old age benefits and extended payment duration, disability benefits, and extending coverage to farm and domestic workers. Some urged starting payments before January 1, 1942.
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American Federation of Labor
Denver
Many Iron Lungs Placed in Texas
The text explains where iron lungs are located or funded across Texas. Machines cost 1400 to 2500 dollars and are often bought by public subscriptions, with some donated by citizens. Cities named include Del Rio San Antonio Houston Galveston Port Arthur Beaumont and more. additional campaigns exist in Brownsville Weslaco McAllen and Bryan.
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del Rio
San Antonio
John R. Brinkley
Porter Loring
Houston
Galveston
Port Arthur
Beaumont
Wichita Falls
Austin
Abilene
el Paso
Palestine
Fort Worth
Dallas
Tyler
Longview
Brownsville
Weslaco
McAllen
Bryan
One Tree Orchard Tricks Grow 60 Apple Varieties
Fredericton New Brunswick Frank A Good claims a one tree orchard produced sixty varieties of apples and one pear flourished this season He grafted shoots into parent tree branches to beat a US horticulturist record of twenty five apple varieties on one tree Good longtime provincial normal school instructor and nature study educator plans to increase grafts He grew a young apple tree from a hawthorn trunk and an apple branch from a mountain ash.
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Fredericton
N. B
Frank A. Good
Good
United States
Provincial Normal School
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