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Newspaper
Whitewright Sun
Location
Whitewright, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1936
Page
3
Austin report says the Texas Old Age Assistance Commission will not require new applications for current recipients or those already on file. Acting director Orville S. Carpenter said the original applications remain sufficient, and many so called second applications were unnecessary and not eligible.
A district old age assistance official warned that a man posing as an insurance agent sold two policies to a Littlefield resident’s wife to qualify for pension aid. The policies, not from an approved company, cost about 25. Officials stressed applicants need not buy anything to qualify for assistance.
Texas will move to a twelve year public school course in a few years. C. N. Shaver, former State School Superintendent and head of the Huntsville school system, told a Senate committee. He said the eleven year system lets students graduate and enter college or business before they are prepared for their problems. Senators are surveying whether new legislation or revisions to current laws are needed.
Practical tips include turning house plants weekly for sun on all sides Dent out faded flowers and dried leaves Practice frying croquettes by testing fat with a bread piece Save paper from wallpapered rooms seal and label outside room location Patch repairs ease finding paper later Soften hardened shoe polish with a touch of turpentine Remove scorch marks on white linen with a paste of onion juice white soap Fuller's Earth and vinegar boiled to blend
Texans face a sprawling tax system with at least sixty levies. The piece notes state expenditures reaching 124 million in 1936 and revenues around 141 million, aided by highway reimbursements and other receipts. It forecasts pressure for new taxes in the 1937 session, citing pending franchise and income tax proposals, and highlights existing sales taxes on gasoline, alcohol, tobacco, amusements, and auto registration.
The conductor tells a passenger his ticket is for Boston while the train heads to Washington. The passenger muses if the engineer knows he is on the wrong railroad, highlighting a mix up of routes and destinations on a single journey.
New York notes seven years since the 1929 stock market crash. After lean periods of 1932 33 and milder recoveries in 35 36, analysts discuss whether a cycle of fat years may begin. The panic shaved about 20 billion from market values, marking a turning point in American business history.
Jasper Ala House Speaker William S Bankhead calls for immediate action on a measure to provide low interest loans to farm tenants as imperative in the first session of the seventy fifth Congress. He also signals possible revisions to existing tax law and the social security act after reviewing current defects.
A French visitor to London struggled with English sounds notably though plough and rough. News that Cavalcade was pronounced success pushed him to return home after the film opened.
The Resettlement Administration quietly launches a demonstration tenant security program to place about 1,000 tenants on small farms across ten Southern states. About 74,000 acres are acquired with 74 tenants in North Carolina and 59 in Tennessee already established. Tenants will rent initially, then obtain forty year purchase contracts to prevent land speculation, with locations chosen near current residences.
An old advertising claim promotes Cardus as relief for women’s pains caused by poor nourishment. A testimonial from Mrs. Cole Young of Leesville Louisiana cites irregularity and pain eased by Cardui, noting calmer nerves and better health. If Cardus does not help, see a physician.
Mexican boys taught by Miss Ruth Rich believed killing lizards would bring rain. They staged a mass slaughter when rain was needed, and the next day rain began and continued, flooding the city.
A teacher, exasperated by a naughty pupil, laments she could be his mother for a week. The boy coolly replies that he will speak to his father about it, signaling his own cheeky deflection.
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