State budget clash over debt and appropriations
The speaker discusses Senate committee hearings on state expenditures, noting differing deficit figures from the auditor and comptroller. He cites uncharged appropriations, like $821,000 for an insane asylum at Big Spring, and explains how past actions limit new savings. A revenue need remains, while royalty reforms on Sabine River leases boost school funds.
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Senate Committee
West
Texas
Board of Control
Big Spring
Comptroller’s Department
State Chairman Discusses Cotton Adjustment Plan
College Station officials report most eligible Texas cotton farmers will use the governments price adjustment plan. George Slaughter, Texas Agricultural Conservation Committee chairman, says Congress authorized 130 million dollars for the program. Payments base on the difference between market price and 12 cents, at 65 percent of the producer's base, with receipts listing gross weights and sale dates signed by the purchaser. The plan may precede a permanent farm program, and mentions U. S. Grant as a pre Civil War professional failure.
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Slaughter
Congress
Scientists May Fight Armies With Germs in Future
In a Europe wide research view, bacteriological warfare could let small groups wield deadly germs to win future wars while troops remain idle. Experts debate feasibility, diffusion methods, and risks, noting past rabies losses among horses and the dangers of infecting territories.
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Rome
Europe
Spain
Meyer
Germany
Mitridate VII
Pantoni
University of Rome
Pfeiffer
Breslov
Bordet
Pasteur Institute of
Brussels
Madsen
Copenhagen
France
Health Hints Austin Appendicitis Deaths
During the past year 786 Texans died of appendicitis per Vital Statistics from the State Department of Health. Acute and chronic forms are explained, with advice to withhold food, avoid laxatives, apply ice, and call a physician if abdominal pain lasts six hours. Hospital data show prevention reduces deaths by 75 percent.
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Austin
Texas
State Department of Health
Compliments Exchange Between Two Women
A brief dialogue shows playful banter as one woman compliments the other and both exchange assurances. The lines imply mutual affirmation about appearance and perception, ending with a light, teasing remark.
Gambling debunked by school experiment in math room
Dr J Halsey Gulick, academy head master, used a confiscated slot machine at his school to teach probability. Boys played with phoney money and learned that hitting the jackpot occurs about once in four thousand plays, costing about $200 per $5 win. The lesson also showed the next best payoff at one in two thousand plays, costing $100 per $1 win.
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J. Halsey Gulick
Academy
HOLC Reports 20 844 Mortgages Paid Off
The Home Owners Loan Corporation announced 20 844 mortgages totaling 46 752 363 had been paid in full on Aug 1. This compares with 12 339 mortgages totaling 26 559 150 paid by Dec 31. Sell it with a Sun Want Act.
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Washington
Home Owners Loan Corporation
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State Mineral Board
C. V. Terrell
Railroad Commission
McDonald
Sabine River
Sterling
E. O. Thompson
J. H. Walker
Oreos
Katy
U. S. Grant
Life Insurance
Stephens & Bryant Insurance Agency
First
Nat'l Bank Bldg
Puntoni
Geo. W. Cox
HOLC
Historic Shrine OF
Crockett
San Antonio
the Sun
Club
The
Sun
Dallas
Farm News
Whitewright Sun
Whitewright, Texas
Whitewright
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