Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 312, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1940 Page: 2 of 6
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TUB GRAHAM DAILY
FRIDAY, AUGUST M, IB4B
TKe GraHam Daily
Reporter
(Texans Receiving
Many National
very frw people who hear
speech will take the trouble to read)
it. Mr Willkie seems to be at the
mercy of a microphone.
The president, on the other hand, _
Defense Contracts
Meteor 600 Feet
Actom Found by
Texes Geologist
fllrs. Fred Guinn
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. as second-elas. mail mat dQuMwUy k one of the worM'gJtart
isr et thr ity in OwhsTti,
as, under act of Congress of March
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Published Every Afternoon Except
Sunday By
GRAHAM PUBLISHING CO.
Office of Pablication.
tit Oak Street. Graham. Texas
radio voices, a voice that booms or |
purrs with equal ease, that rustle* j _ . .....
Ijke a torrent, glides like a swallow | AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 29.—Texas
or slithers like a eat. Professors who, concerns continuad to receive sub
consider the Oxford dictionary thei»t*“U*l awards and contracts under
highest authority on pronunciation 1thp "•t,on«> defense program durin-
find in it opportunities literally tojth«‘ «•"» h»lf <* J“>y. Gov.mor W
wallow in the fount of pure English.
GEO. T SPEAR?
H. I. TROUT
Owner
R.'s delivery hrAorae*
He plays
A nd F! TT.
Editor-Publisher thing to write home about.
i^ERTISING RATES_ WILL BE ** » m.jier draw.
CVES UFOS APPUCAT.ON ZT^TSt 1“
Any eironeou* reflection upon the the spine with eloquent words flaw-
character of any person or firm ap- le*sly spoken. And while he does
pearing in these columns will be not attempt to jerk tears, the eyes of
gladly and promptly corrected upon his listeners frequently »re clouded .u or' 1 e “ con **.' "
Wing brbught to the attention of the with moisture. W90W for 250 hoU*,n(t umU “
management. | Willkie makes a good speech sound
bad. The president can make a rqedi-
Lec O’Daniel today advised local in
dustrialization committees through
out, tha State.--------
, Relaying a report submitted by the
office of government reports, the
Governor announced that contract ’
totaling f6.024.499.8d were awarded
Texas concerns by the,Army Depart
ment in the two-week period.
At the same lime, the United State*
All Cards of Thanks. Obituaries, speech sound great, i# a good
Mid like notices are charged for at OTU, ^und positively overwhelming,
half the regular rates. | g0, in challenging the president to
The liability of" Tfi^-Graham Daily 8 FtumP in ***
Reporter and of its publisher, for any I repeatedly. "Bring on the champ
«ror in »ny grtvcrti«»ment ia limited-Mr W.**?H.*S --W-FY--e,tln*
to the cost of such advertisement ,n for 8 cough nde. As long as the
_ ___________________ • president, wisely and properly, re-
Sub^rription Rates fuse* to indulge in cheap dramatics,
I Month ..........._...........— 35c | Mr. Willkie may create the impres-
• Months ......... - ,.,$1.75 *ion in some quarter* he has the
1 Year ...............................$3.00 champ on the ropea or on the run,
j hut while h^ is doing; it, he should
I he praying- the president will con-
f tiBue to Ignore his challenges.
This' campaign should be fought
THE TWO VOICES
It Wendell Willkie continues to in
out on the higher plone of substantial
argument. Mr. Willkie demonstrat-
ed in his acceptance speech he has
plenty Of thnt sort of ammunition
Wisdom, caution and propriety all
Counsel him to go slow in trying to
Corpus Christi and WPA approve'
projects totaling $825,000 for work a'
Texas army posts. .
The Army coiftracts were awarde*
follows:
ODESSA^.Jexas, Aug. 28.—After
several month*’ probing m the
try’s tecond largest meteor crater—
*. 600-foot-wide, debris-filled pit near
here—University of Texas geologists
have reported the discovery of thr
object they sought.
The meteorite which blasted into
the earth thousands of years ago is
so deeply imbedded, however, that
University-WPA excnvmtors pill hav.
to dig for it, according to Dr. E. H.
Sellardg, director of the University’s
Bureau of Economic Geology,
The crater,, second in size to that
made by the great Arizona meteor,
is almost completely filled in. The
Texas meteorite, whose presence was
spotted with a magnetometer, may
be as much as a hundred feet under- [
ground. 1
Experienced Teach
Summer Study
School of Mueic
New York City under Guy Motor,
noted Pianist'and music'Educator
- Announces -
Opening Of Glasses Beginning
Monday, September 16th
TELEPHONE 641 OR 40
Creamery Products
Business Increases
AUSTIN, Texas, Aug. 26.- -Produc-
tion of American cheese, creamery
{Shipments Poultry,
I Eggs Up In July
Since the project was launched
several months ago, there wag con-
siderable doubt aa to whether the
J, G. Bartholomew, •Daihu.—rs-wagi- tn»* would be recovered, as
the meteor might have exploded on
treatment plant at Ft. Benning, Geor
gia. $30,750 ; 5
Empire Electric Company, For*
Worth—change, in lighting. Barks
dale Field, Louisiana, $1,890;
Pan-American Airways, Browns-
ville— fuel and oil. $14,094;
Humble Oil A Refining Co., Hons-
ton fuel and oil, $26,500;
Amarillo Airport Corporation, Am
arillo—fuel and oil, $16,800;
City of Abilene—fuel and oil
$9,600; '
Robert B. McKee, FI Paso^-cor-
struction at Albrook F'ield, Cana’
Zone, $2,271,500; ' V,
impact with
earth.
To Study the effect of that impact
trenches have been cut through the
upturned and twisted layers of rock
which form the lip of the crater. Ma
jor object of the excavation, how-
AUST1N.
butter and ice cream at Texas plants j AuallN- Texas—Poultry and egg
boomed during June, University of "hipmcnt* from Texas to interstate
Texas business research statisticians j Point* during July registered a large
report. . { mcresae wrer the« of Jaljric-^pr^"
ago. University of Texaa business
the projectile
said.
Dr. Sellard,
Reporter ‘ laaslfled
Creamery butter output wa« 12.6
per cent higher than in June, 17.3 per
cent higher than in July n year ago.
The total state-wide production war
estimated by the bureau at 3,935,000
pounds.
bureau estimates cheese pro-
evar—now peaetMe -«rrth"Thr~knnwT durtien for July at 2,190.000 pounds
enjre that the meteorite ia actually
still in the pit—is the analysis of
on the basis of reports from 21
firms, which turned out 9.5 per cent
more cheese than in June, 13.6 por
cent more than in July, 1909.
Ice cream production for the whole
state was pegged at 1,883,0110 gallons
—9 per cent more than in June and
statistician* report.
Rail forwardings of poultry—36
cars—were 80 per cent above the
comparable month last year, and 68
cars of eggs left the state as pom-
p-red with 33 cam in July, 1939.
The poultry movement wag made
up of 30 cam of chickens and six cam
of turkeys, compared to 20 earn of
siat that President Roosevelt meet ' >nt° » purely oratorial serap-
him on the stump, the president may Houston Post,
get tired of being challenged and
accept
If he should. Mi. Willkie would be,
or what the man in the street refers
* ■$»• m thr Vernacular M""S"5pot' Wc ”
would he up against what the strong-
ly pro-Willkie Scripps-Howard news-
papers admit is the "greatest epi-|
glotti in the known world."
..........TELL TALE
CRACK/
H. H. Moeller. San Antonio—repai-
of building at Duncan Field, San An
itonio, $142,258;
Robert E. Stevens, San Antonio-
l excavations at Ihincan frield, Sa:
Antonio, $5,762.50;
AAA Air Conditioning Corps o'
Texas, Dallas—roofing, Beasley Field
JW.OOO:
E. L., Dalton. Dallas—gas dlstribu
gie3?.wiv S5n*3«ewzVa**!i
Mr. Willkie, it is said, has a line
personality, flis motions on the stump
iwpr»kC newspaper men as resemb
liny the lunjres of a baby yiant pbn*
dm, which is not an uncomplimentary
reference, because pandas draw bifr-
rt crowds at 7.00s ilian thy majectic
" T~r< ' MMI, "
But over the radio* "which dowr nof
irtve the listener the benefit of yes-
tare. which picks up and send* out,
with merciless rmlisni exactly what aj
speaker fmt‘ into the microphone, he
it anythinp but impressive.
He iynore* \ital syllables of even
- ftimpl* words. He drones, monoton-*-
Hi —JHBlks ARdJlz:
ing rather than emphasizing hie-
punch lines
His speeches lead much better than
they sound over the air, and since
Whm .*■ If in lii'twrrti
your tor« cricki . . .
whrn tnr* itrh or bum
. .'nr whit«* bibUT» np-
P* nr . . thn«r *rr * tan «
that you may have
rauffht « f;inru* infec-
tion railed " \thU U 'h
Foot.'* Don't temper-
RKUS I
foot with aORF-TONK. It h ____
harmleM BM^iciaal liquid. Laboratory tevta
»how that Soritone kill* on contact all
uf the- rt -rTnaaihr rrrpongi-
dlV for Athirtr'i Foot. It help* to aoothe-
and heal th« broken tlaaur. And. e*cept in
acxrmvatctl raa«.« which demand the attrn-
, tion system, Kelly Field, $15,504.50
Crawford - Austin Manufacturing
Company. Waco—mattresses, $98,100:
Taylor Bedding Manufacturing
FLOUR 0LE0 ......'........ 9
GRANULATED
Company, Taylor—piattresses. $230.
125; --
48 lbs.
24 lbs.
12 lbs.
SUGAR 10
CLABBER GIRL BAKING
32-OZ
, CAN
POWDER
New Fac
Make Sfc
Texas Sv
DXNTON, T
portaat by-prodi
by Tana Chaim
plant* ta he an
pm* fatare, 00
nieal
the
eorperattea, aaU
WBeea, Who
muff at the
_CoUe*i
h*- Act before the funicua apremiB. Drwncii
[ IB B powt.-fuJ yet
Guiberson Diesel Engine Company,
Dallas—diesel engines and parts, $2,-
915,265.86;
Crawford - Austin Manufacturing
Company, Waco—folding canvas cot*.
$240,360;
STRAINED BABY FOOD
| kame__
I ADDHI.SK
PREm WELL POSTED
m *
MICiif FAIRBANKS—it "pretty wall jotted' ia more way* than
mm. Sha aMandad Bavady HA. Hiqb Gordon School (or Gfcfc
“ “■—«$k, U.C.LA., and tha Uohitwt# o4 Mae, CoBot in Pad*,
in paBtical icianca. tha had bar AJ. and wa.
hawn^aT^oor.
whan tha Wamar
Haad. And Bei as faad at tgaate. haiahal and
If dw't an aHaraay at-lawJ Mist Fairbanks
> aJ *a lata Daa*a. FawtsanL
H. H. Moeller. S»n Antonio—super
structure of equipment, repair of
building, Duncan F'ield. $142258;
Edw. W Oeffinger, San Antonio^
DEX0
100% PURE HYDROGENATED
ha job
lags- fhealty a
work ta hia lat
It «dh hr-pn
VEGETABLE COMftOUNO
■O'- ' -- —-—
Uw itrhinr tnd th** pain.
trrml ogrr.
engine test building, Duncan Field
$269,200;
The Works Progress Admiuistra
6<* in coin <>r >i«np«. to .
MrKfftBon A Robbins. I
WridirMHirt, Conn,. Drpt. j
tion award*
utilities, and
were for conetruction,
roads a* follow*:
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Antonio —
Antonio—
Brook*
$75,000;
Fort Sam Houston,
$100,000;
General depot. Army. San Antonio
-$50,000;
Kelly Field, San Antonio—$200,-
000;
Randolph Field, San Antonio—
$60,000;
Normyle quartermaster depot
$.r0,000;
Fort Crockett—$50,0f0.
In a previous bulletin, quoting th“
office of government reports, Gdver
nor O’Dantel announced contracts and
awards totaling $7,807,701.01 received
Ly Texas rnneems from the Army
WHITE HOUSE
MILK
6 SMALL OR
S LARGE
THOMPSON SEEDLESS
GRAPES
the Navy, and the United States
Mpritime Commission from June 131
COLORADO COBBLER
to July 17
The Governor’s’ prospectus, set'ing
out the advantage* offered by Texas
for the manufacture of aircraft anil
aircraft parts and accessories, reach-
ed 178 prospect* last week. Copies
went also to government officials and
to chairmen of the local industrializa-
tion committees throughout the state.
Other pcajaato-aaa—in the nagotia
POTATOES 10-17
when *11 of Its f
eomplMK to pro
or 2JtBJ00 pom
per toy. On Hill
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by-pgtataet ajmi
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aid Hi
CALIFORNIA
tlon stage, the Governor told his
local committees, and announcements
concerning them are expected shortly.
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