Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, April 24, 1933 Page: 3 of 4
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MT. PLEASANT DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1933.
PIECE OF APPLE
IN WINDPIPE IS
CAUSE OF DEATH
Traylor Russell ,the Daughters of the Revolution the
117 r XX/ I Datf which Sam Houston carried at
rV rit€S OT W one ! the battle of San Jacinto. This flag
Of Legislature has been reworked and is now in per-
_ I feet condition. The American Legion
The Utilities may have their lob- , Corsicana also presented to the
bies, the oil companies, the railroads ^tate a large painting of Major Gen-
and the bus companies may have rep- e!a^ Allen, Commander of the 90th
resentatives in the third. House, but, Division, during the World War.
there descended on the Legislature
Tuesday, one of the most, spectacu-
lar lobbies ever known. On Tuesday
afternoon about fifteen hundred of
the good voting ladies of Texas rep- ---
resenting about one hundred counties, i Dallas, April 23.—A piece of ap-
entered the House of Representatives Pl« that lodged in the windpipe caus-
and invited the Representatives and the death here Saturday of Gordon
Senators in to hear them. They had R°y Crosby, one-year-old sop of Mr.
a good audience and they informed an<t Mrs. Roy H. Crosby, Dallas.
th<? Legislators that they wanted on- The chil-d was rushed to Baylor
ly a twenty-five percent cut in the Hospital after the efforts of the
Extension Service. They were fully mother and neighbors to dislodge the
convinced that the Extension Service P^ce of apple had been unsuccessful,
was well worth any money spent on R died while attendants were admin -
it, and from the vote taken on Thurs- istering artificial resiration.
day, it seems they made a lasting im- ^--
pression. That part of the Educa- LEVEE GUARDSMEN
■iional Budget Bill came up Thursday ^ FIRE ON FARMERS
(horning and the appropriations for j -
this service were passed out with an Belzoni, Miss., April 22.—(National
overwhelming vote with only twenty- Guardsmen early Saturday brought
five percent cut. | their guns into play along the Yazoo
On Monday the House engrossed River levees south bf here and watch*
the bill levying tuition on college *d alertly as a renewal of the feud
students. The bill provided that col- between warring flood-threatened
lege students should pay fifty doi- De,ta farmers appeared imminent,
lars tuition per year of nine months,1 Scores of shots vvere fired by tro°Ps
and that out of State students shall .after three mysterious dynamite ex-
pay a corresponding amount to what ' PIosions and the chu^in* of elus,ve
they would have to pay in their own motorboats in the darkness were
g^ate heard along the river.
■« "hi ! Maj. T. D. Birdsong sent all avail-
JJue t0 the fact that money has able guardsmen to the levees shortly
been rather scarce among teachers, a after midnight. Later numerous shots
bill has been introduced which pro- were heard up and down the 10.mile
vided that a teacher does not have gector south Beizoni.
to attend school this summer to get _
an extension of a year on
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certifi-
cate in case this certificate expires
this summer. This bill has not yet
been up in the House, but it has re-
ceived quite a bit of favorable com-
ment.
Bridge Luncheon
Mrs. G. G. Proctor entertained with
a luncheon Saturday afternoon for
four tables of guests. The card
rooms were lovely with roses, car-
At the present time coaches and nations, swee tpeas and double nas-
college professors are feeling the turtium, giving a varied profusion
economy axe. The House cut rout of color and scent. Mrs. c. O. Lide
the State appropriation for four ath- won high score ar.d Mrs. Joe Austin
„ letic coaches at the Agricultural and seCond high for the afternoon. Tab-
Mechanical College. It seems that jes prj2es of unique bouquets in green
the House is taking the attitude that containers, were awarded to Mrs. Al-
since so many coaches are required, ma Coker, Mrs. Rhea Cromwell, Mrs.
it must be a rather thriving business percy Wallace and Mrs. Crump.
^ and that the college can pay these \ ]0Vely two-course luncheon was
coaches from the gate receipts of the served to the following guests: Mmes.
ball game. P. e. Wallace, C. L. Duncan, Webber
The House has been working on the ' Beall, Joe Austin, Rhea Cromwell,
Educational Budget Bill for several (Alma Coker, C. 0. Lide, Forrest
days. The bill calls for an appro- I Stephenson, Jim Witt, J. A. Petty,
priation of $9,069,794.00 for the va- B. L. Hines, T. L. Denman, Crump
rious educational institutions of the and Whyhark of DeKalb, and Mrs.
State. This is about two million two j Hilligoss of Muskogee, Okla.
hundred and fifty thousand dollars --
less than the appropriation made by j Persecuted Races and *Keligious
the 42nd Legislature. i Sects of Other Days. Wholesale
The Legislature has been working Massacres From Times of the Early
faithfully to see that Texas gets a Christians Down to the Armenians
good portion of the R. F. C. money ] Told in The American Weekly, the
to be used for unemployment relief j Magazine Distributed with Next
and it looks as if the job has been ! SUNDAY’S CHICAGO HERALD and
rather well done. A good many | EXAMINER.
camps are to be located about over ---1
the State, giving employment to sev- Miss Chattie Slayton returned Sun-
era thousand, and various projects ; day to her home in Houston, after,
such as levy work, reforestation, and ( spending the week end here with her j
civic improvements will be carried parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Slayton. j
out. East Texas is going to share j --—
well in this money as several camps J Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Badt returned
are to be located in our section of Sunday from a three weeks’ visit to
the State. ! Hot Springs, Ark. Mr. Badt is very
On Friday morning there was a 1 much improved from his stay.
joint session of the House and Sen-1 --
ate in which the State accepted from Advertising stimulates business. 1
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State To Give \
Forestry Jobs
During Week
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Austin, Tex., April 24.—Applica-
tion blanks and recruiting instruc-
tions were sent out Monday from
State headquarters here to all coun- j
ties in Texas for enrollment of un-
employed in President Roosevelt’s re-
forestation program. j
Actual recruiting will begin some-
time next wpek, Lawrence Westbrook, j
director of the Texas Relief Commis-
sion, said tonight. Each county has
been assigned a defiinte quota in pro-
portion to its total population.
The first call wll be for 3,400 men.
Of these 2,000 will be sent to Fort
Sam Houston, at San Antonio, and
the remainder divided between Fort
Bloss, at El Paso, and Fort Sill, Law-
ton, Okla. Approximately 11,000 will
be recruited, Westbrook said.
Westbrook announced receipt of
advice from Washington, D. C. today
making it clear that only unmarried
American citizens between 18 and 25
years of age, inclusive, will eligible.
The procedure for enrolling is: The
applicant obtains and fills out his
application blank at the county Re-
construction Finance Corporation re-
lief agency. He is there certified to
take the required physical examina-
tion at one of 22 army recruiting
stations in the State. If he is ac-
cepted the application will be send to
one of the three army posts.
Applicants will be required to sup-
ply their own transportation to re- j ------------------- ■ — —
cruiting offices, but thereafter, if ac- j expenses. Cash allowance also be-1
cepted, the government assumes all j gins immediately upon acceptance. |
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, April 24, 1933, newspaper, April 24, 1933; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth783812/m1/3/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.