The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 72, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 25, 1937 Page: 3 of 6
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THE DAILY NEWS-TELEGRAM
CARD OF THANKS
THE ANNUAL’ OPERATION
nUL ILHIIUM IlLLIH) We wish to thank each ami every
IIIOO inntr in&in ,n* "f you tar y°nr klndne« and
mloc AUUIt LUNb u 1 urin* ,u °f
... ou>‘ loved one, who has passed to the
IDE MARRIPn (il,int Beyond. The untiling efforts
RllU mnnniLU ^ Whaler to retain iho life of
- this dear one is greatly appreciated.
Mia* Addie Long became the bride' The comforting words of Bins. Ciai
of Paul Pearce in a ceremony per-; Reynolds and Ban Anderson will nl-
formed Wednesday 'evening. March! ways have a tender place in out
24, 1937, at 0 o’clock at the home of1 hearts, as well as the lovely song*
YOU MAY FEEL A BIT
EMPTY f&R*A WHILE. BUT
YDULL GET OVER IT.
Governor Allred recommended, in
a special message to the Legislature
Monday, March 22, an additional five
months appropriation through Aug-
ust Sir M> expedite investigation of
applicants for old age pension*. It is
known that there are many people
who have applied for old age ***i*t-
inee and have not been investigated
ThU is making it posable for old age
assistance directors to speed «P the
work of investigation, in order that
all might soon know 'what the Com-
mission’s recommendations are goin.;
'.o he.
On Monday of this week, the House
rawed its second major tax bill. This
was a bill by Rep. Harry Grave*,
which, in its original form, provided
for a $2 tax per ton on sulphur, but
was Jater amended to provide for a
tax of SI.28 per ton. The present tax
•:* SI.03. This is a 25c per ton in-
crease on the millions of tons of sui-
Waxahachie, Texas, March 24. —
Three Dallas men, believed to be the
trio which broke out of the Venus
jail after being arrested as suspects
in connection with Die looting of
four Farmersville stores early Wed-
nesday, were being held here for
questioning.
One, an ex-convict whose descrip-
tion fits that of a bandit who led a
similar looting raid on Rockwall re-
cently, was In a hospital, recovering
from injuries received when an au-
tomobile in which the trio fled jail
overturned east of Venus. The men
blew the lock off their cell with ni-
troglycerin.
The other two suspects fled from
the wreck. Later Waxahachie offi-
cers arrested two men in a freight
car in the railroad yards. One ad-
mitted being in the Venus jail but
denied taking part in the Farmers-
ville robbery. The other asserted he
was a hitchhiker and had nothing to
do with either the jail break or the
robbery.
Several hours after the Farmers*
ville raid Constable Wells and Night
Watchman ('row arrested the three
men at Venus. They broke jail
while the officers were .investigating
their automobile. -
The three bandits abducted six
persons and escaped with approxi-
mately |25() and an undetermined,
amount of merchandise during their
two-hour looting activities at Far-
mersville. Night Watchman White
was overpowered on s^the public
square by the men, one of whom had
a machine gun, and then forced into
a vault.
He was joined then* later by Miss
Cook and Mrs. Miller, who were met
by the bandits when they went to in-
vestigate an explosion in the Green-
wood Pharmacy, where n safe wa*
blown. 1-ate.r Wilcoxson, cafe cook,
was taken by the bandits and plac-
ed In the vault, dust Ire fore the
thieves got through they, encounter-
ed -Sparks and Cook, Dallas News de-
livery boys. They herded them into
the vault also.
Boise City, Okta., March 24. —
Schools were closed in at leasit two,
Oklahoma cities Wednesday as heavy
clouds of dust swirled over four
states, cutting visibility to near xero
in gome sections.
The blinding dust pall blanketed
virtually all of Oklahoma and parts
of Missouri, Kansas, and Texas. A
heavy snow followed dust, rain and
hail into Northwestern Kansas.
Schools in this Panhandle city re-
mained closed while the duster rag-
ed through its
rendered by H. H. McAllister and,
W M. Craddock and aim*' by the
•hoir. We thank all of you for the
xfUutifu! floral *rilmles, and we lay
und “God hlega you"
sive ring ceremony, in the presence
of a few relatives and close friends
of the couple.
‘Thank you'
from the depths of our hearts. May
God’s richest bleMingS be upon each
of you ia our prayer.
It wouldn’t be much of a world down
here
If nobody cared when we shed a
tear;
\ sorrowful place would It be
If it weren't for the heaven of sym-
pathy.
We should hate the world and the
joys we own
If we had to stand to our griefs
alone,
For there'* never a man whoever ha
second successive i
twenty-four-hour period, At Wood-
ward, where the visibility was only i
half a block, schools were dismissed
at noon. -
Control Bill DUcbmocI.
The State Legislature, in session
in Oklahoma City, moved to Combit
the recurrent dust storms, A dust
control bill, advocated by Gov, E. W.
Marland and the Federal Govern-
ment, waa discussed in the House of
Representatives.
The bill would appropriate $150,-
000 to be expended by the extension
division of the Oklahoma A. & M.
College in listing blowing lands in
Western Oklahoma.
Rains fell in many sections of Ok-
lahoma Tuesday while dense dust
clouds enveloped the Panhandle.
Hardly had the rains ceased late in
the day before the sky grew haxy and
the thick blanket started spreading.
Visibility was cut to xero here
Tuesday, The dust Wednesday was
described as being "as bad as we’ve
bad this year."
Residents at Guymon, in an ad-
joining Panhandle county said visi-
bility was less than 100 feet, which
was little better than it was Tues-
day.
Oklahoma City Choke*.
At Oklahoma City visibility was
cut to l.OOP feet at 2 p. in., equal-
ing the record set there in 1935.
Visibility was only three quarter*
of a mil* at Tulsa despite rainfall
which measured 1.53 inches...
The dust cut visibility to thirty
yards at Alva, about a block at
Woodward and Cherokee, and a block
and a half at Ponca City, Okla.
A haze of dust bung over Kansas
City.
The air cleared at Dodge City,
Kan., after a ftft^-two-uylep-an,
hour wind unroofed buildings.
Eleven Slate* Hil.
A blustering gale swept snow, hsil,
ram, sleet anil dust across eleven-
States Wednesday.
A tornado killed two persona in
Alabama while a blizzard borne on
wind* that attained a velocity of fif
tv miles an hour spread darmijl'
pathy on account Of work we all thought
--J. R. Hamrick, Vivian Hamrick, it beat to go oh Sunday before.
Valton and Robert Hamrick, Mr. and Those present were: Little Misses
Mrs. Joe Hamrick, Thalia and M, B, Pauline and Irene Bridges, Joe
Crenshaw. Mr*'. Thelma Poe, Gay Wayne Bridges, Edgar Allen Linker,
und Sam Harp and Families. Woodrow Reynolds, L. C. Linker,
_____________„__________ Delmont Linker, Jerald Wyne Link-
«*r, Mr, and Mrs. John Allen Linker,
RiRTHnAY mm #*■an<| Mr*- ®urw* Hi*Kf;»w amt
mnmuHi wiHnw fHmilv , K B1#fkt Mr aml Mrit j,
-»..........—• B. Black and son, Alvin, Mr, and
On Sunday, March 21st, the chil- Mrs. Thu re! Clayton and little Jim-
dron and friends of Mr*. W, J. Clay- my Nell Knight, Mr. and Mrs, Ralph
ton gathered at her home In the Mt. Clayton, Joe Hoover, Mr. and Mr*.
Sterling community and surprised j Willie Beard, Thelma Tennet, Mario
her with a dinner. Mrs. Clayton will jand Bose Belle Hoover, Either Kelly,
he 51 yfcars old on March 24th, hut Andell Brumley, Conner Clayton,
Olvle Hoover.
After dinner wa* over and the
things all cleared away, the men
played a few games of 42, and tha
children played ball and some pic-
tures were made, About 8 o’clock
the crowd began to go, reporting a
nice time and a good dinner, and
wishing Mrs. Clayton many more
happy birthdays.
All her children were present •*-
cept one daughter, who Uvea in Ok-
lahoma.-—Reported, '
*ource* tax,.‘horse racing, etc., tnj*
session will see some major bills pass-
ed before it is over.
A bill was passed by the House last
week, which provides for a raise ‘n
the number of highway patrolmen in
the State of Texas. As it is, we have
ISO highway patrolmen. It is impos-
sible for this. «mall number of patrol-
men to patrol our many thousands of
miles of highway, and thi* bill pro-
vides for doubling the present num-;
her', making 300 patrolmen. Thi* bfl
passed the House by a vote of 121 to
11, and i* now in the lap of the Sen-
ate.
The Conference Committee, ap-
pointed ftwo or three weeks ago to
adjust the differences between House
and Senate, in regard to the location
of the State Pardon Board, made it*
report lasst Wednesday. It recom-
mends that the Pardon Board be lo-
cated in Austin,-but that it be re:
qulred to spend 15 days of each
month in Huntsville, in order that it
might be near the penitential \ l1
would make its investigations there
easier. The other 15 days, which
would he spent he)e in Austin, would
also give them' aeoe’s* to the records
Syrup Label*, aith.r blank or print-
ad to ordor, at Tha E«hn .film.
Syrup Label*, oitftor Waal* or print*
ad to ordor, at Th* Echo office
WHS
Rev. II(Tinei L. Fort will fill nit
rUgular appointment here Sunday,
■ March 28.
i The Shooks Chapel I.cagpe an-!
Shady Grove IS. V. P. l.\ will meet
Sunday afternoon at 6:00 o’clock ami
V have a short Easter service.
( The League program will be spon-
sored by Miss Ruth Neal Sti idling
anil will be a.« follows:
Glass song Christ is Risen Today
Scripture: Matt. 28, bj Annie*
Morris. ,
Class Song: All Haii the Power-.
Reading: O, Beautiful Ea-ter’.id-*.
by Oleta Ruth ( oppadge.
Candle Lighting Seri ice, by Emm-
Tolbert, Billie Mar i Robins, Rhea
Robin*; Keith Darby arfd Melvin
Striblmg.
Quiet music, Pfayer.
tmffie, snapiwd communications
lines and isolated Communities he
fond drift* that ranged up to six
feel iti the Dakotas and Minnesota.
Hire facilities were disrupted
over virt.uaily all of South Dakota in
what telephone officials termed the
worst storm m more than a decade.
One linn reported' 1.300 poles down.
Six-foot drifts took form at Water-
llurori, Aberdeen
$1 mm *ufi bank stock kM the bank
faile d would be required to put up
ad additional if 1,000, thus douhling
what he .already has upc*M'any sma'I
•tot khuJders in the Stale have, bet n
: in uim,dv ruined tn the past by th.
:.iw Tlw -roustRational amendmett.
nil! t.». sent back'to the electorate !>■
I.I '.O’. "I I),!| at the negt *l|f|^ir
A $502,T45 02 emergency appro
priatiou, was vrjted- by the House on
Thursday of last week. This make-
a small' emergency appropriation for
practical!, every' State department,
and many of the .‘-tatp institutions.
rh<- House was rathe) divided on tin
>*ue, because Thercr af£, many •mem-
ber* in the Ham* who believe ■•>
holding these appropriations to the
minimum The Hou*<* refused to <e
,-ept ibis bill at,< u* a month ago, and
■ent it back to thi Appropriations
Committee with the instruction that
it must he red,need. They brought s
hil' on the floor of the House thir.
had been reduced, and the House re-
iured the re; ommendatirHl an a-i ii
ttonal amount.
Mto Mary Fewi.ur ,.l Dimi:
was he; c fl on- ' I to iiiy
whcif she is an ET.-'TC Cud* o', at; I
was presented in weal o mi!*,-"*. ai
toe Rotary lunch* on, Thi visitor j*
assisting with m»- ■■ at thi pn .Bax-
ter revival wm- >- being held eve-
nings at the First Chii-tian churrh.
tioWn. Huron, Aberdeen, Pierre and
Mitchell were cqt off. A tetl-inch
fail ■ blockaded ioa*l» at Rapid City.
Fifty-mile »n-Iprut gusts eased off to
bviween Jhirty anil forty in the
Sioux Fall* area.
Record Snow Fall
A record snow fall of ! 4 v4 inches
was recorded at Oakes, N, D High
wav*.near Bismarck were blocked.
Travel was paralyzed and tele-
phone lines were toppled in parts of
Minnesota. The snow blanket meas-
ured a font at Marshall and Austin
am! piled up to two feet at Chat-
field Air service ceased.
Show dusr and rain fell in Iowa
Th* tdizzafd carried into Illinois,
Wisconsin, Western Kansas, Western
Nebraska and Southern Michigan. Ii
was expected to establish a season j
record of six inches at -Chicago |
Hailstones shattered windows and a
freak winds to tan leveled signs here. J
Searching crews wen organized to!
hunt two men in Western Nebiaska
Meteorologists halted’ the wide-1
■prtail precipitation a» a lioon to
spring planting in agricultural dm-'
tricis xeart-d by the 1930 drought.
HELPS AVOID
MANY COLDS
an engine that knows no equal, size lor size,
anywhere in the world!
W hat’ll this handsome traveler do? Bless you,
anything you ask, but the big thing is: whut'li
it do to youP It’ll put you at the head of the
class-out front in smart style, out front as
a smart buyer!
For with all the power of its oil-cushioned
vulve-in-hcad straight-eight engine—with all
its size and roominess and smartness and
firm, safe roadability — it carries the lowest
price tug ever hung on a Buick to put it easily
within your reach.
Step in to see your nearest Buick dealer and
step up to the head of the class before /
summer starts. Q /
£U>MRONB has to set the pace—why shouldn’t
it be you? You’ve got what it takes to
own the bellwether car of the year—and this
Buick is what it takes to make you leading
citizen!
I,ook at it! The clean, lean, lithe lines tell of
power to make your heart beat faster.
Sit in it! It sets you up like extra money in
the bank, just to feel this solid, stable, steady,
fine-steel mass beneath you!
Touch the treadle! You loose the power of
Especially Resigned
aid for nose and
upper throat where
most colds start
Used m time helps
prevent many colds
Vicks Va tro nol
...As essential
as the minister
LOWEST PRICE EVER ON R BUICK 4-D00R SEDAN!
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dml', for low dmUrmrti prim, mud $** trhml n —
bmr Bulrlt rrmllt !*. rmmporrd to th* ormrmgt mim [ j
ddUtdr th* tor***l prim*' firtd. .
MWU .010*4 rar.i TO urn tou* uxmo
There will be u working at the Ai
guier Cemetery Saturday morning.
April 3. We urge those interested to
come help in this work. Those whj
can, bring team*.
Let u# consider some plan to murk
the grave* that have no markers.
Pie.se think thi* liver and plan with
xhers, a* thi* will be a help to get
Mr idea* of a plun.
Thanking you in advance for votir
cooperation in thus work—Secretary
Aigoier Cemetery Society,
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Bagwell, J. S. The Daily News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 72, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 25, 1937, newspaper, March 25, 1937; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth826134/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.