Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 63, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 22, 1936 Page: 3 of 4
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MT. PLEASANT DAILY TIMES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936.
Driver of School j
Bus Killed, Twelve j
Students Injured
Track Meet Queen
Shamrock, Texas, April 21.—
Gyron Laycock, 22, driver of a i
Samnorwood rural high school |
bus. was killed and twelve stud- i
ents were injured Tuesday after-!
noon when the bus crashed into |
a bridge railing fourteen miles'
southwest of here. '
Three students were seriously |
hurt. They were: '
Alma Sechrist, 19. daughter of I
Mr. end Mrs. J. W. Sechrist of!
Dozier, chest crushed and ribs!
broken. J
Billie Cunningham. 15. daugh- j
te” of Mr. and Mrs. V. L. Cun- j
ninahem of Dozier, thigh frac-]
ture, leg lacerations and loss of
blood. |
Josephine Ncece, 16, daughter j
of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Neece of |
Dozier, skull fracture, lacerations.
The other victims suffered cuts |
and bruises All glasses in the
bus, in which twenty-five stud-
ents were riding, were broken.
The injured were brought to a
hospital here.
The crash occurred after the
bus failed to take a sharp curve.
Laycock was trapped in the bus
and Could not be released until
the door was removed.
Samnorwood, second largest ru-
ral school in Texas, is located in
Collingsworth County, about half-
way between Wellington and
Shamrock.
Officers Solve
Titterton Case
With Cord Clue
Jane Phelps
In competition with hundreds of
co-eds from colleges and univer-
sities throughout the United
States, Miss Jane Phelps, of Wil-
mington, Del., junior at North-
western university, was chosen
queen of the annual Drake relays
at Des Moines, !a.
New York, April 21.--The tnur-
derof Nancy Evans Titterton was i
solved and re-enacted by the1
confessed slayer Tuesday in the j
Beckman Place apartment where!
the young writer's almost nude I
body was found in a bathtub Ap- J
| ril 10.
j Seized after a piece of cord—]
the only tangible clue-—was traced j
to him. John C. Florenza was I
charged with the slaying late j
Tuesday.
Florenza, an upholsterer, who ]
was present whoa the liliaii-hair- j
ed author's strangled body was I
found and who himself telephon- I
cd police from the Titterton apart- j
meat, was said by high authorities
to have admitted he assaulted, j
tried vainly to drown, and then j
garroted Mrs. Titterton. j
After re-enacting the crime at
the scene, in the presence of Po-
lice Commissioner Lewis J. Val-
entine and District Attorney Wil-
liam C. Dodge, who jointly an-
nounced his confession, the youth-
I ful ex-convict was booked on a
j homicide charge signed by six de-
tcctives.
If all American farms were 100
per cent merchandized, it is esti-
mated only 1,600,000 farmers
would be needed, compared with
6,000,000 employed now.
way cream 1 ir.-.c
The nature of dreams 13 generally
misunderstood. A dream is simply tho
memory of the thoughts that passed
through the unconscious mind during
sleep. When such memory dor a not
occur we are accustomed to saying
that we do not dream. As a mutter
of fact the unconscious mind is never
quiet «t any time. Remembering one's
dreams can become a luibit if persisted
in. The reason for the apparent differ-
ence between night dreaming and day
dreaming is that at night the sleep
is more deep and the conscious mind
more at rest than in the daytime.
Why Canaries Get Sore Feet
Dirty or improperly shaped perches
are often the cause. Reshaping the
perches so that they are neither too
small nor tuo large and keeping them
perfectly clean may remedy the trou-
ble. IFurther treatment is to scak the
l'eet in warm water for about ten min-
utes, cleanse carefully and gently.
When thoroughly dry anoint with vase-
line or some other soft salve. Watch
the diet and give tiio bird more green
food.
Concord H. D. Club
j Good manners and the correct
j form of introduction was the sub-
j ject for a round table discussion at
j a meeting of the Concord Home
| Demonstration Club held at the
| Jones’ Chapel Wednesday after-
| noon. Books and magazines are
helpful in finding the correct rules
on good manners, which should be
studied personally that we might
be prepared to meet any occasion.
Mrs. J. B. Walker, Mrs. Jesse
Hinson and Mrs. Jim Reidout were
visitors for the afternoon. The
club will meet again Wednesday,
May 6th, at 2:00 o’clock at the
home of Mrs. C. W. Vaughan for
a Mother’s Day program.—Re-
porter.
Ventilated Pantry
Why It Is “Old Ironsides'*
In the engagement with the British
warship Gucrrlere one of the largest,
missiles the enemy could lire struck
the side of the Constitution, but the
plank was so hard the shot fell out
and sank in the sen. This was noticed
by the crew, which cried, ‘‘Her sides
nre made of iron. See the shot fall
out.” From that moment she was
known as “Old Ironsides.”
j Mrs. M. H. May, farm food sup-
ply demonstrator of the Concord
K. D. Club. says. “I don’t see why
every home-maker does not have
a ventilated pantry in her house.
I'll have my storage problem sol-
ved when mine is made.”
Mrs. May will make a reach-in
pantry, with three sets of double
doors. One section will be used
for food and the other two sec-
tions will be used for canned
goods.
Trend Toward Larger Farms Seen in Nation 'm
1 L*rf »c«l« farming ||
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Plowing huge tract
Another type of farmer)
Recent disclosure of some of the huge sums paid
out as AAA farm benefits raised the question of
to what extent agriculture has been established on
a huge scale. Payment of AAA benefits ranging
from $50,000 to $1,000,000. each to some corpora-
tion farms, planters, ranchers and others indicated
a trend away from the homestead toward the huge
farming unit where groups of tenants or gangs
of hired hands worked under one control. Future
developments may see a further trend in this di-
rection although present prices make such practice
profitable only when the project is confined to one
crop, rotation of crops involving too complex a
setup for economy. The small farm is in no danger i
of immediate displacement, however, since the last
census revealed that the size of the average farm
is about 150 acres. Sugar, rice, cotton and wheat]
are best adapted to large scale production.
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Cross, G. W. Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 63, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 22, 1936, newspaper, April 22, 1936; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth822409/m1/3/: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.