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...NEWCOMB Mount Vernon...
...with their grants, in each case 45% of the cost of the proposed new plants: Saranac Lake, N. Y., $225,000; Mount Pleasant, Mich., $218,000; Covington, Va., $181,636: Galax, Va., $129,000; Caruthersville, Mo., $79,000; Cleveland, Okla., $63,000; Okmulgee, Okla., $406,800; Columbus, Miss., $126,000 plus a loan of $155,000; Meridian, Miss., $638,182 plus a loan of $780,000; Cuero, Tex., $101,000: Gonzales, Tex., $78,000; San Antonio, Tex., $2,770,000; Texarkana, Tex., $245,000 plus a loan of $300,000; Weslaco, Tex., $94,500; Wharton, Tex., $90,000; Wichita Falls...
Died. Robert Burns Robertson, 76, longtime (1912-26) resident architect of Windsor Castle, onetime (1923-24) president of the Windsor & Eton Scientific and Archaeological Society; of heart disease; in Mount Vernon...
...snow-mantled Olympic Mountains were formed, on the peninsula between Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean, is not precisely recorded. In 1909 President Theodore Roosevelt had Mount Olympus (8,150 ft.) and some 800,000 acres around it set aside as a national "monument," a refuge for a majestic strain of elk which roamed there, thereafter called Roosevelt...
Roosevelt II visited there last year. It was raining, as it usually is on the west side of those mountains, but he saw enough to want the Mt. Olympus national monument expanded into Mount Olympus national park. Last week, a bill to do this having finally been passed by Congress after much wrangling between conservationists and lumber companies over the extent of the expansion. Franklin Roosevelt affixed the signature that brought the new park (898,292 acres) into being...