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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1933
Page
2
The Roosevelt administration plans maximum processing taxes to cut cotton and wheat acreages. Secretary Wallace aims to start August 1 with taxes estimated around four cents per pound for cotton and 28 to 30 cents per bushel for wheat, aiming to retire surplus production.
The Carlsbad irrigation project faces water shortages as a warm dry spell depletes Lake McMillan and Lake Avalon. With no local showers and limited Pecos River runoff, irrigation water is in high demand and crops face potential damage.
City clerk Amanda Wiley reports nine deaths and 15 births for May in Borger. Among the deaths a non resident died, two were infants, and one followed a accidental shooting.
McLean Lions Club elected T. A. Landers as president with C. C. Greene and John W. Cooper as vice presidents. Reep Landers becomes secretary, Claude Williams lion tamer, Floyd B. Roberts tail twister, and directors are Boyd Meador and Ralph A. Caldwell. The club, organized July 3 1928, lists the new president as the sole remaining charter member who has never missed a meeting.
Vega June 14 The Vega Independent School District reduced all taxes. Plains land dropped from 13.20 to 8.00 per acre, grazing land from 8.00 to 5.00, grazing breaks land from 4.95 to 3.20. City property and livestock values cut in proportion, lowering district school taxes by more than 30 percent.
Fred Hartzell of Lassen County recounts a trout caught at Butte Creek in Susanville that supposedly kept his watch wound for a year. He dropped the watch there a year ago and found it still running with only three minutes lost after cleaning the fish. The tale attributes the watch’s from-the-water operation to the fish’s gills keeping it wound.
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson vetoed the State ad valorem tax limit bill, making a 77 cent rate probable for the year. The vetoed bill had proposed a 67 cent limit, which the governor called foolish while approving necessary higher appropriations.
On June 14 Borger’s mayor and city commissioners were named in a petition to the 84th Judicial Court. The suit asks for a writ of mandamus to compel calling a charter election and to authorize a 15 member charter commission from voters. Petitioner says delays by the city commission amount to arbitrary, capricious conduct denying rights of E. L. Lantron and supporters.
David Brauer, owner of a Portland shoe store, faced a customer who dropped a shoe on his foot and police seek a male thief described as a Cinderella figure who fled with one shoe while the other lay behind with its laces untied.
Treasury receipts for June 12 were 13 811 691 59 dollars, expenditures 17 208 440 56, balance 276 250 638 01. Customs duties for 12 days of June were 8 649 093 79.
Austin June 14 proceedings in the court of criminal appeals affirmed in part reversed and remanded in several cases. Appellants from Gregg Harris Comanche Williamson Dallas and other counties faced motions to reinstate rehearings and dismissals. Several decisions include reversals and remands with others denied or submitted on various briefs.
In Denver on June 14 a widow of a Colorado silver miner, Julia Hallett, died to reveal that weeks earlier her estate had dwindled. Within a week after death her 19289 shares of mail order stock doubled in value, valuing that stock alone at over a quarter of a million dollars, with other holdings rising simultaneously.
Austin reports two new charters issued. The American Legion James A. Edmond Post No. 121 in Waco has no capital stock with C. G. Catto D. Ryal Carnahan and S. A. Cooper as incorporators. Greggton Power and Light Company in Greggton obtains a $6,000 capital stock with G. E. McGrede K. R. M. McGrede and J. A. Stephens listed as incorporators.
Dalhart men join a Spearman meeting urging loan appraisals under the 1933 act reflect average yields and land valuations over recent years not current conditions. Farmers sign questionnaires to establish correct farm values for loans, with the Dalhart Farm Loan Association of the Federal Land Bank expected to play a key role.
Tyler June 15 Two Woot County men were arrested after early morning swims in 26 degree weather led Prohibition Officers to a still in the Sabine River. Officers Dickens and Porter found a 200 gallon still, 800 gallons of mash and 20 gallons of whisky, charging them with manufacturing and possession of liquor.
Miss Electra Waggoner daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward P Waggoner of New York and Fort Worth Texas and Arthur G Bowman were married this afternoon in the chapel of St Bartholomew s Church
Ronald Colmans artistry elevates Cynara a forceful portrait of an attorney's affair with a shop girl Kay Francis plays a wife on a journey leaving the affair to unfold Phyliss Barry the shop girl kills herself and Colman's future crumbles C Ambray Smith delivers a lively turn in Too Young to Marry and Broken Dishes is noted Loretta Young Emma Dunn and O P Heggie feature in family life drama Christopher Strong stars Katharine Hepburn in a aeronautical romance with Colin Clive and Billie Burke Helen Chandler is implicated in the subplot
In a breezy musical scene Clive and Miss Chandler stir romance while Ralph Forbes adds zest and Miss Hepburn mediates. The film promises strong entertainment though not for the crew and features a Mae West spoof as a broad comedy titled She Outdone Him, a lively laugh riot.
A chick hatched at Mrs. E. M. Baker’s farm near Oroville faces complications after birth. The chick’s parents are a Barred Plymouth Rock rooster and a bantam hen, and an extra leg grows from its backbone as large as the two normal legs.
Three salesmen who lost their jobs here started new ventures for themselves. W. O. Palmer now makes his living marketing home-made lye soap from a one-man factory. John Lankford, after ten years as a furniture dealer, has perfected a glue he learned to make.
Plans for a school to train unemployed men in electricity and industrial physics are under study in Montreal. The Ecole Polytechnique of the University of Montreal sponsors the project which has won approval from Archbishop Georges Gauthier and Premier Taschereau of Quebec.
Forrest King is producing hamburgers from West Texas lambs, leveraging local livestock for a regional meat product. The note highlights his use of lamb from local ranches and a growing culinary effort in the area.
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