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Amarillo Daily News

Location

Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 19, 1929

Page

5

Engineering Department Begins Zone Map Project

Narillo started yesterday to draft a city zoning map for the planning commission. The document will separate heavy and light industrial zones from business and dwelling districts and mark main highways. The commission expects a lengthy process before the ordinance reaches the city commission for approval and a public hearing before adoption.

Narillo Theity Engineering Department City Planning Commission Planning Commission City Commission

G C Sends Out 4000 Letters to 10 Prospects

Letters prepared in the chamber of commerce offices target business men in town who have not joined the new organization. R E Townsend says some have been solicited, but most have not been seen. Immediate plans to join are hoped for. Also, York County farm women urge housewives to demand grocery staples in cotton sacks to promote cotton products.

Chamber of Commerce R. E. Townsend Mr. Townsend York, South Carolina County Council of Farm Women

Naming of the Republican Party Emerges at 1854 Convention

Minutes reveal the free soil gathering in Jackson led to the Republic an name. Knight proposed the single word Republican, later adopted as the party title, with support from Seward Greeley Wade and Chase among others.

Tion Henry Barnes Detroit Tribune George H. Fitch Kalamazoo Telegraph Mr. Knight Free Soil Party Jackson Republican Knight Charles W. Deland William 8. Seward Thurlow Weed Horace Greeley Silas Wright D. S. Dickinson New York Collamer Vermont Senator Hamlin Maine David Wilmot Pennsylvania Henry Wilson Senator Seward Seward Union Party Benjamin Wade Salmon 'S Chase Silas Wright Thomas Jefferson Committee On Zaphaniah B. Knight Pontiac

Man Who Named G. O. P. Identified By NEA Service

Zephaniah B. Knight, editor of the Pontiac Gazette and later Omaha citizen, is cited by historians as the man who gave the Republican party its name. The piece notes Whig and Free Soil editors shaped the anti slavery faction that formed the party after the Whig defeat in 1852. Historic celebrations are planned in Ripon Wisconsin and Jackson Michigan for the 75th anniversary. Knights influence is traced through Pontiac and Michigan newspapers.

NEA Pontiac Mich Ripon Wis Jackson Zephaniah B. Knight Pontiac Gazette Omaha Neb

Editors Adopt Policy for Conference Consolidation in Jackson

The editors met at Jackson to discuss a plan for 1854. They adopted a policy guiding future consolidation efforts and organizational changes.

Jackson

Paris Judge Links Climate to Crime

Paris judge proposes that climate influences crime and argues Paris shares weather patterns with Chicago. Critics deride the theory amid a recent surge of leniency in his court.

International News Service Paris Chicago

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