Panhandle plans library and park projects across Texas
The report outlines bids and construction plans for multiple public works. It notes an air lift system for loaded trucks, a boss air blower for wheat loading, and an automatic scale for weighing wheat into railroad cars. New sheds and an elevator at Carlsbad Cavern are to be ready by July. The University of Texas library project starts with a $1,000,000 unit. Canyon plans Pioneer Hall museum with a $10,000 park bond and West Pampa extends water lines. Auction bids at Planters and Merchants Mills totalled $145,700 for cloths and yarns. the mill remains under receiver oversight since 1923.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Texas
Pioneer Hall
Panhandle Plains Historical Society
Canyon
College
Board of Regents
John E. Hill
Amarillo
Fred Martin
Fort Worth
New Braunfels
Ralph H. Durkee
San Antonio
J. C. Saunders
Bonham
William Iselin & Co
New York
Guadalupe River
Morris Higley
Panhandle
Khiva Shrine Temple
Hanson Post American Legion
Jack Hall Ranch
Construction notes outline city work and new facilities
The list records issued permits totaling 1 ,687,919 last week and 1,737,194 to date, including multiple residential and commercial projects across San Jacinto, Edgefield, Plemons, Eagle, Mirror and other additions. New projects highlighted include Lubbock's 650,000 senior high school building, a 60,000 Santa Fe depot at Littlefield, a nine story hotel at Clovis, and grain elevators acquired by the Oklahoma Wheat Pool Corporation with expansion at Dalhart and Mayfield facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe
Littlefield
Foxworth-Galbraith Lumber Company
Harris and Company
Dallas
Santa Fe Electricians
Clovis
Federal
Griffiths Theater
Main Street
Central Presbyterian Church Hosts 70 New Members in Communion
Seventy new members were welcomed at Central Presbyterian Church during a special Sunday morning communion. Dr. R. Thomson led the last evening summer service with a program of special music. Other churches reported large attendances and thoughtful sermons across morning and evening services, including Dr. Ira F. Key at Polk Street, Dr. G. L. Yates at First Baptist, and Rev. Joseph S. Flacks at First Fundamental.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Thomson
Central Presbyterian Church
Rille
W. C. Kunze
Presbyterian Church At
Canyon
J. R. Sharpe
LeFors
Severty
Cummings
Thayer
R. A. Duncan
Lord
Smart
R. H. Lynn
E. H. Gipson
Bingham
West
Ira F. Key
Polk Street Methodist Church
Brethren of Our Lord
Beethoven
Wagner
Yates
First Baptist Church
G. L. Yates
First Christian Church
Department of Religious Education
Pleasant Valley
Roy C. Snodgrass
Snodgrass
Christian Church
Dr. Snodgrass
H. A. Shaw
Flacks
Joseph S. Flacks
W. P. Garvin
San Jacinto Methodist Church
Rev
H. Hamilton
T Avenue Methodist
Lisemore
J. C. Sisemore
Tabernacle Baptist Church
Hal C. Randolph
Ferrell Fox
West Amarillo Christian Church
Hotel Started in Chan ning by G. P. Brazil
Ground was broken this week for an adobe and stucco hotel in Chan ning by G. P. Brazil. The project promises a thoroughly modern facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alhart
Channing
G. P
Brazil
The Real Reason Cartoon Dialogue
A two typists exchange questions why the boss passed over a promotion. The second typist answers she cannot think while the first implies the real reason is unknown. The caption delivers a humorous punchline about workplace choices.
Humorous exchange about learning to drive
A motorist and friend share a joke about driving skills with the punchline liniment as the reward for effort. The exchange reflects light humor from a period newspaper style.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liniment
Also Mentioned on This Page
Mary Brock Lucas
Jeanne
Germaine Lecomte
Maggy Rouff
Irene Dana
Mary
Carlsbad Cavern
Baptist
Black
City Commissioners of
Pampa
Vicars, Crow, Finley Banks
West Pampa
City Commission of
Palo Duro Creek
Wragge
West Tenth Avenue
C. J. Patterson Corporation
Jimmy Grant
Tulsa
Ohio
Grant Baking Company
Jake Laan
North Pile Street
Hall
Jesse
Melody Maids
Harold English
Khiva Shrine
Hanson Post
Jack Hall
Frances Wright
Madelyn Galli
Cordelia Palmer
Dorothy Coan
George Williams
Augusta Behl
Glenneth Fegley
Mildred Porem
Ben Fuqua
Shrine
American Legion
West Tenth Street
Maryland
San Jacinto
Fred O. Wallace
Mackey & Bell
Tyler Street
Edgefield
Alfred Nelson
J. M. Teague
Duplex
East Twentieth
Eagle
G. P. Whitcomb
Cleveland Street
Mirror Addition
E. Greathouse
Smith & Orton
East Eighteenth Avenue
Plemons
Hughes Street
A. J. Arnold
W. E. Atkins
Tennessee Street
D. E. Mead
van Buren Street
Plemons Addition
Texas Company
J. A. Cartwright
Lubbock
Struc
Ture
McMurtry Grain Company
Heaton
Kingsmill
Hoover
Oklahoma Wheat Pool Corporation
Oklahoma
West Texas
L. C. McMurtry
Texas Grain Dealers Association
Mayfield Feed and Grain Company
Dalhart
A. J. Mayfield
Presbyterian
God
Christian Science Churches
Christian Science
Churches of Christ
Scientist
Mary Baker Eddy
the Panhandle
Old Line Legal Reserve
All-American Life Insurance Company
Sixth
Polk Sts
Amarila, Texas
Uggett & Myers Tobacco CO
P. M. Waltrip
DRS. Waltrip & van Haltern
Amarillo Hotel
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