Stars to headline Anvil Park Rodeo at Canadian
Anvil Park Rodeo at Canadian July 4 and 5 will feature world champions and top rodeo stars led by Leonard Stroud and wife Maymy. Guests include Josephine Wicks Gene Kreig and Claire Belcher with cowboys and cowgirls from across the nation. Major events include bronc riding calf roping bull-dogging and dron c riding plus clown acts and educated horses entertainment for a large crowd.
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Anvil Park
Texas Panhandle
Leonard Stroud
Maymy
Congress of Cowboys and Cowgirls
Josephine Wicks
Colorado College
Colorado Springs
Cheyenne Frontier Days
Gene Kreig
Fort Worth
Claire Belcher
Houston
Morris Brothers
Gainesville
Anvil Park Rodeo Company
Kiowa
Kansas
Anvil Park Company
City Office Candidates Draw For Place Today
Ernest Smith J W Goff and M N Twadell candidates for city commissioner No 2 at a July 8 special will meet at City hall tonight to draw lots for ballot positions. Petitions show required signatures percentage of last general election. In Luque and Lopez Brooklyn has the only Latin American battery in the big leagues. Tague is a Cuban and Lopez a product of the Spanish colony at Tampa.
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Luque and
Lopez
Brooklyn
Tampa
Fla
Mickey and Al Lead American League Batting Tie
Al Simmons joins Mickey Cochrane atop the American League batting race with a .896 average after 10 weeks of unofficial counts. Sam Rice trails, while Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth pace other categories as Yankees and Athletics dominate most leaders. In the National League, George Fisher leads with .431 after 100 at bats, with Chuck Klein slipping to .409, as Kiki Cuyler and Hack Wilson push multiple stat leaders in a fluctuating sheet.
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Associated Press
Chicago
al Simmons
Philadelphia Athletics
Mickey Cochrane
Cochrane
Simmons
Sam Rice
Washington Senators
Lou Geng
Yankees
Dickey
New York
Ruth
Hodapp
Cleveland
Combs
Foxx
Philadelphia
McManus
Detroit
Athletics
A’s
Babe Ruth
Earl Combs
Yanks
Rice
Robert Mose Grove
Mahaffey
Wels
Pennock
Grove
St. Louis Cardinals
George Fisher
Chuck Klein
Phillies
Klein
George Watkins
Kiki Cuyler
Chicago Cubs
Kiki
Hack Wilson
Babe Herman
Wally Berger
Boston Braves
Wilson
Frank Frisch
St. Louis
Firemen 10 Enjoy Picnic Tonight
Amarillo fire department members and their families dine at Central station City Hall for an annual dinner and entertainment starting at 8. Foremen and their families invited. More than 100 chickens prepared and served by firemen headline the meal. The department aims for one of its best entertainments yet.
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Amarillo
Fire Department
Central Station
Minnow Breaks Size Record in China Missionary Catch
Rev. David C. Graham, a missionary at Suifu, China, caught a minnow 88 inches long, the largest on record. The specimen matches common minnows in form except for its extraordinary length and will be preserved in alcohol at the National Museum in Washington, D.C.
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Peking
David C. Graham
Suifu
China
National Museum
Washington, D. C
Kiwanis Picnic At Hall's Ranch Tonight Draws Members
Kiwanis club members from Amarillo gather at Jack Hall's ranch for an all Kiwanis program starting at 6 o'clock. The evening features swimming dancing a soft ball contest and a barbecue with chicken. Dr Moore known as Dinty arranged the lineup with Mason King assisting.
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Jack Hall
Amarillo
Kiwanis
Building Permits and Projects Span Lubbock Dalhart Areas
Building notes report permits issued past week and year totals, listing addresses and builder details for brick stores frame additions coats and interior remodels. Major projects include Perryton Creamery completion in Perryton Kansas. Dalhart bakery expansion. Roswell theater plans. and a large hangar contract in Lubbock with G. McMillan as lowest bidder for a 120 by 80 foot structure.
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Lubbock
W. G. McMillan
McMillan
West Tex
Panhandle Developments Push West Texas Growth
A water system and compressor at the airport are planned with a $700 cost. The Clovis-Tucumcari ditch line progresses with over five miles laid and six and five-eighths inch pipe arriving for truck delivery. Gas line work connects to the main line on East First street as crews prepare for expansion. McDade Pate Grain at Stinnett upgrades the elevator with a Richardson automatic scale. H T McDade heads the operation. Stinnett’s O A Cook building is remodeled into a rooming house named Games hotel with Roy Games running a cafe on the ground floor. Texline voters approve sale of their municipally owned electric and water plant to West Texas Utilities, joining Texline and Stratford as utilities clients in the Panhandle. West Texas Utilities now serves 116 communities. Channing launches a major development program including a $100,000 Panhandle Power and Light construction initiative, building a new power plant, four-inch water mains, a 50 000 gallon water tower, and a 33 000 volt line from Abilene to support 66 000 if needed. Elevators at Hartley and Dalmar on the Rock Island finish and begin accepting grain. Mugg names Heaton and W E Mugg as managers at Hartley and Dalmar. Channing City Garage adds a 30 by 40 foot extension costing about $2,000, with a hydraulic lift for greasing. Phillips Petroleum announces imminent construction.
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Clovis-Tucumcari
Clovis
East First Street
McDade-Pate Grain Company
Stinnett
Berger-Moron Grain Company
Richardson
H. T. McDade
Dumas
O. A. Cook
Games Hotel
Roy Games
Texline
West Texas Utilities Company
Panhandle
This Utilities Company
Stratford
West Texas
Channing
Panhandle Power and Light Company
West Texas Utilities Company of
Abilene
Hartley
Dalmar
Rock Island
M. E. Mugg
Major New Construction and Industry Plans Across Southwest
Reports show Phillips expanding to a forty ninth gasoline plant near Hobbs New Mexico and plans for a Hobbs school costing $150000. Dimmit building activity continues with no signs of weakness. A new Cox and Thompson building for Dye Hardware to be finished by July. Mrs Etta Brashears hotel completed. Presbyterian church at Portales NM finished with stucco trim. A highway from the Gulf to Mazatlan Mexico costing 1500000 will span 870 miles in three years. St Augustine Florida grows from 6192 to 119380 in a decade. Texas ranking eleventh in state wealth, leading among southern states. Reece plan for private operation of Muscle Shoals passes House 196 to 11. Bell Telephone spends 2360000 daily on operating costs and 1950000 on construction. Ford plans over 30000000 in expansions this year. Boulder dam fund set at 10650000. Senate passed second deficiency bill over 70000000. House to act.
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Dimmit
Cox and Thompson, Implement Dealers
Edgar Ireland
Hereford
Dye Hardware and Furniture Company
Etta Brashears
Panhandle 5 Boosts Trade Paper in Ameblla Feature
An article in Patton's Monthly highlights Amarillo in the Texas Panhandle as a fast growing metropolis with gas and helium industry, oil refining, irrigation farming, and a sprawling transport network. The piece notes Panhandle advantages and cites a 1927 Pittsburgh Plate Glass warehouse opening as evidence of regional growth.
Start of Work Fund Authorization Request
A preliminary appropriation is sought to initiate work prior to full congressional action. This limited fund will enable early progress, with additional appropriations to follow as the project advances.
Amarillo Emerges as West Texas Rail Center
Amarillo stands as the logical distribution point for West Texas on the Santa Fe main line. The city hosts a major Santa Fe office building, reputedly the largest in the Panhandle, costing nearly 2 million dollars and featuring Pittsburgh Proof glass and premium interior finishes. Architect KE Harrison of Chicago and supervising architect L F. Borden led the project with Brennan Company builders and G C Hewitt as painting contractor. The city’s population is 96 percent native-born white Americans and the per capita income ranks 17th among U S cities in the region.
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Santa Fe
Panhandle
Texas
Pittsburgh
Mimax
KE. A. Harrison
Chicago
Ill
L. F. Borden
Brennan Company
Amarillo
G. C. Hewitt
Los Angeles
Calif
Tax Office at City Hall Prepares for Tax Rush
James Bowen and staff at City Hall prepare for a busy day as tax offices stay open until midnight to help taxpayers avoid a 10 percent delinquency penalty. Taxpayers may mail checks postmarked before midnight Monday to dodge penalties and long waits.
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James Bowen
Bowen
Woman Injured in Crash Improving Says Hospital
Report from Northwest Texas hospital says Mrs. Hill wife of Dr. H A Hill of Travis Street is getting along very well after a motor car collision near White Deer Friday night. Her car struck a wheat truck in the crash.
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Northwest Texas Hospital
Oil worker injured near Dumas hospitalized with injuries
Henry W. Davis, an oil well worker, is hospitalized at St. Anthony's after a Griggs ambulance rushed him from a well between Dumas and Altman. He suffered a broken arm in several places and a badly bruised head during the tools removal. His condition was not described as critical.
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Henry W. Davis
St. Anthony's Hospital
Griggs
Johnson-Venner
Dumas
Altman
Davis
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J. W. Frass
West Ninth
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Scott City
Kan
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Albuquerque
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