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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1939
Page
2
A long weather feature discusses light showers and rain later in March and April. The piece endorses Mayor Rogers and urges residents to listen to KONC at 8 pm to learn about city government and the upcoming Amarillo election. It highlights Rogers role in the Buchanan Street viaduct, calls for milk fund donations for 730 hungry schoolchildren, and prints assorted local quotes and notes.
Nearly 200 United States Department of Agriculture employees, extension workers, and county committeemen gathered for a four day regional session led by Carl F Taensch. Dr Hartley B Alexander Dr Paul Sears delivered opening talks on philosophy and the human element in agriculture. The session features seven discussion groups with plans to visit Hereford for soil conservation work and a barbecue.
Potter County Commission awarded the main addition project to Litle Construction Co of Amarillo for 193 180. Seven bids ranged to 225 303. Work to begin soon under architect Guy Carlander as part of a 300 000 improvement program including a nurses home.
Boston crowds hissed conductor Serge Koussevitsky during a Beethoven Missa Solemnis rehearsal with Harvard and Radcliffe Glee clubs. He grinned and the session continued despite murmurs about barring friends of the singers from future rehearsals.
Polling places listed for Precinct 4 voters east of the Santa Fe tracks and south of the Fort Worth Denver tracks at Banborn school. Other precincts assign Wilson, sixteenth Avenue fire station, Wilton, and Jacinto schools as voting sites. Polls open at dawn and close at night. The excerpt also mentions national traffic fatalities and a city note about parking meters and a Pay game fund in 1938.
Horace Trew Nicolas a 42 year old sewer laborer survived a powerful sewer explosion that hurled him through a manhole onto a roof twenty feet high. His clothes hair and boots burned melted and he struck a chimney stack then rebounded into a garden before being hospitalized with back injuries and burns.
The 47th district court spring term opened today in Claude with Judge F C Nelson and District Attorney Bob Underwood presiding. Government farm economists predicted 1939 would see agricultural improvement as the session begins. Minerals in Tanganyika include gold diamonds tin tungsten salt red ochre mica and phosphate.
Washington reports the Senate passed legislation to reduce government holdings of lean cotton and curb production, sending the measure to the House. In other dispatches from Jerusalem, Palm Sunday and Mohammedan processions to near the Dead Sea were canceled for the first time in centuries amid ongoing disorders.
In Milan Italy traffic policemen wear belts and armiers studded with tiny electric lamps to make their presence visible at night and in fog. The public welcomed the idea and the experiment is likely to extend to other cities.
In Los Angeles on April 3 USC polo officials protested meeting UCLA where an 18-year-old co ed was listed as No 1 man. Miss Barbara Rand coached by Snowy Baker, a former Australian poloist, prompted plans to seek a replacement.
Fred Patterson of Dallas arrived in Amarillo to assume management of the Capitol Theater succeeding Fall Smith who is promoted in Breckenridge. Smith has led the theater since June 13 and departs Thursday. Patterson comes from the Interstate Theater Circuit with ties across Texas and his wife and daughter will join in two weeks.
Harold Forkas a 21 year old beverage company worker was fined five dollars after being charged with disorderly conduct for telling Patrolman Murcia to move on and calling the officer Hitler Magistrate Giaccone condemned Forkas noting it is wrong to read foreignism into every disagreement.
The piece delivers unmatched entertainment with a show that ends without a true conclusion. Audiences are promised a surprising finale tonight. Ticket prices range from $2 for parquet and boxes to 50 cents for the balcony.
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