Local notes and business chatter fill the town page
Entries report residents traveling on business and leisure trips, new shipments and ads from shops, plus local officials and community names. Highlights include Ford sales contest results, a 40 000 radio station plan by Harbour Longmire in Oklahoma, and prospects for Amarillo in the Texas Centennial discussions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. O. Northcut
Tyler Street
Lubbock
Hugh Exum
Kansas City
Oklahoma City
Novelty Art Shop
East Eighth Street
Polk Street
Ford
L. F. Kieffer
Cooper-Irwin Motor Company
Detroit
Panhandle Lumber expands oil field yard at Pampa
Carson county sees renewed activity as Panhandle Lumber Co establishes an oil field rig yard in Pampa. Ten carloads of oil field material are en route and Waggoner No 1 drilling near Pampa resumes after financial delays with W H Ellinger back in charge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carson County
Pampa
Panhandle Lumber Co
Amarillo Oil
McConnell
Waggoner
W. H. Ellinger
Amarilo Oil
Texas No. 1
Saunders
Wilcox
Amarillo Praised by Postoffice Inspector
James B. Robertson, a postoffice inspector based in Denver, paused in Amarillo for a few hours yesterday. He toured the city with Postmaster Kenyon and Inspector Johnson, touring homes and businesses, and praised Amarillo as a splendid city with potential to become a major Southwest trading center extending into New Mexico.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James B. Robertson
Postoffice
Denver
Amarillo
Kenyon
Johnson
Federal Building
Mr. Robertson
New Mexico
Lis Pendens Notice of Suit in El Paso
El Paso Sash and Door Company sues Southern Surety Company in the 65th District Court El Paso County Texas for forty five hundred dollars for materials used by W. E. Ware in building the Amarillo Library and Auditorium. Claimants of labor or materials are invited to intervene before final judgment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lis Pendens
EL Paso Sash & Door Company
Southern Surety Company
District Cort
el Paso County
Texas
65Th Judicial District
el Paso Sash and Door
Amarillo
Said Ware
W. E. Ware
R. C. Walshe
el Paso Sash and Door Company
Centennial Group Meetings Set Across Texas
Next Saturday April 12 state wide meetings will select county representatives to attend a later session to form a permanent Texas Centennial committee. Amarillo’s W O Allen on the executive board urges strong turnout at the courthouse and anticipates Amarillo may gain a role on the final committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Centennenial
W. O. Allen
Amarillo
Court House
Allen
Panhandle
Federal aid sought in fight on forest fires
A committee of federal foresters announced a program for intensive research to control forest fires at the Forest Products Laboratory in Madison. The plan calls for weather forecaster cooperation to identify fire weather and designate high risk areas. It also urges study of lightning storms and notes annual timber losses exceed 17 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Federal
Forest Products Laboratory
Kansas City Radio Fans Support Cost of Programs
Radio listeners donate to cover rising program costs as musicians refuse to perform for free. A Kansas City station invites fans to buy “seats” in the invisible theater and has already received about 1,800 contributions totaling nearly 10,000 dollars from listeners in the United States Canada and Mexico. Donations range from 1 to 100 dollars with an average around 5 dollars. The plan aims to raise 100,000 dollars to be held in trust to finance future programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harbour-Longmire Furniture Company of Oklahoma
Chicago
London
United States
Billy Campbell
Angela
Fort Worth
W. C. Allen
Amarillo
Texas
Kansas City
Canada
Mexico
Radio Replaces Books Says Librarian
Mrs. Maud P. Sullivan, librarian of the Sepaso public library, reports radio is taking the place of novel reading. She notes a shift from chases of missing servant girls to listeners tuning in to broadcasts from station AROW in Troy New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
Maud PB. Sullivan
Sepaso Public Library
Elizabeth H. West
Garrett
Agents Visiting Schools in River Road Visit
Harmon Benton and Laura Hanner visited county schools in a continued effort. The first stop at River Road featured stock judging led by Mrs Benton and highlighted ongoing agricultural education in the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harmon Benton
Laura Hamner
River Road
Benton
Also Mentioned on This Page
DR. Caldwell
Mary Kellar
Benton St
Sisterville
W. Va
Washington St
Monticello
Hlinains
Mount Hope
Sixth and
van Buren
John F. Dwight
F. W. Dodson
van Buren Street
San Jacinto
F.M. Lefforge & Co
E. W. Miller
Taylor Street
J. H. Akers
Pierce Street
Dallas
PANPA
W. O. Aline
NEPAP
Adventures of
Jack Keefe
King Lardner
New York
YANKS
the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Gall Club
Deck
DRG
Big Four Brotherhood
Jeads
Blackburn Bros
Blackburn
Hart -Schaffner & Marx Clothes
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