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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1930
Page
5
The Rev. Jellicoe, kin of Admiral Jellicoe, opens a London model house in the city slums to aid the poor through beer and wine led initiatives. Plans include a college for publicans, a children’s pub with milk, and a garden city with model flats and enclosed yards.
An Amarillo enumerator found a home with no one to answer a 23 question family schedule. The blank form, mistaken for a circular, puzzled census staff as another home’s schedule was discarded. The household later recalled the item but claimed no knowledge of the census.
A fragment notes that poverty and overcrowding fuel liquor problems as families live in single rooms, making it hard to meet friends and seek companionship. The passage hints at social isolation driving addictive behavior in stressed urban poor.
Mrs George M Crimm has been elected president of the Catholic Nurses Guild of Amarillo a new group for welfare work The officers include Mrs Roy Sullivan as vice president and Miss Lucy Ganser as secretary treasurer Enrollment stands at 26 The guild has taken over the Catholic Free Clinic at 1113 E Twelfth Street in charge of Mrs C M Davis the clinic operates 2 to 5 pm weekdays serving all creeds with emphasis on children The clinic can perform minor surgery and dental work with a small ward available Bishop R A Gerken commends the community chest for dental equipment and doctors and dentists offer cooperation
A statement stresses that the pub must be a place where the entire family can gather including women and children. It underscores a inclusive social role for the public house beyond serving drinks, highlighting community value and accessibility.
Court likely to last four weeks. T. J. Cantwell charged by justice of the peace with swindling by hot check is held at Stratford for Sheriff Bill Thompson. A sheriff's department representative will return him to Amarillo this afternoon.
City employees and others are invited to a Sunday picnic at Lighthouse Canyon. Participants should turn in forty cents to the water department contact to join the outing.
Directors representing 15 Panhandle counties will meet in Amarillo at the Chamber of Commerce offices tomorrow at 10 a.m. to draft plans for a new effort before the state legislature designating Palo Duro Canyon as a state park. Officers include Sam Braswell of Clarendon as president and J W Stevens of Tulsa as vice president.
The body of T. M. Hand, 60, of Stead, New Mexico, who died suddenly while arranging his brother L. L Hand’s funeral, will be brought from Canyon, where Canyon was buried today, to Amarillo for burial.
At 6 o'clock this afternoon the Griggs and Son Mortuary will receive the body for burial arrangements. The deceased is survived by his widow and two children, son Thomas and daughter Maudella of Amarillo.
Work starts immediately to pave the last two blocks under the West Third Avenue underpass. The site was omitted in initial contracts awaiting grade determinations before completion. Rock Island crews install steel while city teams finish leveling the road under the subway.
A two story frame school in Chatfield near Corsicana was destroyed by a Thursday fire of undetermined origin. Damage was estimated at 5500 dollars. Teachers and pupils escaped without injury.
Hundreds of pioneers from the Southwest attended the Panhandle Plaine Historical Society annual meeting in Canyon. A memorial service honored Judge Thomas F. Turner and Col. Charles Goodnight, followed by the society banquet later, with more than fifty Amarilloans in attendance.
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