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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1946
Page
9
C S Edmonds freight traffic manager Fort Worth led a Colorado Southern official tour of properties this week. The party included George H Rehm and J J McGarry. Several staff transfers and duty changes followed at Fort Worth and Amarillo with patrols, hospital recoveries, vacation returns, and promotions noted among clerks, switchmen, brakemen, boilermakers and inspectors.
Nally Carman Dee Leemaster returns home from St Josephs Hospital Fort Worth after major operation. Engineer Steve Eason suspects a jinx from an endless streak aboard No 72 on the fourth division. Switch man Q J Davis discharged from the Navy and to report at Childress. O R Morse Fort Worth valuation engineer on fourth division this week. Operator F S Clark reports for Claude assignment relieving F R Patty. W G Daniels clerk on first trick at the passenger depot for two weeks. Engineers W E Baker and L L Ballard bid swich engine service at Fort Worth. Switchman Rush Avery displaced J E Robinson from the 11 P M job.
Personnel shifts and assignments across the Santa Fe Panhandle division include Floyd Zollars displacing B D Henwood on the 6 45 A M switch job with W E Bullington and E A Thomas Brakeman W T Gibbons moves to a passenger turn on the 23 24 with H R Sager We extend sympathies to Charles A Fisk on the death of his sister Nel son Cunliff in St Louis Last week J B Briscoe re elected president of Amarillo Independent School District board Francois De Keghel Belgian engineer and M Dans G Bodart visited Santa Fe offices with film shows They viewed Grand Canyon and California material Belgians traveling from Santa Monica with a new Douglas DC 4 skyliner for Sabena Airlines Two Pecos division safety meetings were held in Clovis and Belen Frances Donnell library at Northwestern State College Amarillo trip notes include multiple job bids and assignments for brakemen firemen and conductors plus new hire Virginia Seper in accounting This item ends with continued on page 1h
A weather adage notes rain can be a boon or a threat to land. The piece urges farming on the level with strip cropping contour plowing cover crops and water conservation to slow runoff and protect topsoil while using dams and ponds to hold rain where it falls.
The article explains how ale downhill moisture enriches soil and feeds plant roots while filling underground reservoirs. It notes water tables dropping in some areas but remains higher where soil conservation is practiced, stressing soil and water as inseparable keys to United States agricultural wealth.
Swift & Company invites letters on methods used by meat packers in marketing meats poultry eyes butter and cheese. Forty three cash prizes totaling 400 dollars offered. Contest closes May 1 1946. Write to F M Simpson Dept 128 Swift and Company Chicago 9 NIL.
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