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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1937
Page
3
About 200 Amarillo residents attended the Fellowship Glass stag party at San Jacinto Methodist Church for a monthly Wednesday event. Men helped with cooking and cleaning up as part of the social program.
The event showcased an all male lineup with Bob Mueller on trumpet and the Beacon Quartet, Whitman Fish, Rip Underwood delivering a rapid memory stunt, and Zeke Welchel fiddling. Underwood impressed with memorizing over 100 items, aided by Vern Hickerson. H. A. Shaw directed the quartet and led community singing at the San Jacinto Church where G. F. Branson heads the Fellowship Class. Bruce Autry and Earl Shelton organized the program with H Clyde Smith serving as minister.
John Tebben, 83, has farmed 238 acres near here for 50 years using soil conservation on his land with tenant Allen D. Ernst. Roy Bennett, head of the eastern Town Soil Conservation Service, estimates Tebben saved about half a million dollars in soil value and preserved a fourth more topsoil than neighboring farmers with similar soil.
Wilmington reporter notes salesman William H. Pitchell plans a parachute jump to prove a charmed life, citing 35 years with seven dog bites five snake bites three automobile wrecks two motorcycle wrecks a cave burial and a head downward suspension from a tree.
An advertisement from Fox Del. Company promotes Adierka for stomach gas, colic, and bowel cleansing. It touts relief from gas and constipation, claims thorough internal cleansing, and targets steady stomach nervousness with a belief in general health benefits.
Norman Oklahoma. University of Oklahoma assistant librarian J. J. Hill envisions a 100000 volume library stored in a small cabinet via micro photography. Books would be photographed page by page and projected from film for a tiny screen, with facsimiles costing three to four cents per foot. About 1000 pages fit on a film spool. Racehorses at Newmarket England to receive gas masks.
Berlin assails American churches for allowing an anti Nazi film at Riverside Memorial Church New York to raise 400000 for Christian German refugees. German and Nazi press condemn the film calling it vicious anti German propaganda and accuse a clique of abusing religious sentiment.
Des Moines report notes Iowa cash farm income for 1936 near 500 million dollars, the highest since 1930, reflecting gains even as crops and livestock faced the coldest winter and hottest summer on record. Estimates place total cash farm income above 500 million, with 1935 at 467 million, 1934 at 423 million, and 1930 at 527 million.
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