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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1936
Page
11
The Amarillo School Board approves graduation changes requiring 17 units including two years of physical training and one year of mathematics. English remains four units with option for a fourth in American literature or related courses. Science, social studies, and education credits are adjusted for gradual implementation.
StarkvilleMiss April 16 Authorities investigated the drowning of Willie B Barkley 22 star basketball player of Cottonport Miss during an initiation ceremony at Mississippi State College Barkley sank in the horticultural pond after he and about 20 others were ordered to swim across as part of Future Farmers of America initiation现场.
Four University of Texas professors and two prominent citizens served as pallbearers at the funeral of James Harris a former slave born in Virginia in 1860 who worked as a coachman in Austin Texas.
Bandits flee a Eugene grocery after mistaking a siren for a police car and failing to take loot. A fire engine passes the store shortly after.
The nine car Dallas goodwill train on the 38th Annual Dallas Business tour arrived in Amarillo after visiting Childress Quanah Chillicothe Vernon Wichita Falls. Musicians and entertainers performed a free program at Amarillo High School Auditorium and danced at the Crystal Ballroom Herring Hotel. Tom Cotten welcomed the visitors and W V Ballew led the party.
Dr and Mrs B Frank Jones of 909 Parker Street celebrated the birth of a seven pound son named Benjamin Franklin IIT. Both mother and baby rest comfortably at North West Texas Hospital.
A driver named Steele loses steering on a rural road, veers into dry grass and a fence, and crashes into a ploughed field. The piece argues steering gear wear can fail despite careful maintenance, warning that mechanical wear, not driver error alone, causes accidents.
The Amarillo High School ROTC unit received the highest general rating possible after the recent federal inspection. The rifle team won the Eighth Corps Area rifle match for Section 55-c schools for the fifth time in six years. Captain Peter Le Toney inspected, assisted by Major A. Corbin.
A steno-cook longer round describes how wear on roads can trap a car in a lock or cause it to roll when steering straight. It emphasizes the risk from jolts and the value of careful inspection by a skilled mechanic in a good shop. The piece notes that thorough inspections are not common in many shops despite mileage. It also contrasts rainfall patterns between western Europe and the eastern United States.
One year old David Ian Bland, world's youngest immigrant, reaches Vancouver with his uncle after his mother died in Liverpool. The infant traveled alone to his new home in British Columbia.
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