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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1924
Page
3
The Amarillo Board of City Development plans to back a Bushland rural mail route serving about 100 families and push Rep Marvin Jones for action. Local patrons now travel 15 to 20 miles for mail, route inspection dates back almost a year, and word says rural route funds may be exhausted.
Beckwith Plumbing Co advertises gas fitting repair work including stove connections and garden hose mending. Mentions installation services with phone contact 1541 700 in Cleveland. No job too big or too small.
City engineer H. B. Jones was authorized to travel to Dallas to consult sanitation expert N. Werenskiold on sewage disposal north of the city farm. The commission seeks extra precautions as the city grows to prevent drinking water pollution from waste. Jones will also review a proposed concrete street repair machine before leaving.
A Texas Methodist General Conference committee eyed a Palo Duro district site ten miles south of Canyon for a Bible Institute assembly. They inspected the Jennings area yesterday and will report to the Northwest Texas Conference in November. Members include Revs. Beavers Lipscomb Patterson Annis.
Miss Louise Landis Amarillo High School Home Economics teacher leaves with students Eunice Hulen Clara Walling and Maurine Tilman for the state girls clothing contest in Galveston. Landis will oversee the Domestic Science bath display. They plan to return Saturday morning as Galveston expects more than 8 000 girls to attend.
Delegates at the American Chemical Society session heard John Arthur Wilson and Albert F. Gallum Jr. of Milwaukee attribute foot discomforts to leather shrinkage in shoes amid changing weather. They noted modern leather science shows shrinking depends on the leather’s chemical composition.
President Coolidge overwhelms Senator Hiram Johnson in New Jersey’s preferential primaries. With 479 districts yet to report Coolidge leads by about 80 000 votes and secures all 31 Republican convention delegates including seven at large. Johnson trails as returns come in.
Philadelphia April 28 Ralph Beaver Strasburger a Norris town publisher led in the delegate-at-large race against Governor Gifford Pinchot in the Republican primary for the national convention. Incomplete returns show Strasburger ahead nearly 200000 votes with the leaders backing Mellon Baker and Mrs Elizabeth Price Martin. Opposition to Pinchot and the administration program shaped legislative contests.
Dr. Paul W. Horn and regents R. A. Underwood and Dr. J. H. Nunn depart for a tour inspecting agricultural programs at Kansas State Agricultural College Manhattan and Iowa State Agricultural College Ames. The group, aiming to map Tech’s future service area, will also review Amarillo and Plainview facilities as it travels.
A large two section electrical sign on the Mission Theater building attracts attention. The top displays the theater name with color border lights, the bottom shows current movie title and stars. The 142 lamp flasher system sign cost about $1,000 and was installed by City Light and Water. An accompanying four foot cooling fan under the stage uses a 300 pound ice block to aid Typhoon cooling.
The First Baptist church will host an evening prayer service at 7 46. The event, titled Winning to Christ, will be led by BE L Smith and a large Sunday school class that recently completed a book in the normal course will run the meeting.
Commander H A Stuart testified to the senate oil committee that Josephus Daniels as secretary of the navy refused to open naval oil reserves for lease. Stuart, in Wyoming with the Teapot Dome receivers, said 120 acres and five wells were allocated to two companies and that Daniels would not change policy before leaving office.
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