Road caravans head for Amarillo convention
Caravans from Denver Galveston and Port Arthur head toward Amarillo for the Colorado to Gulf Highway convention to be held Friday. Ralph Faxon advances the gathering from Raton New Mexico with Elmer Elliott and Harry Hines as speaker. A 250 plus visitor turnout is forecast with luncheon at the Herring Hotel Crystal Ballroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denver
Galveston
Port Arthur
Amarillo
Ralph Faxon
Chamber of Commerce
Raton
N. M
Colorado-to-Gulf
Mr. Faxon
Elmer Elliott
Dal- Lart
Association
Harry Hines
Hines
Herring Hotel
Work Starts on Amarillo Muny Golf Course Club House
Amarillo begins earnest work on the municipal golf course project. Brick from the Saturday incinerator collapse will help construct the clubhouse. Macon Carder named architect, joining Mayor Ross D. Rogers and city officials inspecting the site today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Tex Thornton
Macon Carder
Ross D. Rogers
Amarillo Building Sees $21000 Permit Boost
Amarillo building officials issued permits for four new homes and a two story duplex this morning. The duplex at 615 Van Buren Street has an estimated cost of 7800 dollars with applicant H. H. Bryant. Other home permits go to Came Swayers W M Lockhart J P Williamson and H M Beverly. The year’s total construction cost reaches 983785 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
van Buren Street
H. H. Bryant
Jackson Street
H. M. Beverly
West Thirty-fourth Avenue
Two Amarillo Men Charged With Driving While Drunk
Two Amarillo men were charged last night before Justice Duke with drunken driving. W. H. Vardeman and Rex Cavender faced bonds of 500 and 750 dollars respectively after Vardeman was detained following a building fire at 220 Hayden Street. Cavender posted his bond this morning as the grand jury convened to hear the cases.
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Amarillo
Justice Duke
W. H. Vardeman
Rex Cavender
Vardeman
Hayden Street
Cavender
Kansas City Livestock Market Report and Prices
Markets show Hog sales 3 500 head slow uneven 10 to 5 cents lower than Friday. Cattle total 12 000 calves 2 000 slaughter steers and yearlings opening weak 25 cents lower. Sheep sales 10 700 with weak lambs and springers. wool prices mixed. stockers and feeders steady with good and choice cattle firming.
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Kansas City
Cee City
W.R
Arizona
Mrs. Ruth Cornelius Dies in Amarillo Hospital
Mrs Ruth Agnes Cornelius 45 died at 10 35 this morning in a local hospital She was a member of the First Christian Church and the Rebekah Lodge Her husband Fred Cornelius operates a grocery business in Amarillo Survivors include son George Merrick Cornelius of Rogers NM daughter Mrs Elmer Pruit of Elida NM two brothers Frank Croft of Oklahoma City William Croft and Pete Croft both of Rogers and sister Mrs Fred Culver of Healdton OK The body is in state at the N A Griggs and Sons Funeral Chapel pending arrangements
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Agnes Cornelius
Fred Cornelius
First Christian Church
Rebekah Lodge
Cornelius
Amarillo
North East
Eighth Avenue
George Merrick Cornelius
Rogers, N. M
Elmer Pruit
Elida
N. M
Frank Croft
Oklahoma City
William and
Pete Croft
Rogers
Fred Culver
Healdton
Oklo
N. &. Griggs and Sons
Kiwanis Opens Arbor Week in Amarillo with citywide plantings
Kiwanis Club launched Arbor Week in Amarillo with a dual tree planting. Ernest Duke leads the Ellwood Park ceremony where Kiwanis Grove began 11 years ago and 80 trees now thrive. Bill Fox heads a second group to the Preventorium patio for evergreen plantings. Thomas P. Wilson of Denver speaks on Around the Mediterranean after discussing historic figures and events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Kiwanis Club
Agriculture Committee
Ernest Duke
Ellwood Park
Kiwanis Grove
Bill Fox
Thomas P. Wilson
Denver
Southwest
Mediterranean
Australia
Wilson
Stephen Decatur
Malta
Tutankamen
Napoleon
Allenby
Nile
Jerusalem
Knights of
Rhodes
Salemain the Magnificent
Calvary
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company
Floyd E. Watson
L. M. Fischer
Amarillo Girls Finish Hitch-Hiking From Home
Two Amarillo girls each funded by 15 cents began a hitch hike to New York but returned to school. Paducah night watchman Bob Liedtke stopped them when they confessed they ran away from home. They were found in a highway cafe in Paducah after relatives hosted them in Childress and a police broadcast led to their pickup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
New York
Bob Liedtke
Paducah
Gulf Oil Officials Meet Panhandle Dealers in Amarillo
G O Markins and B B Pettit of Houston, Gulf Oil sales leaders, visit Amarillo to confer with dealers from many Panhandle points. The 7:30 PM session in the Amarillo Hotel Blue Room includes a business meeting and banquet led by G V Rose and George Hammock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
G. O. Markins
B. B. Pettit
Houston
Gulf Oil Corporation
Amarillo
Panhandle
G. V.rose
George Hammock
Amarillo Hotel
Mr. Markins
Texas
New Mexico
Colorado
City Lake Visited by Amarillo Area Manager H. R. Smith
City manager H. R. Smith inspected the lake located 20 miles southwest of Amarillo this afternoon. Soil Conservation Service plans for beautification were submitted, proposing hundreds of trees and contouring along with other improvements.
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Lake
H. R. Smith
City Lake
Amarillo
The
Soil Conservation Service
Administration Export Idea Lifts Cotton Futures in New Orleans
Cotton futures rose over one dollar per bale in New Orleans as traders bought and covered on expectations that the administration's revised export subsidy plan would let the new crop move through regular channels rather than into government hands and delay loan cotton releases until next January.
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New Orleans
Librarian Authorized to Attend State Library Meeting
The county commission approved Ruth E. Delzell county librarian to attend the State Library Association meeting in San Antonio on April 28 29. Library board officers Mrs Bill Gunn and Mrs Allen Early had requested the authorization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth E. Delzell
State Library Association
San Antonio
Bill Gunn
Allen Early
Library Board
Texas Co-Eds Slender and Underweight Report
Miss Leah Gregg of the University of Texas says Texas college girls are slimmer than corn belt and northern peers. The average American co-ed weighs 121 pounds, UT freshmen average 115 pounds at 17 years old, with 61 percent under five pounds and 42 percent under ten pounds.
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Fenner & Beane
Amarillo
Larry Corn
New York
Curb Exchange
P.M
Utah
Idaho
Dow-Jones
Fenner & Beane Amarillo
NEW York Stock Exchange
Prey
Allied Chem & Dye
Thee
Allis Chalmers
Allied Stores Beeen E Eens
Amercan Caneet Eee
Locomotive Ween
Pow & Light Shane
Tel & Tel Severe
Armour & Company
Atchison Top
Atlantic Refining
Am Smelt & Refining
Aviation Corpsrebee
Baldwin Locomotive
Baltimore & Ohio Oe
Bendix
Bridgeport Brass
Callaham Zinc
Calumet & Hecla Tater Celanese Corp
Chicago
Pneumat Toolane
Chrysler
Columbia Gas & Elec
Com'with & South
Consolidated OtLly
Crosley Radio
Curtis Wright
Douglas Aircraft
Dupont de Nem
Deere & Co
Eaton Manufacturing
Elec Pow & Light
Engineers
Flintolite Caress
General Baking Eeree BS
General Electric
Houston Oj
Ensey Pees
Sia Howe Sound
Hudson Motorstere
Nearshadow
Industrial Rayon Scene
Int Harvester
Peer
Int
Tel & Telerssons
Johns Manville
Kennecott
Long-Bell Lumber
Marshall-Field Tenon
Martin Glen
Miami
Mineapolis Moline
Montgomery Ward O
Murray Corp
Steee Tee
Y Heron
Nash Kelvinator National Dept
National
National Biscuit
National Distillers
National Power & Lt
New York Central
North American Aviation
North American Co R
Northern Pacific Stripe
Bly
Ohio Oil Aweee
Otis Steel Webs
Wrens
Laps
Packard Motors
Paramount Pictures
Bay Penney J C Company
Pennsylvania RR
Petroleum Corp
Phillips Petroleum
Pullman Company
Ors
Cainalee Radio Corp O
Radio
Keith Orpheum
Remington Rand
Studebaker
Texas
Texas Gulf
Enee Thompson
Amarillo Woman Mrs Joe Thurmon Dies at 34
Mrs Joe Thurmon a four year Amarillo resident died this morning at 6 o clock in a local hospital at age 34 She is survived by her husband Joe Thurmon her father Knewt Dobb of Pauls Valley Oklahoma her mother Mrs Charles Rackley of Medford Oklahoma two sisters Mrs Ruby Horndolf of Medford and Mrs Lucille McCoy of Deer Creek Oklahoma and a brother Louis Dodd of Blackwell Oklahoma The body is in the care of Boxwell Brothers funeral directors
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Joe Thurmon
Amarillo
Knewt Dobb
Pauls Valley
Okla
Charles Rackley
Medford
Ruby Horndolf
Lucille McCoy
Deer Creek
Louis Dodd
Blackwell
Boxwell Brothers
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Faxon
KGNC
Rufus G. Gentry
Denver Convention and Visitors’ Bureau
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Walsonburg
Trinidad
Fort Worth
Muny
Rollins Hosiery Club
Rollins
Ao Lame Seed
Beng Elery Home Store
ELA
Amarillo Pad Paper CO
A Polk
Rey
Kiwanis
Gulf
Transamerica Corp
Transcontinental
Y— Wes Air
Union Carbide
United Aircraft
United Air Lines
United Corporation
United Fruit
United Gas Improvement
U. S. Rubber
U. S. Steel
Wilson & Company
Woolworth
Walworth Co
Tee
Ee Zenith Radio
Fr A Seni
Kenneth Johnson
Homer B. Johnson
Morgantown
Peete
Mrs. Delzell
ABC
Amarillo Finance CO
Fisk
Texas Steam Laundry and Dry Cleaners
Eleventh St
U.P
Ernest C. Thompson
Todo
U. S. Bureau of Mines
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Adlerika
Fox Drug Company
City Drug Store
Floyd V. Studer Life Insurance and Annuities
Dial
Liscownn
OIL Burning Stoves
Perfection Stove Company
Union Avenue
Johnson-Price CO
Fillmore ST
Rock Island
Santa Fe Railroads
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MA &L
ACME
Carloading Co
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