Buffalo debate stirs Texas herd policy at Goodnight camp
Old Tack urges careful study with game commission at Goodnight to resolve buffalo management. Senate restricts killings to bulls aged ten, but critics warn the 245 herd could grow unsustainably. Proposals call for preserving a state herd, culling surplus for meat, and selling excess stock to ranchers. Colonel Goodnight founded the herd from four calves, tied to Texas plains history.
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Colonel Goodnight
Nebraska
Kansas
Plains
Texas
Heavy charity need forecast from welfare agencies
Mrs. Martha Nelson reports from a Minneapolis convention that welfare groups doubled winter relief last year and face a grimmer 1930. She warns that families of workers will bear the burden as industrial collapse lowers morale and strains citizenship. Over 3,000 attended with unions, community chests and 60 associate groups.
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Martha Nelson
Welfare Association
Minneapolis
Industrial Workers
Funeral today for 18 year old Allene Duncan
Last rites for Allene Constance Duncan aged 18 daughter of Mrs Ethel Crawford Branch were set for 3 pm at Blackburn Funeral Home with Rev C E Lancaster of First Baptist Church of Pampa officiating. Pallbearers listed as Roger Buland J R Copeland Jack Hodges and J Hancock. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. She is survived by her mother a brother Wallace Duncan and a sister Dorothy Faye Duncan, all of Amarillo.
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Allene Constance Duncan
Ethel Crawford
Blackburn Funeral
C. E. Lancaster
First Baptist Church of
Pampa
Roger Buland
J. R. Copeland
Jack Hodges
J. ©. Hancock
Memorial Park Cemetery
Wallace Duncan
Dorothy Faye Duncan
Amarillo
Rites for Sutton Baby Held Today
Funeral services for Billie Joan Sutton five month old daughter of Mr and Mrs E R Sutton of 1001 West Sixth Avenue were held at Boxwell Funeral Chapel at 3 pm conducted by Rev George J Irvin of the Presbyterian Home Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery
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Billie Joan Sutton
E. R. Sutton
West Sixth Avenue
Boxwell Funeral Chapel
George J. Irvin
Presbyterian Home
Memorial Park Cemetery
Culbertson Rally and Amarillo College Football Fund Drive
Ambassador Culbertson's line prompts reflection on country roots as Amarillo College seeks to raise 750 for a training camp for its football squad. The speaker urges community support to keep the college and town spirit strong and ensure the program continues.
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Amarillo College
Tack Letter Calls to Relieve Jobless by Firing Married Women
In a reader letter Tack urges a nationwide move to reduce unemployment by removing married women from jobs when their husbands are employed. He cites companies, county offices, and railroads with married couples in different departments and asks the newspaper to push officials to act.
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Chamber of Commerce and Board of City Development
Polk Street Policeman No. 13 and Likes It
Amarillo police officials discuss superstition with Patrolman Charles M. Davis, a veteran who has held every office in the department. Davis patrols Polk Street wearing star No. 13 and calls the number lucky, while Chief Clark Cain notes some officers refuse to wear it.
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Polk Street
Amarillo
Charles M. Davis
Davis
Clark Cain
Journal-Post gains Doherty stake, vows independent editorship
Henry L Doherty acquires half interest in the Kansas City Journal-Post. The paper declares the Journal-Post will be absolutely independent in politics with no party or interest commitment. A new Ark-Mo Realty Co forms to hold the paper, with Doherty, W Laurence Dickey, and Marion B Sharp as stockholders. Doherty blasts the Kansas City Star as tyrannical while promising no destructive action.
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Kansas City
U.2
Kansas City Journal-Post
Henry L. Doherty
Doherty
Journal-Post
Ark-Mo Realty Company
W. Laurence Dickey
Walter §. Dickey
Marion B. Sharp
Journal-Post Today
Arthur M. Hyde
J. ©. Nichols
Herbert Jones
William Rockhill Nelson
Motive Understood in Doherty Journal-Post Move
George B. Logan of the Kansas City Star says the motive in Henry L. Doherty acquiring a half interest in the Journal-Post will be understood by everyone and needs no discussion. Logan notes the Star will issue a formal editorial later. He adds the Star remains concerned with Kansas gas prices, which Doherty has not yet addressed.
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Doherty
Journal-Post
Kansas City Star
Kansas City, Mo
U.P
Henry L. Doherty
George B. Logan
Kansas City Star Company
United Press Today
Longan
the Star
New York Utilities
Kansas City Journal- Post
Kansas
County Court Jury Excused for Week
Potter County Court idled Friday with no cases disposed. The term excused the weekly jury and only one criminal case was tried. A few guilty pleas were accepted by Judge E C Nelson Jr. Civil matters will be heard next week and a new jury will be empaneled Monday.
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Potter County
E. C. Nelson, Jr
Divers to perform at Palisades picnic and carnival
A Amarillo area Boy Scout team will host a Red Cross life saving exhibition at Palisades annual picnic and water carnival in Palo Duro Canyon. Two professional divers will entertain, one as clown diver and the other in fancy diving, with several cash prizes including 2.50 for amateur fancy diving and 3.50 top prize in the quarter mile swim. Admission is 35 cents for adults and 15 cents for children under 12.
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Amarillo
Red Cross
Palisades
Palo Duro Canyon
W. H. Brymer
Lindberghs Halted in Arctic Calm Awaiting Clear Skies
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh stay in storm bound Aklavik awaiting weather to resume their 7000 mile Washington to Tokyo trip. Crowds of Eskimos and Indians offer hero worship as the famed aviators enjoy an unpublicized moment away from fame in the Arctic Manse served by Dr J A Urquhart and wife.
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Aklavik
Charles A. Lindbergh
Washington
Tokyo
Japan
New York
Paris
Arctic Circle
Lindbergh
Lindberghs
J.A. Urquhart
Legion and Chamber Plan Amarillo Convention Visit
Hanson Post of the American Legion and a Chamber committee opened talks at the chamber rooms about bringing the 1932 state Legion convention to Amarillo. El Paso will host August 24 to 26 with a special excursion train at $9 round trip. Floyd L. Sloan said Amarillo has strong voting power and may host next year, plans include the 142nd Infantry Band and Post drum corps joining El Paso trip.
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Hanson Post
American Legion
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber Rooms
The
Amarillo
el Paso
Floyd L. Sloan
Legion
Mr. Sloan
142Nd Infantry
Post
Grain and Livestock Quotations From Markets Report
Local grain and produce quotations show Wheat No 1 hard at 22 cents, Kaffir 100 pounds 16, oats 16 per bushel, barley 16. Kansas City and Chicago livestock markets report hogs 2,000 head steady to lower with top $7.85, cattle generally steady with Oklahoma fed steers at $8.80, lambs and sheep mixed with minor gains. New Orleans cotton opens quiet then rallies before bureau report. Earnings notes include AT&T June income $2,813,720 and Sears Roebuck first 28 weeks 1931 net $6,008,488. New York stocks show railroad heaviness and mixed industrials with several declines. call money at 4 to 4.5 percent.
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Amarillo
Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Chicago Livestock
Chicago
New Orleans
New York
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Atchison
Union Pacific
New Haven
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Baltimore & Ohio Preferred
General Railway Signal
American Tobacco
McKeesport
American Telephone
U. S. Steel
American Can
Case
Letter to a Bride from Years of Love
A nostalgic poem by Edgar A. Guest dated 1931 and addressed to a bride. The speaker recalls childhood friendship, congratulates marriage, and offers guidance and encouragement for shared life, urging faith, devotion, and mutual support.
East Texas oil wells vote to shut down for price rise
Oil producers in East Texas backed a voluntary shutdown to raise crude prices after Governor Murray of Oklahoma prompted a regional proration. In Tyler a mass meeting scheduled for August 14 aims to close wells. 37 of 60 producers approved a shutdown while denouncing shipments to Oklahoma refiners.
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Oklahoma
Tyler
Texas
East Texas
Murray
Globe Refining Company
Cushing
Champlon
Enid
Okmulgee
Moses
Oklahoma City
U.P
Politics at Theater Marie Dressler Leads Election Farce
Marie Dressler stars in Politics a MGM comedy drama opening at the Mission Saturday. She plays a small town housewife who cleans up her town by organizing the women’s vote running for mayor and exposing graft amid racketeers while Polly Moran serves as her political manager.
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Marie Dressler
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Miss Dressler
Polly Moran
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R. B. Taylor
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Pennsylvania RR
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Davison Chemical
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Southern Pacific
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Endicott Johnson Ad
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Fox Film
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