07 Aug 1941
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1941
Page
1
The Sun reports temperatures at noon on Sixth Avenue and Polk Street reaching 94 degrees in the sun with yesterday’s reading at 100 in the sun. The notice reflects a hot spell continuing in the city.
Lubbock could host a new oil well at the Harrison wildcat No. 1 Nairn Estate, five miles northeast of Lubbock. The crew is rigging up standard tools and a ten foot core shows saturation, with a small gas showing and a rainbow sheen from drilling water. Amarillo rumors claim potential production even up to 2500 barrels, but no definite outcome yet.
City hall notices go to property owners announcing a joint city school board of equalization hearing starting a week from Monday. Board members include A N Olver L E Lyles Henry Beverly D W Owen and William Clifford.
Board No. 1 announced four names for the August 14 selective service call. Glenn Orville Pyeatt Ira Lawrence Tucker Albert Rodney Reville and Fred Arthur Ritchey named. Orland Ross, fifth man, was transferred to California and inducted into service.
Assistant Attorney General Thurman W. Arnold said at a Senate subcommittee that business men who allocate trade by rolling dice may violate the Sherman act. He cited sheep buyers at the Chicago stockyards who used dice to assign pens, replacing earlier bid-based choice and prompting questions about antitrust risk. Also noted were a Veterans of Foreign Wars picnic, Judge Landis ill with pneumonia, and Air Cadet program enlistment efforts in Amarillo.
A 50s man with fair education and extensive clerical experience offers dependable, sober character and strong references from a bank and county. The brief notes this as continued on page 5.
Dow Jones averages listed with minor changes while Kansas City hogs cattle and sheep tradeis reported. Hogs sold steady to firm with top at $11.10 and weights varying from light to heavy. cattle and calves modestly steady with round variety of prices. sheep offerings around 3000 head with opening bids around $10.78 and Colorado bids above $11.25.
Kansas City reports a boy named Johnny Snodgrass aged 10 leaped through the top of his father’s car and into a windshield after a collision. The windshield shattered but his head was only scratched in the incident observed on August 7.
A new menu item called the Victory Sandwich appears at Furr Food in the No. 1 store at Tenth Avenue and Fillmore Street. The plate features a V shaped bread arrangement with meat or cheese between slices and three olives plus a pickle, evoking Morse code dots and dashes.
Mrs. L. D. Lynch converted her free sewing service for soldiers into a sewing school in Albuquerque. Soldiers now darn their own socks and sew their own buttons under her direction as part of the program.
An Office of Production Management official announced that over 100 medium bombers built for Britain to strike Germany are delayed due to a propeller shortage. The aircraft sit outside the Glenn L. Martin plant in Baltimore Maryland awaiting propellers to complete delivery.
Plum trees in Amarillo and the Panhandle yield heavily with Bob Cole of 1703 Harrison Street and A P Black of Pleasant Valley among top reporters. Cole crates under large branches due to heavy fruit and Black’s Gage tree yields three and a half bushels from a six foot tree, with a branch showing 38 plums in a foot. Wild plums in creeks and along the Canadian River are abundant.
SCOTTSBLUFF Neb a genuine snake in the grass turned up here Walt Samuelson jammed his lawnmower with a four foot ball snake He reported the snake was as scared as he was.
David R. Tripp a 48 year old veteran died this morning at the Veterans Hospital after a stay since July 20 He is survived by his wife Mrs Ollie R Tripp of Buffalo Gap Texas The body was sent to Buffalo Gap by Boxwell Brothers on the 115 Santa Fe train Funeral services and burial will probably be held tomorrow at Buffalo Gap.
T. W. Lampman of Amarillo served with General Butler's fighting marines in World War I and now works at the Amarillo Veterans' Hospital. Today his son Arnold C Lampman enlisted in the Marines. Leo S Walker of Herrington Kansas was the second recruit of the day.
Mrs. Ethel Sherer faced a three foot rattler while returning from huckleberry picking. She held the snake's head with a stick while her daughter Dorothy clubbed it to death, despite a warning to avoid excitement due to heart trouble.
Gordon Nebraska mail route driver Pete Haas on a 52 mile route hit a rut. The jolt threw the battery from his car forcing him to walk to a nearby ranch for a new battery so the mail could continue.
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