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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1936
Page
2
Amarillo humorist Chronicle column laments persistent heat and dust while mocking Dallas windward remedies and Donley County Old Settlers invites. Notes W D Love story, Globe-News crew plans, and a river tale about Ira Stovall drowning in the Canadian.
Charley Lockhart the diminutive Texas state treasurer nicknamed Cal Me Charley enjoys a free vacation in New York. The trip, his first to the city, was funded by his staff who offered the travel as a voluntary gift after his vigorous primary campaign.
Construction starts on two f room frame homes in Amarillo. Alfred Nelson will build at 1404 Hughes Street for $3,400 with J. W. Cooper as contractor. RR H Lumpkin at 412 East Fourteenth Avenue gets a $2,400 home built by W B Bones as contractor.
Two sisters in high school aged 13 and 18 appeal for help from readers to assist their widowed mother in funding education. They emphasize the need to work toward a better schooling outcome and invite support via Tack Letters on page 7.
In New Orleans a 150 year old plantation once owned by the estate of the late Chief Justice Award Douglas White is to be split into rehabilitation farms. The federal government purchased the land to create small farms for displaced farmers from North Louisiana and beyond. The plantation home from the 1780s will stay as a shrine to the jurist, who served under President Cleveland.
Ethel Barrymore announces plans to retire from acting after a lifelong career in theater and film. She states she will live in the country, never again appearing in a play, and notes her birthday falls this week alongside family ties to Joan and Leonel Barrymore.
The Amarillo Area Boy Scouts relocate from the Amarillo Building to 106 East Fourth, rear of the Chamber of Commerce at Fourth and Polk. The remodel includes two front offices a hall and a rear storeroom with redecorated walls floor and ceiling. opening Friday morning. Charles W. Whittington Jr. leads the office with Mrs. R. J. Parsons as secretary.
The Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce invites all members and eligible nonmembers aged 21 to 35 to a general meeting tonight at 8 o clock at Southwestern Public Service Company. James Oakes, secretary, notes committee reports on ongoing projects and plans for a social gathering next month.
Malta shows limited support for abandoning its base role in favor of Cyprus. Critics note Cyprus harbors are ill suited for large ships, suggesting Cyprus would serve best as a submarine and aircraft base while Malta could join fortification efforts as part of the empire's Mediterranean defense network.
Misses Marion and Virginia Wade arrived home Tuesday evening after a trip to New York to visit their sister Mrs. Frank Innis.
The phrase links Malta’s retreat with a broader shift away from Eastern communications. It suggests strategic consequences of ceasing signals in the East, implying reduced liaison and limited connectivity for allied efforts.
Texas Union Party chose 23 presidential electors and adopted the national platform. Delegates backed the Townsend plan and will support William Lemke for president and Thomas C. O'Brien for vice president. R. S. Mayhall elected state executive chairman. numerous electors from Amarillo to San Angelo were certified. A number of Negro delegates attended the convention.
A Missouri Kansas Texas freight train derailed twice on sun warped rails near Gainesville due to extreme heat. Twenty cars left the track and a bridge was destroyed. A grass fire near gasoline soaked cars was put out by the crew with no injuries. fireman C A Parton was overcome. Wreckers from Denison and Wichita Falls cleared the line.
President Roosevelt cleared his desk and prepared to depart tomorrow morning on a three day tour of Pennsylvania Ohio and New York for flood control inspections and speeches. A late trip to Oxon Hill Maryland to see Sumner Welles was described as non political by the White House.
Virginia Rea sings Under the Greenwood Tree at 7 30 over KGNC in Musical Moments. Rubinoff performs There Isn t Any Limit to My Love and leads the orchestra in Take My Heart and Too Bad.
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