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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1930
Page
5
Navy engineers at New London train every officer and enlisted man in the underwater respiration device known as the lung. A 12 foot high flooded tank with 240000 gallons simulates depths. trainees enter a dry control room, study breathing tables, and then ascend using the device with decompression pauses marked by a rope buoy.
The common wood tick is charged with carrying two dangerous diseases rabbit fever or tularemia and endemic typhus fever though proof is not yet obtained. The department advised hikers to wear high topped shoes and lace trousers as protection and to disinfect tick bites with an antiseptic.
The city commission granted authority to advertise for bids on 4000 feet of three inch pipe for the water works department. Proposals will be opened August 26. Bids for 25 fire hydrants will wait until the Southwest Water Works Association convention later in September. J G Bertman of Patricia Inc has returned from New York after weeks of buying for the shop.
Warranty deeds and trust deeds recorded involving Arthur E Ray Daisy M Jami son and others. Transactions include Lot 16 Block 4 Country Club Park Lot 5 Block 1 Charl Hts Lot 6 Block 14 C District and multiple parcels in Amarillo and Eable Addition with values from 10 to 25 000 dollars and named grantees lenders and estates.
Miss Lela Krebs city secretary and treasurer for three years tendered her resignation to the city commission Tuesday night. The resignation was accepted and LaVerne Calhoun was appointed to fill the vacancy. Katherine Burwell becomes secretary to City Manager Durham.
In Memphis on August 13 Willie Sanders, 25, black, was fined 25 dollars or 25 days in jail after a neighbor woman testified that he was “wild about me” but “too mean and boorish.” She said she told him he could not see her again, yet he would not stay away.
The State Board of Education will grant credits for college music. Term begins September 9. Four courses available: Voice, Piano, Violin, Public School Music. Two year certificate course. Four year Mus B. degree. Amarillo Junior College offers instruction in required academic subjects for these courses.
President Hoover as commander in chief has moved to settle the dispute between the army and navy over control of air coast defenses. The efficiency bureau investigates the economic aspects while a joint board studies military cooperation to define responsibilities and potential plans. If no agreement is reached a mandatory presidential directive may be used.
Henry Thompson agency at Polk Street contact 2 1835. Taylor and Lyles at Oliver-Eakle Building phone 8831. Upshaw Archer Co. at Oliver-Eakle Building phone 7938. Williams Boyce Agency at 212 East 6th Street phone 4334. Williams Cartwright Agency at Fisk Building.
Secretary Adams asks the attorney general for an opinion on various phases of coast air control, a matter that drew a response from the army objecting to certain points. The brief highlights debates over military authority and national defense strategy.
Jack Pickford, motion picture actor, wed Miss Mary Mulhern, New York actress, in a seaside country church at Del Monte California. James Kirkwood, the director, was the sole attendant. Pickford declined to disclose honeymoon plans, saying only that he is the luckiest man in the world.
Ordinance levying assessment for pavement on West Tenth and North Pierce was authorized by the city Tuesday night. A motion for an ordinance levying an alley paving assessment between Fillmore Pierce Second and Third was made. The Pecos and Northern Texas Railway Company gave a concession on Johnson Street to straighten a street and easement on Johnson Street was recorded Tuesday night. A petition for paving North Garfield Wichita to Eighth was presented.
Tuesday night the petition prayer was allowed if no leave outs appeared opposite each other. The city commission also handled routine business, bills, estimates, and approved payroll for the last half of July.
Dallas candidate Sterling Ps Strong will launch his bid for lieutenant governor with a Mineral Wells speech on Friday and plan a West Texas Panhandle speaking tour afterward.
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