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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1931
Page
3
The active federal aid highway program has contracts with states totaling 442.5 million dollars as of August 1. About 30 million more is available from 125 million appropriated for the year to proceed on projects on a 50 50 basis.
Milton G. Randall, a distant relative of the President, created a rock model of Hoover Dam in his West Branch rock garden. He copied the design from a magazine illustration and gathered stones from near the boyhood home of Mr. Hoover.
The Crow dance by the Zia Indians is a major attraction at The First American in Albuquerque. The Panhandle Caravan will visit on August 20 and 21, with the caravan leaving Amarillo on Thursday morning August 20 at 7 o'clock.
A substitution cipher puzzle uses capital and small letters to encode a message. Clues reference a judge who sentenced Jack Diamond, his home state, and his sentence. The row of coded text follows yesterday's solution about air mail between America and Europe.
Last rites for Wiley Pollard 62 longtime Texas peace officer were conducted at the family home in Amarillo with Dr. R Thomson and Dr. G L Yates officiating. Interment followed at Llano Cemetery. Pollard, a 25 year Amarillo resident, is survived by his wife two sons four daughters two brothers and a sister. He earlier served as Potter County sheriff starting in 1924 and was known as a fearless Northwest Texas lawman.
In 1928 he retired from public office after a period of ill health. He had served in public life for years prior to stepping down and leaving active duties.
Lord Waldorf Astor of England plans a five thousand dollar educational trust for Astoria schoolchildren. He is a descendant of John Astor, founder of Astoria.
Examinations wind up the summer term as Amarillo public schools conclude the summer program. The elementary and high school departments mark the close of the summer courses in the two or three days at the end of the term.
The Amarillo College term ends tomorrow. Students who pass their courses in the public school work will receive credit for one regular semester. Affiliated college hours will be granted to students who finish their courses at Amarillo College.
Arizona Governor George W. P. Hunt asks the highway commission to require copper in the 1932 automobile license plates to bolster the copper industry.
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