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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1935
Page
2
A reader critiques women smokers and alcohol, urges male restraint, and laments changing marital trends. The piece mentions 28 percent of women under 49 smoking, a young woman visitor who smokes about 30 cigarettes daily, and social shifts toward divorce and delayed weddings.
A fragmented list of Friday night programs on KGNC includes music segments with Pancho Villa, Paul Whiteman, and Texan broadcasts. It notes a mock snoring contest, a judging duo, and jokes amid a broad daylong lineup featuring news reels, orchestras, weather, grain quotas, and agricultural reports through Saturday morning.
The article reports an order requiring ships loading crude from Texas and Louisiana to file detailed reports with the Division of Investigation in the Interior Department. Senators Bankhead Gore Connally oppose the moved measure, blocking it from a vote and tying it to broader petroleum policy and possible amendments.
A continued election discussion outlines amendments on liquor repeal local option enforcement pensions for seniors with limits, state hospital commitments without jury trials, school fund changes for free textbooks, ending district fee enrollments, and shifting suspension sentence power from juries to judges.
The plan offers a direct subsidy to cotton growers to cover the差between average market price from September 1 to January 1 and 12 cents per pound. It also allows borrowing at 9 cents per pound, down from 12. The price guarantee option lets growers sell at any market price while the government pays the difference later.
Kansas City livestock report details hog offerings around 800 head with prices mostly 10 to 10.50 for better grades and down to 9.50 for lighter lots. Cattle prices show mixed trade with heifers and steers weaker in parts, plain grades down, but better feeders and calves steady to slightly higher in spots.
Thousands of Oklahomans mourned at Fairlawn Cemetery as Wiley Post, famed aviator and aviation pioneer, was laid to rest after services at a local church and public viewings in the state capitol rotunda. C W Furr of Amarillo described the funeral in a note to Wilbur C Hawk while en route to the Pacific Expo.
L D Brigham 66 died at 12 50 this morning at his Amarillo home 4249 West Thirteenth Avenue after months of illness. He was a Great American Insurance special agent and Masonic Lodge member. Last rites at 3 pm at the family home with Rev Guy Newman. burial in Enid Oklahoma via Rock Island. Survivors: widow Della Brigham son B C Brigham and five grandchildren.
The social security board will require wage records for each worker to compute pensions at age 65. Pensions begin in 1942. Even before the permanent plan, the board must ensure state old age pensions meet federal standards before paying up to 14 dollars monthly per person to align with state programs, starting once organization and certification are ready.
Sam Page to succeed Howard Anderson as Chef de Gare at September 26 installation. Legion headquarters hosted last night’s election to lead Amarillo’s Forty and Eight. The group plans to send its train to the Dallas state convention before the Legion meet. Other officers include Charles Lowe chef de train Otho Farrell commissaire intendant H F Bozeman garde de la partie George E F Broome lampiste R R Carrie Nation commiss Voyaguer Dr M Fuller medicin Lew Roberts Borger and J M Johnson Canadian chemists.
Vince Skypala a 69 year old retired farmer died yesterday evening at his daughter Mrs Anton Grotegut s Umbarger home He was born in Police Austria and naturalized in 1892 He had lived with his daughter for six months Funeral services will be held at 9 o clock tomorrow at the Catholic Church in Umbarger with Father J J Dolfe Requiem Mass Burial will be in Umbarger Cemetery under Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home direction He survived by Mrs Grotegut and two other daughters Mrs Anna Friemel Hereford and Mrs Mary Irlbeck Umbarger and three sons Vince and August Sky pala Hereford and Henry Sky pala Umbarger
Judge W E Gee in 108th District Court held the county not liable in a $26 640 32 damage suit against Potter County and D F Fullington driver of a county truck. The suit arose from a July 19 crash injuring city employee H F Mathews. The court sustained the county demurrer and noted Mathews had not named new defendants if amended. The decision clears the county of liability but leaves Fullington still a defendant.
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