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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1936
Page
2
A long voice notes election blues and calls for gentler debate while delivering local weather and oddities. The writer frets over campaigns and media smear, dreams of senate run, cites bat trouble on the Plains, drought, and nearby incidents including a car crash injury report and duck migration notes.
Amarillo Garden Club pursues a show funding with 65 prize bulbs and shrubs at the Crystal Ballroom Herring Hotel on Friday September 4. Donors include Gene Howe Amarillo Gas Co and others. prizes include juniper red cedar tulip bulbs peony varieties Radiance roses and a H G Hendricks painting as grand prize.
A Texas Chamber of Commerce letter from Amarillo praises the city as the preferred highway route from Dallas to Cheyenne and Colorado points. The writer cites highway desk staff and travel bureaus confirming Amarillo as the shortest, best paved path, with limited gravel sections north of Amarillo and in northern New Mexico.
A reader from Tulia Texas laments extreme heat making him sweat and cling to clothing. He asks Tack for advice after resorting to dry cleaning and cooling at an ice plant to avoid embarrassment among local women. A rebuttal notes that the reader should avoid visiting in summer due to being overweight.
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation financed 1 123 loans in Potter County totaling 2 859 595 during three years ending June 13 1936. Across Texas 44 361 distressed homeowners received 103 208 774 with 6 343 000 for taxes and assessments and an average 143 per tax per loan. Nationwide HOLOC loans reached 1 021 817 totaling 3 002 870 784 with an average loan of 3 027. Over 98 percent funded refinancing of distressed homes while the rest improved properties and tax offices received 228 453 000 in HOLOC advances.
Robert C. Dow regional attorney for the Resettlement Administration in Amarillo attends the Will Rogers Memorial program in Fort Worth as New Mexico’s representative. Thousands of admirers gather at Frontier Centennial grounds to honor Will Rogers with many Texans and old friends present. The event marks tribute to Rogers in Claremore and nearby communities with local dignitaries and ranch hands in attendance.
Portales New Mexico seeks to curb job seekers by asking other towns to avoid the valley. W L Kirkwood secretary of the Roosevelt County Chamber of Commerce writes to the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce detailing a large surplus of transient labor and urging publication to deter further arrivals.
Mrs. Virginia A. Ashford 87 of Amarillo, widow of 8. Ashford former Lub bock building contractor who died in 1917, died at 6 45 am at Northwest Texas Hospital. She lived with daughter Mrs W H Crawford at 912 Harrison St. Survived by daughter Mrs G M Small of Fort Worth and son J A Ashford. Funeral Tuesday 10 am at Boxwell Brothers Chapel. Burial in Liano Cemetery.
The Tuesday Bible Club No. 2 will meet at 9 30 tomorrow morning with Mrs. Palmer Black at 3411 A West Tenth Avenue.
Judge E C Nelson Jr convened the 47th District Court as the Potter County grand jury was slated to meet for the fall term. The morning session was postponed for insufficient jurors. Sheriff Adams was tasked to recruit more members. Grand jury commissioners named include Judge L Gough W W Finch and Bruce E Autry.
A city hall hearing before Judge W. G. Fly handled nearly twenty men in jail from the weekend. Most detainees faced drunkenness charges as the Land Office Business Corporation court proceeded with preliminary proceedings.
Fascists claimed French and Russian volunteers formed a large share of the Loyalist troops in the battle and that the attackers beat back the defenders with about 3,000 killed and wounded.
In the battles across Spain Fierce action reported at Pordoba and Guadarrama as fascists seize 1000 prisoners and Loyalists push back near the capital. Navalmoral Navalmoral Die Mata Turk forces clash with air raids on Irun. Paulina Uzcudun denied killed rumors amid propaganda claims.
Dear Tack requests an electric machine to store for the winter and promises best care. A reader invites participation to form a club for respectable youths ages 4 to 26, with details on Page 11.
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