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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1930
Page
5
Nurserymen in Amarillo backed an ordinance first reading to regulate permits and licenses for nursery business. Fees dropped from 25 to 16 dollars after opposition, with a 15 dollar license due after permits. City forester cited protection against fly-by-night operators and damaged stock.
Magnolia Petroleum Company has been granted permission to install a wholesale oil distributing plant between Third Fourth Jefferson and Adams Streets. The consent was approved at the city commission’s regular session after the Tuesday night presentation of the application.
R Motch plans a five-room bungalow on Bonita Avenue Mountain Drive in Pleasant Alley to be his residence. He is tied to Abbott Machine Company. D Kight spent yesterday in Dalhart on business for West Texas al Company. Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for sympathy assistance and flowers after the sickness and death of wife and mother, Mrs J R Wrather Estell Cox D Y Wrather.
About 50 members of Hanson Post No. 54 and Forty and Eight members will attend the state convention of the American Legion in Austin. The Forty and Eighters will hold their promenade during the Legion gathering. Dr. T. M. Montgomery announced the plan, with four grand officers from the division. Roy Pearson of Pampa leads the grande voiture as Grand Chef de Gare. C. C. Gibson is Grande Correspondante. Montgomery is Sous Grande Chef. E. W. Thomerson is Grand Avocat.
Col. E. O. Thompson, Amarillo mayor, lauded J. W. Mode of Fort Worth and Denver and R. C. Martini of the Santa Fe for voting with other city development board members to secure railroad right of way and terminal sites for a Texas & Pacific project. He asked that the civic act be noted in commission minutes. An editorial in The Amarillo Globe praised their unselfish civic service.
Mr and Mrs FE Norton celebrated a house warming at 1907 Taylor Street with a Panhandle and New Mexico family reunion. Guests from Quanah Hereford Artesia Glen Rio and Amarillo attended. a Sunday dinner drew many, with some staying through Monday and Tuesday. Jim Schedody Borger visited yesterday.
Work accelerates on booth construction and ground leveling for the Own-Your-Home Exposition to open Monday evening in a Hughes Street tent. About 60 Amarillo businesses invest up to 15 thousand dollars in exhibits as the center Demonstration Home and surrounding booths form a circular layout inside the canvas. The event, featuring WDAG radio entertainment, showcases a planned brick tile and stucco Demonstration Home with blue and gold canopy decorations enhancing a carnival atmosphere. The overall exposition investment ranges from sixty to seventy five thousand dollars.
The city commission adopted resolutions closing hearings on two paving projects North Alabama Street from North First to North Second and Prospect Street from Second to Third Avenue and ordered assessments. They also adopted a resolution accepting pavement improvements on North Kentucky Street from First to North Third. An ordinance to vacate an alley in Block 68 Bivins addition was considered. A deed to close land compensation with Mrs A J Thompson was ordered for East Third Street underpass. A paving resolution for Thirty sixth Street in Palo Duro and Edgefield was adopted at the request of the state highway commission.
City Commission grants authority to pay a 2000 appraisal bill from Burns and McDonnell Engineering for evaluating the Amarillo light company's plant as part of an electric rates inquiry. No report on the appraisal has been issued. Elmer C. Slough travels from Lubbock on business. no expo costs.
In a hot afternoon scene Dan recalls his rise from Continental staff writer to freelancing amid thoughts of Anne Winter and a Hollywood contract. He drafts a story about building a demonstration home, struggles with writer’s block, and considers returning to New York, finding little comfort in the work or his romance.
A brief note hints at a romantic plot where a piker falls for a girl preordained to achieve remarkable things. The line promises further developments as the story continues.
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