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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1938
Page
2
The copy claims Phillips 66 Poly Gas delivers rapid starting and tops the high test lineup. It notes Phillips as the Winnipeg area's largest producer of natural high test gasoline, with no extra cost.
Grain and futures quotes show May and July wheat and corn prices with mixed gains and declines. Prices listed for May wheat at around 66 to 66 and corn around 47 to 49, with July futures near 27 and 40 for some contracts.
A garbled stock list from Fenner & Beane shows mixed Dow Jones movement with numerous readings and percentage shifts. The document names major firms such as American Can, General Electric, IBM, and United Aircraft, among others, with varied price points and percent changes looming in a late afternoon session.
U S D A reports Kansas City livestock trading with hogs at top 7.30 and generally 7.20 to 7.25, 800 head. Cattle 400, calves 300 with a load of yearling steers at 9.00 and most butcher cows 5.00 to 6.00, vealers around 10.00. Sheep 1,000 with native lamb tops at 4.75 and sales from 8.50 for fed yearlings.
Premit issued for Bob Capell to construct a five room dwelling on Virginia Street. Officials say the owner and contractor, Richards, arranged the frame house project with a local builder. Early phase work totals about 89,000 dollars in estimated cost.
John Armstrong, an Amarillo Independent School District trustee, submitted his resignation effective November 22 after a PWA ruling forbids any director from profiting from projects financed with PWA funds. Armstrong, connected to Amarillo Building and Supply, left the board as it prepares to appoint successors, including for T. Crowe who resigned earlier.
Matra-Meal, a new cooked cereal from the Matra-Meal Company of Dalhart, is expanding in the Panhandle. Amarillo salesman Don Thoen leads the sales force as the Dalhart plant, capable of 5,000 packages daily, distributes the product regionwide. The cereal blends wheat and millet with brown sugar and dehydrated banana, retains all vitamins, and was developed with a physician to offer high food value for cold winter mornings.
The Amarillo High School serves 1,691 students with 57 teachers and librarians. No teacher has an overload, and no one exceeds 740 pupil periods. The library holds 7,718 volumes, with 1,508 added since the 1937-38 report, subscribing to five daily papers seven weeklies and 62 monthlies. The school meets all minimum standards of the Southern Association of High Schools.
Funeral services for Larry Siegel age 16 months were held at N. & Griggs and Sons chapel. Rabbi Alex Wiesel led the rites after bronchial pneumonia claimed his life at a focal hospital. The Siegels reside at 1407 Hughes Street and have lived in Amarillo 2½ years. Survivors include the parents and paternal grandparents Harney Siegel of Des Moines Iowa. Pallbearers were Jimmie Zomons Ben Lipahy A Peterman and Larry Aronson. Burial followed in the Jewish section of Liang Cemetery.
Amarillo was saluted by the Texas State Network for half an hour at 20 o clock today. The broadcast on 32 stations promoted Amarillo as a wholesale distributing center and for industrial expansion. The prearrast information came from the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce athletic department at the behest of promotion manager Paul Paradsdittart of Fort Worth.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mabel Lockhart 43 a Tucumcari resident who died there were held at the Blackburn-Shaw chapel at 1 30 this afternoon Rev J Sizemore of the Buchanan Street Baptist Church officiated Burial was in Llano Cemetery Mrs Lockhart a Panhandle pioneer lived in Pampa from 1914 through 1928.
NBC Saturday opera broadcasts start tomorrow on KGNC and continue weekly through the season. The program will reach coast to coast and the Hawaiian Islands with an Honolulu opera breakfast planned. Tomorrow's opera is Verdi's Othello led by tenor Giovanni Martinelli and baritone Lawrence Tibbet.
A newsreel of the Southern Methodist Texas Christian football classic was shown at the Texas Theater in Dallas last Saturday and again today and tomorrow. Ben Golding, the manager, said the film runs at length among this year’s notable games.
Announcement states Julius Adelmann, manufacturing jeweler, will open a new shop at 112 West Fifth in the Pioneer Hotel Building. He has 30 years in Amarillo jewelry and will continue as manufacturing jeweler and diamond specialist. The partnership with Lester Blakemore is dissolved.
Members of the Prop and Wings Club at the Amarillo Hotel heard Dave Blettner explain construction methods on modern stressed skin airplanes. Election of officers, postponed from last night, will take place at Thursday’s hotel meeting.
Lon Garver who is serving a 14 year sentence for assault with intent to murder and F E Reynolds who faces a 99 year term for criminal attack on a ten year old Amarillo girl tried to escape from the county jail last night. They attempted to overpower Deputy Jailer Jack Carroll.
A chamber committee of eight members led by Paul Edquist meets at the Amarillo Hotel to decide the Tri-State Fair debt issue. The Tri-State Fair Association closed 1938 with about $2000 debt and directors urged the chamber to assume responsibility and manage the event, suggesting ending free gate policy and adding a small admission fee along with a full-time secretary-manager.
The Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce starts a traffic study to back a plan for a modern control system and a larger police presence. A traffic committee chaired by Gordon Gill and others will survey the system and present findings to Mayor Rogers and the city commission next Wednesday.
The Buchanan Street Junior High School gym project was awarded to Parr Construction Company of Amarillo for 35154.90 dollars. Construction must begin before December 5 under Public Works Administration requirements after earlier bids exceeded available funds, delaying the award by two weeks.
Deputy county Tax assessor Robert A. Kesterson has moved his office to city hall to review building permits issued this year. He will list improvements and estimated costs and then inspect new buildings for valuations on which the county will levy tax.
An officer was threatened with a throat cut and assaulted when opening a cell door to release a prisoner for an interview. Two inmates struck the officer. he repelled Garver, locked Reynolds in the corridor, and secured the doorway.
Amarillo merchants and professionals met to craft a city ordinance regulating solicitors of contributions and advertising schemes. They aim to require credentials from a city bureau to certify legitimate causes, arguing Amarillo lacks protection from high pressure fund rackets and that the measure will regulate solicitations without harming legitimate businesses or institutions.
Two Oklahoma girls aged 15 and 16 from Bristow ran away seeking adventure and were apprehended in Amarillo after spending a day at city hall and a night in the county jail ward awaiting relatives. Parents were notified and traveling to Amarillo.
James Carlisle Hale two month old son of Mr and Mrs A G Hale of Fritch died in a car en route to St Anthony s Hospital this morning. Survived by father and mother. Funeral services in Vega at 4 this afternoon Rev Godwin Vega Baptist Church officiating. Burial Vega cemetery with N S Griggs and Sons in charge.
Funeral services for Mrs. M. J. Kelley who died in a local hospital last night were scheduled at Boxwell Brothers Chapel at 3 30 this afternoon. Rev. Thomas Drury would say mass. the body to be shipped to Newton Kansas at five. She had been secretary to William Allen White of Emporia Kansas for four years and left survivors include her husband two children and her mother with brothers and sisters listed among other relatives at Elmo Concordia Solomon and Quincy.
C M Allen Amarillo High School Diversified Occupations coordinator and M A Browning Distributive Education coordinator are attending the National Convention of Vocational Counselors this weekend in St Louis Missouri.
Christian Science services announce the Sunday lesson sermon on God as the sole cause and creator with the Golden Text from Isaiah 43 15 and scriptural citations from Nehemiah 9 6 and Science and Health page 520 highlighting infinite love filling all space.
Amarillo resident William Trunk 68 was found dead by his wife at 303 Lincoln Street. Coroner ruled accidental death likely from heart trouble. He arrived in Amarillo in 1905, returned permanently in 1914, worked in bricklaying and contracting. Burial at Llano Cemetery with Griggs Funeral Home handling arrangements. Survivors include wife three brothers and two sisters.
Only one day left to obtain a Civic Music membership. Tolzien's Music Store headquarters opens tonight 7 30 to 9 00 for memberships or call 6981. Three nationally known artists will headline this season. Memberships transferable with “Christmas gift” notes. Rev R Thomsen urges support for cultural growth in Amarillo as the city adopts the concert habit. Secretary Beckie Reeder Arnold asks renewals and new memberships by mail or pickup, as time is short. Membership closes Saturday at 10 PM.
Amarillo residents are reserving seats for Christmas travel as district traffic manager Vernon Gunn notes a rise in pre holiday air business. He cites TWA traffic out of Amarillo increasing during the first 11 months of 1937 and expects a strong winter travel season.
A dense liquor advertisement lists numerous whiskeys wines and spirits with varying proofs and bottle sizes. Items include 2 year old rye 12 price, Old Preston 2 years and 242 years old notes, Mr. Boston Maryland Rye qt 1 79, Sloe Gin qt 1 00, and Piping Rock gins 39 to 1 00, with Ready Mixed Cocktails pt 50 and Century line quarts. The offer notes weekly changes and fruit brandies, topicals noting a long tastings assortment and a phrase Ready Mixed Cocktails.
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