Amarillo Mayor Discusses City Manager Plan At High School
Mayor Ross D. Rogers spoke to Amarillo High civics students on municipal government. He praised the city manager system for ending spoils, running government like a business, and keeping services out of politics. He noted county home rule could extend similar efficiency to larger counties and mentioned Potter County could adopt the plan if desired. He also touched on municipal debt issues and credited civics instructor C. M. Rogers for arranging the talk.
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Ross D. Rogers
Civics
Rogers
Potter County
C. M. Rogers
Central Junior High Music Dept Marks 20 Years of Activity
For over two decades Central Junior High School has nurtured a strong music program. The article details early achievements from 1914 to 1933 including Victrola purchases, founding orchestras, operettas like Ye Little Olde Folks Concert and Windmills of Holland, and leadership by several instructors culminating with Miss Pearl Miller. The history notes moving locations, new pianos, music memory, and notable festival honors.
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Central Junior High School
Ethel Jackson
Wolflin School
Central Building
Blanche Davidson
Bivins School
Fourteenth and Polk
Helen Powell
Henry Landy
Ruby Nobles
Carrie Byer
Tyler Street
Blanche Olives
Paul Laverty
Tulip Lane
Carrie Lee Mathers
Pearl Miller
Sing Lo
Sonia
Hulda
Holland
Panhandle
Central Junior High
Debating Societies To Be Lion Guests
Members of Amarillo High School Philomathean and Forum debating societies will attend Lions Club meetings in small groups for the rest of the school year. Each boy may observe and speak briefly to members. A loving cup prize will go to the best high school debate club per formance.
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Philomathean
The
Forum
Amarillo High School
Lions Club
School chorus groups prepare operetta Oh Doctor on Feb 23 1934
The girls glee club, mixed chorus, and orchestra all earned superior ratings. The orchestra has 39 members and the girls glee club about 25. A boys quartette and mixed double quartette are active. Choral classes total 225 students. About 200 are expected to take part in the operetta Oh Doctor on February 23, 1934.
Central Junior P T A Hears Choral Club
The Central Junior High School P T A met in the Assembly Hall with a mixed-double quartette performing Silent Night led by Dorothy McNeil and others. A Christmas Play titled More Blessed was presented by members of two home rooms. Rev. Roy Snodgrass spoke and Mrs. Westbay reported on the National P T A Convention in Sherman Texas.
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Parent-Teacher Association of Central Junior High School
Assembly Hall
Dorothy McNeil
Carlie Barnes
Stella Mae Daniels
Margaret Woodruff
Oscar Schilling
Joseph Mason
Woodrow Henderson
Billy McEachern
Middleton
Mrs. Miner
Roy Snodgrass
The
First Christian Church
Sherman
Texas
W. D. Westbay
Marvin Jones Speaks To Central Students
Congressman Marvin Jones spoke to Central Junior High School students last Friday morning about training and determination to succeed. He cited President Roosevelt’s achievements, praised the Roosevelt administration, and criticized its enemies. The talk impressed the students with its instructive message. New Amarillo High School Engineering Club officers were elected yesterday: Ralph Short president Ney Morgan vice president Ray Folk treasurer Tom Moore recorder Ben Walker sergeant at arms. W. 8S. Willis sponsors the club.
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Central Junior High School
Marvin Jones
Jones
Roosevelt
Amarillo High School Engineering Club
Ralph Short
Ney Morgan
Ray Folk
Tom Moore
Ben Walker
Willis
Campaigns in Amarillo High School collect 1000 cans
Home room drives at Amarillo High School wrapped up yesterday with each room assembling its own basket of food to present to the Children's Home this afternoon.
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Amarillo High School
Honor roll corrections list two naming errors
A school page notice corrects two mistakes from last Thursday. Sarah Wyatt belongs on the A and B list, not the straight A roll, and Tom Moore was missing from the straight A list.
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Sarah Wyatt
Tom Moore
Mothers Sponsor Pie and Cake Sale for Glee Club Trip
Mothers of the Amarillo High School Girls Glee Club held a citywide pie and cake sale Saturday. Proceeds of 7.50 were deposited to fund the group’s trip to Galveston for the State Federated Music Clubs convention next spring.
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Amarillo
Galveston
Art Gifts Completed by Senior High Students
Senior High School art students completed Christmas gift projects today. The gifts include hand blocked linens handkerchiefs and linens decorated with spelling designs per art instructor Miss Maude L. Fletcher.
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Maude L. Fletcher
Gift of the Magi Highlighted At Amarillo High Xmas Show
Amarillo High School staged The Gift of the Magi as a four part Christmas play in the assembly. Parts named The Magi of 1 A D 33 A D 1920 and 1933 featured gifts of food from home rooms, donated to the Children's Home. Mrs Vara Davis Shinn directed both the play and the food drive.
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Amarillo High School
Vara Davis Shinn
Amarillo High Teachers Request Names of Failing Students
Letters urging study during Christmas holidays are going to parents of pupils with unsatisfactory work. Individual deficiencies will not be released until after the holidays. This marks the first time teachers are asked to submit names of students who have failed before the holidays.
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Amarillo High School
Amarillo High rifle team begins district contest prep
Members of the R O T C rifle team at Amarillo High School started target practice last week for the district contest among R O T C units from Texas Oklahoma New Mexico Colorado and Arizona. John Hightower leads as captain with R H Ghiselin as commanding officer noting many new members and a modest outlook.
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Amarillo High School
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Colorado
Arizona
John Hightower
R. H. Ghiselin
Hunger, history and a perfected Star in a wartime column
The piece contrasts ancient and modern hunger from France to America noting hunger marches in Paris and postwar dole, and jests about New Year music at the White House. It recalls the Star of Bethlehem and cites Taine and Roosevelt era music tastes amid political turmoil. In Pennsylvania 35,000 candidates.
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England
America
France
Paris
Taine
White House
Roosevelts
Woodrow Wilson
Alexanders
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Absent Amarlio High Students Take Christmas Jobs
An unprecedented number of Amarillo High School students especially girls are absent this week to work in downtown stores. Principal R B Norman cites work needs and few holidays before Christmas Day for the unusual absence.
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Amarillo High School
R. B. Norman
Amarillo High Thalian Club Adopts Family Gifts Basket
Members of the Thalian Club at Amarillo High School held a club tradition by adopting a family and assembling a gift basket compiled from each member’s contribution.
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Thalian Club
Amarillo High School
Amarillo Public Schools Yeletide Break Schedule
Students in Amarillo public schools begin Christmas holidays at 3 15 this afternoon and will resume work on January 2 1924 according to Supt W A McIntosh office.
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Amarillo Public
W. A. McIntosh
Mrs McIntosh Honored At Amarillo High Dinner
Mrs. W. A. McIntosh wife of the superintendent was the honor guest at a dinner hosted by the second year foods girls of Amarillo High School held last Friday in the high school dining room.
NRA Test Case Set in Texas Houston
Dec 21 Houston filling station operator L F McAlexander was held to a Federal Grand Jury under 1500 bond after a hearing before U S Commissioner W F Carothers on an NRA violation charge. Bowman testified he worked 12 hours daily for $12 a week from Nov 6 to Dec 15 with limited breaks.
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Houston
F. L
Bowman
McAlexander
P. Harvey
NRA
Carothers
Congress
Herring Coffee Shop Opens With Formal Ceremony
Temple Raymond and his Alamo Beach Orchestra provide music for the formal re opening of the Herring Hotel Coffee Shop at six this evening. Silverware glassware linen and dishes are new and the restaurant space has been remodeled under the Davis Brothers who run the Amarillo Hotel Coffee Shop.
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Temple Raymond
Alamo Beach
Davis Brothers
Amarillo Hotel
State liquor jobs protest over difficult exam questions
A protest cites tough state liquor job exams and calls for better assessment of truck drivers. The piece notes cryptic questions and political cynicism about salaries. It also reports a violent incident in Louisiana where a sheriff killed a man after a gunman wounded five people.
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Louisiana
Pierre Guillory
Guillory
World War Era Market News and Christmas Shopping Surge
The piece notes Brazil's coffee surplus and proposals to sell at low prices on credit to Russia, a shift from tea. It mentions Uncle Sam's gold purchases lifting prices, Morgenthau's view on the impact, and optimism as Jobe's findings and money distribution aid higher prices. It concludes with cities reporting a strong Christmas shopping season unseen since 1928.
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Brazil
Russia
Brat
Sam
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F. D. Daggett
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Malden, Mass
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