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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1938
Page
2
The column notes a looming warm spell followed by a northern cold front while the White Christmas week approaches. It reports a reward offer of 200 dollars for a stolen checker from Furr Food Store, and discusses bids on Playboy, a bull, plus market chatter. It blends atmospheric talk with assorted social notes and opinions on current events and figures.
A column mix of political worry about Germany and potential dictatorship at home, forecasts of a cold spell and heavy winds, and short notices on missing jewelry, scientific tidbits, fashion trends, and trivia. It weaves personal anecdotes with era anxieties and light domestic items.
Amarillo police under Sheriff Bill Adams and Detective Captain Leo Yielding hid in bitter cold and found parolee Bill Frost under a bridge five miles northwest of Amarillo. Frost admitted possession of stolen tires from Claude and was taken to Claude for burglary charges. A speeding car fled as Adams fired three rounds. outcome of shots unknown.
The 1939 Texas political year opens with a January legislature session and a January 17 gubernatorial handover to W. Lee O'Daniel. Major issues include old age assistance taxes horse racing and liquor. Departments reorganize with Gerald Mann Bascom Giles and Jerry Sadler taking posts and policy shifts anticipated in oil land and railroad regulation.
A fragmented OCR note shows a plea for assistance to a tech desk with continuation hinted on later pages. The readable fragment conveys urgency but lacks full details or names.
Dr Paul L Schroeder told the American Association for the Advancement of Science that industrial slums near factories spawn most criminals and that delinquency starts in gangs of youths. He urged better housing working conditions and recreational facilities to curb crime.
Lou Roberts of Borger was endorsed for state commander of the American Legion by delegates to the 18th district meeting in Childress. Eight district legionnaires from Amarillo attended the event which featured a dinner and dance. The next district gathering will be in Amarillo late next January with a nationally known Americanism speaker.
Edith Zelley forwarded a letter to City Chemist Jack Wyatt from a consulting engineer seeking Amarillo water temperature data. The request asks for current temperature, fluctuations, and summer maximum, plus cost estimates for 3 to 4 million gallons monthly and the wet bulb maximum if available for recent years.
Members of the Aeronautical Association of Texas will meet tomorrow night at 7 in Amarillo Hotel lobby and be shuttled to Municipal Airport. Instructor Dave Blenner will lecture on airplane rigging using field models. The group aims to join the national association and promote private flying across Texas. The public may attend.
Santa Claus slowed building in Amarillo but permits are being renewed. A $7000 addition permit was issued for Mann Bakery at 506 North Fillmore Street. City plans further permits for Margaret Wills School addition and a large PWA project upgrading water works and extending the sewer system.
B E Foster regional Soil Conservation Service executive and Mrs Foster vacation in Mexico City. They left Monday and will be away about two weeks.
With nothing better to fill time, people keep busy by piling on small chores and improvised projects to occupy their minds and hands.
Amarillo police officer John Odom says traffic to the Rose Bowl will be directed from police airplanes. He recalls a previous trip where his train baggage contained a window weight planted by coworkers. Chief McDowell displayed the weight and Odom joked about not leaving headquarters this time.
R B Norman Amarillo High School principal will discuss Living in High School on KGNC tomorrow afternoon at 4 45 o clock. The program is part of a district wide series of school radio talks organized by W T Lofland deputy state superintendent of education. Amarillo High music department directed by Miss Mabel Rowan will perform several selections.
T M Bruner acting as agent petitioned the city commission to call a public hearing on a rezoning of a lot in Sunset addition at the Wolflin and Madison Streets intersection for a duplex. The petition included a complete list of adjoining property owners.
Twenty six residents filed petitions with the city commission asking for four new street lights. They request lighting at Northwest Tenth Northwest Twelfth and Northwest Fifteenth on McMasters Street plus a light at Fourteenth Avenue and Buchanan Street.
Miss Ida Taylor, a missionary for more than 30 years in China, will lecture at the First Baptist Church in Amarillo at 8 o’clock tonight. She is the sister of D H Taylor of 2106 Jackson Street and is spending Christmas holidays here. the public is invited.
Roy Hagerman, a former Amarillo city employee visiting the civil service project near Washington, complains of rules including fire room occupancy, washing days, and clothesline times. He notes bright war leftovers paint and irregular, exposed house placements in a crazy quilt layout.
A Christmas gas explosion wrecked the new Pampa home of Mr and Mrs Jack Nunn. Gas in walls and attic caused the roof to blow off and walls to implode. Mrs Nunn suffered serious burns in the blast.
Tokyo reports a favorable trade balance for the year as exports exceed imports by 13 million yen. The gain comes mainly from drastic import cuts of 1.136 billion yen while exports fall 502 million yen, underscoring a weak overall rise in external trade.
Police recovered eight cases of lubrication stolen from the Sinclair warehouse at Second Avenue and Cleveland Street. A suspect was identified and held in custody in connection with the burglary, Amarillo police announced.
Property owners announced to the city commission they are ready to post funds to pay for all materials needed to pave the Van Buren Jackson alley between Nineteenth and Twentieth Avenues. Under the WPA program, which has paved miles of streets and alleys in Amarillo, all labor is provided.
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