New Year Hopes Rise Amid Plans For Jobs In Amarillo
An optimistic column urges renewed faith as Mayor Thompson unveils a major unemployment program in Amarillo aimed at putting hundreds to work. It cites Dumas pipeline work causing local job migration and urges readers to join the Chamber of Commerce effort while noting festive football at Butler Stadium and social issues about family formation.
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Butler Stadium
Amarillo
Panhandle
Plains Country
Old Tack urges New Year good will in plains district
In a heartfelt message Old Tack extols blessing every person in the plains district and denies harboring grudges. He recalls favors given to Hugh Butler and suggests a bonus for Blair Cherry while stressing no one is against him. He wishes a Happy New Year to all.
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Coach Cherry
Hugh Butler
Blair Cherry
Plains
Old Tack
Plaina
Still Operation Preserved in Quiet Home Scene
Authorities described a large still operation with a thousand fruit jars stored in the house. Each vat bore a start date and the arrangement minimized yard odor while police noted a potential production rate of about 1,000 gallons per day.
War Vets Prepare Big New Year Party at Legion Hall
Veterans of Foreign Wars and their wives gather tonight at the American Legion Hall in the Municipal Auditorium for a New Year event. A dinner, dancing, and varied entertainment follow a game menu including wild goose and wild duck.
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American Legion Hall
Municipal Auditorium
Frank Stone
Texas Tech
Crystal Ball
Herring Hotel
Milt Taggart
Joe Norman
Hillcrest
de Molays
Clyde Damph
Masonic Temple
el Taos
Fair Theater
Ruth Chatterton
All Stars of
Pampa
Butler Field
Clubs Yield Room to College in Amarillo
The Amarillo city commission accepted a December Federated Clubs resolution to surrender space in Municipal Auditorium from January 1 to serve Amarillo Junior College. A thank you letter will be sent to the Federated Clubs. resolution signed by Mrs. Walter Browne and others. Eskimos in the Canadian Arctic regions increasingly use motor boats airplanes and wireless sets.
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City Commission
Federated Clubs of
Amarillo
Municipal Auditorium
Canadian Arctic
Lost leather-bound book on machinery instructions
A black leather-bound book about one inch thick three inches wide and six inches long with printed sheets on machinery and salesman instructions is lost. It disappeared between Borger and Amarillo or in Borger. A reward is offered for its return to Globe News.
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Salemen
Borger
Amarillo
Globe News
Readers petition to restore Felix the Cat to funny pages
Shirley Brant of Panhandle Texas asks Globe News to bring back Felix the Cat and remove Scorchy Smith from the comics. E R Tack replies with brief commentary seeking public interest and debts paid.
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Felix the Cat
Scorchy Smith
Spain
Shirley Alice Brant
Panhandle
Texas
Amarillo
Erasmus Tack
Care Globe News
New Year Festivities Face Chicago Prohibition Crackdown
New Year events span Pampa and Amarillo with dances at multiple venues and sport bets. In Chicago federal agents raid Lincoln Tavern Town Club and Granada Cafe, seizing unbroken bottles and threatening padlock actions amid liquor running concerns. Nine men arrested in a separate apartment raid, linked to a liquor ring, firearms found.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Lincoln Tavern
Granada Cafe
Loyalty drive mobilizes Amarillo job effort
Mayor Ernest C. Thompson launched a city wide loyalty plan to put unemployed workers to work. Mrs. Ross urges those with jobs to contact the Chamber of Commerce to register and assign temporary duties. Over 900 unemployed are already registered as neighborhood groups form to place workers across industries with the Chamber as clearing house. A mass meeting will precede job readiness and the drive includes a WDAG radio broadcast at 9 30 PM.
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Ernest C. Thompson
Amarillo
Chamber of Commerce
Ross
WDAG
Divorces in Potter County Fall in 1930
Potter County records show divorces dropping about 15 percent in 1930 while marriages fell by half. Judge W E Gee granted 168 divorces versus 192 in 1929, and county clerk Ted Blackburn issued 219 marriage certificates, down from 488 the prior year. Clovis New Mexico figures suggest Panhandle counties saw a sharp license decline, with Christmas Day certificates totaling 22 for Texas couples seeking to bypass new laws.
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W. E. Gee
Civil District Court
Ted Blackburn
Clovis
N. M
Panhandle
Texas
Amarillo
Minister Ends Life at Portales New Mexico
Portales New Mexico December 31 Reverend E C Ball, a longtime pastor, died this morning by his own hand from a pistol shot to the head. He had been serving as pastor of a local church.
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The Mysterious Universe and cosmology for readers
A column urges scientists and general readers to explore Jeans The Mysterious Universe and The Universe Around Us, comparing human ignorance to shadows in Plato’s cave. It cites nebulae glimpsed by the Mount Wilson 100 inch telescope, notes millions of nebulae and stars, and references Ramsay MacDonald and Irving Bush predicting renewed prosperity in 1981 amid market speculation and optimism.
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Irving T. Bush
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Bush
MacDonald
Eleven Die in Political Rioting in Capitanejo
Eleven people were killed and twenty injured in political riots in Capitanejo Santander. The clash pitted Conservative and Liberal partisans. Federal troops patrolled the town today as order was restored.
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Associated Press
Bogota
Colombia
Capitanejo
Department
Santander
Funeral for J D Sweeney Friday at 10
J D Sweeney 80 a pioneer Amarillian and former car accountant for Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway dies in Santa Fe hospital Clovis. He resided in Amarillo since 1904 and retired after 60 years railroading. Survived by daughter Inez and sons Arch M and Paul. Funeral Friday 10 at Central Presbyterian Church burial Llano Mausoleum with Masonic rites.
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Amarillian
Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway
Vie Santa Fe
Griggs & Sons Funeral
Sweeney
Santa Fe
Clovis
Mr. Sweeney
Amarillo
California
Kansas
Inez Sweeney
Kentucky
Arch M Sweeney
Detroit
Paul Sweeney
Ozark Mountains
Missouri
Pioneer
Central Presbyterian Church
Rev. R. Thomsen
Llano Mausoleum
Local Baptist minister ends life after family illness
A pastor who served a Baptist church for two years faced severe financial and mental strain as his wife lay seriously ill in Dallas. He returned from Dallas Monday night cheerful then left a note stating he was broke financially physically and mentally and could see no other way out. Funeral plans have not been announced.
Sharper Urges Tag On Victim To Ensure Safety
The Amarillo blotter reports one con man tagged for safe return after youths admitted to police headquarters for show-ups. Police renewed vagrants crackdown as the crime prevention campaign gains momentum.
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Amarillo
Radio Networks Plan New Year's Eve and Day Broadcasts
NBC CBS and coast to coast stations outline a New Year’s Eve schedule featuring Shilkret and the Olive Palmer ensemble, a cross country greeting, and concerts in major cities. New Year’s Day includes Roosevelt inaugurations from Albany, Mussolini address, and a Rose Bowl game broadcast with international greetings in 60 languages.
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Alabama
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CBS
R. B. Bennett
Canada
Pampa Station Broadcast Schedule Highlights
WDAG airs 8:80 to 9 o'clock with Warner Brothers Brevities. KGRS from 9 to 12 o'clock features a Pampa program broadcast from Pampa station.
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WDAG
Warner Brothers
KGRS
Pampa
Tragic Oil Field Blast Shakes Electra
Explosion hurling debris over 200 yards rattled Electra and nearby residents three miles away. Three Electra men died in the tragedy and were noted oil field figures. Snyder had lived in Ranger and left a brother here. Russell hailed from Pennsylvania and left a wife and two children here. A sister, Mrs Judson Irby, survives Kennsworth.
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Ranger
Russell
Pennsylvania
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Kennsworthy
Chamber officials return from Oklahoma City highway talks
Bill Lampe vice president of the Chamber of Commerce and W W Chilton highway manager returned from Oklahoma City after a conference with state officials on interstate highways. The meeting is expected to bring valuable results to the Panhandle area and a detailed report on highway problems will be released by week’s end.
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Chamber of Commerce
W. W. Chilton
Chamber of Commerce Highway Department
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Panhandle
Chilton
Hoover favors four-routs rail consolidation plan press statement
The speaker supports consolidating major railways excluding New England into four systems arranged by representatives of the Pennsylvnia New York Central Nickel Plates and Baltimore and Ohio Railroads. He cites Senate action delaying consolidation and calls for public and Interstate Commerce Commission review before any discussion. He questions the President's ethics and the independence of the commission due to presidential influence.
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Pennsylvania
New York Central
Baltimore & Ohio
Senate
House
Committee On Interstate and Foreign
Committee On Interstate
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States
Commission
Schools face 300000 deficiency warrants due February 1
Taxes and finance dominate a city council discussion as G G Ordway warns the schools need 300000 in deficiency warrants due February 1 and operating costs of about 60000 monthly. Banks cannot advance further funds, and lenders expect full repayment on February 1.
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G. G. Ordway
City Commission
Kansas City Livestock Markets Reported by AP
Hogs 5,000 steady to 10 cents higher top 7.85. packers 6.00 to 6.75. calves 300. Cattle 2,500. steers 600-900 lbs 9.25 to 8.18. 900-1100 lbs 9.00 to 8.25. 1100-1300 lbs 9.00 to 8.25. vealers 6.50 to 11.00. Sheep 2,000. lambs 90 lbs around 7.26 to 8.00. Fort Worth hogs 600 head, top 8.00. cattle 2,100 incl calf 700. slaughter steers 5.65 to 7.75. fed cattle 7.95 to 7.15.
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Kansas City
Associated Press
Fort Worth
I Am a Year that Laughs and Weeps in Turn
A reflective poem on the passing of a year and the cycle of time. The speaker speaks as a year itself dying with the old year and birth of the new. It recalls giving dawn noon and dusk, winter through fall, joys and sorrows, and the lives it touched. The voice notes that mortals judge the year as good or bad, yet the year dies as the people made it.
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Amarillo
Market Roundup: Cattle Prices and Cotton Standouts
Livestock: fat cows 4.50 4.65, stock steer calves to 8.85, heavy calves 7.55, sheep and lambs listing with fat lambs at 7.00 and fat yearlings 5.50. Cotton: New York opening steady with gains and relent to midday around 10.00 for March and 10.49 July. New Orleans follows similar pattern amid pre holiday realizing.
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Associated Press
Liverpool
New Orleans
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