Lumber Man Proposes City Beautification Plan
J E Hill of Panhandle Lumber Company sponsors a 1931 plan to beautify streets and create garden spaces on vacant lots. The city would offer water at a nominal or owner negotiated rate, with 30 lots listed for garden use under the forester's supervision and trees planted with compensation. City Manager Bill Durham to study costs and rates. a report expected next meeting. The piece ends noting the Nizam of Hyderabad as the world’s richest native Indian prince, wealth surpassing Rockefeller and Ford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Hill
The
Panhandle Lumber Company
Mr. Petty
Edgar H. Petty
Bill Durham
Nizam of
Hyderabad
India
Rockefeller
Ford
Legion Posts a Banner Year in 1980 Amarillo
Hanson Post of the American Legion reports its largest state membership and a year of major community activity in Amarillo. Highlights include driving the ROTC armory project, staging the biggest Community Christmas, and processing hundreds of benefit claims and headstone placements for local veterans.
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Amarillo
American Legion Post
Legion Post
Hanson Post
Legion
T. M. Montgomery
Hanson
Floyd L. Sloan
ROTC
Service Department
City limits vote canvass confirms annexation extension
Tuesday night canvass confirms Monday special election result showing 892 to 28 in favor of annexation. City Commission adopts resolution adding seven tracts including Tri State Fairgrounds Ridgemere Summers Gables Sunset Park Addition and a school plot near San Jacinto. Extension brings in Southwestern Public Service power plant valued at 1.25 million under recent electric franchise dated October 1.
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City Section
Tri-State Fairgrounds
Ridgemere
Summers, Gables
Sunset Park
Amarillo Country Club
San Jacinto
Southwestern Public Service Company
Amarillo Annexation Votes Favor City Inclusion
In a special election held Monday, all legally registered voters from seven tracts who cast ballots supported annexation. Over 85 percent of property owners in several additions, especially Sunset Park, signed petitions urging the city commission to bring their properties into Amarillo.
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Sunset Park Addition
City Commission
Amarillo
Street car operator shoots robber during Dallas area hold up
Fort Worth Texas December 81 The street car operator Carl R Wynofsky opened fire when one robber drew a pistol and demanded valuables. The wounded robber died at the hospital while an accomplice fled, about 60 years old, in dark clothes. The other robber escaped.
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Assuociated
Fort. Worth
Texas
Carl R. Wynofsky
Wynofsky
Seal sales praised for Christmas health drive in Amarillo
Mrs. J. L. Scott, Potter County Tuberculosis Association chairwoman, praised the liberal and quick response to the 1030 Christmas health seal campaign in Amarillo and Potter County. She noted strong support from regular patrons and many new contributors.
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Amarillo
Potter County
J. L. Scott
Tyler Street
Couple Is Married In Big Cemetery
In Seattle on Monday night Ronald Hooper and Gladys Leslie were wed in a funeral chapel inside a cemetery with about three hundred guests. Hooper, 24, is an organist and Miss Leslie, 20, an elocutionist. Production of cotton and rice by scientific agriculture has begun experimentally in Guatemala.
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Preas
Seattle
Wash
Dee
Ronald Hooper
Gladys Leslie
Guatemala
Health seal campaign shows strong results in drive
Association officials report the 1930 health seal drive meets or exceeds prior years. Checks mailed to secretary Mrs. R. B. Masterson continue arriving as organizers push for a final report to headquarters in Austin. Health seats sold at business district booths supplement the mail effort. All proceeds fund tuberculosis campaign.
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Association
Mra
R. B. Masterson
Mra. Scott
Austin
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John E. Hill
City Limits
Mauldin’s Pure
Mauldin
For
E. E. Mauldin Dairy
Stork Shop
Polk ST
Stork
City of
Taylor
FOX Drug Company
Acme
Acme Laundry & Dry Cleaning Co
Mayo
Dr. Mayo and Associates
Greer’s
Muassle
Corner 4Th and
Polk
Mayo Dental
8Th and
East Sixth City Shoe Shop
Amarillo Window Cleaning Co. E, L, Price, Mer
Moore St
Crosley
Buddy Boy
A.C. Electric
Crosley New Leadership Series
Neutrod
A. C. Electric
Dietan Saewstes
Epecker
Crossey Amrad
Crosley Amrad Sondo
Crosley Crony
Crosley Partner
Harman Motor Co
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