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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1937
Page
2
A weather column predicts fair and warmer days ahead with possible snow within a week. It also advertises a Red Cross performance at the Rialto Wheater featuring Devil Dogs of the Air. The piece blends light local anecdotes, a note on Plains football, and a handful of short community sketches.
Fragmentary notes recount a guest being locked out after a staged call, with hotel staff admitting the ruse. The piece then shifts to a barrage of curious facts and trivia about telegraphy, energy use, aviation, censorship, and assorted oddities, without a clear single focal event.
Fragments show classifieds seeking work including a single man for ranch work a colored woman for housekeeping and nursing and a reader seeking help with a costume or contact details plus a lost belt and handkerchiefs near Polk Street with Mrs K A Whitaker offering return. Additional notes mention a companion wanted and a motherhouse caretaker role.
Amarillo residents continue pouring cash and clothing into the Potter County Red Cross office for Mississippi Valley flood relief. A dozen large clothing boxes were dispatched to Fort Worth Saturday, with many more en route. Donations can be picked up by calling 22005 or Station KGNC. A flood relief benefit at Rialto Theater will donate all receipts to the Potter County Chapter. The film Devil Dogs of the Air opens at 11 30 tonight. Recreation departments at Paramount Recreation Club will be turned over to Red Cross Thursday. About $3,800 has been received so far.
Chairman C V Terrell and Col Ernest O Thompson of the Texas Railroad Commission arrived in Amarillo to attend a banquet marking Santa Fe's new rail link between Texas and Colorado. Thompson says Texas oil is at its best year and notes a 2 500 barrel daily increase for the Panhandle, adding about 12 500 dollars in new revenue daily.
Trans continental and Western Air plans the largest advertising drive in its history to promote travel on the TWA Super Sky Liners. Vice-president John B. Walker announced the effort with Hans-Metzger, Inc. appointed to handle the account. Walker noted newspapers already helped boost passenger numbers and that ads will be used more extensively.
Potter County tax collector Miss Jewell Davidson estimates total voting strength at 6,200 for the year with about 3,800 poll tax receipts issued before the January 31 deadline. She expects another 200 payments by mail and notes roughly 2,200 exemptions. Polls issued last election reached about 8,500. Tax set at $1.78 with allocations to state school fund 1.00 and Confederate pension fund 0.50 and local jury fund 0.25.
Amarillo tax offices reopened after Sunday closure with large mail payments awaiting processing. County and school offices said receipts would take another day to post while city officials extended the deadline to avoid penalties. All three offices reported January receipts 10 to 15 percent higher than 1936 totals.
The House Appropriations Committee approved the first regular bill of the session. It provides 1,046,757,143 dollars for 30 plus independent agencies for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The total exceeds last year’s by 61,265,982 dollars. Cuts hit Social Security Board salaries and expenses by 5,000,000 dollars and Home Owners' Loan Corporation estimates by 2,000,000 dollars, offset by a 1,000,000-dollar rise for the Federal Housing Administration and 50,000 dollars for White House maintenance and repairs.
Potter County saw a fourth straight rise in January automobile registrations. Tax collector Miss Jewell Davidson announced a total of 208 vehicles this year, up from 202 the previous year.
About 30 used car salesmen from Walter Irvin Inc attended a breakfast at the Herring Hotel before a sales meeting. Ford wholesaler R. L. Anderson and a Mr. Baillock of Oklahoma City were present. Plans for February’s selling program were laid out. Bill Bessier and Ed Bee led the session.
Warrants from other counties are being sent to Amarillo to arrest Potter County motorists who have passed school buses that have stopped for children. Deputy Sheriff Ivy Wilkinson said the warrants are increasing in number today.
Cold weather sweeps the Panhandle with 9 to 13 degree lows. Amarillo drops to 11 as a 44 degree drop from the previous night shocks the Plains. Forecaster H T Collman predicts fair and warmer tomorrow and possibly six more weeks of winter if Groundhog Day proves correct.
Perryton route carrier Archie A. Sword was arrested by U S Marshal Bill Lampe for stealing mail containing a 36.03 check and forging a signature. Olaf Baldwin signed the complaint. Sword was taken to Amarillo where a bond was set and a preliminary hearing was scheduled before the U S commissioner.
Amarillo's water supply from Word ranch wells will be featured in The American City magazine. FE. T. Archer of a Kansas City firm toured the wells about 18 miles southwest and hailed their condition, noting they remain productive well beyond typical 10 year life.
W. E. Kent was arrested by State Highway Patrol officers on Lincoln Street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth Avenues after a Sunday afternoon joy ride ended at the Potter County jail. He faces a driving while intoxicated charge and bail was set at $750 by Judge C. W. Carder.
President Roosevelt urged Congress to pass legislation allowing acceptance of the Mellon art collection offered as a gift to the United States. The proposal marks a major cultural donation from Andrew W. Mellon aimed at enriching national holdings.
The Potter County Commission meets in morning session with all five members present including Mark Parker Lon Sellers John Winters Dan Pavillard and Judge Newt Riggs. After a lunch break they plan to reconvene for an afternoon session at 2 o clock to continue routine business and bill payments.
The Arab Patrol, a AO-member unit of Knive Strine Temple, holds its first meeting since new officers were elected at 7:20 tonight in the Masonic Building. President Joe Jenkins and secretary Frank MeoGraw lead the group in New York.
Hanson Post of the American Legion and the Auxiliary will hold a joint meeting Tuesday night at the Legion Hall. Patriotism and good citizenship are stressed this month. Mrs. James Cade, department chairman of Americanism for the auxiliary, will conduct a school of instruction on Americanism. Lou Pierds, who holds the post’s name office, will give a talk on National Defense.
A statewide operation to stop motor fuel movement into Texas without a distributor permit will start soon in Panhandle border towns along the Oklahoma and New Mexico lines. John C. Wilson, Amarillo division supervisor, announced four new investigators will aid the drive. About 100,000 gallons of gasoline were imported tax free last year across the Texas line.
Attorney General William McCraw and Assistant Attorney General Pay M. Neff, Jr. have filed suits against the distributors. While many violators are independent service station men, a large number are farmers importing gas into the state tax free, Wilson said.
Karl A. Crowley of Fort Worth, solicitor general of the Post Office Department, said today that Texas friends are urging him to be a candidate for governor in 1938.
Assistant County Attorney Tom Seay and Mrs Seay returned home Sunday from Houston where they had visited Mrs Seays parents Mr and Mrs Anton Mehler. Mrs Seay lives at 1207 Van Bur en Street. General Motors issued a state ment noting 123.724 of the 149.249 workers affected by strikes and shutdowns in its plant are supporting the work movement.
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