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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 02, 1938
Page
6
Chicago wholesale and retail food price survey shows meat prices leading declines since September with other items, including butter eggs potatoes lard flour and major grains, dropping 12 to 56 percent from peak levels. Increased production and weaker consumer buying power cited as causes.
Sanitary inspector John Trolinger reports the Preventorium is well equipped and in excellent condition after a routine survey. He notes two floor furnaces and four large circulating heat units in the solariums, praising the heating system and the management of Lorena Moore and Pearl Cleveland.
Spearman resident R. V. Converse endorsed Coliseum efforts tied to Tri State Fair and Fat Stock Show ambitions. He noted potential benefits for the Panhandle and outer territory while urging sane funding to avoid heavy debt. The piece also mentions Amarillo as regional growth leader. A fact about a white rhinoceros horn length appears in the same text.
Wednesday and Thursday broadcasts detail NBC programs, music acts, news, and features with times from afternoon to late evening including The Sons of the West Don Winslow of the Navy and Your Hollywood Parade. The timetable also lists Thursday morning exchanges and stock quotations.
Dr. George W. Cox calls for open discussion and action to control syphilis, proposing a $1,000,000 state appropriation in 1939. The plan includes venereal disease control, free lab services for indigents, clinic support, and drug distribution, with reporting and quarantine for resistant cases.
Amazingly rapid acting Blue Star Ointment eases itching of eczema rash tetter ringworm and other itch quickly. Money back if the first large jar fails to satisfy. Trial size 35e.
Courthouse records show multiple land transfers with buyers and prices including Glenn, Harris, Baker, Anderson, Adkisson, and Pumphrey. Car registrations include Dodge W H Mileur Ford coupe Mrs J Stewart Buick and more. Leroy Ross and Chresie Pogue obtain a marriage license.
J. W. Mode, superintendent of the Fort Worth and Denver Railway, urged Amarillo to think big and build a coliseum. He called the city a growing metropolis and stressed careful planning, aggressive leadership, and long range cooperation for advancement.
Police Judge James F. Nagle dismissed a traffic charge in St. Louis because the arresting officer misspelled the defendant’s birth place as Europe. The error prompted a legal remedy and release from the charge.
The courtroom heard a defendant claim birth in Czechoslovakia after a case dismissal. When asked by Judge Nagle where he was born the man replied In Czechoslovakia and admitted telling the arresting officer the same, but the officer mis-spelled it as Busrope.
Rio Grande Valley city of Weslaco opens Texas’s only trailer tourist park able to host 100 trailers with a visitors club room for guests.
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