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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1932
Page
16
Nedra Parker from Northwest Texas Hospital is assigned to health unit headquarters in city hall for out patient work as part of her course. Mattie Thornton, also a student nurse at Northwest Texas Hospital, is assigned to the health unit office clinic for several weeks.
The U S Biological Survey and Potter County agriculture department report success with poisoned grain to reduce prairie dogs, while pocket gophers grow harder to control. Grain supply is available at the Chamber of Commerce agriculture department, with only preparation costs charged. Traps remain the main remedy for gophers, which mainly threaten garden crops and fruit trees. Prairie dog grain use declined from over 10 000 pounds four years ago to about half that in 1931, with under 5000 pounds expected this year.
Amarillo city reservoir 210 by 190 by 20 feet, holding 5 million gallons, emptied for a scrub after removing four yards of sand. Fire hoses washed the basin, located near Crockett Street on Eighth Avenue, with two days needed to refill from city wells supplying about 3 million gallons daily.
Funeral services were held at Polk Street Methodist Church for Mrs. Flora Lanier who died this week in Wichita Falls. Rev. Ira F. Key officiated with pallbearers John Taylor Bud Arnett Oscar McDowell E. L. Richardson Jack Trigg and Max Bullock. Burial followed at Llano Cemetery under N. B. Griggs & Sons. Surviving are her husband W. G. Lanier and three sons including H. F. Lanier of Amarillo.
Dr. E W Little veterinarian of the Amarillo Potter County health unit spoke in Panhandle before the Rotary Club about health unit activities. Roy H Smith postmaster and Fay Guthrie chamber of commerce secretary Tucumcari N M were in Amarillo Wednesday and Thursday.
The Amarillo health unit says influenza is waning with fewer pupil absences and no contagion cases in the city. Weather favors rapid recovery and fewer restrictions as cases drop from current levels. Australia trims stamps and postcard pictures as part of cost cutting.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce adopts the slogan Our Turn Now to back a bid for the 1933 Texas Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association convention to be held in El Paso March 22 to 24. A special Amarillo Panhandle train to El Paso is planned with Rock Island service and excursion rates of 9 to 11 dollars. Reservations are urged through Mason King at the Chamber of Commerce.
Amarillo police arrested “shorty” Goolsby for burglary and transferred him to Swisher County. He faced charges after officers recovered several hundred dollars in household goods identified as stolen from the Ben Hogge home at Happy. Deputy Sheriff McDonald of Tulsa delivered the prisoner to Swisher County as stated by authorities.
FE Hatch of Berry and Hatch architects has resumed duties after a ten day bout with influenza, returning to his Berry office and continuing architectural work.
A stolen adding machine recovered by Amarillo police links Ben Mason of Amarillo to a Denver school robbery spree. Marie Garver, Amarillo divorcee, was arrested but released. the machine was shipped to Denver police chief Alpert T. Clark.
A historical note uses the phrase two generations of man equals 163 generations of boll weevil, signaling a poetic comparison of human time to pest life cycles. The fragment hints at agricultural pest impact aboard a narrative.
President Hoover accepted the resignation of Andrew Mellon after 11 years as secretary of the treasury. Ogden Mills was sworn in as the new secretary and attended the oath while Mellon and Mills did not join the cabinet meeting. The exchange included high praise from Mellon and Mills for Hoover and his administration.
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