Gray County lake bond vote and Panhandle weather notes
County leaders push a Gray County lake and recreational center funded by at least 100000 dollars, touting climate and soil benefits. The Plains region faces ongoing dust and variable rain with winds and daily storms in the Panhandle and Oklahoma strip, while water levels decline and erosion efforts expand.
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Northwest Panhandle
Oklahoma Strip
Potter County
Hemphill County
Gray County
Amarillo Hosts La Junta Delegation Sunday Night
Amarillo will host a welcome for a La Junta Colorado delegation arriving at 5 p m Sunday aboard a Santa Fe special train. Floyd Sloan American Legion adjutant handles arrangements with Jaycees Elks Kiwanians Rotarians and Lions joining in the entertainment. The train is due to depart Amarillo at 11 30 p m Sunday night.
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Amarillo
la Junta
Colorado
Floyd Sloan
American Legion
Jaycees
Elks
Lions
Sit-Down Strike Tells WPA Workers in Central Park Garage
About 100 WPA workers occupied a New York City park department garage in Central Park and began a sit-down strike to protest a pay cut and longer hours. They seized nine trucks, smoked, and refused to leave while warnings of removal from WPA rolls were issued.
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New York
WPA
New York City
Miscellaneous facts and trivia from a historical column
A collage of tidbits covers diverse topics from royalty born in London to animal digestion and corn production for popcorn. Notes include linotype error rates, Paderewski attire, walnut cultivation, yells origins, US ice cream expenditures, and early car models. Also mentions oysters, frigate Constitution restoration, Amos Tuck and the Republican name, and the OU Sooners versus A M Cowboys football rivalry.
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Mary
George V
Great Britain
London
Iowa
Paderewski
England
Princeton
United States
Rainier
Pope
Thomas Flyer
Pierce Great Arrow
Stanley Steamer
Waltham Orient
Pittsburgh
Hartford
Conn
Amos Tuck
Dartmouth College
Republican Party
Tack Dear Tack Letters and requests to readers
Readers urge Tack to practice what he preaches on panhandling while sending letters about a lost cream can a dog hunt and a job for a colored girl. The note lists names and locations such as Shamrock Canyon Stinnett and Stinnett Texas and references pages and column sections for more letters.
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Tack
RE. P. Mitchell
Stinnett
Texas
Roaring Monster Of Ice Threatens Alaskan Roadhouse
In Fairbanks, the P-Black Rapids Glacier advanced toward the Black Rapids Roadhouse as 200 foot high ice blocks tumbled from its face. Mr and Mrs H E Revell and their son Harry watched, fearing evacuation as the glacier loomed a mile from the highway. The mountain of ice surged after a recent earthquake, turning a calm scene into a roaring danger.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Black Rapids
Black Rapids Roadhouse
H. E. Revell
Harry
Last rites set for S B Eubank longtime Amarillo area farmer
Funeral services for S B Eubank 71 a retired farmer nine miles west of Amarillo will be held Saturday at 2 30 PM from Boxwell Brothers Funeral Chapel. He died Wednesday in Houston while visiting his son Robert Eubank. Survived by wife and 10 children including Robert John Aldine Lucille Mollie Sallie Mattie Nettie and Alice Warren. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. He was a Baptist.
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S. B. Eubank
Amarillo
Boxwell Brothers Funeral Chapel
Eubanks
Robert Eubank
Houston
John Eubank
Wilder
Idaho
Aldine Eubank
Kermitt
Lucille Fogel
Landon to Comment on Roosevelt Court Plan at Lincoln Dinner
Former Governor Alfred M. Landon says he will address Roosevelt's Supreme Court proposals at the National Republican Club Lincoln Day dinner in New York tonight. He notes the issue will be part of his remarks but not the entire topic.
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Tack
Evening Globe
New York
U.P
Alfred M. Landon
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
National Republican Club
New Mexico Ratifies Child Labor Amendment
New Mexico becomes the 27th state to ratify the child labor amendment as Secretary Perkins and Attorney General Cummings predict its addition to the Constitution this year. South Dakota rejects it, and nine more states must act favorably.
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Washington
New Mexico
Perkins
Cummings
South Dakota
IHC Banquet Tonight for International Harvester Men
Twenty eight men of the International Harvester Company will gather for a banquet at 7 o'clock tonight in the Herring Hotel. W A Fisk branch manager will preside as the group discusses accounting problems and policies.
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International Harvester Company
Herring Hotel
W. A. Fisk
Lindberghs Reach Mersa Matruh En Route to Cairo
Col and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh land at Mersa Matruh in the western desert while traveling from Tripoli to Cairo. They plan to remain overnight in the town about 300 miles from Cairo.
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Cairo
Egypt
Charles A. Lindbergh
Tripoli
Mersa Matrough
Western Desert
Earhart to land at Howland Island with Manning navigator
Amelia Earhart will become the first flyer to land on Howland Island where an airfield is being built. Captain Harry Manning, veteran U S Lines officer, will accompany her as navigator on the Pacific crossing and plans to be dumped in Australia after the flight.
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Miss Earhart
Howland Island
Bureau of Air Commerce
Harry Manning
United States Lines
Australia
Fearful wife seeks husband amid Dallas kidnapping fear
Mrs James McDowell of Dallas, wife of a 65 year old cotton grader, asks police for help in locating her husband who she fears was abducted and killed by swindlers.
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Dallas
James McDowell
Author Ferguson Visits Amarillo Before Hollywood Spirit
Charles W. Ferguson, Reader's Digest editor and SMU 1923 graduate, stays in Amarillo to see his mother at 1100 Taylor Street before heading to Hollywood. He tours Dallas contact John H. McGinnis and Henry Nash Smith, with ties to SMU English. His new book Fifty Million Brothers explores American clubs and lodges in modern society.
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Charles W. Ferguson
Reader's Digest
Amarillo
C. N. N. Ferguson
Taylor Street
Ferguson Ferguson
SMU
Hollywood
Dallas
John H. McGinnis
Dallas News
Henry Nash Smith
Mr. Ferguson
Renne Allred Improves Mount Pleasant
Hospital attendants said Renne Allred youngest brother of Gov James V Allred would likely return home today. Allred a Dallas attorney collapsed when dizzy in Claud McDonald office while trying to raise a window. Nurse Raymond Allred said he would bring him home this afternoon if his condition allowed.
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Mount Pleasant
Renne Allred
James V. Allred
Young Allred
Dallas
Claud McDonald
Raymond Allred
Potter County Commission Meets For Bills And Elections
The Potter County commission convened to review current bills and appoint election board members for the next two years. Commissioner John Winters, recently ill, attended after five days, joined by Lon Sellers Dan Pavillard Mark Parker and Judge J. N. Riggs ensuring full representation.
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Potter County Commission
Election Board
John Winters
Lon Sellers
Dan Pavillard
Mark Parker
J. N. Riggs
Dean Speaks Mind on Neurotic Teachers at Iowa City
Dean George D. Stoddard of the University of Iowa graduate school argues tight lipped teachers produce the least progress in children. He warns against neurotic restraint and urges reality, unique usefulness, and periodic change such as new jobs or summer study to improve teachers’ mental outlook.
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Iowa City
George D. Stoddard
University of Iown Graduate School
Dean Stoddard
Legislature approves bills on alcohol sales in eating places
A legislative committee approved a bill allowing beer and liquor by the drink in bona fide eating places where alcohol is already sold in unbroken packages. The measure does not alter current beer and light wine by the drink rules. A companion bill to let cities regulate beer and wine sales was also approved, with no record votes taken as the bill was reported viva voce.
Pioneer work in limb and organ transplantation cited
Commissioner Helvering reports Georgia internal revenue collections for the year ending June 30 totaled 16 430 559 49 dollars. The citation notes Carrell's eminence for pioneering limb and organ transplantation and for organ preservation outside the body.
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Guy T. Helvering
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Georgia
Police seek man after self defense nails sample found
Police obtained fingernail scrapings from the victim and seek a man with facial scratches believed caused when the girl defended herself. The nails contained a wool strand and light hair, while Carroll would not comment on two other men detained.
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Carrol
Lockney Man Dies After Cow Kicks Head
Lockney, Feb 12. Paul Sims 50 died after being kicked in the head by a cow while milking on his farm 10 miles northeast of Lockney. Skull fracture caused his death an hour later at a local clinic. He had lived in Floyd County since 1996. Survived by wife, mother Mrs. J. W. Sims of Lockney, three sisters, two brothers. Funeral services set for Saturday.
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Lockney
Paul Sims
Sims
Floyd County
J. W. Sims
Guy Sams
E. J. Thomas
Anna Sims
Charles Slack
Plainview
Charlie
Montana City
W. E
Mrs Anna Ford Services Tomorrow
Funeral services for Mrs. Anna Ford 61 died Monday night at 608 North Pierce Street will be held tomorrow at 4 from Griggs Funeral Chapel. She wife of J. W. Ford and resident of Amarillo for 32 years. Services by a reader from First Church of Christ Scientist. Pallbearers W B Patterson C B Lawler Charles Lester J N Browning G L Talbot H Gallarneau. Cemetery.
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Anna Ford
North Pierce Street
Griggs’ Funeral
Ford
J. W. Ford
Amarillo
First Church of Christ, Scientist
W. B. Patterson
C. B. Lawler
Charles Lester
J. N. Browning
G. L. Talbot
H. Gallarneau
Memorial Park Cemetery
Red Cross Praised for Flood Relief Efforts
A letter to H. G. Hamrick from the mid western branch credits the Amarillo Red Cross for flood relief results. It acknowledges remittances of 4400 dollars and notes Amarillo sent over 4200 garments shoes and blankets to Mississippi flood regions.
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Red Cross
H. G. Hamrick
Wm. M. Baxter, Jr
Amarillo
Pontiac Dealers Meet in Amarillo Herring Hotel
Forty Pontiac panhandle dealers and salesmen gather in Amarillo at the Herring Hotel for an all day sales meeting led by R. W. Lousey from Oklahoma City. A noon banquet interrupted sessions before work resumed.
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Amarillo
R. W. Lousey
Oklahoma City
Mrs Burr Shane Improves After Illness
Mrs Burr Shane of 3708 Tyler Street, secretary to Judge R Walker Hall of the Court of Civil Appeals, is reported to be getting along nicely after several days of serious illness.
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Burr Shane
Tyler Street
Shane
R. Walker Hall
The
Court, of Civil Appeals
Lincoln killer’s doppelganger and the Booth connection
John St. Helen, once friendly with attorney Finis Bates in Lincoln lore, fell ill and revealed a plan to send personal papers to Edwin Booth before his death. He later vanished, resurfaced as John Wilkes Booth in Oklahoma and Granbury, with connections traced to the Lincoln assassination until a mummified Enid body was studied in Chicago.
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Finis Bates
St. Helen
Bates
New York
Edwin Booth
John Wilkes Booth
Granbury
Chicago
Checkered Cap Identifies Suspect in Mattson Kidnapping Case
A checkered cap matched the pattern described as worn by the Tacoma boy Charles Mattson kidnapper. Police tied the cap to Tim Donovan alias James G McDonald, held since Wednesday, though Seattle detectives chief said Donovan may not be the abductor.
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Seattle
Wash
U.P
Charles Mattson
Tacoma
Tim” Donovan
James G. McDonald
Marshall Scrafford
Donovan
LaFollette Orders Pinkerton Records Produced
Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, chairing the Senate civil liberties committee, demanded that Pinkerton Agency officials immediately provide confidential reports kept under guard in a Washington hotel room. Robert Pinkerton, president, dispatched Ralph Dudley to secure the documents after initial denials. Brazier, a New York office worker, later said the records were locked in the hotel room.
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Washington
LaFollette
Progressive
Wisconsin
Senate Civil Liberties Committee
Pinkerton
Robert Pinkerton
Ralph Dudley
Robert D. Brazier
New York
Justice Dept to Explain President's Reform Program Sunday
Justice Department officials announced Attorney General Cummings will explain the President's judiciary reform program on a coast to coast radio broadcast next Sunday night at 6 P.M. C8.
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Washington
Justice Department
Cummings
Grass Greens Course Prominent at West Texas Club
The Olvercourse and annual club events are planned for next year at the Country Club. President Olver noted watering depends on weather and business conditions. The club planted many trees and shrubs around the clubhouse and course and tested Bermuda grass on approaches to greens. The Thursday meeting drew 49 stockholders while proxies from over 100 others were counted. Holdover directors include Roy Greenhill Frank Edwards and Wade Holman.
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Olver
Country Club
West Texas
Roy Greenhill
Frank Edwards
Wade Holman
Markets Still Closed Across the U S on Lincoln's Birthday
National exchanges stayed shut as listed markets in New Orleans cotton Savannah and Jacksonville naval stores Boston wool and livestock traded abstaining. U S D A hog prices topped at 10.00 with 190 lb cuts and cattle and sheep markets showing modest activity in Kansas City and New Orleans cotton opened near steady to slightly lower.
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New York
United States
Lincoln
New Orleans
Savannah
Jacksonville
Boston
Kansas City
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