03 Jan 1940
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1940
Page
1
In a mix of personal musings and rural color the writer recalls flowers budding in deep snow a caller from West Sixteenth Street and a fond nod to black eyed peas. He riffs on readers, radio bits, mistakes in past columns, and his creed to keep writing for the plains audience amid cold weather and public reactions.
Weather notes a mild winter with fogs and no imminent snow while Amarillo City Hall receives a sealed bid from Amarillo Oil Company for a $75,000 to $100,000 deep test to locate oil and gas. The column touts local figures, a deer rumor saga, and calls for payroll growth through new factories and community action led by the Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Classified notices from a midwestern town soliciting work include a middle age housekeeper for a farm twelve miles from town who must be neat and childless, a colored girl seeking any work with experience in nursing and housekeeping, a janitor cafe or hotel worker offering references, a 20 year old man seeking any job with references, an unencumbered lady willing to go anywhere with references, and several direct requests for housework, practical nursing, and delivery or store work. Multiple ads list contact times and addresses in Tack columns.
A collage of jokes and gossip from Amarantho Globe style chatter covers Roosevelt third term talk Broadway quips and Hollywood rumors. Notes mention Capone yacht Hoovers milk prank and the car industry’s dominance with editor Bruce Bliven warning about censorship versus propaganda.
Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce will install new officers at a special meeting next Tuesday night in the Capitol Hotel. Sam Davis will succeed Tom Wingate as president. Dick Hughes of Pampa, a national committee member, will assist with the installation program. Frank Stephens of Southwestern Public Service entertained at the weekly luncheon, with piano accompaniment by Mrs. George A. McNeill and introduction by Fancher Upshaw Jr.
Man in Wien asks for employment due to need for work. He notes experience in service station and kitchen work at a cafe plus in housework and offers references. Provides two addresses and contact numbers and requests reasonable wages.
Markets section lists grain quotations for wheat corn oats rye and soy, with bid offers and closing figures from Fenner Beane Amarillo, plus a Kansas City Livestock summary noting hogs and cattle trade, price ranges, and alfalfa headlines, ending with an odd tax note about Eton College Harrow School and Oxford universities.
Members of the Optimist Club met at noon in the Capitol Hotel for an I Q program. Grady Hazlewood presided as president and split the group into two sections. George McGrath acted as professor and conducted a Ma contest. The meeting ended in a tie and was described as the most interesting so far.
News reel pictures of the Cotton Bowl game between Clemson and Boston College play today tomorrow and Friday at the Paramount. Manager George Tucker announced this morning. That's pretty quick service two days. The feature is All Quiet on the Western Front uncensored.
Miss Jewell Davidson announced the appointment of J L Fay Gober as deputy tax assessor effective immediately. He succeeds Bob Kester son who resigned to enter private business. Gober from a Panhandle family previously ran a paving business in Amarillo.
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