Amarillo Newsnote Mixes Weather, Local Business and Oddities
Column blends forecast of possible snow by Saturday with notes on oil leases near Amarillo, local shop talk and colorful anecdotes. It mentions Les Whitaker’s plan to drill by March 1, Barefoot Bailey’s shoe trade, Frank King of AP in Texas, and various quips about editors, actors, and Western life. The piece urges civic effort to grow local industry, highlights Mrs. Mad Sen’s new chicken diner, and includes light moral tidbits and humor about language, traffic, and parenting.
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Les Whitaker
Amarillo
Four-Pound Budget Balance Puzzle Sets Page Hint
Washington Jan 6 budget note shows the 1940 four pound budget cannot balance as issued with 971 pages. If one page is removed to balance pages to 485 on each side, key items vanish including funds for elevator service in the Washington Monument, a park janitor and ranger staff, and $200 for animal subsistence and care in parks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eddy Gilmore
Washington
Washington Monument
Amarillo Furniture Dealers Heat Up For Chicago Expo
Several Amarillo furniture dealers plan trips to the annual exposition in Chicago starting next Monday. Norton Baker will make his seventeenth consecutive trip to the Furniture Dealers Association convention and expo, leaving tomorrow or Sunday. Baker also makes four trips yearly to the furniture mart. Amarillo serves as a trade hub with nearly twenty furniture dealers.
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Amarillo
Chicago
Norton Baker
Furniture Company
Furniture Dealers’ Association
Baker
Furniture Mart
Home and 4-H Clubs Map 1939 Projects
County home demonstration and 4-H clubs outline three main projects for the year with poultry focus for women, clothing for girls, and kitchen improvements as the feature. Pot t er County clubs report 119 active women members and 45 girls in five clubs.
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Potter County
Damaged OCR Continues Across Page Header
Fragmentary text shows continuation marker "(CONTINUED ON PAGE)" with unreadable fragments and possible title spillover from a newspaper page. Content lacks coherent facts or named entities.
Esther Johnsson Describes Europe as Intrigue and Censorship
Ama rillo pianist Esther Johnsson touring America voices relief at being free from censorship as she travels from Belgrade toward Amarillo. She recalls Macedonia and Yugoslavia where letters were read and people feared speaking out. Queen Maria of Yugoslavia honors her for pioneering Yugoslav music, noting King Peter’s forthcoming rule.
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Esther Johnsson
Europe
Amarillo
New York
Belgrade
Munich
America
Macedonia
Lake Ohrid
Yugoslavia
Maria
Nazi Reich Chancellery Drying Plaster With Hot Air Blowers
Berlin January 6 three enormous ovens consume over 100000 pounds of coal daily to blow hot air on plaster in the new Reich chancellery in a race to finish before the New Year diplomats reception on January 10. Three thousand workers toil day and night to complete the building.
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Berlin
U.P
Reich Chancellery
Nazi plan for a Polish Ukrainian federal state under tutelage
Reported discussions describe Germany extending indirect rule over an autonomous Ukraine within a Polish Ukrainian federation. The scheme envisions Czhecho-Slovakia’s economic ties mirrored with Germany, and rewards for Poland involving the Russian and Baltic regions. Memel, Lithuania, and Baltic states feature in the push, with tri-party talks hinted between Germany Poland and Lithuania.
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Germany
Ukraine
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Baltic
Danay
Memel
Lithuania
Estonia
Latvia
Hero Displays Courage in Repeated Life Saving Feats
Granger, celebrated for his repeated swims to rescue unconscious victims, exhibits the highest courage as he saves all those in danger. He is not a life saving novice, having previously saved two others before this act.
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Granger
Stops Sale of Hot Oil in Texas Halted by Attorney General
Attorney General Gerald C. Mann ordered a halt to pending sales of hot oil and said a plan to obtain fair value for confiscated production will be studied. The orders affect three January sales in Rusk and Gregg Counties and 80 039 barrels in Gregg County. Some sales were tied to suits against named individuals. Mann questioned the current system and suggested state bids or altered sale methods, noting possible changes to confiscation laws. He also announced a forthcoming report on land office vacancy awards. In Dallas, former Attorney General William McCraw and P. D. Smith faced a civil suit seeking about 4 166 dollars over loans tied to campaigns.
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Austin
U.P
Gerald C. Mann
Rusk
Gregg
David Donoghue
Gregg County
W. R. Sheen
R. C. Whitner
Rusk County
J. D. Presnall, Jr
Mann
State Land Office
Trinity River
Dallas County
Worth Bay
Dallas
William McCraw
P. D. Smith
Smith
McCraw
Local Man Dies. Hinds Family Noted in Texas
T. J. Hinds aged 82, father of Mrs. J. O. Haymes of Big Spring, former Amarillo resident, died at his home in Tye near Abilene. He was father of Rev. W. C. Hinds of Midland. Funeral services were to be held this afternoon at Tye. friends in Amarillo were advised.
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T. J. Hinds
J. O. Haymes
Amarillo
Tye
Abliene
Haymes
Big Spring
Hinds
W. C. Hinds
Midland
Perryton
Methodist Church
Homer Rice Tops In Canned Hams And Dog Food Sales
Homer Rice, famed leader of the world’s biggest band, was cited for selling the most Wilson & Co canned hams in December in Oklahoma and Texas, all in Amerilla. He also led in the Oklahoma Texas territory for dog food sales in 1938 for the second year in a row. Ocean sunfish weight increase noted at 60,000,000 times.
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Homer Rice
Roosevelt
Wilson & Co
Oklahoma
Texas
Amerilla
Oklahoma-Texas
Postoffice Move Nears
Postmaster W D DeGrassi says mail service will not be interrupted as Amarillo post office moves to a new location. Moving begins Saturday after noon, old office handles mail until Monday, then all mail goes to the new building.
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Amarillo
Postoffice
W. D. DeGrassi
Sony
Mr. DeGrassi
Braniff Airways Inaugurates Amarillo to Brownsville Service
Braniff Airways establishes direct passenger service between Amarillo and Brownsville with a Corpus Christi and Brownsville route starting January 15. The schedule allows a 2 PM departure from Amarillo reaching Brownsville by 9 PM, with an intermediate Dallas connection for Gulf city service.
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Amarillo
Brownsville
Braniff Airways
Corpus Christi
Dallas
Gulf City
Panhandie
South Texas
Taxicab Strike Involving 13,000 Workers Settled
New York January 6 13 006 taxi workers from 28 companies were restored to work after a collective bargaining election conducted by the state mediation board. Workers returned to their jobs at 6 A M following the settlement reached at 2 A M.
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New York
U.P
State Mediation Board
Bad Goose Deal Cooks His Goose
Norman Faught an 18 year old Marsh alltown Indiana youth is charged with forgery after forging the name of Ike Briton a farmer and cashing checks. He bought two chickens and a goose with the forged money then sold them at a poultry market exposing the scam. He was arrested after investigators followed the trail of the goose.
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Norman Faught
Marshalltown
Faught
Ike Briton
Oil use by speed on highway driving
Driving at sixty mph uses ten times more oil than traveling at thirty mph, showing a sharp rise in fuel consumption with speed. The statement highlights the impact of speed on efficiency and resource use.
Bennett Infant Richard Bennett Funeral Held
Funeral services for Richard Archy Bennett infant son of Mr and Mrs R W Bennett were held this afternoon at the N S Griggs and Sons Funeral Chapel Pastor H C Smith of San Jacinto Methodist Church officiated Burial was in Llano Cemetery The Bennetts reside at 2202 North West Third Avenue Mr Bennett works for American Smelting and Refining Company
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Richard Archy Bennett
R. W. Bennett
North West
Third Avenue
N. S. Griggs and Sons Funeral
H. C. Smith
San Jacinto Methodist Church
Llano Cemetery
Bennett
American Smelting and Refinery Company
Gifts for Czechs Brought by American Schools
Thirty large crates of gifts for Czechoslovak children arrived at Red Cross headquarters in Prague after being collected in American schools. The shipment, announced from Prague on January 6, underscores U P reporting.
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Prague
U.P
Red Cross Heads
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Mrs. Mad Sen
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Sense
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Sui River
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Zenith
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