11 Jan 1938
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1938
Page
1
A flood of readers in Amarillo pushes for night football to accommodate working people and students. Local clerks and shoppers urge the school board to adopt evening games, with community donations proposed to cover electrical costs and start with three pre conference matches.
A flood of letters asks Amarillo school officials to install a lighted football field at Butler Field so Friday night games can be seen by working people. Readers argue night football would boost attendance, help merchants, and match neighboring towns.
A reader questions why Amarillo high schools lack night games while Panhandle towns such as Pampa Canyon and Panhandle hold them. The letter argues night football boosts attendance and merchant business, noting readers travel to nearby towns to watch games.
A letter from Paul J. Smith questions Amarillo regarding a possible peculiarity that could set the city apart. He clarifies he remains unsure and offers apologies if the assumption is incorrect. The tone is formal and reflective.
A reader defends Lincoln’s lineage and criticizes Dale Carnegie for suggesting Lincoln may have been illegitimate. The letter argues education and parental influence shaped Lincoln, and requests Carnegie apologize. Also notes a lost bulldog named Queen near Hale Center, Texas, with a Tulia contact.
A reader seeks a servant’s room near Sixteenth Avenue or town with work to pay rent. June Ward at 700 Pierce Street requests a chance to exchange work for housing and asks for the purse she lost at Gipsy Smith’s service to be returned. A Reader at 1518 East Sixth Avenue seeks Christian home housing with housekeeping or care work for a girl and herself. A middle aged woman requests a job with no dependents, preferably in a Christian home or caring for an elderly couple. A middle aged man with wife and a ten year old stepson seeks a farm job.
Gipsy Smith, evangelist, urged daily life as a pulpit in a noonday sermon at the Paramount Theater. He echoed Rev Clyde Smith's reading from John 21, noting Jesus works through ordinary tasks and calls followers to serve by acts, from offices to stores and schools.
Jessie Dillard 708 North West Second Avenue seeks farm work near Amarillo with dairy, tractor, and general tasks. She offers honesty, dependability, and references. Also a widow, 40, seeking ranch work on a bachelor’s or widower’s property with cooking and housekeeping skills.
Mazelle Van Landingham seeks the return of her small collie Spitz Cubby missing since Friday December 7. Describes light tan long curly coat black face and four white feet. A reward is offered. Dial 2-2452.
A brown male German Dachshund named Chico disappeared Friday in the south part of town. Call 7325 with sightings. A $1 reward offered for the dog’s return. A READER.
Amarillo trainmen face transfer to Childress or vice versa under a Fort Worth and Denver plan. Nine Amarillo dwellers may relocate leaving two Childress workers in Amarillo. Amarillo Chamber of Commerce will study the issue as Childress Businessmen push back. Names include Josh Kelly D S Harrington Bill Pieper George Smith C R Lynas W H Standish.
The Annual Parish Meeting of St. Andrew's Church will be held Wednesday at 7 30 pm. All members are urged to attend as the business meeting will elect three new vestrymen and delegates to the Abilene Convocation starting next Sunday. Ostrich eggs may weigh more than three and a half pounds and equal the weight of 25 hens eggs.
An artillery battery in Amsterdam received ammunition for the official salutes announcing the birth of the future Dutch monarch. The plan calls for 101 rounds for a prince and 51 for a princess with double honors for twins. Crown Princess Juliana’s health is reported excellent as her confinement approaches this month.
John Ransom, a black man described by police as a walking arsenal, was transferred to county authorities on a concealed weapons charge after a complaint led to his arrest. The report also notes the new Fokker The Reaper bi motor fighter, 3 tons, with 880 pounds of bombs and heavy armament, top speed near 300 mph and 869 mile range.
Governor Harold G Hoffman signed a contract with a weekly magazine to publish official records from the Lindbergh kidnapping investigation after his term ends, aiming to bolster his theory that Hauptmann had accomplices.
A moose struggles to graze as its neck appears too short and legs too long, causing the animal to kneel in order to reach vegetation close to the ground.
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