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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1935
Page
12
The Potter County relief sewing room on the Athletic Club Building third floor employs about 100 women who sew garments bedding and towels for six hours daily. Experienced workers earn 30 cents per hour and learners 25 cents as surplus federal materials are converted into essential items for relief.
State social workers report deplorable living conditions for thousands while Amarillo sewing room produces garments, sheets, pillow cases, comforters, and towels at low costs and no charge to recipients. Mattress factory adds daily output. materials supplied by government. Expansion planned with 25 additional sewing machines to employ more women when canning plant closes.
A vintage health ad warns that the common cold can lead to serious illness and pneumonia. It promotes Grove's Laxative Bromo Quinine as a fourfold internal remedy that opens bowels, reduces fever, relieves headache, and fortifies against further attacks, claiming relief within 24 hours.
A Chicago press view highlights Earhart’s Pacific solo flight and the era’s gender norms. It contrasts farm policy paying not to grow tobacco with optimistic talk of progress and a satirical jab at paying publishers not to write editorials.
Relief officials consider damming creeks in the Panhandle to irrigate gardens via sub irrigation. Areas in Potter and Randall counties may host five acre sites. Landowners provide land and materials. labor supplied by county relief administrations. One year after construction the land returns to owners and produce is shared with relief clients and government cannery distribution follows.
Chicago report quotes Prof. John W. Curran of De Paul University Law School warning that obsession with contract bridge and other pleasures causes parents to neglect children, undermining law and order and fostering criminal careers. He spoke at a crime and its cures conference at the University Club.
In Fort Defiance Arizona on January 16 a physician fighting alone in the Eastern Arizona Navajo reservation issued an urgent call for medicine blankets and supplies to combat an influenza and measles outbreak. More than 100 Indians are ill stressing an 80 bed hospital run by Dr Emory Main and assistant Dr C G Salsbury who was struck down yesterday. No fatalities yet reported.
Irak moves to curb gambling in all forms with parliament viewing racing as harmful. Lottery bans extend to unofficial games, and private bookmakers are removed. Horse betting shifts to totalisator pools, with some days exposing high wagers for relief programs.
Police say J F Wilhoit 40 killed his wife Francie Wilhoit 27 of Santa Rosa California then died by suicide in a tourist camp. Letters show he urged her to return after separation by claiming a job. on arrival she found him unemployed and a fatal quarrel followed. The couple wed in 1931 at Wewoka Oklahoma.
A. F. Smith of 2202 Fillmore Street loses his father who died in Temple. Smith and family travel to Temple for funeral services as details arrived yesterday.
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