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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1938
Page
3
Austin reports coin operated machines, mainly marble tables, continue to fund the state school and old age pension system. 1938 tax collections on these devices exceed $100,000 with 1937 receipts near $439,000, while illegal machines have declined under Gov Allred and the 1937-38 anti gambling push.
Readers express appreciation for recent coverage of Gipsy Smith meetings in Amarillo and for publishing sermon excerpts and religious service publicity. ALBERY A CALLAGHAN and MRS W L POTTER commend the News-Globe for handling religious news and church notices.
A single Indiana resident seeks employment and offers to provide references. Experience covers all office tasks including bookkeeping and typing. Contact A READER at Dial 9 2540 for references.
A cluttered page shows multiple help wanted pleas for farm dairy and housework work by men and women, some seeking hourly or daily assignments, plus a lost dog notice naming Poochie a half bull half police dog, with a contact address. Other fragments reference ring, quilt, and moving notes tied to local addresses.
Amazingly rapid acting Blve Suar Ointment claims to stop itching from eczema rash jetter ringworm and other itch types. Money back if first large jar fails to satisfy trial size 35
Amarillo High School Band under Oscar Wise will perform a 30 minute concert broadcast by KGNC tomorrow at 6 pm from the new band room. The 85-piece ensemble, rising from a 12-piece boiler-room group, has dominated Panhandle Music Festival contests since 1925 and entered the National High School Band Contest in 1929 and 1931. The program includes Cincinnati Post March, Finlandia, Buddies, Go Down Moses, a French horn quartet, Strains From Erin, and March of the Steel Men, with P A Quarles as president and Mary Beth McClung as band queen.
A jumble of help wanted and personal notices lists multiple job seekers and requests for work. People describe driving, clerking, housekeeping, and caregiving interests, while others seek companions or missing items and offer rewards. Supplied contact details include Box numbers, streets, and local businesses.
The Second day of services at the First Christian Church featured Dr. R. E. Snodgrass of Wichita addressing what he called the world’s dire state. He urged Christians to act as thermostats and combat moral decay, with Emil F. Myers directing singing and Mrs. G. C. Carter and Mrs. Howard Boxwell performing.
Amarillo was invited to attend the Perryton Chamber of Commerce annual meeting and banquet set for 7 30 Friday night. The invitation came to the Chamber offices and has been given to Clay Thornton, chairman of the goodwill committee.
Amarillo city commission accepted a warranty deed from Fuqua Development Company for several lots to complete the city barn block at Fourth Avenue and Madison Street. The city will pay 3500 dollars for the parcels with 700 dollars cash and the rest in 700 dollar annual installments at four percent interest.
Phillips Petroleum Company won the city gasoline contract last night with a bid of 10035 cents per gallon. Four other proposals were considered. The city stores its fuel in a large tank at the city barn.
Frank Sonny Atkins a 36 year old paralytic and Liberty Bruckner 18 were involved when a locomotive struck and demolished their stalled car on railroad tracks. Bruckner pushed Atkins to safety as the train approached and he barely escaped.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce manager Carl Hinton, in Washington since early this month, heads home by motor and will reach Oklahoma City Sunday. He will meet the Will Rogers Highway 66 Association executive committee Monday and attend a conservation directors meeting January 26.
Tom Landis reports from Wichita Falls that parking meters satisfy officials and businessmen. The meters provide about 100 dollars daily, fund raises for police and firemen, and allow two hours of parking for a nickel.
Officials claim laying bricks lengthwise along the road reduces noise and lowers brick breakage during vehicle rolling, improving durability. The change contrasts with the usual crosswise placement and is cited as quieter.
Mrs Allie Clark about 54 is dead and two others are in serious condition after an automobile wreck near Anson. Clark's sister Mrs Rosa Lanotte of Post is critically injured with multiple fractures. The Clarks and Mrs Lanotte were en route to Irving for funeral services for C O Clark.
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