Panhandle Highway Projects Accelerate Across Texas Route Network
Texas highway officials report extensive work in Panhandle counties with 117 miles of in progress projects and 46 miles completed. Major 1924 paving included 16.6 miles on Highway 5 in Dalhart to Dalhart area, 83 miles toward Hartley County, and 17.3 miles on Highway 9 in Moore County toward the Pot County line. Underpass work on Highway 33 and 117 plus a key 14 mile grading on Highway 66 in Gray and Donley Counties known as Jericho Gap.
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King
Panhandle
Ighty
J. van London
Enteer
Texas Highway Cement
Ivision 4
Mr. van Lon
Dallamaty
Dalhart
Texe
Hartley County
Hartley
Moore Coun
Dumas
Pot
Randall
Irty-Sixth Avenue
Fillmore
Gray County
Wheeler
Randall County
Nyon
Palo Duro State Park
Hemphill
Oscomb
Ochiltree-Lipscomb County
Canadian
Amarillo
Ander
Booker
Lipscomb Goun
Rouzette
Lipscomb County
Gray and
Donley Counties
Jericho Gap
Amarillo Adopts Emergency Tax Penalty Ordinance 1935
The City of Amarillo votes an emergency ordinance setting penalties and interest on 1934 ad valorem taxes. It adopts state law changes and bases penalties on monthly payment timings through July 1, 1935, with a six percent interest rate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Potter
Amarillo
Leverne Calhoun
Senate
City of
Youth Dies Calmly in Electric Chair for Slaying Deputy
HUNTSVILLE Texas January 25 Laroy Lane died in the electric chair paying for the death of Dallas County Deputy Cecil Chapman. Lane walked calmly from his cell to the chair and was pronounced dead at 1213 AM The execution followed his two trials for killing Chapman during a holdup Marchal chase that left Lane and his brother Eugene Lane and Deputy Peck wounded A claimed confession by an 18 year old would be fiancee was retracted and Lane showed no remorse or last statements The clemency plea of Governor Allred was denied.
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Huntsville
Tex
Laroy Lane
Dallas County
Cecil Chapman
Chapman
Lane
T. T. Easley
Eugene
Dallas
Bryan Peck
Eugene Lane
Peck
Lewis- Ville
Grapevine
Steve
Lanes
W. W. Waid
Waid
James V. Allred
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Writer Denies Divorce Move From El Paso to Juarez
Ludwig Lewisohn denies knowledge of a divorce suit filed for him in Juarez Mexico. Attorney Salvador Franco Arias says a summons has been airmailed to Mrs Lewisohn in New York City. The petition cites cruelty and incompatibility. Lewisohn aged 51 born in Berlin married Mary Arnold Crocker Lewisohn in Charleston in 1906. Judge Ignacio Guitierrez Zamora will decide the action.
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EL Paso
Salvador Franco Arias
Ludwig Lewisohn
Lewisohn
Juarez
Mexico
New York City
Berlin
Mary Arnold Crocker Lewisohn
Charleston
S. C
Ignacio Guitierrez Zamora
Police officers injured in early morning crash
Randy Lee and Lee Uselding of the Amarillo Police Department were injured when their scout car collided with an unlit vehicle on North East Eighth Avenue at 4 45 yesterday. Lee remained hospitalized with facial injuries and head lacerations, while Uselding suffered facial cuts and body bruises.
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Randy Lee
Lee Uselding
Amarillo
Lee
St. Anthony's Hospital
Uselding
Eighth Avenue
Garfield
Laundry Men Honor National Assn Leader in Amarillo
Ralph Oates of Buffalo president of the Laundry Owners' National Association was entertained at supper by Amarillo representatives of three steam laundries. In attendance were J. N. Vernon Russell Fowler Bob Ames Charley Messidge Clay Thornton and O. L. Campbell. They discussed laundry problems and current conditions. Oates said national laundry business volume was the best in three years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Oates
Buffalo
Laundry Owners’ National Association
Amarillo
Silver Grill
J. N. Vernon
Russell F Wler
Bob Ames
Charley Mnssidge
Clay Thornton
O. L. Campbell
Oates
Oklahoman Held In Officer s Death
Guy Dillhunty is jailed in Idabel Oklahoma on charges of slaying Constable Fletcher Rodgers in a gun duel near Idabel. He was moved from a Paris Texas hospital where he received wounds from the encounter. Deputy Robert Ives cited unclear motives and prior ill feeling between the men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idabel
Okla
Guy Dillhunty
Fletcher Rodgers
Here
Dillhunty
Paris
Tex
Robert Ives
Judge Gee to speak at PTA session tonight
Judge W. E. Gee of the 108th District Court will address the Highland Park Avenue PTA meeting at 8 o clock tonight on The Job of Being a Father. Music will be provided by the Beacon Quartet. An astronomical instrument can detect candle heat from 100 miles away.
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W. E. Gee
108Th District Court
Highland Park Avenue
Beacon Quartet
Youths Seek New Homes After Bureau Controversy
Two 14 and 16 year old boys, confined at the Potter County transient bureau for five months, were transferred to probation authorities for placement. One ran away from Kansas City. the other alleges lifelong foster care upheaval. A disagreement over visiting the city once weekly led to the bureau transfer.
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Potter County
W. R. Bowden
Government Transient Bureau
Hattie Simpler
Kansas City
Plan Last Services For John Youngblood
Tribute to the memory of John Youngblood 83 year old retired contractor. Services to be held 10 o'clock Saturday from Sacred Heart Cathedral. Pallbearers include W C Kenyon Lon Sellars Nath Hord S H Taylor C E McPherson and Mark Agee. Burial Llano Cemetery with N S Griggs and Sons in charge. Survived by three sons and three daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Youngblood
Sacred Heart Cathedral
W. C. Kenyon
Lon Sellars
Nath Hord
S. H. Taylor
C. E. McPherson
Mark Agee
Llano Cemetery
N.S. Griggs and Sons
Mr. Youngblood
Panhandle
Fairmont Street
Mrs. Ethel Walker Taken by Death
Ethel Walker age 42 wife of Sanders Walker of Amarillo died at 3 20 am Friday at her mother Mary Allison home 610 East Tenth Avenue She is survived by her husband her mother one son S M Walker two brothers and five sisters from Amarillo Funeral services will be at 10 am Saturday at Blackburn Shaw chapel with Rev R M Huckabee officiating burial in Llano Cemetery
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Ethel Walker
Sanders Walker
Maryland Street
Mary Francis Allison
East Tenth Avenue
S. M. Walker
E. M
J. E. Allison
Amarillo
R. H. Caver
Fr. Worth
Geo E. Reeves
Albuquerque
O. M. Redding
Blood drive aids Earl Coombs in Tacoma
Nearly 100 people offered blood to doctors trying to save Earl Coombs Deputy U S Customs Collector aged 35 with a rare form of anemia. Some donors with the correct blood type were found. In Chile fifteen thousand teachers must take competence examinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacoma, Wash
U.P
Earl Coombs
U. S
Chile
Licensing of Public Utility Gains Support
The federal trade commission urged federal licensing of public utility holdings to curb monopolistic control. It cited 1929 data showing 16 holding company groups owned about 92 percent of U S electrical output and proposed three constitutional paths to broader federal regulation, including interstate licensing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Trade Commission
Farmington Nursery fire displaces 20 children safe
A four story frame building of the Farmington Nursery for blind children in Hartford caught fire last night. Twenty children and 13 employees escaped unharmed as the blaze destroyed the structure. Firemen battled the flames through the night.
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Hartford
Conn
Farmington
Amarillo Chamber condemns gas waste in Panhandle field
Following a tour of stripping plants in the Panhandle oil and gas field Amarillo Chamber of Commerce directors pass a resolution condemning natural gas waste Copies are sent to the Texas governor lieutenant governor attorney general and each member of both houses urging immediate legislation to curb waste The resolution notes the Panhandle's gas and oil resources underpin Amarillo's growth and warns of impending dissipation under current laws
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Panhandle Oil and Gas
Amarillo
Panhandle
Chamber of Commerce and Board of City Development
City of
Scouts Begin Roundup Preparations in Amarillo
The Amarillo Area Boy Scouts hold rehearsal meetings as they prepare for the second annual Round-Up on February 15 and 16 at the Municipal Auditorium. Tickets go on sale at 25 cents general, 50 cents for boxes and logos, funds raised through house-to-house campaigns. The program plans include 16 events, each short in duration, with Scout Executive Marvin J. Paul and Council President C. W. Seibel urging public attendance.
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Boy Scouts
Amarillo
Municipal Auditorium
Asid
Marvin J. Paul
Pershing Faces Subzero Cold En Route to Arizona
General John J. Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, braved a subzero spell in Kansas City while tracing a winter retreat route toward Tucson Arizona. The Associated Press photo captures his voyage southward as colder weather grips Missouri.
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Missouri
John J. Pershing
Kansas City
Tucson
Ariz
Associated Press
Debate on Child Marriage Laws in Lahore Committee
witnesses at the federal committee hearing in Lahore urged stopping child marriage in India. Proposals ranged from setting minimum ages to 16 for girls and 23 for boys to criminal penalties for husbands who abuse wives. Din Muhammad argued fines would burden parents. the panel continued deliberations.
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India
Federal
Lahore
Raja Nerendranath
Din Muhammad
Gold Coast Chief Declares War on Dutch Gin Imports
Sir Oford Atta, Crowned Paramount Chief, launches a campaign against Dutch gin imports to West Africa. He recounts a London gift of gin that was poured out on his return, a symbolic act said to unite his people in shunning the spirit.
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Europe
Oford Atta
Gold Coast
West Africa
London
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