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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1938
Page
16
The City Commission will accept bids until eight o'clock Tuesday JulyStd for a one man motor driven road maintainer with a twelve foot blade. Full specifications with each bid and a five percent certified or cashier's check must accompany proposals. The city may accept or reject any bid. H R Smith city manager.
Ernest O Thompson plans a Panhandle swing for his gubernatorial bid starting July 9 from Wichita Falls to Amarillo via Childress Memphis and Clarendon. He will address a large rally at Municipal Auditorium with bands from McLean and Pampa and broadcast on KGNC 830 to 9. The Panhandle will host delegations and Thompson will visit several communities before returning.
Townsend Hall in Amarillo hosted Dr. Carl FE Lunn state manager after the Third National Townsend Convention in Los Angeles. He said over 160 House members back the general welfare act as a path to national recovery and will spend weeks in the 18th district organizing for the Townsend plan.
Amarillo postoffice will close Monday in observance of Independence Day. One downtown delivery run will operate and general delivery windows will be open from 9 to 10. Most Amarillo business houses will remain closed. a few drug stores and grocers may open.
Postal receipts at the Amarillo post office show a substantial rise in the second quarter and in June compared with the same periods last year. April to June receipts total 94 9202 68 dollars, up 9453 52 from 84749 16. June receipts reach 31 096 19 with a 3014 22 increase over May.
The study outlines the Golden Text from Psalms 20 5 and quotes John 4 24. It cites Mary Baker Eddy’s Science and Health noting spiritual worship replaces material worship. It adds an odd line about boiled water tasting flat after removing gases.
Classified fragment lists autos and housing details with scattered items. A Model A offer appears amid partial notices including a duplex, rooms, porch, private bath, hardwood floors, garage, paved street and a North Hazel Street inquiry. Other lines reference fat fryers and a 604 South street listing.
Grain quotations furnished by B. A. Pierce & Co show July and Sep futures with slight shifts across wheat oats and rye. Kansas City reports hogs 800 head top near 9.00, cattle calves with varied prices, and sheep near 5 to 9 dollars with Texas shorn lambs about 5.00.
The American Business Club announced their national convention in Amarillo was fully financed by the club and left a cash balance after expenses. Lew Fields, convention chairman, reported cheers at the weekly luncheon and noted letters of praise from eastern cities. The event had no local advertising or panhandling and beat its original budget by only thirty dollars. Mason King demonstrated odd canes while Irving Tolzien played tunes on a bazooka cane.
Expert testimony continued in the Gray Processing Corporation versus Danciger Oil and Refining Company. Dr T B Brooks consulting chemist explained petroleum refining chemistry including polymerization to remove unsaturated hydrocarbons from cracked gasoline and the color grading system with samples. The case nears the eleventh day and may wrap next week with cross examination due this afternoon.
Private crop experts in Chicago forecast a U.S. wheat yield of 979 million bushels, about 100 million less than last month. Estimates ranged from 1,003 million by Nat C. Murray to 929 million by Miller Shields, with the June government forecast at 1,046 million.
AmARillo Chamber of Commerce directors named a plan committee chaired by Roy Cullum for President Roosevelt’s July 11 visit. Clay Thornton leads traffic, H R Duke heads decorations, with members Crowe Strickland Brymer and others. Mayor Ross Rogers approved the tentative arrangements and work starts immediately.
Funeral services for John G. Vance 65 of Pleasant Valley will be at Grigas Funeral Chapel at 10 30 tomorrow. He died at his home last night at 11 10. Survived by widow Lara Vance a brother Charles Vance and a half brother Marsden Duncan of Streator. Pallbearers listed. Dr R Thomson and Rev Meeker to conduct burial at Llano Cemetery. He formerly worked for Paramount Theater. Address 219 Central Avenue.
In Gettysburg on Reunion Day the Blue and Gray meet again as 2000 aging veterans gather on the college grounds to hear remarks by G A R and United Confederate Veterans leaders. Secretary Woodring attends with a motorized escort replacing the old horseback approach. Aides report 20 veterans hospitalized and 10 released after brief stays as medics tend the aging fighters.
Funeral services for Charles G Staton a 1 year old farmer will be held at 4 o clock this afternoon at the Dimmitt Baptist Church Rev J W Ware officiating with burial in Dimmitt cemetery under direction of the Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home
TWA says children ages 2 to 12 may ride at half fare on the line. The policy applies whether or not a parent accompanies the child. Children under two travel free when accompanied by a parent on TWA planes.
Paramount plans its major feature The Texans starring Randolph Scott and Joan Bennett with world premiere in San Antonio on July 16. Filmed mainly at La Mota Ranch near Cotulla and a canyon near Dolores, the production used 2,500 cattle and a fabricated 20 foot river to recreate a Rio Grande crossing during a staged cattle drive and stampede.
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