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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1940
Page
1
Local column laments drought risk for Buffalo Lake and crops and urges July rainfall. Notes new Zale’s glass door in Amarillo, praise for Dwight Newby & Company, and contrasts city progress with old-timers. Includes reader ads seeking work and a string of colorful local anecdotes.
A series of want ads from a newspaper listing several women offering house cleaning child care and light office tasks. Names include Mrs K W RINCK Frankie HARRIS Mrs MARGARET BAER Ruth and others with addresses in Tam a and surrounding areas seeking employment and references. A separate note requests return of a lost camera and film with a reward.
U S District Judge Arthur F Lederle ordered Humble Oil and Freeport Sulphur to impound funds to pay royalties on oil and sulphur from Mt Pleasant Fur Farms Louisiana. Bonds were set to cover about 2 million dollars in past royalties and future royalty payments. The dispute involves Shell Gulf and Humble against Freeport with potential multihundred million dollars at stake.
Itinerant Bob Mitchel was jailed today on a charge of assault with intent to rob. Roy Snodgrass a Clarendon farmer filed the charge saying Mitchel attempted to rob him of 100 dollars.
General F R Christiansen, commander of German forces in Holland, warned that the death penalty would be used against Dutchmen supplying military information to the Royal Air Force as Nazi control in the region faced trouble.
Price College graduates James Probst and Bernard Smith won the Junior Chamber of Commerce Americanism essay contest with the Amarillo theme What Amarilloan Has Done the Most for His Country. Probst took first prize with a $10 award. Smith earned $5 for second place.
World heavyweight wrestling champion George Zaharias made a brief stop in Amarillo at noon today. He visited Cal Farley’s and greeted Panhandle wrestling figure Dutch Mantell. His wife Babe Didrikson Zaharias, from Dallas, is a noted former athlete.
London reports war era notes as the Vacation Bible School at the Tenth Avenue Methodist Church will begin Monday. Classes run 9 to 11 and 2 to 4, with machinery details mentioned in passing amid the announcement.
Thomas Haynie and Lawrence H. Brotherton filed reports to city manager H. R. Smith on active summer recreational and WPA park projects. This month 3,489 children joined in gym and schoolyard games while 4,261 children and 292 adults played in city park activities.
The Pioneer Youth Council of West Amarillo Christian Church organized last night at the Moore home. Officers elected include Joe Dickey McReynolds as president Dorothy Ann Jacobs as vice president L B Thomas as secretary treasurer and Marilyn Kelley Fred Gleason and Robert Gail Hooks as standing committee chairmen. Refreshments were served.
FE. T. (Dusty) Miller, congressional candidate, will address a rally at 8 30 this evening in Pampa. He spoke to several hundred at a rally in San Jacinto Park last night.
Three trainloads of United States Regular Army soldiers are scheduled to pass through Amarillo tonight en route to the Pacific Coast. Officials could not confirm the number aboard or the final destination, but one train carried 163 personnel and officers. Units are believed to be field artillery from Fort Sill, Lawton, Oklahoma.
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