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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1936
Page
3
A Franklin Mullin report from Chicago notes the 1936 drought will push wholesale food prices higher in weeks. Milk butter and eggs rose as producers cut output, while meat prices may follow after drought marketing ends. Poultry prices fell slightly due to higher feed costs. The U S leads with 21 million public school pupils.
Police identified 15 year old Samuel Arthur Ward as a suspect in a Shamrock robbery that ended in a fatal shooting when a nightwatchman fired on his companion Red Cook. Ward said the pair burglarized Tom’s Filling Station in Childress and traveled to Shamrock by freight, while Cook died from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. Cook’s father prepared to claim the body as Ward described the events to deputies.
A boy reported missing claimed he had been traveling and last heard from relatives in Kansas City six months ago. A worn billfold with two dollars, change, and a photo of a young girl was found in his pockets. FLOWER SCIENCE TAUGHT HONOLULU Garden Club teaches arragements to aid island women as a scientific flow er arrangement. Ellis Bever, Kansas State income tax chief, expects 30 percent more collections this year above last year’s 1,400,000.
Texas crop outlook shows smaller corn oat potato and sweet potato acreages and reduced yields due to a hot June and late rains. Wheat acreage rises sharply while barley rice and hay expand. Cotton acreage stands at 12.28 million, up 12 percent from a year ago but below the five year average. Electro plating of silver traces its early discovery to the mid 1800s.
A fragment lists an office address at 418 Offices to Suite 707 Fish Building and provides two telephone numbers 2-1291 and 2-1531.
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