Ruling Sought On Oil Purchases By Potter County Officer
Potter County auditor asks county attorney to rule on legality of oil purchases from Southwestern Petroleum Co totaling 630.20 for roof coating. October 26 requisitions of 89.05 each exceed the 150 emergency limit. November 30 items total 274. Parker listed uses in Precincts 1 2 and 3. Commissioner Sellers proposed settlement involving leftover barrels. company declined.
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Potter County
Southwestern Petroleum Company of
Fort Worth
H. G.hamrick
Howard Anderson
Mark Parker
Oil
Parker
Lon Sellers
Oll
Ao-Tieclines
An Hlo.dawyer
Twenty Amarillo youths go to Presbyterian camp near Canyon
Twenty Amarillo young people head to Cota Glen camp southeast of Canyon for a four day Presbyterian Conference for intermediate boys and girls ages 12 to 14. They ride the Presbyterian Children's Home bus from Central Presbyterian Church with teachers Mrs. T. L. Dyer and Miss Mary McNeill. Afterward older youths will join for a Panhandle gathering.
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Amarillo
Cota Glen Camp
Canyon
BH. G. Wilson
Central Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian
T. L. Dyer
Mary McNeill
Funeral Services for Rita McClain 27
Funeral services were held for Mrs Rita McClain 27 a former Amarillo resident daughter of Mrs B M Litten 1608 Tyler Street at Silver Mount Cemetery Staten Island New York burial followed. She died Wednesday in Brooklyn New York survived by her husband two brothers Clarence Cheyenne Wyoming Carl Pampa and sister Betty Luten Amarillo. She was reared in Amarillo.
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Rita McClain
Amarillo
B. M. Litten
Tyler Street
Silver Mount
Staten Island
N.Y
McClain
Brooklyn
Regent's
Clarence
Cheyenne
Wye
Carl
Pampa
Betty Luten
Fireman Taggart Loses Helmet During Alarm Call
Frank Taggart city fireman loses a black helmet while answering an alarm near Twenty-second Avenue and Van Buren Street. The hat went missing as the department fought a car fire belonging to Lewis Dodson. Earlier, at Jackson Street, a mattress was set ablaze by a cigarette.
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Frank Taggart
Twenty-second Avenue
van Buren Street
Lewis Dodson
Jackson Street
Mattern Plans Nonstop West Coast to Moscow Flight
Jimmie Mattern and his radio man and navigator arrived in Kansas City for a check-up on the big air route they plan to fly nonstop from California to Moscow. They expect in-air refueling probably over Fairbanks and will conduct shakedown flights before the long flight.
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Kansas City
Jimmie Mattern
California
Moscow
Fairbanks
Alaska
Mattern
Thompson Sees August Basic Allowable Rise At Hearing
Texas Railroad Commissioner Ernest O. Thompson said at the proration hearing that the August basic allowable would be larger than July. Nomination figures for August were reported at 7213 barrels daily, an increase of 23,677 barrels a day from July.
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Austin
Ernest O. Thompson
Commission
New Hampshire Nazi Camp Opens With 300 Present
At Nordland Nazi camp in the Sussex Hills 300 uniformed youths began outdoor routines after a day of folk dancing and beer drinking. The 100 acre site is one of 21 camps in the United States where over 200000 German descent children spend the summer. The event featured German language rule and a rally with Nazi symbols and speakers including Fritz Kuhn and Dr Salvatore Caridi.
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Andover
N. H
Nordland
Sussex Hills
Volksbund
United States
Husky Fritz Kuhn
New York
Eapensenied
Most Potent Fighting Plane Ready for Tests
The United States Army and Bell Aircraft announce readiness of a new five man fighter. The plane features a pusher engine, rear propellers, multiple gun positions on wings, and a 30,000 foot ceiling. It uses electric motors for gear and systems and carries fuel in wing tanks to reduce fire risk.
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Buffalo
United States Army
War Department
Bell) Aircraft Corporation
New York Learns From Harvard About Long Island Earthquake
In July 1901 Manhattan residents learned of a Long Island tremor after witnesses reported three minutes of shaking. Seismographs at Harvard and Weston College in Massachusetts logged tremors near Long Island at 11 52 PM Eastern, while Fordham University in New York did not record the event.
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New York
Harvard
Long Island
Manhattan
Weston College
Mantaciowetts
Pilot and Passenger Injured After Plane Hits Train
In Beaver Falls Pennsylvania a plane collided with a freight train on the railroad right of way. The pilot and a passenger were hospitalized with injuries. The incident involved Thomas Urinta, 18, of Racine Pennsylvania as the pilot. A separate Seattle report notes a scientist predicting Arctic research outcomes and potential implications for population dynamics.
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Beaver Falls
Thomas Urinta
Racife
Biresurgh
Lake Pine
Farmers Warned Not To Feed Livestock Hopper Poison
J B Conrad of Pleasant Valley reported two sacks of grasshopper poison lost in Amarillo city limits. He retraced his route and found the sacks had been picked up. He warned others via an advertisement in the Globe to prevent accidental poisoning of livestock. The loss occurred along Sixth Avenue to Third Avenue and into the Flats toward Pleasant Valley.
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Amarillo
J. B. Conrad
Pleasant Valley
Conrad
Globe
Sixth Avenue
Third Avenue
Flats
Japan Faces Potential War Over Taikouchian Incident
United States Marines at Peiping instructed citizens in China to head to concentration points if hostilities erupt as China and Japan edge toward conflict. Reports say fighting continues along the Russia Manchukuo frontier and in Manchukuo with Japanese forces sustaining casualties in clashes near Moukrer and Hsinking.
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Japan
China
United States
Peiping
Tientsin
Russia-Manchukuan
Manchukuo
Erie
Seishin
Korea
Hsinking Manchukuo
An Kounem
Moukrer
Local Drug Store Ads Spark Feverish Bargain Rush
Fragmentary OCR shows a cluster of drug store advertisements featuring cheap medicines and promotions. Reads like a chaotic page of weekly ads with price tags and store names, suggesting a busy consumer pull for remedies and household items.
Film Star Retires From Studio Work
Hollywood actress Trene Hervey announces a temporary retirement from film work to await the birth of her first child with Allan Jones. She says she will refuse contracts as she focuses on wifehood and motherhood, after completing The Lady Pays Back and with other studios seeking her services.
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Hervey
Allan Jones
Miss Hervey
Universal
New Services
Wyoming writer wins country correspondent prize in New York
Finlay Petrie of Opal Wyoming won the country home prize for best country correspondent in the United States. The award includes 200 dollars and a trip to New York after his columns in the Kemmerer Gazette detailing Opal's social life.
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New York
U.P
Finlay Petrie
Opal
Wyo
Country Home
United States
Petrie
Kemmerer
Gazette
Roy Mason
San Antonio Tracks Down Escaped Lion After Alarm
San Antonio residents kept indoors as deputy sheriffs and police hunted a lion first seen Saturday night and still at large on Sunday. Onlookers report the animal near a railroad adjacent to the city, spotted by Ralph Candler and George Witte families.
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San Antonio
U.pl
Ralph Candler
George Witte
Candler
Thief Leaves Note After Robbery in Kansas City
In Kansas City on July 19, WP W. C Dougherty found his home ransacked and $50 of his $83 billfold missing. A note read that robbers took $40 and left the rest, leaving $33 behind.
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Kansas City
W. C Dougherty
Irishman Seeks Passport to Ireland on New York Voyage
J. T. Keleher, an Irish traveling salesman from Amarilla, plans to leave tomorrow for New York to sail to Europe. He aims to visit relatives in his native land and obtain an Ireland passport.
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Ireland
J. T. Keleher
Amarilla
New York
Europe
Nation's Leaders Mourn Robinson in Arkansas
Thousands of Arkansans and leaders gathered for the funeral of Joseph Taylor Robinson. Vice President John Nance Garner, Postmaster General James A Farley, and about 50 Robinson colleagues served as honorary pallbearers at the burial in his native soil.
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Little Rocx
Ark
Joseph Taylor Robinson
Arkansas
Arkansans
John Nance Garner
Uvalde
Tex
Roosevelt
James A. Farley
Robinson
Labor To Pay for Scientific Progress Says Roosevelt
President Roosevelt warned that U S labor may bear a heavy unemployment burden through 1960 as science advances with inventions like the mechanical cotton picker and the photo electric cell. He endorsed federal scientist recommendations to foresee and plan for social economic impacts from developments including air conditioning plastics synthetic rubber television and other innovations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Labor Shortage Hurts Farmers Amid Big Harvest
Chicago dispatch notes farmers face labor shortages across the Midwest grain belt and vegetable regions as harvest runs peak. Federal stats show wages at their highest since 1930 for farm hands and WPA payrolls drop in 13 states as men may quit projects to join harvest crews.
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Chicago
Midwest
Workers Progress Administration
Borger Boy Sister Reported Missing
Amarillo police receive another missing child request as Sheriff Dan Hardee reports Marguerite Landers 14 and her brother Leonard 9 missing from Borger. Marguerite weighs 80 pounds with brown hair. Leonard 75 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes.
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Borger
Amarillo
Dan Hardee
Marguerite Landers
Leonard
Body Of Woman Found In Illinois Field
The severely harmed body of Mrs. Phyllis Bianconi 30 a widow was found in a field in Steger Illinois. Angelo Udi 47 formerly of New York who had wooed the widow unsuccessfully was served with a warrant charging that he fatally harmed Mrs. Bianconi.
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Steger
Phyllis Bianconi
Angelo ‘Udi
New York
Three Amarillo Homes Quarantined for Scarlet Fever Typhoid
Three homes in Amarillo are under quarantine for contagious disease. Dr. B M Primer, health unit director, said two quarantined homes show scarlet fever placards and only one typhoid fever case has been found. He added the city’s health is unusually good for the season.
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Amarillo
B. M. Primer
Dr. Primer
How To Relieve Your Headache In A Hurry
The ad promotes BC as fast relief for headaches neu ralgia and muscular aches. It claims ingredients are non opium and suitable for menstrual pains and tension. It suggests convenient dosing at fountains or by the dose and markets BC as a quick comfort product.
Flag Raiser Keeps Daily Vigil Over Federal Building
Walter Clemmon, foreman of the Federal building janitors, has not missed a flag salute in over three years. He raises and lowers the U.S. flag daily rain or shine, only half mast for federal officials' deaths. He recalls an April Fool's day incident when the flag was inverted, triggering hundreds of calls. Clemmon lives at 614 Madison Street.
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Federal
Clemmon
Federal Building
Walter Clemmon
Mr. Clemmon
Madison Street
U S Marshal Lampe Tours Ark Watermelons Fishing Tales
U S marshal W H Lampe returned from Cincinnati with Myrtle Vowell the girl bank robber to prison. He described crossing ten states and visiting Hope Arkansas where he fished and narrowly missed a 10 pound channel cat. He boasted of large watermelons seen and a 195 pound fruit pictured for Senator Robinson. He traveled with wife Mrs W H Lampe and their son William.
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W. H. Lampe
United States
Panhandle Area
Cincinnati
Myrtle Vowell
Amarillo
Lampe
Hope
Ark
Senator Robinson
Washington
William
Fathers and Deliveries Told by a Hospital Ward Scene
The piece depicts distraught fathers in a hospital delivery ward. Nurses describe calm arrivals, while fathers endure orderly indignities and curious relatives roam the space. One new father quips that his wife is fine but he fears for his own life.
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O. B. Ward
Hog Prices Reach Nine Year High in Fort Worth Market
Hog prices on the Fort Worth market climbed to a nine year high of 11.95 dollars per hundredweight for top butchers. Week end prices rose 15 to 25 cents as receipts remained light due to high feed costs. Packet buyers offered up to 11.85 per hundredweight for 190 to 230 pound hogs.
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Fort Worth
U.P
Local swimmer dies after diving in Lake Worth
Fort Worth reports the death of C. O. Ronsley age 26 from a diving accident at Lake Worth. He plunged into shallow water Thursday and struck a submerged stump, breaking his neck and causing his death.
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Fort Worth
Lake Worth
C. O. Ronsley
Ronsley
Russian Secret Police Leaders Honored for Clean Up Work
Nikolai Yezhov, commissar for internal affairs in the Soviet Union, received the Order of Lenin for purging alleged Trotskyist and other elements considered hostile to Stalin's regime. He heads the state security and secret police.
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Secret Police
Yezhov
Josef Stalin
Allred Resting in Mineral Wells After Illness
Governor James V. Allred remains in Mineral Wells to recover from a mild illness and fatigue, a report issued by his Capitol office states. The brief bulletin confirms no further details on his condition.
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Allred
Austin
U.P
James V. Allred
Capitol
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