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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1924
Page
2
A US Bureau of Biological Survey expert leads Amarillo’s rat extermination drive. A. L. Bridenstine offers poison at cost to residents without dogs or traps, urging cooperation to curb disease, food loss, and building damage from rats. Posters urge help and contact for assistance.
Proceedings outline a multi day program for editors with sessions on editorial policy advertising and cooperation. Speakers include E A Carnock Frank H Bow ron W H Graham J C Howerton Emmett Finley and others from Texas and New Mexico press associations. A social schedule follows with tea dinner and dance at Amarillo Country Club.
Central Standard Time listing of radio stations in Chicago Kansas City Davenport and other cities outlining daily programs Concerts orchestras religious services educational talks and youth tales with times ranging from morning to late evening including KGO KHJ WGN WMAQ WHAS KSD and more details on special broadcasts and time zone notes
The board will award cups elect officers and select the next meeting place. A Friday luncheon at 12 30 PM will be served to guests of the Board. An afternoon auto ride will tour Amarillo and nearby areas. Spare moments will feature golf tennis at the Country Club or cinema.
Panhandle May 31 An oil note shows the Whitaker Newbold location on the Tomlingon survey has been acquired by Smith & Tanner Tulsa oil men and will be drilled. Plains Pipe Line builds a six inch gravity line toward Panhandle aiding Carson Hutchinson field development with a near completion pump station and 19000 barrel tanks. The Texas No 3 Burnett well shells out with slow flow as underreaming targets the oil sand. Prairie Oil & Gas gear arrives for location operations in Weatherly lands section 23 block Y.
A 1924 Hudson coach will serve as the queen's car at the Amarillo Tri-State exposition. Bought from Tony Chisum Hudson Essex distributor, the car is described as among the best equipped in the country. The duchess elected queen will own the car after popular vote and will be crowned Friday night September 26. A grand ball will follow the crowning as the exposition's social highlight.
Leon D. Bowen, long time house manager at The Mission Theater, resigns to join Tam Slide and Film Company of San Francisco. Effective June 1, he will head the slide department with Texas as his territory, headquartered in Amarillo. Bowen, married, resides at 1416 Jackson Street.
United Press reports from Tokio that three Douglas air cruisers lifted off at 2 10 am from Kasuratora field north of Tokio. They pursued the arc over the city toward Nagasaki about 410 miles southwest as Americas bid to circle the earth by air resumes.
A Farm Labor political conference will meet at 8 o clock Wednesday night in the Central Labor body hall to discuss political issues of importance. Mrs. T Richards, 1617 Jackson Street, has returned from Stephenville and Dublin after attending her brother's funeral.
Song Leader in Tulsa is to helm the song service at Polk Street Methodist revival beginning this morning. Dr. Luther Bridgers conducts with Mr. Spindler assisting in young people’s work. His first sermon is Sin and Its Cure, assisted by Pastor Rev. Stanley W. Hayne.
More than 200 farmers registered for the Amarillo Board of City Development cotton growing contest offering 2500 in prizes. Entrants pledge to plant ten acres and report returns, with any seed and cultivation allowed except irrigation. Prizes range 500 first down to 100 for positions 12th.
The Amarillo Board of City Development received a $250 per month budget boost at a special city commission meeting, raising the total to $1,600 monthly. An information bureau in the Amarillo hotel with H. Ke. Bozeman in charge will open tomorrow morning following the approval.
Harold Smith of Dellas with six years in motion picture houses will sit at the organ of the Mission theater beginning tomorrow. He plans unique musical settings for various pictures and will develop them for presentation.
The passage describes columns with Egyptian style adorning streets as if transplanted from the Nile. A grand parade is planned with tiered stands and bands drawing visitors from distant places. Shriners and others promise heat and desert imagery, while Kansas City prepares for a caravan arrival.
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