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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1936
Page
6
A six ton elephant named Wally was sentenced to death after killing his keeper Edward Brown. Park officials plan to execute Wally at 2 PM using two expert marksmen with hunting rifles.
A female elk on the XL ranch near Alturas, California, has formed a close bond with the ranch sheep. She herds them during the day and sleeps nearby with them at night, becoming an unusual guardian of the flock.
Montreal professors at the University of Montreal have not drawn salaries since February and say they await payment any day. The note highlights persistent funding delays affecting staff and research.
Amarillo will lose a family long identified with insurance real estate and loan businesses as Mr and Mrs Chester Adams and their children 608 Bellview Street depart Sunday for Seattle Washington. Adams came to Amarillo from Tyler twenty years ago and partnered in local business with L A.
Schienberg longtime Hub Clothing Stores manager for Texas and Oklahoma leaves Amarillo to set Fort Worth as headquarters. He will serve as personnel manager with Howard Smith directing the Fort Worth Hub Store. Accompanying him are his wife and four year old son Roy. They plan to visit Los Angeles after two weeks in Fort Worth. Louise Lieberman travels with them to Wichita Falls before returning by July 1.
County Agent Ernest Duke reports practically every acre of Potter County farmland will be enrolled under the federal soil conservation program with 170 applications filed. The plan covers about 60 000 acres and provides benefit payments to farmers for erosion preventing practices.
Six hundred taxi drivers returned to work at six each from a city walkout that began at 1 A.M. yesterday. A board of arbitration granted the drivers a one third share of gross intake and recommended higher fares, after previously earning 25 percent of gross income the operators said was all they could pay.
The bodies of seven year old Dawn Horlick of Bryan and Dan Cox age 23 of Wichita Falls were recovered five miles downstream from the Brazos River incident. Cox was reportedly on Dawn’s shoulders when they sank during a swimming party. Dawn’s body was found caught in submerged tree limbs. Cox, a senior at Texas A and M College, was sighted by an airplane pilot near the same location.
About 1,500 delegates attend the three day tri state convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen opening in Fort Worth. D B Robertson of Cleveland arrives from Kansas City to join as president. Gov Allred and Robertson will speak at tonight’s session while Mayor Jarvis will welcome delegates. DeWitt County reports 11 320 cattle brands, some more than 90 years old.
Ten years in business for himself, Wells connects with many property deals and serves as loan agent for Lincoln National Insurance. Mr and Mrs Adams now transfer their business to E A Regal and Company at 100 A West Sixth Avenue. They plan a coast road trip visiting Yellowstone and nations sites, summer in Washington and Canada, with Mr Adams opening insurance and real estate work in Seattle this fall.
Grain men estimate a 25,000,000 bushel wheat crop as Amarillo faces a boom of bank deposits rising seven million dollars in six months. The town reports theater plans, civic events, college enrollments, and numerous local visits, with residents traveling to Detroit, Dallas, Denver, and beyond and local businesses expanding.
Women with monthly nervous distress try Cardus. Mrs P A Odum of Haines City Florida reports severe reactions to noise and fatigue eased after using six to seven bottles, enabling her to stop use. If not benefited, consult a physician.
Tin brings twenty years in menswear to Amarillo and announces joining the Panhandle scene. The page promotes Paramount Fury with Spencer Tracy and Sylvia Sidney, plus several other shows including Cimarron and Here Comes Cookie. It urges seeing Pury at Paramount, praising its drama and mob violence themes.
The piece notes Harriett Calloway and her 14 member orchestra will perform at the Roseland ballroom after a journey from the Cottos Club in New York City en route to the West Coast. It recalls mob justice and a jailhouse fire as critical urban flaws in modern life.
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