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Amarillo Globe

Location

Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Date

Jun 24, 1931

Page

5

State Board Awards Road Jobs Tuesday in Texas

Texas highway contracts totaling 3.79 million dollars were awarded after two days of meetings by the State Highway Commission. Projects cover 21 counties and 155 miles of highways with grading drainage paving and bridges. Awards include concrete bridges over Sycamore Creek and overpasses in Fort Worth and Waco along with multiple county paving and grading jobs across Ellis Navarro Galveston Kerr Lubbock and others.

Austin Texas State Highway Commission Gibb Gilchrist Erath County Anderson Houston Wheeler Erath Kimble Tarrant County Sycamore Creek Purvis and Bertram Fort Worth Ward Ellis County Ennis Navarro County F. P. McElwrath Corsicana Galveston County Brazoria Harrison Engineering and Construction Company Kansas City Fort Bend County Brazos River Rosenberg Brown and Root Lubbock Lubbock County J. W. Zempter Amarillo Cottle County Paducah L. E. Whitman Wichita Falls Houston County Crockett Pennington J. GC Kelly Con Trinity San Jacinto County Cold Springs Walker County Titus County Mt. Pleasant Harts Creek Bottom J. D. George Donna Wheeler County Collingsworth Shamrock Scurry Mitchell Nolan County Hermleigh Dozier Construction Co Brazos Burleson Counties Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co Dallas Kerr County Wilson Bluff Steel Silver Ward and Morrell Itasca

Amarillo Chamber Urges Freight Rate Cut

The Amarillo Chamber of Commerce sent a wire to the Interstate Commerce Commission urging a reduction in can goods freight rates from California. The proposed 23¢ to 15¢ per hundred pounds cut would apply to boats through the Panama Canal and faces Gulf port opposition. Local wholesalers and consumers would benefit.

California Amarillo

Camps for Children by Mrs Agnes Lyne

Mrs Agnes Lyne discusses how summer camps vary in size and style from rigidly organized to intimate. She argues camps emancipate children from home dependence, aiding independence through impersonal when suitable settings and daily cooperative activities.

Agnes Lyne

Kansan Steals From Truck To Get Food And Bed

Unemployed 55 year old John Hicks of Kansas City stole a package from a U S mail truck in Sunbury Pennsylvania. He said jail would be paradise after his experiences and hoped for circus work with no vacancies. He surrendered to a policeman and asked to be jailed. Federal authorities likely to take over for the mail theft.

Sunbury U.P John Hicks Kansas City United States Hicks

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