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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1940
Page
2
A long column mixes a critique of Amarillo senior golf results with vivid notes on Hereford Idaho potato farming, local store renovations at Blackburn Bros. and a rambling forecast about prices and war. It flags Roosevelt's cabinet moves and consumer purchases as timely guidance for readers.
Brief survey mixes trivia about stock market bands on cigars and the Poinsettia name with a Kansas City livestock report. It notes General Motors’ 1908 finance turning point and mentions Chicken a la King’s royal origin, before detailing hogs, cattle, calves and sheep prices in succinct market totals.
Funeral services for Mrs. I. O. Betty will be held Friday at 2 PM from N. F. Griggs and Sons chapel with Rev. E. B. Fincher officiating. She died yesterday after a long illness at age 59, survived by husband Sam J. Betty, son Sam J. Betty of Sacramento, daughter Addie Lucille Betty, mother Mrs. S. J. McBroom, two brothers Ben and Perry Simmons, three sisters Mallie Boyd, John Clift, Verna Simmons, and burial at Llano Cemetery.
Braintree Massachusetts teenager John Freeman Tollison 16 aims to fund college with harp performances. Two years ago he set goals to attend Harvard and play a musical instrument. Now a high school senior he practices two hours daily for concerts to cover tuition next fall. He has appeared as soloist at Jordan Hall with the MacDowell Club Symphony Orchestra and at regional music festivals.
The report lists choice lambs at 10.25 to 710.50, best clipped lambs at 8.00 with other lambs down to 7.60. It also notes the Financial Security Fund liquidating price at 1.4070 and an offering price of 1.55.
In London Morris Marples notes English public schools maintain slang with Winchester leading in curiously retained terms from Chaucer. Terms like bakester brockster funkster mugster appear in dialogue among Smith Major and Jones Minor as pupils swap tasks and punishments. The passage contrasts school slang with modern movies.
Opal Snow at 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Snow of 809 Monroe, returned to Amarillo after a Tulsa to Amarillo bus overturned near Luther Oklahoma. She is confined to bed under a doctor's care following bruising and a brief hospital stay at Oklahoma City General. Other Amarillo passengers include Mrs. Pearl Lair and Mrs. Florence Stewart. Stewart bruised and hospital bound, Lair uninjured. In contrast, in the Samoan Islands villages often visit other islands on six month trips.
Amarillo taxpayers, including city, school and county, are urged to pay the last half of taxes by June 30 to avoid penalties. Delinquent payments face about 8 percent extra, with county costs of 1 dollar per delinquent account. Municipal offices will accept payments without penalty on Monday.
STATE COLLEGE Pa Speech handicapped children in public schools outnumber the blind deaf and crippled combined says Dr Herbert Koepp Baker associate professor of speech at Pennsylvania State College Early discovery and correction can reduce such losses and prevent maladjustments in personality The traveling speech clinic has examined over 1000 children in 22 districts in nine years and serves as an internship for graduate students The Bridal Veil a waterfall is described in North Carolina
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