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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1936
Page
14
City officials weigh a petition from property owners objecting to selling lots and houses to Mexicans. The protests focus on areas east of North Polk Street and north of North Third Street, where most Mexican residents live in Amarillo.
Needy families across 20 north Panhandle counties receive food and clothing from the Surplus Commodities Corporation warehouse in Amarillo. Since disbursements began two and a half years ago commodities worth millions have been distributed with Potter County alone receiving goods valued over 300 000 dollars. The facility operates as a state WPA project with labor and supervision funded by federal money and also handles materials for county sewing room projects.
Legal moves seek to remove 90 inmates or collect rent from them in Tralee County Kerry Ireland. Inmates reportedly chose to stay after the jail was abandoned two years ago as families moved in seeking dry, rent free housing and have resisted eviction efforts. In unrelated note paleontologists mention the acanthodi as an ancient jawed fish species first to develop a lower jaw.
Promises a go everywhere frock with a drop shoulder yoke and high bodice panel in pastel silks and shadows plaid patterns. Pattern 2674 offers sizes 12 to 20 with fabric needs listed, include step by step instructions and a spring pattern book, order by mailing FIFTEEN CENTS to The American Globe Pattern, 43 W 17th St New York.
Washington report describes a rivet driven vibration machine pressed against trunks or limbs to shake insects from trees. A disc plate prevents bruising and a water spray washes insects away, offering a new method for pest control in forests parks orchards and yards.
Dr J A Hill president of West Texas State College at Canyon will address Amarillo teachers at the city schools meeting Saturday morning. He will speak on Character Education in the Public Schools at 9 oclock in the Senior High School auditorium. All patrons and others interested in education are invited to hear him.
W Lock-Padden in Watsonville California asserts ownership of a 1629 London printed Bible by Bonham Norton and John Fall. The Psalms section dates to 1628, making the volume among early American Bible links in private hands.
Germany's ambassador to England Dr Leopold von Hoesch acts as liaison for Berlin during Locarno talks in London stemming from the Rhineland crisis. He has served as envoy in London since 1932.
Potter County commissioners issued an order yesterday stating that out-of-county prisoners brought to the Potter County jail for safekeeping will be admitted only on a cash agreement. Warrants will not be accepted as payment and the acceptance window is limited to 30 days.
Melvin Markley Clarke was born to Mr and Mrs Melvin Clarke in Oregon City. Eleven people are considered his grandparents, while he has no brothers or sisters and only one uncle and one aunt.
Ethiopians on the southern war front refuse Red Cross marked shelters fearing Italian bombing. Dr. Hylander of a Swedish Red Cross unit reports it is now nearly impossible to tend the sick and wounded there. He notes a Norwegian ambulance attempting to display a long Red Cross flag near an American mission station was blocked by missionaries for fear of making a target.
London reports that Paris physicists note ten billion volt cosmic ray rays can be measured with cloud chamber methods. Leprince-Ringuet shows longer chambers detect smaller bending, confirming high energy rays are predominantly positive while lower energy rays are about half positive and half negative.
Amarillo’s city jail is described as sanitary with fumigation four to five times monthly. A professional pest exterminator handles the work and also disinfects the jail upon request for city prisoners.
Soothing Blue Star Ointment melts on the skin delivering tested medicines into pores to cure itchy skin and rashes including eczema and ringworm. Money back on the first jar if relief is not achieved.
British motoring club announces an overseas rally a 2000 mile U S and Canada tour starting July 22 aboard the Queen Mary with official receptions in Washington Pittsburgh and Detroit. Attractions include a triumphant Broadway entry escorted by police gasoline at 15 cents a gallon and weather insurance with a $15 a day rain guarantee.
Rabbi Alex Wiesel will speak at 8 o clock on Hungry Hearts drawing from Anzia Yezierskas book. The sermon compares conditions in Europe and America as the general public is invited to attend with special musical numbers.
Japan, which learned baseball from the United States, has offered Berkeley city schools a badminton set to popularize the game locally as part of a reciprocal gesture.
Oakland officials boast of what is believed to be a major railway discovery atop a shoreline bluff. Scientists and engineers examine the evidence as plans for a new line move forward with public interest high.
The Mountain View Cemetery line is 800 feet long with a ten minute service. It accepts transfers from other city lines.
Betty Herman age 19 married Herbert Onkka age 21 in Palmer Alaska marking the first wedding in the Matanuska Valley colony. The couple, both colonists, tied the knot recently in a modest ceremony reflecting early settlement life.
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