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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1937
Page
6
London reports a plan to train Great Britain's road patrols into the world's most skilled police unit for handling dangerous driving. Metropolitan Police will start with Hendon driving school experiments and a refresher course for instructors, then apply the program to all patrol drivers.
Colleen Moore buys about 2000 acres near Conyers Georgia for a large estate. The land is held partly in her mother Mia Morrison’s name and partly in Moore and John Hewlett's names. The site is 30 miles from Atlanta and plans include a swimming pool tennis courts farming cattle and sheep ranching.
Dust storms hit Big Spring as Mayor Rows D. Rogers opens mail at city hall finding an envelope addressed to Amarillo’s mayor containing a second sealed envelope and only dust inside. He jokes it could have been sent to western Kansas.
Amarillo representatives Bob Epperson John Smithee and J B LeVeri travel to Port Worth for the West Texas Pharmaceutical Association convention opening today Texan figures on the program include Col Ernest O Thompson F Weaver head of the Texas Pharmacy Board and Attorney General B McCraw The item also notes Louisa Virginia population 301 with 83 widows and 39 maiden ladies and Kentucky Owensboro marketer season netics growers revenue 2106540.
Hollywood March 23. Sylvia Ranee of Sarawak describes Sarawak as the last earthly paradise on Borneo. She explains Sarawak is an independent state with its own government flag national anthem army and is a British protectorate with no direct empire ties. The rajah is her husband Sir Wynn Brook and he is the only white rajah in the world. The population is about 500000 mostly Europeans and the economy relies on gold oil rubber sage and rice.
Santa Fe New Mexico governor Clyde Tingley declared he will not change his grammar, saying he will veto calls to reform his use of the word ain’t. He asked brain trusters to justify its origin, tracing it to the Revolutionary War, and defended its American value with example sentences.
Spring began Saturday night with Deputy Sheriff Dick Vaughn directing trustees to scrub cells with lye water and disinfectant. The jail population has fallen to 30, allowing shifting inmates to avoid crowding as cleaning proceeds.
John Stanfield, 32, of San Jon, NM, received a four year suspended sentence for the death of Mrs. John Thornton in a September 23, 1936 highway crash on Route 66 near the helium plant. He pleaded guilty to murder. testimony cited his drinking prior to the wreck.
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