Amarillo Advance Guard Heads to Guymon Pioneer Day
An advance guard from Amarillo left at 1 PM for Guymon Oklahoma to invite residents to tomorrow's Pioneer Day festivities. Over 150 Amarilloans are expected to join a 6 30 AM booster motorcade from the Amarillo Hotel with Mayor Ross D. Rogers and Ed W. Hardin leading, as committee plans and passenger space volunteers are coordinated.
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Amarillo
Bob Epperson
Chamber of Commerce Trade Extension Committee
Bill Beechler
Cal Farley
Chamber of Commerce
Ross D. Rogers
Ed W. Hardin
Ray Hamilton Hopes to Escape Death in Chair
Ray Hamilton, convicted of enslaving Major Crowson during a prison break, remains sentenced to die May 10 in Huntsville. His mother from Austin visited the death cell and urged Governor Allred to commute the sentence to life, arguing he never killed anyone.
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Huntsville
Raymond Ao Anes
Austin Reporers
Thim
Raymond
Fillmore Street Widening Petition Highlights City Action
Property owners on Fillmore Street urged the city commission to widen the street from Tenth to Twenty-Fourth Avenues due to increased traffic and to establish a white way system between Tenth and Fifteenth Avenues. At a morning meeting the commission awarded a lake concession contract to A. L. Anderson and planned a formal lake opening Sunday.
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Fillmore Street
City Commission
Tenth
Twenty-Fourth Avenues
Fifteenth Avenues
City Lake
A. L. Anderson
Recovery plans urged for counties through state board
Wilbur C. Hawk announces counties must obtain county planning board approval and mail recovery project details to Maj. FE A Wood in Austin by May 10. The state planning board will meet then, with Hawk noting not all projects may be considered, but urging prompt submission. Major Wood, named office manager of the board, is known statewide for Amarillo zoning and the 1931 planning ordinance.
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Maj. FE. A. Wood
Austin
Wilbur C. Hawk
State Planning Board
Mr Hawk
Hawk
Major Wood
W. M. Massie
Fort Worth
Amarillo
Lottery raid shuts down News Service in Houston
Four men, Maurice Clement and the Poretto brothers among them, were bonded on charges of operating a lottery after a Texas Rangers raid on the Nationwide News Service bureau in Houston. Telegraph machines were seized. In Galveston officers seized two roulette wheels and a dice table but made no arrests. The Rangers said the agency was receiving and distributing race results to horse race bookies.
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Houston
U.P
Texas Rangers
Nationwide News Service, Inc
Little Turf
Galveston
Maurice Clement
T. R. Thomason
Joseph Poretto
Cyril Poretto
Sid Kelso
Amarillo firm lands pipe contract for disposal plant upgrade
Clowe & Cowan of Amarillo wins the contract to supply pipe for the improvement project at the city disposal plant. The award covers materials and delivery for the street lighting area at Twenty Second Avenue and Fillmore Street.
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Twenty-Second Avenue
Fillmore Street
Clowe & Cowan
Amarillo
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Ray Hamilton
Fillmore Widening
Wamsutta
Ioc
Swagger
Haif Hose
Rayon
Coats
All Children’s
White & Kirk
Todler
Binner Corsets
Archer Hose
Lydia E Panay Tar Pinkhas —Ablets
Lydia E. Pinkham
Elizabeth Arden
Miss Barrett
Plains
Ardena Cleansing Cream
Ardena Skin Tonic
Ardena Yvelva
Ardena Orange
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