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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1941
Page
2
Amarillo plans to meet rising demand with turbine pumps from Word Ranch wells. For fiscal 1941 42 ending April 15, the Water Department must pay 276 353 95 dollars, including 180 480 36 dollars in principal. City debt payments run about 22 000 dollars less than water funds. Principal 125 700 dollars and interest 129 283 dollars.
The writer, at a ranch in the Panhandle, muses on perfect weather and wartime leadership, praises Colonel Simpson for a Chamber of Commerce role, and recounts a tame wild deer that swam beside a boat. He notes Lake Dalhart’s vast size, then profiles A V McQuiddy’s inspiring perseverance after infantile paralysis and cites Dr. George Washington Carver’s hopeful peanut-based cures and scientific work.
A rambling digest mentions Alabama using red clay for paints and pigments with vast deposits along the Canadian river in the Panhandle. Castor oil is scarce and prized by the army. The piece folds in war era notes on U-boat morale, road safety quirks, baby diaper sizes, oysters as a multi state catch, spring training costs, Dive Bomber filming at a California base, and St Peters burg’s giant drug store with 400 staff and 150000 items.
Police in Amarillo report two bandits matching descriptions and tactics used in Wichita Falls and Lubbock. The men robed drug store cashiers on consecutive nights, according to Police Chief Sid Harper.
A collection of letters and notices shows a married man seeking farm work with tractor experience, two widows seeking practical nursing, a motherless home care offer, a teenage boy asking for farm work with room and board, a yard worker seeking cleaning work, a colored girl seeking hourly housework, a pup giveaway, and a Philadelphia teacher drafted into army training by a former pupil in language class.
Ellinor Atwood and Clifton Janak are announced as performers for the Rose Maiden program at Polk Street Methodist Church tomorrow night. Miss Atwood joins the trio for Hast Thou Wandered while Mr Janak will sing the baritone solo Where Gloomy Pine Trees Rustle.
The Amarillo Public Library curates a special shelf titled American Marriage and Family Relationships to accompany Dr. Paul Popenoe’s lectures in the Panhandle. Included are books by Waller, Bigelow, Angell, Mowrer, Jordan, Bosanquet, and the Modern American Family study, plus periodicals such as Britannica Britannica 14th edition articles and Reader’s Digest pieces from 1939 to 1941.
Officer W. E. Sowell, of 413 North East Fifth Avenue, starts duty as a traffic officer for the Amarillo police department today, filling a vacancy created by Sid Harper’s promotion to police chief and H. H. Tommie Thomas’s rise to squad captain. R. G. Bynum and W. L. Thronberry also reported for duty yesterday, with listed addresses.
Herman Mitchell, a Black man, was found guilty of murder by a 47th District Court jury and sentenced to five years in prison. He had pleaded not guilty on self defense and sought a suspended sentence after admitting the Feb. 23 shooting of Adolph Coble.
More than 400 Boy Scouts from Amarillo Canyon Happy Hereford Dumas Dalhart Adrian Vega and Dalhart gather at the Tri-State Fairgrounds for the Field Day contests including cooking tent pitching signaling first aid knot tying firemaking and drill with campfire ceremonies at 8 pm and events starting 9 am Saturday.
Amarillo Hardware invites organizations to inspect a newly decorated appliance department and offers a 10 cent bonus for each adult member who registers over three days. Department manager Carl Schell will extend hours to 9 PM each evening. A grand prize of 15 dollars goes to the group registering the most members.
Representatives of fire insurance companies from Amarillo and the Panhandle formed the Loyalty Group and held an agency meeting in Amarillo yesterday, climaxing with a banquet at the Capitol Hotel. Ben Lee Boynton of Dallas served as secretary.
Cobl signals plan to use an East Dallas Special a knife with a long keen blade. John Adams lived to 90 and died in 1826 as the oldest former U S President.
Attorney General Robert H. Jackson orders a roundup of Axis visitors with questionable status to curb subversive activity. Arrests include Manfred Zapp and Guenther Town for deportation. detentions of about 160 German sailors. new rules limit alien seamen shore leave to port duration. The measure is an administrative stopgap until Congress acts.
The event featured principal speakers including the vice president and Tom R Chatfield of Dallas, with assistance from M. W. Morrow of Abilene, a special agent, and Ernst Zahl of Amarillo, a district representative, guiding the program.
Lord Woolton warns prices high as small herring drifters net over 900 dollars daily. Drifters largely use sharing-out systems with crews earning about 225 dollars weekly. U S wrapping supply spending reaches 25 million dollars yearly.
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