Panhandle Plains History Pageant Aims For Friday Night
Amarillo school children stage a six period pageant depicting Panhandle Plains history Friday at 8 p m. Ten thousand children participate with scenery by Eva Patching Thelma Stolz Edna Pratt Ethel Ruth Collins Maurine Wallingford and Maude L Fletcher of the Amarillo public schools art department. Scenes cover life of Indians Spanish entry Texas colonization Stephen F Austin colony colonial era and Panhandle development from frontier to metropolis with cattle farming oil and Amarillo skyline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panhandle Plains
Amarillo
Annie McDonald
Eva Patching
Thelma Stolz
Edna Pratt
Ethel Ruth Collins
Maurine Wallingford
Maude L. Fletcher
Art Department
Texas
Alamo
Mission San Jose
Stephen F. Austin
Austin
Panhandle
Principal Speaker to Head McKinley School Graduation
Principal speaker 1D A Shirley registrar of West Texas State Teachers College will address the McKinley School graduation tonight. 29 seventh graders will receive diplomas as services begin at 8 o'clock in the McKinley auditorium with Herbert Hughes giving the invocation. County Superintendent Car G Clifft will present diplomas and awards. Meanwhile Pawnee County Kansas residents receive 185000 annually from oil land leases despite no oil wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Shirley
West Texas State Teachers College
McKinley School
McKinley
Herbert Hughes
Car G. Clifft
Blue Star Ointment Promises To Kill Itch Germs
An advertisement touts Rhine Star Ointment as a cure for itch rash eczema ringworm and tetter foot itch. It claims tested medicines kill itching and offers a money back guarantee if relief is not achieved.
Dolly Gann Returns to Campaign Trail After Loss of Brother
Dolly Gann, longtime campaigner for her brother Charles Curtis and the Hoover-Curtis ticket, plans a swift return to political battles after Curtis's death. She will tour Midwest states once a Republican candidate is chosen, drawing crowds with her wit and platform experience from campaigns in 1928, 1932, and prior Congress races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolly Gann
Hoover- Curtis
Charles Curtis
Hoover
All Around The Town Items From Las Vegas To Amarillo And Movie Listings
All Around The Town notes Earl W Volberding of Las Vegas and Cleo West visiting relatives in Illinois and Amarillo. Mentions Mrs R M Lynch traveling to Fort Smith Ark due to grandfather Jim Graves death. Others report judge Gladys M Glenn at South Plains Music Festival, and doctors Vaughn and Thomas at the American Medical Convention in Kansas City. Movie listings include Colleen, The Country Beyond, Brewster's Millions, The Case of the Lucky Legs, Splendor, and The Aristocrats of Rhythm with Lloyd Snyder orchestra and Jean Frost. The Call of the Wild feature dog Buck noted. Royal Canadian Mounted Police appear in The Country Beyond.
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Earl W. Volberding
Las Vegas
Nevada
Illinois
Paramount
Colleen
Ruby Keeler
Dick Powell
Joan Blondell
Jack Oakie
Filmusical
Rochelle Hudson
Texas
Buck
St. Bernard
Mission Theater
James Oliver Curwood
Paul Kily
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Three Palastine Men Abandon Trinity River Raft Voyage
Three young men from Palestine Texas abandoned their raft journey down the Trinity River due to dangerous flood waters. Thomas Parker Jr. 32 George Herrington 19 and James Etheridge 21 set out eight days earlier from Palestine toward Houston on a raft built from lumber and oil barrels. Parker phoned his mother from Crockett confirming the decision to quit the river trip. Herrington and Etheridge planned to return to Palestine while Parker would press on to Houston by other means.
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Palestine
Tex
Trinity River
Thomas Parker, Jr
George Herrington
James Etheridge
Houston
Parker
Tom Parker
Crockett
Herrington
Etheridge
Insurance Week Emphasizes Life Coverage On KGNC
Speakers at civic clubs and KGNC radio urge life insurance and underwriting firms as vital to the national economy during National Life Insurance Week. Northwest Texas Association of Life Underwriters sponsors Panhandle events with 15 minute KGNC broadcasts nightly at 8. W P Martin started the series with subsequent talks by Nick Browning Floyd V Studer Ernest R Archambeau Harvey Cox and Clyde Rehmeyer. The national underwriters association also airs a CBS program at 8 45 Amarillo time featuring Boake Carter from Philadelphia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
KGNC
Panhandle
Northwest Texas Association of Life Underwriters
W. P. Martin
Nick Browning
Floyd V. Studer
Ernest R. Archambeau
Harvey Cox
Clyde Rehmeyer
National Association of Underwriters
Columbia Broadcasting System
Amarillo
Boake Carter
Philadelphia
Organizations Meet for Joint Session Program
Two organizations will hold a joint meeting to hear a program presented by Rad Carna tion Lodge B of L F E. Robert Taylor the actor has added bowling to his favored sports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rad Carnation Lodge
Robert Taylor
Mecca for Candidates at West Texas Chamber Meet
Amarillo hosted state officials and candidates during the West Texas Chamber of Commerce convention. On the program across sessions were Governor James V. Allred Ernest O Thompson chairman of the State Railroad Commission George Sheppard state comptroller J E McDonald candidate for state commissioner of agriculture and Pat Bullock candidate for superintendent of public instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
James V. Allred
Ernest O. Thompson
State Railroad Commission
George Sheppard
J. E. McDonald
Pat Bullock
Rattlesnake Handling Feats Highlight Florida Trapper
Stuart Florida May 13 Newt Chase a Martin County farmer and trapper says catching rattlesnakes with bare hands is easy. He describes two passes with his hands to disconcert the snake then grabbing it just behind the head. Chase claims he has caught about a hundred snakes and has never been bitten.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart, Fla
Newt Chase
Martin County
Chase
Deed Transfer to Standard Savings & Loan in Bivins Lot
Courthouse records show Joe M. Hickman and others deed Lot 7 Block 5 Bivins to Standard Savings & Loan for 2700 dollars. Nearby registrations list a Chevrolet coupe for Frankie Patello, a Studebaker coach for Leroy A. Lowry, and a Reo Truck for Panhandle Fruit Co. An unidentified poison weed has killed numerous farm animals in Sonoma County California.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe M. Hickman
Standard Savings & Loan
Frankie Patello
Studebaker
Leroy A. Lowry
Panhandle Fruit Co
Sonoma County
California
VFW to Meet Tonight In Legion Home
Members of John B. Golding Post Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold a regular business session at o o clock tonight in the Legion Home. The post auxiliary unit will meet at the same hour. Following short business, the session will adjourn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Golding Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Legion Home
Post
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Pageant
D. A. Shirley
Pawnee County
Kansas
The
Associated Press
R. M. Lynch
Fort Smith, Ark
Jim W. Graves
Gladys M. Glenn
Lubbock
John H. Vaughn
W. B. Thomas
American Medical Convention
Kansas City
Tom Sawyers
Hubby
William Carlson
June
Chicago
Rose Weinsstrom
Marjorie
Mecca
Trapper
Courthouse Records
Caromel
Carter
Vanels
Old Quaker
Schenley
OLD Quaker CO
Lawrenceburg, Inc
Schenley Products Co., Inc
Plas
Straicht Whiskey
Champagne
France
Turkey
VFW
Golding
Golden Light Coffee
the Gaylord
Southern California
Wilshire District
Ambassador Hotel
Wilshire Boulevard
Laurence V. Benet
New York
C.S.T
Lily Pons
Kostelanetz
Kay Thompson
Ray Heatherton
Columbia Network
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