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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1939
Page
2
The column forecasts a fair, sunny day for Jim Farley’s post office dedication and urges costumes for a Straw Hat Day. It promotes government home financing, inflation risks, and real estate opportunities, plus local weather showers and scattered rainfall across plains.
A chaotic mix from Amarillo columns reports on a Hollywood critique of spending, Rancho Ranger aircraft takeoff and landing times, a St. Regis Show with a performer named Punkin Parker, a junk yard sign, and Mex Levine. It covers Nelson C. Smith’s candidacy for a ring ceremony in Oasis Amarillo, and friendship notices with Bob Clark and Lucile Marsh Raner’s Sayre wedding. It ends with a reader letter accusing the editor and roaster of airport arson and Roosevelts meat program critiques.
A collage of notes from Miss Valda Cypher and assorted items covers spelling debates like wiener versus weiner, radio and advertising quips, a college joke, coin toss bias, Nazi obedience, newspaper editorials, a woolen mill slogan, gas warfare myths, aero neurosis in pilots, Elbert Hubbard’s career move, and Teap year costs in the British Royal Air Force.
A collage of classifieds shows several personal notices. A middle aged widow seeks a nice honest man 45 to 60. A colored man requests steady Fort Worth work with references. A reader at 300 FE Tenth Avenue lists contact Dial 02 0819 seeking employment.
Austin May 16 The House game and fish committee drastically revised a Senate measure for a universal hunting license law. The bill as amended keeps a $2 small game fee and raises large game license to $3 allowing shooting of all game. Out of state license cuts to $10. The commission may set dove and whitewing seasons to align with federal rules.
The Amarillo High School awards committee meets to pass on sponsor recommendations for letter awards to students who distinguished themselves in interscholastic competitions. The annual recognition day ceremony is Friday morning during the regular student assembly hour where awards will be presented in chenille letters and gold pins.
The Amarillo High School National Honor Society will initiate many new members Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the high school library. A banquet will follow as the new members present the program with Miss Louise Russell as sponsor.
Glenn Bowen, head of Amarillo fire alarm and street lighting, says lamp replacements at the North Fillmore Street underpass averaged nearly 100 in the first two months of this year. He notes not all damage is by boys and that some destroy city property thinking it is their own.
Capt. Jim Line said practically all Panhandle highway patrolmen would be in Amarillo tomorrow for the post office dedication ceremonies. He added they would assist with traffic control, noting a parade of horses might require extra help.
In Amarillo a mayor's pup chewed a roll of tickets worth 19.25 dollars at the City Lake gate. Mayor Ross D. Rogers is away in New York for the United States Conference of Mayors, trustee of the group. Gate keeper I L Haynie reports the pup disrupted the ticket roll as he spoke with a friend.
Tourism is expected to surge this season as US highway associations promote sponsor routes and distribute maps of cross country paths. A. A. Bower of Fairview Oklahoma, national vice president of the U S Highway 60 Association, says the annual meeting will be held June 16 17 in Cairo Illinois per a letter to the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce.
The Texas Railroad Commission will conduct a freight rate hearing tomorrow morning at the Herring Hotel. Issues include a petition by county agricultural officials to reduce freight charges on grasshopper poison and other ingredients used in Panhandlewide efforts against the hopper plague. The session is set for Room 202 of the Herring Hotel.
Amarillo shows overall health gains with only three scarlet fever cases in quarantine and two nearing release. Measles cases rose last week to 37, impacting student participation in end of term activities. Health officials note rising measles despite general health stability.
W. T. Stanford 48, Rock Island railroad employee, died Sunday at his 732 North Johnson Street home. Funeral services were held this afternoon at Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Chapel with Rev. J. D. Horton officiating. Burial followed at Llano Cemetery. Survived by wife, step-mother Mrs. Ethel Stanford, a stepson Odell Harris, a son Hayrm Stanford, a daughter Mrs. Loraine Fitzgerald, four brothers and five sisters.
Prowlers ransacked the R. E. Work residence at 3511 West Sixth Avenue yesterday between 12 45 and 4 45 in the afternoon and evening. A wrist watch and a diamond studded locket along with a radio and purse were taken from Miss Rheafern Work. Mrs Work said doors were bolted this morning to improve security.
Chester Fitz, forester and parks superintendent, grows thousands of trees from seed for transplanting at Thompson Park and the city lake. Chinese elms started from seed three years ago reach 10 feet. Seed used comes from Ellwood Park and other city sites, planted in trenches then moved to a city nursery at McDonald water site. Black walnut, Russian olive, locust and nearly all city species are now seed grown.
Amarillo College music students will present a Fine Arts Program Friday at 8 pm in the college auditorium. The program includes vocal and piano selections by listed students, followed by a watercolor art exhibition in North Hall under Miss Blanche Cathey. Public invited free of charge.
Oran T Miller chief dispatcher for the Santa Fe Railway across New Mexico died this morning in Las Vegas after a heart attack. He had served with Santa Fe since September 18, 1909 and was well known in Amarillo.
Two masked men robbed the First Bank of Chico just before noon heading toward Jacksboro in a yellow Wheeler 1935 Chevrolet. Witness Mark Marshall saw a bandit enter via a side door and demand surrender, remarking get your hands up.
Arrangements completed to receive a Dumas delegation arriving in Amarillo at 11 oclock Thursday morning. The group promotes its rodeo and old settlers reunion for May 26 27 and will lunch with the Rotary Club then broadcast a KGNC program. An Amarillo delegation led by Milt Cox and Bruce Autry will repay the visit on Friday May 26.
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