Panhandle News Notes On Dumas Celebration And Local Topics
Local readers eye Dumas for a major Panhandle celebration while forecasts call for hot dry weather with potential moisture next week. Panhandle events include a live fish exhibit and a javelina display at a Sportsman Show. A Plainview irrigation pioneer, J E Bowman, irrigates 100 acres from a lake storage system and trains four ponies to dive for entertainment.
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Plains
Panhandle
Texas
Bowman
Random Facts and Quips From A World of Oddities
A collage of brief items cites a Supreme Court justice, Roosevelt speeches, and a Columbia gift. It notes Argentina beef figures, tea as a hangover remedy, and socialite guides in New York for under $30 weekly. It adds Siamese marriage law, a streetcar incident, hospital beer surveys, and other curiosities.
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Dwan J. Roberts
United States Supreme Court
Pennsylvania
Roosevelt
Columbia Broadcasting
Argentina
Barbara Wall
Carolyn Saltus
New York Register
Anxious Mothers and Workplace Notices in Amarillo Column
A public edition features a letter from Roy Bland ing superintendent of Playgrounds urging cautious debate on community welfare and supervisors of children's play. The page also carries scattered help-want ads from individuals seeking work including a violin book loss and various domestic labor listings.
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Amarillo
Roy
Anding
Kansas City Live Stock Markets and Classified Notices
Livestock totals show hogs 1200 head and cattle 1800, with prices advancing on light and medium weights. Sheep 1600 head. notes include ads for sewing and domestic help and a 1939 Texas insurance certificate issued to Prudential Insurance Company of Great Britain by the Texas Board of Insurance Commissioners.
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Kansas City
U.A
Colorado
Texas
Board of Insurance Commissioners
Austin
Prudential Insurance Company of
Great Britain
New York
Walter C. Woodward
Lautz Explains Rail Finances to Amarillo Club
H B Lautz vice president and general manager of the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway spoke on transport costs at the Amarillo Rotary Club. He noted increased speed raises costs but freight handling growth lowers shipper costs, discussed railroad expenses and taxation, and cited 1937 figures for labor fuel materials and taxes.
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H. B. Lautz
Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company
Amarillo
Lautz
United States
It Is a Hard Life for Black Boys Waiting in Pawnshops
In Amarillo a pawnshop scene ends with A D Williams entering with a gun flagged as stolen from Amarillo Garage and Storage. Capt Uselding and Det. Capt Yielding confront him. Williams is identified as wanted on a Paducah burglary warrant and is jailed for theft. The stolen gun is recovered from Ted Neely.
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Amarillo
Leo Yielding
Police Department
Sales Coffey
A. D. Williams
Captain Uselding
Ted Neely
Uselding
Paducah
Williams
Former Amarilloan Shot in California
Mrs Katherine Jordan formerly Katherine Carson of Amarillo Tex is in poor condition after being shot in the side by Larry E Brunkow 30 who then killed himself Brunkows suicide left Carl Carson a brother of Mrs Jordan to travel from Amarillo to Los Angeles today
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Los Angeles
Katherine Jordan
Katherine Carson
Amarillo
Tex
General Hospital
House Prowler Ransacks Home but Leaves Everything
The home at 315 B West Eighth Avenue was thoroughly ransacked last night by a house prowler, yet nothing was taken. Police were notified after the burglary was discovered. Irene Wilson sues for divorce from Glen W. Wilson. Other divorce filings include Lemuel Esther Bradley from Carlton W. Bradley and J L Pope from Edith Launel Pope. Marie Maxwell from Rex Maxwell. Elgin Phillips from Evelyn Phillips. C E Hunter from Pearl Hunter.
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Irene Wilson
Glen W. Wilson
Lemuel Esther Bradley
Carlton W. Bradley
J. L. Pope
Edith Launel Pope
Marie Maxwell
Rex Maxwell
Elgin Phillips
Evelyn Phillips
C. E. Hunter
Pearl Hunter
Debates in Upstate High Schools Are Called Off
In Gloversville and Schenectady two teams from each school were prepared to debate the same motion. A mix up sent Schenectady’s negative team to Gloversville and Gloversville’s affirmative team to Schenectady. The result: four teams in transit and the debate cancelled. audiences left unsatisfied.
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Mr. Bowman
Mr Bowman
Gloversville
N. Y
U.P
Women Tax Collectors In Britain on Decline
In London British women shy from tax collecting, finding the job nerve racking though capable. Somerset House records a striking decline in women candidates for the role of inspector of taxes, central to the income tax system.
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Britain
London
Somerset House
Wholesalers Credit Group Forms Here in Texas
Plans for a wholesalers credit association to be formed here materialize within days. Similar offices exist in El Paso and other Texas cities and Amarillo already reports sufficient members for a branch by June 1. The Amarillo branch will serve the Panhandle and affiliate with the national association and retail credit offices in the Capitol.
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of & Wholesalers’ Credit Association
el Paso
Texas
Amarillo
Wholesalers Credit Association
Panhandle
National Association
Retail Credit Association
Capitol Hotel
Amarillo Postoffice Receives New Top Hat Cornice
Amarillo's post office building gets a new hat this week a broad-brimmed inverted top that sits atop the crown worn straight and white. The change does not replace the old top but adds to the existing cornice with the C S Lambie Construction Company handling the installation.
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Amarillo
Postoffice
C. S. Lambie Construction Company
Former Amarillo Patrolman Becomes Galveston Police Chief
Floyd Goodrich 37, a former Amarillo police officer and customs patrolman since 1936, was named chief of Galveston Police. He succeeds Henry Wisrodt and is described as angular and studious with glasses and a small moustache.
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Amarillo
Galveston
City
Floyd Goodrich
Goodrich
Customs Service
Henry Wisrodt
Fire Department Responds Twice on Hayden Street
In less than three hours the fire department answered two alarms on Hayden Street. The first at 7 35 a m reported burning rags in a new garage. The second at 10 05 a m involved a trash fire near Sixteenth Avenue.
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Hayden Street
Sixteenth Avenue
Century Plant Blooms at W L Keaton Home
A giant century plant transplanted from the Davis Mountains at 4230 West Fifteenth Avenue nears blooming. The plant, tall and wind prone, requires braces to withstand West Texas winds.
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Davis Mountains
W. L. Keaton
West
Fifteenth Avenue
West Texas
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