Buffalo Lake Opens as Panhandle Rec Spot and Parade
Buffalo Lake near Amarillo is the first of several Panhandle water projects to open. Officials estimate heavy crowds will attend the Sunday dedication with a large loudspeaker system from Gulf Oil and a full program including plane flyovers. The event emphasizes conservation, trees, and future lakes such as Lake Marvin Jones and Tule Creek structures.
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Genesis
Buffalo Lake
Marvin Jones
Rita Blanca
Tule Creek
Boggy Creek
Canadian
Umbarer
Panhandle Water Conservation Authority
Soil Conservation Service
Panhandle
Plains
Ing
Houston
Gulf Oil Corpporation
The
H. H Bennett
Washington, D. C
John McCarty
Amarillo
Texas
Veterans Urged to Honor Buddies on Poppy Day
World War veterans of Hanson Post No. 54 urged to wear a poppy on Poppy Day to honor fallen comrades and support disabled veterans and families. Commander Bruce Autry led the appeal noting the poppy as a memorial flower and calling veterans to set an example by wearing the emblem. The American Legion Auxiliary will distribute the flowers through the day.
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Hanson Post No. 54
Bruce Autry
Autry
France
Belgium
American Legion Auxiliary
Ole Evinrude and the Ice Cream Outboard Dream
A historical note tells how Ole Evinrude, born in Norway and later in Wisconsin, built the first practical outboard motor after a summer voyage to fetch ice cream for a disappointed sweetheart. The tale blends romance with invention as he spent two years perfecting a portable engine following Edward Savage's earlier but impractical detachable motor.
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Ole Evinrude
Norway
Wisconsin
Ole
Edward Savage
College Women in Jobs Declared Too Snobbish
Chicago report cites Esther Stamats of the YWCA saying college trained women are business dads as they cannot adapt to the real world. She addressed Northwestern University co-eds at a vocational conference calling the average college woman snobbish for grudges jealousy and poor detail attention.
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Chicago
U.P
Esther C. Stamats
Chicago Y.W.C.A
Northwestern
Grandmother Trapeze Artist Teaches Class at WPA Center
Marietta grandmother and former circus aerial acrobat Mrs. Earle Wynkoop teaches a class of young girls at the WPA recreation center. She says she performed as a daring flyer on the flying trapeze for 23 years.
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Marietta
WPA
Earle Wynkoop
Evolution of the Evinrude outboard motor origin story
The memoir traces Ole Evinrude starting from a sign painted for a motor to a booming outboard industry. It notes the 1912 shipping of thousands of motors, the 1919 Elto engine with three horsepower, and forecasts of 100 mile per hour speeds. It mentions early racing near eight to eighty miles per hour and Bedford Davie of Green Pond, New Jersey.
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Ole
Evinrude
Bedford Davie
Green Pond
N. J
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