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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1939
Page
2
In the Amarillo region Walter Holmes advances a rig near Claude for multiple test wells amid seismograph proved structure. Ed Mayer expands acreage northeast of Amarillo as work resumes, aiming for pay depth this year. Water supply strains hint at a new pipeline need.
A reward of five dollars is offered for a lost Elgin white gold wrist watch attached to a white link chain. It belongs to Mrs. O. P. Heaton of Jackson and Seventeenth Street. Her telephone is 6712. A light, personal notice item among a string of anecdotes and brief notes.
James C Poster, regional director of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics in Amarillo, departs Monday to lead the RAE planning section for Colorado, Kansas, and New Mexico with headquarters in Port Collins. Foster arrived in 1998 with the Resettlement Administration and later headed BAEE in the Farm Security Administration. He oversaw the Panhandle Water Conservation Authority lakes project.
Members of the Amarillo Wholesale Credit Association met at the Capitol Hotel to discuss launching operations early next month. Some 49 Amarillo firms across wholesale, manufacturing, and jobbing sectors have affiliated, and officials are establishing the master file system for a credit bureau ahead of the June start.
Cart Nall the Sherman postmaster and Mrs Nall visited Amelio last week with Mr Marertt They attended the positive dedication and the Rotary Party at the Aller Barly home while in Angarilie
Dear Tack I would like to start sewing and alteration work. Contact by phone. Continued on page 14.
Livestock figures show hogs 250 to 325 pounds steady with top at 86.55 and best 160 to 280 pounds at 6.50. Cattle with 400 to 450 head, calves 190, trade slow but mostly steady. Sheep 1,806 head sold, native spring lambs to packers up to 25, few foreign buys noted.
Fred Snite Jr. lay in an iron lung at the Shrine of Lourdes and prayed for other invalid pilgrims. He expressed gratitude for life, noted slow recovery from infantile paralysis, and hoped for Saint Bernadette’s intervention while avoiding miracles.
The Amarillo College YMCA and YWCA will send two delegates Dorothea Dell Schethagen and Woodrow Baldwin to the Hollister Student Conference of the YMCA and YWCA meeting in Hollister Missouri on June 20. Delegates depart June 1 and will join peers from Texas Tech and West Texas State College for the trip. About 200 representatives from over 50 colleges in Texas Oklahoma Arkansas and Missouri are expected.
City hall reports building permits totaling 38300 this morning. Two large permits exceed 12000 each with 12550 for a water line to the Preventorium supplying fire protection for North Heights. Glenn Miller secures a 13000 brick business building near Sixth Avenue and Georgia Street. 1939 year total reached 1321731.
Genece Bautista was chosen Golden Sandie band queen for 1939-40 by theater men Co R Meeker Jack Rhodes and Fred Patterson from five candidates numbered by the band. She was coached by Mary Beth McClung who held the 1938-39 crown. Oscar Wise band director and family travel to Stillwater Oklahoma for his twenty fifth class reunion and will return Monday for summer band pupils registration.
The Presbyterian Church in the U S S A under Dr Sam Higginbotham pledges a hands off stance as its 276 presbyteries vote on doctrinal amendments about war. Two overtures seeking changes to the confession and recognizing conscientious objectors failed to secure enough support with votes still pending.
Amarillo police search for a 17 year old Pampa girl who disappeared from home and is believed to be in Amarillo. Also sought is 10 year old William Todd reported missing since five yesterday evening by Thelma Todd of 110 Fast Twentieth Avenue.
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