Winter Aid Pushes Welfare Requests In Amarillo
Amid winter onset Amarillo welfare officials report a sharp rise in requests. The Community Chest office sees swamped applications for the winter improvement program, offering a day of work and a week’s groceries for those deemed needful. Mothers with babies join men at the shelter as harsher weather bites. The welfare office notes a 50 percent increase over last year, with bread earners temporarily unemployed due to bad weather.
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Amarillo
Welfare League
Community Chest
Chamber of Commerce
Welfare Office
Phone Cable Thief Nabbed In Amarillo
Police report Amarillo's telephone cable thief is jailed after admitting theft. Over 20 feet of line cut Thanksgiving near First Avenue and Hayden Street disrupted long distance to the northwest. Insulation burned from the wire, loot sold at a junk yard. 17 pounds copper fetched 3 cents a pound, costing the tel ephone company about $500 and hours of outage. The thief faced transfer to county authorities if the complaint is signed.
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Amarillo
First Avenue
Hayden Street
Telephone Company
Amvilo
Refund Bonds: Get Approval for Amarillo Issue
Full legal approval has been granted for Amarillo’s 864000 dollar refund bond issue. Mayor Ernest O. Thompson announced that the attorney general of Texas and Clay Dillon of New York City approved the bonds, with bids to be received Tuesday night by the city commission. The bonds, authorized November 10 by voters, refinance outstanding obligations at four and three quarters percent interest and keep the same city tax rate for 1931.
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Amarillo
Attorney General
Texas
Clay & Dillon
New York City
Ernest O. Thompson
Amarilo
Thurman Baby Dies At Local Hospital
Ola May Thurman infant daughter of Mr and Mrs I B Thurman of 306 Grant Street died at a local hospital at 7 30 last night. Survived by her parents and one brother Billy age 3. Funeral held 11 Monday at Griggs Funeral Chapel with Rev Guy Shields officiating. Burial in Llano cemetery.
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Ola May Thurman
I. BE. Thurman
Grant Street
Billy
Griggs Funeral
Guy Shields
Assembly of God Church
Llano Cemetery
Partly cloudy with low temperatures in Panhandle forecast
Partly cloudy skies and continued low temperatures are forecast for the Panhandle tonight and Tuesday. A belated sun Sunday and today reduced mud on highways and eased airline operations. Amarillo reported a 27 degree low last night and 96 degrees by 1 PM this afternoon.
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Panhandle
Amarillo
Lineman injured while cutting down copper cable on site
Linemen reported copper wire littering the ground as the worker climbed to cut the cable. The incident raised safety concerns about debris on the work site and potential equipment hazards.
Truck Herring Opens Tuesday at Hotel Here
Applications for contract carrier permits to operate between Amarillo and Panhandle points will be heard Tuesday and Wednesday by the Railroad Commission of Texas at the Herring Hotel. 8 S. J. Cole, head of the chamber of commerce traffic department, said the hearing will involve more than 30 applications under the new motor truck common carrier law. Mark Marshall, director of the commission's motor truck division, will be in charge.
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Amarillo
Panhandle
Railroad Commission of Texas
Herring Hotel
J. Cole
Chamber of Commerce
Mark Marshall
Commission
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