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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1931
Page
5
Austin October 1 Gov Ross Sterling signed a bill removing penalties and interest on delinquent taxes to ease taxpayers. The measure requires payment of delinquent taxes by January 3 1932 City and poll taxes are excluded from the relief.
A clipping discusses the Federal Farm Board efforts to stabilize wheat prices by buying hold-over wheat in the Middle West and moving it to Atlantic and eastern elevators. It highlights the impact on Gulf ports and northern milling centers and notes continued movement of Texas new crop wheat north and east until export demand changed. The letter criticizes Herbert Hoover, urging readers to “pour it on” and predicting political change by 1932.
A Texas reader defends prohibition and attacks the American Legion for backing beer. The letter argues law and morals require no compromise, warns against government-protected vice, and condemns unemployment and taxes as camouflage to profit brewers.
Dear Tack urges ending the Farm Board and replacing it with county elected farmer representatives to advise on planting and machinery. He calls for cooperation with the U S Farm Board, biannual meetings in Washington, and standardizing farm equipment. He also favors repealing the eighteenth amendment with liquor for medicine only and revoking permits for intoxication.
A jumble of letters and notices includes calls for tax reform on liquor, abolishing appointive powers, a public vote on officials, obscenity control, and moral teaching in schools and churches. Also requests for room trades, a single-room rental, nursing work, a wicker suit for sale, a hemstitching machine, and an invitation to a Gray County steak fry with 225 teachers attending.
The letter as county superintendent John B. Hesssey from Pampa Texas invites attendance at a social gathering. The entertaining committee chair asks the recipient to speak for about twenty minutes on any chosen topic and hints at possible inside information on the Sandie-Harvester game.
Warranty deeds show E W Miller transferring to Grace Glover for 4575 dollars covering lots 7 and 8 in block 8 Hum. G. W. Gordon et al transfer to A E Krause for 10 dollars covering south 37 4 and all of lots 5 6 7 in block 221 Holland Addition. Building permits issued to E T Herring Estate for lots 1 2 block 32 Glidden and Sanborn at 200 dollars for repairs by 8S F Pelton, contractor.
Texas recorded 254 homicides in the first 273 days of 1931. Violent deaths included 36 women and 218 men. bullets killed 30 women and 170 men, stabbings 2 women and 15 men. June topped the months with 46 slayings. Month by month totals are listed.
School heads meet at the Chamber of Commerce to map advertising and attendance plans for the 53rd annual State Teachers Association convention to be held in Amarillo on November 26 27 and 28. Attendees include W A McIntosh Amarillo public schools superintendent C M Rogers supervisor of junior and senior high schools Miss Ventura Smith supervisor of music and Mrs Annie L McDonald supervisor of elementary grades.
State Labor Commissioner Robert B. Gragg will speak at the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs annual session in Lubbock from November 10 to 14. His lecture title is women in industry.
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