Amarillo Welcomes Will Rogers Highway HQ
Amarillo becomes official center of the federal Will Rogers Highway No 66 as the Will Rogers Highway Association opens offices in the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce. Carl Hinton serves as secretary and a larger booklet will debut December 1 hosted by Jack Ramsell. A spring memorial motorcade from Irvin S Cobb and a Chicago route will lead to services in Amarillo, with hundreds expected and gaps in unpaved sections promised to be closed. The association holds its annual convention in Amarillo December 9.
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Amarillo
Will Rogers Highway Association
Ramsell
Irvin S. Cobb
Los Angeles
Chicago
Association
Amarillo Nudist Camp Plans Revealed by Officials
An editor notes this yarn may be fiction but reports officials discuss Amarillo hosting a grand nudist camp with plans for a mile square site. Features include a man made brook, hundreds of trees, steam heating, wind and dust control, grass seed in sawdust, indirect lighting with sun-ray globes, and a hoped for Sally Rand opening in about two months.
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Amarillo
United States
Sally Rand
Dallas
Panhandle
West Coast
Platform of Demos Drawn For State Convention
Friends of Governor Allred drafted a preliminary platform for the Democratic State convention in Fort Worth on September 8. The group aims to mirror much of the 1934 platform while endorsing the Roosevelt Garner Allied administration and adding calls for greater utilities regulation renewal of the interstate compact revised election laws a rural library system and more.
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Austin
Allred
Fort Worth
Roosevelt-Garner
Nudist colony interview ends with host choosing dinner
A man ends a walk through a nudist colony interview by discussing prices and potential local backing. He hints the daily rate is high but weekly monthly and yearly rates are reasonable before preparing to finish changing and head to dinner.
Massachusetts to View Green Case in Port Henry Hearing
Massachusetts will be represented at a preliminary hearing in Port Henry New York on the $80 000 000 estate of Col Edward H R Green Assistant Attorney General Raymond Favreau and Tax Commissioner Henry P Long will protect Massachusetts interest from start to finish The action follows a petition by Mrs Green to stay action on the 1908 will leaving the estate to his sister Mrs Matthew Astor Wilks The case ties to the famed Hetty Green family.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Port Henry
N.Y
Edward H. R. Green
Raymond H. Favreau
Henry P. Long
Favreau
Green
Texas County Delegations Consider 1930s Reforms
The county convention discussed a volunteer parole board plan and anti trust laws while disapproving the general sales tax. Controversy was foreseen over ratification of the child labor amendment, the two year old convention having approved it but the Legislature rejecting it. Plans covered appellate judge nominations by convention, open saloon definitions, and condemnation of UT regents over the Daily Texan censor. Former Senator Thomas B. Love sponsored the open saloon and censor discussions.
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Tarrant County
Dallas County
Thomas B. Love
Travis County
University of Texas Regents
Daily
Texan
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TOM Sawyer Juvenile
Buster Brown
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Jackie Jumpers
Fox No. 5
16Th and Polk St
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