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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1932
Page
12
Advanced scouting in merit badge work is the theme at the Amarillo Area Council booth in the Automobile Building at the Tri State Fair grounds. Fourteen Amarillo troops plus Claude Goodnight and Canyon units display, judged daily by independent judges. Top five troops win prizes. individual awards given for neatness, display, and variety.
A teacher in a class picnic incident pays $2.50 to compensate a lost purse, hoping to spark guilt in Eva. Eva shows no remorse at the time but later sends a money order for the same amount as a grown child, illustrating conscience develops with maturity. The story urges parents to see conscience as a natural growth in a child's personality.
Photo shows the Pinkney Packing Company booth at the Tri-State Fair Merchants Building with Sun-Ray ham bacon and sausage on display. The Sun-Ray brand is popular in the Panhandle and the company has paid a million dollars for livestock since the plant began operating two years ago.
The Haunted House burlesque premieres Wednesday at the Tri-State Fair tent theater near the fair grounds entrance. Edith Wells and Ridge Zelley headline a ghostly comedy with a missing body and a humorous denouement as crowds enjoy vaudeville between acts by Maxine Elmore, Katherine Alston, Verlon Twaddell, and Sam Gathright.
The program features Laff That Off a famous Broadway comedy on Thursday, The Creaking Chair an Oriental mystery drama Friday, and four acts of Surprise Night on Saturday for Amarillo audiences.
Allan Yates, age 10 and brother of the Georgia state and Atlanta city golf champion, shoots a tough course in under 100 strokes.
W. Y. Hagen of Shattuck Oklahoma showcases 23 Brown Swiss cattle at the fair's dairy barns. He describes the breed as dual purpose producers of milk and beef, hardy and efficient with a 1,700 pound cow among the exhibited calves. The animals were not groomed for show, taken from the range and brought in last Sunday.
Barney McGanegal, Houston gangster, was acquitted of participating in the Stock Yards National Bank holdup on August 10, 1931. The case was tried in Fort Worth with jurors finding him not guilty after brief deliberation. Witness Jere Green testified. Green was slugged as he left the courthouse. Velma Webb testified that McGanegal was at her Leon County home on the robbery day.
London reports say John Ellis the world's best known hangman killed himself after years of brooding over more than 200 executions. He began to crack in 1924 after sleepless nights and threats of self-destruction persisted despite his retirement. He supervised the execution of Roger Casement in 1916 among others.
B L Buck Lewis of Wheeler posted bonds totaling 4000 on two counterfeiting charges in federal district court this week. He was alleged to have possessed a planet at Fritch according to the case file.
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