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...eleven years ago that Amarillo's big, bald, newspaper-publishing Gene Howe called Charles Augustus Lindbergh "swell-headed," "simple-minded," "lucky"; nine years ago when he made more front-page headlines by loudly proclaiming that Singer Mary Garden only had a "fair voice" and was "old, very old" and "almost tottered about the stage." Since then Amarillo's other famed asset, helium, has made far more national news, and Gene Howe, admitting that it was smarter to be polite, has settled down to making himself the Texas Panhandle's best friend...
...come near to succeeding. He now controls five newspapers-two Amarillo dailies (plus a Sunday edition), two others in nearby Lubbock, and the one his father Ed, the late famed Sage of Potato Hill, left him at Atchison, Kans. He controls four Texas radio stations. His headquarters are in Amarillo and there he organized and now operates an annual Mother-in-Law Day, attended last year by Eleanor Roosevelt. His own mother-in-law lives with him, his wife & daughter. He has helped dedicate Amarillo's new post office, given Postmaster Farley an Arabian saddle horse, acted as chief...
What goes on inside his Amarillo News-Globe office most West Texans already know. He is popular with his 511 employes. He pays his workers well for an oil & cattle town publisher. Each year his employes have owned more and he less of his publishing properties. (His holdings are now down to 20%.) Only last week he let it be known that next January he would turn management over to some of his old hands...
...mayors of New York City, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, Milwaukee, Louisville, Ky. and Amarillo, Tex. appeared last week before Representative Woodrum's sub-committee which is looking into WPA's past before appropriating for its 1940 future.* To the mayors' debt-ridden cities, WPA is a fairy godmother and they are her loyal courtiers. All the mayors were unanimous that: 1) WPA must go on, 2) work relief must not be returned to the States & municipalities, 3) WPA has done a great job of permanent value. This year there was a sober note in their pleas...
...Amarillo's Rogers. For four years the mayors have pictured their cities as poor relations, dependent on the U. S. Treasury, communities already at or near their legal debt limits and unable to cope alone with unemployment. A unique mayor last week was Ross D. Rogers of Amarillo, Tex., home of cows, dust storms and helium. Said Representative Ludlow, Indiana Democrat: "I have been in your city on several occasions, Mr. Mayor, and it strikes me that there wouldn't have been any serious trouble if there had been...