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Editor Gene Howe of the Amarillo, Tex. News-Globe, ambitious son of famed Editor Ed ("Sage of Potato Hill") Howe of the Atchison, Kan. Globe (retired 1927), has made himself widely known as a rambunctious cow-&-oil town journalist...
...News-Globe's 27,000 readers, breezy, baldish Editor Howe is "the people's friend," perhaps the most influential man in Amarillo. He specializes in such homely services as helping youngsters find their lost dogs and cats. He has bought "yoyo" tops for hundreds of Panhandle children. During last month's tree-sitting epidemic he gave money rewards to small boys who would come down from their perches, to safeguard their health. He revels in the nickname "Old Tack," derived from his daily irascible column "The Tactless Texan...
Next day at Dodge City Chairman Legge, referring to Kansas as the largest U. S. wheat producing State, declared: "The biggest hog will always lie in the trough. Kansas is now in its trough." By the time he had reached Amarillo, Tex., Kansas was up in arms at his epithet. Max and Louis Levand, publishers of the Wichita Beacon, wired President Hoover that his Farm Board Chairman had "insulted 1.850.000 people," demanded Mr. Legge's resignation. To Chairman Legge they telegraphed...
...line will outdistance the 700-mi. Insull-Doherty Amarillo line from Texas to Chicago (TIME, March 17) and will be the longest transmission system in the U. S. Natural gas will be distributed through Missouri-Kansas subsidiaries in five states (Kansas, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois). M-K has also contracted to supply those cities which North American Light & Power Co. is serving (through subsidiaries) with manufactured gas in Illinois and Missouri. Distribution will be carried out by a new Missouri-Kansas company, Panhandle Eastern Co., with a potential daily capacity of 250,000,000 cubic feet of gas. But Missouri...
...Ella Blake watched Manhattan crowds going to see The Last Mile, smash hit play based on a document written by her son Robert the week before he was electrocuted in a Texas prison for murder last year. She did not enter the theatre. Editor Gene Howe of the Amarillo News-Globe (TIME, March 17) had sent her Manhattan to claim, royalties on the play...