Amarillo Sunday News-Globe (Amarillo, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 33, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 14, 1938 Page: 79 of 264
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PUBLIC SCHOOL HISTORY
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ed just a short distance north of
St. Francis in 1930.
The Pavillard and the Ford
schools were combined in 1925 and
the name River Road School, which
had already been given to the Ford
unit, was chosen for the new school.
The old building that had been
moved to the site donated by Loe
Bivlns In 1915, was utterly Inade-
quate for their needs. The River
Road school district voted a $9,000
bond issue in 1925 and erected a
modern school building. This cchool-
house was well planned to care for
community needs, had sliding par-
titions and could be used as a so-
cial center. The River Road dis-
trict became an independent school
district in 1928
By 1932 every rural school except
Cliffside had a modern brick build-
ing, and the structure at Cliffside
had been overhauled and put in
good condition.
An item in the Amarillo Daily
News of 1927 tells of the graduating
exercises for Potter County rural
schools. County trustees at that
time were .1, W. Cheney, George
Menke, Sloan Kritser, John Detten
and J. F,. Ware. Teachers in the
country schools then were: River
Road, Miss Rosa Thurman; Soncy,
I.et.itia Stone: Jones, Mary Louise
Carney; Bushland, Bessie Blair;
Brady, Mrs. Martha Mullins Moody;
Allison, Janie Kidder; St. Francis.
Beulah Burgess; Crawford, Olea
Crawford; XL, Harriett Kritser. The
Hem continued to say there were
17 graduates in the grammar
schools of the county that terra.
The Patten negro school was
erected in 1928 in North Heights,
an addition for negroes. Professor
Patten, who had been principal of
the Fred Douglas school, was trans-
ferred to North Heights. H. C. T.
Barnes wa.s made principal of the
Jackson Street school for negroes.
Lester Stone, G. C. Ordway, D.
Roach and Dr. W. M. Curl were
elected trustees of the Amarillo
schools in 1928. and Fred Young and
Frank Butler were elected in '29. as
were W. H. Brymer, T. B. Gallaher.
J. W. Crudgington, Russell Smith
and Koy Cullum. W. A. Askew and
K R. Cox became members in 1930.
R. B. Norman, who had been
teaching math, assumed control of
t^c high school in 1929, a post he
holds now.
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New principals in Amarillo schools
for the year 1930-31 were A. R. An-
derson, Aiire Ijandercin; Plois Har-
ger at' Dwight W. Morrow; H. P.,
Garrett, Glcnwood; A B, Hays.
Margaret Wills; C. C. Perkins. Pleas-
ant Vallrv; Felix R Philips. San-
1 „,rn: and E. O. McNew at the
Summitt, school.
New buildings were needed again
in 1930. McKinley had a $121,000
unit constructed, and additional
playground was purchased. A man-
uel training department was added
to the North Amarillo High School
and that called for a new buildincr,
ejected at a cost of $22,000. The
addition to the Pleasant Valley
school figured $28,800. and a now
unit for the negro school at First
and Jackson Street was erected. An
entirely new building was construct-
ed in the Bivins additions to Ama-
rillo at 1500 Milam Street, at a cost
of $500,000. The Sam Houston
Hich School, in West Amarillo. was
erected at 800 Forest. The building
cost. $165,000. The Forest Hill ward
school to care for North East Ama-
rillo. and located at 3601 North East
Eighth Street, completed the build-
ing program with one exception, the
p ysical education building across
t;i street from the high school at
1300 Ty'n Street. This unit, cast
around $25,000.
In 1934 C- 1 Clifft became super-
intendent of Potter County schools,
succeeding Laura V. Hamner. Coun-
ty trustees when Mr. Clifft took of-
fice were J. W Cheney, president;
John Detten, vice president; Allen
Early. J. G. Dowse and George
Menke. District trustees were: No.
1. W. E. Smith. Ira Brown. Frank
Givins, 1 B. Atkins, E M. Pittman,
Bob J. Johnson and E. F. Hall; No.
2 had John Arnett, L. C. Scott and
o D. Faulkner a.-- trustees; Ray Hill.
Cieorge Fes. er and Roy Pavillard
were at No. 3. and E. C. Paxton. O.
E Austin and L. M. Walton had
charge of No. 4. Only 2 trustees were
listed for District No. 5, across the
river. They were Chanslor Wey-
mouth and J. W. Crawford, O. A.
Blankenship and Floyd Krabbe serv- ;
ed No. 6 and Roy Starker, R. E. Lee, j
R L. McCline and Fred Fuqua were
in charge of District No. 7.
Through 1930-37 nine new names
we added to the list of trustees of |
ire Amarillo schools, some of whom |
st'll serve, i'hey were Dr. R. L. Rog-
ers, John Winters, Dr. R. P. Par-
calls, S. A. L. Morgan, W. L. Speer,
T. B. Gallaher, Joe B. Dooley,
Fancher Upshaw and Walter Barlow.
Only one major change occurred in
the Amarillo schools since 1930 up
to the present year. In 1935 C. A.
Rogers was elected superintendent
of schools.
New principals and supervisors
since 1930 are: Violet Davidson, in
charge of the Bivins school; A. B.
Lewis, Dwight Morrow; S. A. Tib-
betts, Forest Hill; L. Z. Timmons,
Johnson Street; Ira D. McHuron,
Sam Houston High; and R. G. Tum-
lin t F'reci Douglas. These princi-
pals began their work in 1931-32.
Coming next year were Blanche
Smith at Glenwood; Ola Boyles at
the Bivins School; and Ernest
Shearer at Pleasant Valley.
Capt. T. H. McDonald assumed
command of the ROTC unit. J. B
Sr er began his work at Pleasant
Valley in 1936-37.
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The Amarillo Independent School
District now covers 44.640 acres. The
oiigiral bounds were "beginning at
the northwest corner of Section 222,
,. B and M Survey, thence east sev-
en miles to the northeast orner of
Section 102, thence south eight miles
to the southeast corner of Section
109, thence west seven miles to the
southeast corner of Section 229,
thence north to the place of begin-
ning." Or, the district had what is
now Western Avenue for its western
boundary, and the northern boun-
dary was beyond Pleasant Valley,
then only ranch country. The eas-
tern line was two miles east of the
fair ground, and the south line took
In a strip two and one-half miles
wide and seven miles long in Ran-
dall County. Its area was about 35.-
840 acres or 56 sections.
By an act of the Legislature in
February, 1918, a strip of land two
miles wide and eight miles long was
anded to the district on its western
side, but two and one-fourth r.ec-
tion., were taken off at the south-
east corner. The district now con-
tains 69 3-4 sections.
The Amarillo independent schools
made a decided change in courses
beginning with the 1937-38 term, in-
augurating ..he 12-year course. This
I was done so that the schools would
more closely conform with those of
I other states and work no hardship
I on transfers. It was also thought
it. would be wise because it would
1 raise the age high school students
| entering college.
To meet this change there has
I necessarily been much shifting of
schedule, but it has been accom-
plished with no confusion or loss of
credits. The graduating class for
1937-38 numbered 370.
At the close of school an addition
was built to the Alice Landergin
I school. For the past several years
i the ehool trustees have been opei-
ating a system of repairs and ex-
i tensions with no additional bonded
I indebtedness to the city. It is plan-
i ned to remodel and build seveial
I o'her units under this same sched-
ule. work to be done when the
| money becomes available.
Present trustees of the Amarillo
Independent School ^strict aie
Fancher Upshaw. president, fc.
Cox vice president; Joe B. Dooley
Ben Monning, John Armstrong and
Dr. R. P. Pare,ells
Trustees of Potter County sc too s
aJ District No. 1. E. M. Pittman,
Ed" Enoch. J. P. Winkelman, Ira
Brown. Eddie Mann, W. T. Sheiull,
and Grade Givins, secretary. No. Z.
N T Murr. Mrs. Helen Haight and
Jim LeGrand; District No. 4 has
F, C Paxton. O. E. Austin and L.
M. Walton; No. 5, C. E. Weymouth,
Jim Wevmouth and Fred Cox. No-
6 Roy Starker, Luther Glovier and
Floyd Krabbe- while District No. 7
has J Hent'v Cross, R- L. McClurc
and Fred Fuqua as its leaders.
A check-up of teachers in the
Amarillo schools reveals the intcr-
e ns fact that there are 23 teach-
ers who have been a member of the
faculty for 15 years or more. Thev
ar. R. F. William::, who opened the
department of business administra-
tion in the high school 15 years ago,
Oscar Wise, S. C. Patten, Cora
Avery, Elizabeth Nixon, Violet B.
r~.vldson. Annie McDonald. Sarah
Miller. Mary K. Evans. Ethel Jack-
son. Maggie Avent and Celia Jen-
kin-; and Mesdames Gervis Taylor,
Es r Schribcr. Ethel Wells, Ernes-
tine Osborn, Emily Hall, Mattte
Duke, Carrie C. Hood, Martha Ogles.
J. Hugh Craig and Mary Francis
Hunter.
Finances of the Amarillo schools
arc in gooH shape. Besides the
building sites where schools are now
located, the school board owns tw'o
Algercsque
Back of the rapid rise registered
in the Southwest',s industrial de-
velopment by both the Star Ma-
chine Company and Crescent
Foundry is the Horatio Alger suc-
cess story of Lowell Stapf, the sole
owner.
No industrial plants in Amarillo
or in the Southwest have expanded
more rapidly than the Star Ma-
chine Company and the Crescent
Foundry.
Both have grown from 1.800
square feet of floor space and a
payroll of two men to 19,400 square
feet of floor space and a force of
24 highly skilled mecnanics. All
of this has transpired within less
than a decade.
It was March 11, 1926, when
Lowell Stapf returned to Amarillo.
With him in the car were his wife,
a dog and a box of mechanic's
tools He was coming back to
Amarillo because he had "discover-
ed" it two years earlier while barn-
storming. He owned a flying cir-
cus, which he served as both me-
chanic and pilot. And he knew
Lindbergh when!
Immediately upon his arrival in
1926 the master mechanic went to
work in a small garage on a 60-40
basis. He got $11 for his first
week's work and he had just quit
a job in Denver that was paying
$250 a month!
"I had a 'ew thousand dollars in
a bank back in Denver, but Mrs.
Stapf cried a little over that first
check," he said, recalling the start
that was to | rove all the oppor-
tunities have not been pre-empted.
I "In that small garage there were
a partner two 'flunkies' and my-
| self," he added. "Things began to
j happen—you remember 1926—and
; we found it necessary to buy some
j old machinery to carry on the
j business of doing automobile, truck,
j tractor and airpl .ne repairing, ma-
j chine work and welding. There
was a hand-to-mouth existence for
; four years. I bought out the part-
j nor a.id in 1930 moved to Thirteenth
| and Lincoln—a building the late
Harold English built."
At the new location Stapf cot
| into the heavier and more com-
plicated lines of machine work he.
; knew so well, and the business grew.
Within less than two years it. had
: crown to such proportions there was
need for a modern, reliable iron
I foundry. So Stapf bought a foun- !
1 dry that was floundering on bank-
{ruptcy'.s brink. He constructed a
new building for it and later added
| brass, bronze and aluminum cast- !
I ings to the line.
Roth the Star Machine and the
Crescent Foundry continue to ex-
pand. Just recently the only mod-
ern and complete sand blasting dc-
; partment in this section of the
country has ueen added
When the foundry was purchased
it had been running only one heat
a week, casting 3,000 pounds. Cast-
i ings now surpas: that in one day.
j There is capacity tor one casting
of three tons.
Mammoth macninery was moved
into the shops and Stapf developed
■ a special chromium iron that re-
: sists erosion caused by natural gas
! in combustion.
Orders now come to the Star
I Machine Company and the Cre.s-
j cent Foundry from every state in
j the nation and from foreign coun-
i tries. Regular shipments are made
i to New York, Boston, Kansas City,
New Orleans, Bartiesville, Oakland j
I and other points
In 1911 when he was only nine
j years old, Lowell Stapf went to
! work in a machine shop. He work-
j ed 11 hours a day, sweeping floors, \
cleaning machinery, grinding drills
i and lacing belts.
"Then I got a ,ittle experience on
j drill press, engine lathe and dou-
ble-header shaper or jumper," he
other valuable sites for future build- |
ings. School buildings are valued
at $1,908,215; ground valup is placed <
at $445,300; tixtures come to a total
of $201,000. The total value of all
school property is conservetively es-
timated at $2,554,515.
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Although the manhandle Sign and
Display Company became known by
that name only about two years ago
its history really dates back to the
eariy 1900's when George and Lee i
Williams openeo the Williams Sign
Company in Amarillo.
The Panhandle Sign and Display !
Company, which formerly was the
commercial department of the Pan- ;
handle Outdoor Advertising Com-
pany, was separated from the par- j
ent business late in 1936 and leased
to J. R Pendleton the present own-
er and manager. It wa.s then that
the two companJf. took separate
names and oecame operated as sep- ;
arate businesses, although the Pan-
handle Sign and Display Company
continues to iunction as the com- :
mercial department ot the Panhan-
dle Sign and Display Company
The Williams Sign Company wa:
purchased by Ross D Rogers in 1927
and was operated under that name j
until four years ago, when it was
incorporated as the Panhandle Out-
door Advertising Company, and two
years later the outdooi advertising
business and the commercial sign
business were divorced.
The 10 employes of the Panhan-
dle Sign and Display Company par-
ticipate in an annual payroll of ap-
proximately $12100 These men, all
highly trained in this line of work,
specialize in designing and commer-
cial signs, including neon, and in-
terior displays and decorating.
The firm Is distributor for por-
celain enamel 1 Hiding products,
last becoming popular In this area,
and for a line of odorless paints
which permit painting in hospitals,
hotels and cafes, a? well as homes,
without the necessity ol occupants
vacating while the decorating U in
progress.
The business is located at 807
West Sixth Avenue,
John Rumans. .Washburn: "Good-
night was a toi'able good-looker,
'./ore rough clothes of buckskin and
duckin's. He'd get a new suit and
wear 'em till they were wore out. He
looked dyked out, too."
AMARILLO'S UNION STATION, located north of First Avenue between Lincoln
and Buchanan Streets. The station was established in 1898 and abolished in 1910.
The Bowery, Amarillo's most notorious district, sprang up opposite the union
station as a hotel, restaurant and saloon district, thriving until the final passage of
local option prohibition.
The motoreab in the right foreground, operated by McKnight Livery and
Transfer Company, was one of the earliest motorized cabs in Amarillo.
said. By the time he was 15 years
old L,owell Stapf had served enough
apprenticeship to be a journeyman.
"But nobody would hire me be-
cause I was so young," he added.
Lowell Stapf's mother died when
he was 15 and he left home, work-
ing all over the United States. He
was a hobo machinist. He worked
in jobbing machine shops, ship-
yards, navy yards, in the machine
and tool industry, at textile-making
machinery, pneumatic machine
manufacturing. He worked as a
I tool maker, at metal pattern work
and at automotive re-grinding.
' Stapf had quit school hi the fifth
grade, but he found time to attend
night school in Detroit.
At Denver in 1922 he married
and shortly thereafter quit, his trade
I to go barnstorming, of which he
tired in 1925 when he sold his in-
terest in the flying circus and took
| a foreman's job at Casper, Wyo.
He drifted back to Denver and then
came to Amarillo.
The Stapfs last year built a hom
| at 2217 Hughes Street. They have
| two children, a boy eight and a girl
three.
For diversion from operating gi-
gantic lathes the mechanic turns
to music: Lowell Stapf is an ac-
! complished accordionist.
John May: "Pete was goin' to die
of consumption an' everybody'd been
in' to get him to stay in the house
But he said he was goin' to die any-
way, and would rather die on a
horse "
The Amarillo College of Music
Established 1913
25 Years in Amarillo The Panhandle's Pioneer Music School
Emil F. Myers—Directors—Lila Austin Myers
The history of our institution is largely the musical history of the Texas Panhandle. Our co'
lege is accredited by authority of the Texas State Department of Education for college
credits in four courses. We teach children of all ages in all branches of music.
1322
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<fil I 1 ..s E r
Phone
6766
The finest equipped music school in the middle west. This fine sound proof building built
to our specific needs. Includes many fine studios and an auditorium as well as th Myers
Music Mart.
Musical Headquarters
of Amarillo
Emil F. Myers & Austin Myers
Proprietors
The Myers Music Mart is a merchandising institution of the highest order. We handle
Baldwin Pianos, Martin Band Instruments, hand made violins, a fine stock of accordions,
guitars, marimbas and all small goods and accessories. Come visit our beautiful store.
For Instruction the
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