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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1950
Page
4
Postal receipts reach 87 120 95 building permits total 1 804 753 school enrollment 1 685 bank deposits for quarter ending March 31 416 99 death certificates issued 66 traffic fatalities this year 2 parking meter bends light meters water meters gas meters 21 birth certificates issued 217 water used yesterday 66 900 000 gallons traffic accidents this year 1 185 66 779
Weather and safety notes from the Texas Highway Department report no detours on Panhandle routes and all roads open. Birth notices list several new arrivals at Northwest Texas Hospital and Anthony’s Hospital with dates and parent details. Precipitation data appears, plus court-related totals and a long list of meter installations at various addresses.
Robert Franklin Purcella and Miss Darlene Smith received marriage licenses. The filing records list their full names and the date of the license as recorded by the county clerk.
A dense OCR reads like a directory of vehicles and sellers with makes such as Studebaker and Ford, plus addresses and names like William A Miller Jr, Jay Triplett, and George H McBride. The fragment suggests a classifieds style listing for autos, trucks, sedans, and related services.
The document lists multiple property transfers including Taylor et ux to Ray Doerfler lot 1 2 3 block 28 Denver Heights and others like Anderson to Finley tract 100x167 and Nunn to Wilkinson Construction Co. It also records divorces Scott vs Scott and Wise vs Wise with the Mev 1 and June 18 months. Public notices reference Father-Child Month and June events such as Ice Cream Fiesta and National Home Laundry Week.
Building permits listed with numbers and owners across Kentucky and nearby. Entries include Jay Puckett 405 North No 1a4 garage 400 and A J Brown 1801 Bonham Addition 61000. Spears Nicholson 4213 Earner garage 6000. J Williams 606 North Houston aideneh and garage 6000. Bil Dee Bryan residence and garage 22500. G E Boa 107 Forest residence and garage 6000. Joe McCleany 908 Broadmoor residence and garage 9000.
Public transit timetables show departures from Trailways Bus Center and Greyhound Depots to Albuquerque Borger Den Lubbo cK Lubbock and other points. Services operate with multiple daily departures listed, including AM and PM times and noting various carriers and transfer points.
The notice shows streamliner rail options for Burlington Santa Fe Rock Island and Santa Fe lines with departures to Dallas Denver Liberal Los Angeles Memphis Chicago La Junta and Lubbock including times such as 11:20 PM 8:15 AM 7:05 AM and 0:55 AM.
The Childress city council accepted bids on four tracts of airport land on behalf of Ben Hogan. A. R. McElreath and J. R. Beverly bid for Hogan and Marvin Leonard, with 320 acres at 28.68 per acre and 676 acres at 21.386 per acre. Leases run 10 years at 1 per acre yearly. Gulf Oil previously leased about 1,400 acres.
New South Wales firefighter Mick Saywalker is reported to have drunk or waved 75 pints of beer in 75 minutes after a bush fire assessment.
Borger will conduct a special housing census this week to aid the Borger Housing Authority in its federal low rent housing application. Enumerators will ask income questions to every fifth person in the regular census and collect data on dwelling units rooms per unit facilities and occupants to determine housing need.
President Truman postponed his weekly news conference to focus on two foreign policy speeches planned for this weekend in Missouri. He will address policy issues during visits to the state.
Bob Tippett hosts a playful Q&A quiz with 18 questions spanning foods animals geography letters and songs. Answers reveal a mix of trivia including cow veal cutlet Fences Clementine Strawberry Blonde and Jupiter among others.
Blonde Joan Blondel will obtain a Nevada divorce tomorrow from Broadway producer Mike Todd her third husband. Dan Seymour former radio and TV executive named national chairman of the 1950 fund drive for the National Cancer Foundation.
In Aransas Pass a bottle with a Danish note dated January 18 1948 claims a 19 year old Alfred Teodore Hansen is marooned on an unknown Gulf of Mexico island for two years. Local Dane Karl Martinsen translated the message and it was turned to Corpus Christi Caller staff for publication.
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