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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1950
Page
2
The New York program shifts to full time from today with 3 30 to 9 40 classes for veterans and non veterans. It began in January and lets students advance as fast as they can. June enrollment extends to Tuesday night with library registration and a diploma path.
One hundred volunteers organize into flu squads in London to shop for groceries and cook meals for families in need during the health drive.
Funeral services for Thomas Walter Coffman of Muleshoe will be held at 2:30 PM Monday at Hicks Chapel Baptist Church Enochs Texas. Rev J E Moore and Rev B L Carter will officiate. Burial is in Morton cemetery. Coffman died Saturday in Northwest Texas Hospital born August 28 1878 in Dallas County. He married Amanda Frances Bratton in Dallas County December 7 1898 and they had 10 children. He leaves 22 grandchildren 8 great grandchildren three brothers and one sister. He was a Baptist for 43 years and a charter member of several local churches.
BOOST HEALTH FACILITIES TOKYO launches a drive to raise $100,000 to improve medical facilities for the foreign community in Tokyo. In Witham England, after a $400 loss on two classical concerts, the town plans to stage comedies.
The feature asks 19 COO starting words with questions about a U S president from 1923 to 1929 a definition of harmonious control of nerves a slang for a small animal a pastry piece a joint effort a fowl house a food preparer the author of Last of the Mohicans a Chinese laborer and pleasant summer winds.
A country girl returns from college for vacation and shows her new gowns at a family party. She presents a silk dress claiming it came from an insignificant worm. Her father, a plain worker, sighs and says I am the worm.
A 4 year old mare suffered critical burns and had to be shot after dashing into a burning stall yesterday afternoon at the W F Palvadore residence 3611 Neuches. The stall caught fire when sparks from a trash fire blew into the stall scattering hay. The horse belonged to Bernie Polvadore 1314 East Eleventh. Flames demolished the stall but caused no other damage.
Floydada officials announce the installation of a dressy new white way street lighting system in downtown Floydada to begin next month. Al R. Fuchs, coordinator of the municipal power and light net, drew the plans. Cost is estimated at 5000 dollars, financed from a surplus in the light and power department.
Amarillo plans Emancipation Day activities led by the Negro Chamber of Commerce. A free 11:30 AM barbecue at Tri-State Fair Park runs to 2 PM with a Pioneer table and baseball at 2:15 PM between the Amarillo Eagles and Anadarko Cubs. A 6–8 PM dance at Fair Park Pavilion features Rudy Green and His Joys of Rhythm. A 2:30 PM service honors Negro veterans at Amarillo Veterans Hospital.
Two prisoners escaped from the Wichita County jail in Wichita Falls around 9 50 AM after cutting through two bars in a cell. The fugitives are Billy Wayne Powers 26 a life term convict from Wichita Falls and Edwin Franklin Brewer 36 of Dallas sentenced to five years for burglary. Officers across Texas Oklahoma and New Mexico were alerted. They crawled through a 14 inch square hole between a tank and a runway and left through a door left open by trustees.
Wendell Best of Floyd New Mexico tied for first in one event and placed second in two others in the second go round of the New Mexico Future Farmers of America rodeo. Finals are Sunday. Results cover calf tie down calf breakaway roping calf ribbon roping and steer riding with several riders named.
R C Lemons was elected president of the Memphis Independent School District board in a meeting held today. He succeeds Carl Harrison. James A Anthony was named vice president and Miss Ruby Hoffman secretary. Other members include George R Cullin Matthew Allen and Roy Coleman.
The awakening light of Christian Science leads thousands to drop the past with its anguish or penalties. Honest students find relief and release from human woe as they study its teachings, echoing Jeremiah 23 28 What is the chaff to the wheat.
The text notes the infinite good of God and the Christian Science understanding that grows in the heart. It frames Science and Health as guiding correction and restoration and mentions how it may be bought or read.
The notice promotes the Christian Science Reading Room at 121 West 9th Avenue, Amarillo, offering information on lectures and services. It includes a coupon for a postpaid purchase of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and requests location details for nearby Reading Rooms.
Republican Senator Bridges of New Hampshire criticizes McCarthy’s methods in pressing the Communist in government charges while crediting McCarthy’s objective as praise worthy. He also commends John E. Peurifoy as a very able man who has done a very fine job amid McCarthy’s attacks on the State Department.
The war damaged graves of John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley in Rome's Protestant Cemetery will be repaired with $750 raised in New York by the American Poetic Society under a broader restoration program. Funds are collected in the U S and England and will be managed by a diplomatic group in Rome.
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