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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1946
Page
5
Suggestion proposes holding the next election in winter to streamline logistics. The note also mentions ease of obtaining care muffs as a supporting detail, reflecting practical considerations in campaign planning.
Dallas area parties and showers honor Miss Juanita Walker bride-elect of Floyd Donivan Baumgartner. Guests include Miss Carol Waldrop maid of honor and numerous hosts across Shamrock Mockingbird Lane Garland and Southern venues with a rehearsal dinner planned at the Kassell home.
Naperville, June 24. The Burlington Railroad Flyer engineer, William W. Blaine of Galesburg, was held to the grand jury on a manslaughter charge following an April 25 collision that killed 46. The coroner’s jury recommended the action after Blaine declined to testify.
Federal Judge Lloyd L Black postponed the espionage trial of Russian Navy Lt Nicholas G Redin to permit defense counsel to study the juror list. Russian consul general Michael S Vavilov arrived from San Francisco to report the case to their government.
An old fashioned diet pitch claims you can shed bulky fat at home with four ounces of liquid Barcentrate mixed with grapefruit juice in a pint bottle taken as two tablespoons twice daily. It offers a money back guarantee if no noticeable loss and urges readers to seek a druggist for supplies.
Daily social schedule lists YWCA tennis classes Polk Street church luncheons and bridge gatherings. Events include Amarillo Army Air Field Officers' Wives Club lunch IOOF Hall 2:30 PM Gem Lake Pool swimming lessons 4 and 6:30 PM and a Ruth Lauder recital at Musical Arts Conservatory 8 PM. Community clubs meet at IOOF Hall San Jacinto Park and Khiva Temple with picnics and gatherings through evening.
Mr and Mrs Michael F Smith of Newark announce the engagement of their daughter Navy Nurse Lt Beatrice Ann Smith to Lt Arnold L Brown of the Navy Medical Corps son of Mr and Mrs Richard S Brown of Dalhart The bride elect a St Michaels School of Nursing graduate now on terminal leave after 31 months service Lt Brown a Texas University School of Medicine graduate interned at St Lukes Duluth Minn and stationed at Green Cove Springs Fla after 21 months in the Pacific.
Flynn O'Malley district OPA rent executive announced rent surveys will start July 15 at Santa Fe and the following week at Artesia. A four day door to door canvass will determine if landlords have registered rental properties and if rents conform with ceiling prices.
The Chesapeake Bay pleasure steamer Bear Mountain, with 983 aboard, was towed into Baltimore by tugs after an apparent break in a port side paddle wheel caused by a submerged object. Coast Guard reports say the long moonlight voyage ended with the vessel disabled around 10 p.m. last night.
In Higgins on June 22 a special OES meeting honored Worthy Grand Matron Mrs. Lillah Mae Villas of Houston. District deputy grand matrons Eunice Connell San Antonio and Pearl Ruth Johnson Houston attended with a dinner for officers. Gifts were presented and speakers included Mrs. Jen n ie Mason and Mrs. T. C. Lake. The group traveled to Oklahoma City Sunday for Rainbow Girls events.
AUSTIN June 24 U P Railroad Commissioners Olin Culberson and Beauford Jester paused campaigns to attend a motor carrier conference under railroad commission jurisdiction. Culberson seeks reelection while Jester runs for governor. Jester said he would break plans for commission business and would later attend a labor conference in Houston and a radio date in Dallas.
Allied Military Government officials uncover 29 bars of silver weighing 80 pounds each in Sendai Japan. The bars, once Japanese naval property, carry serial numbers and the Osaka imperial mint seal. Value not estimated. turned over to the Eighth Army. Several villagers arrested and awaiting trial.
Miss Ruby Fae Roper and Vernon Lummus wed in Shamrock on June 16 in a single ring ceremony at the Presbyterian Church. The bride, from Wheeler, is a Wheeler County clerk's office employee. the groom, a Shamrock native with five years military service, works for a Pampa construction firm. They plan to reside in Pampa after a East Texas honeymoon.
Edgar C. Curtis and Miss Bertha M. Stowell wed June 5 in Ft. Smith Arkansas the home of a Curtis sister. The bride a Stowell sister has lived with C. W. Stowell for three years. Curtis long resident of Amarillo before moving to Berger then Pampa. After the wedding the couple visited relatives in Tulsa Chelsea Okla and Jasper Missouri.
Ann Marie Harrington daughter of Mr and Mrs E C Bernard Hastings Nebraska married Robt G Strother son of Mr and Mrs J G Strother of Dalhart June 3 in Hastings. Formal announcement says the couple will reside in Dalhart this summer with plans for college in the fall. Strother recently discharged from Navy in the Pacific.
Cleveland June 24 Landlord Henry N Solomon who runs eight apartments paid off the 58th baby born to his tenants in the last two decades. He gave a 25 dollar U S Savings bond to Mrs Emmett Fulgham for her son James. Solomon offers cash bonuses for each birth and favors suites with children, keeping his buildings filled as the population grows.
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