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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1942
Page
3
Potter County reports about 10 000 vehicle registrations mirroring last year. The tax office handled most registrations in four days amid the biggest rush, aided by state police. Late registrations drew fines and a 20 percent penalty. cars idle since last midnight could be registered without penalty, but must not be moved from the home drive to the courthouse.
The Knights Rose Croix of the Pan handle meet tonight at the Masonic lodge room 504 Taylor Street Amarillo for a Maundy Thursday observance. Bishop BE. C. Seaman will speak on the program guided by the Panhandle Scottish Rite Association led by president N. C Prince.
Rickett Hotel chain based in Stockton California has taken over two Amarillo properties the Ross and the Angelus at 319 West Sixth Avenue The Angelus was acquired yesterday and Larry Warner who has managed the Ross since February 1 will run both hotels The properties will keep their original names
Hanes introduces the KNIT Crotch-Guard with gentle athletic support for indoor and outdoor activities. It features a buttonless front and elastic waistband for a trim fit. Prices range from 39 to 658 in local currency.
Victory Bond and Stamp sales lagged again yesterday with a total of 6941.50, about half the daily quota, according to Shee Globe News Want Ads.
Market data from Merrill Lynch shows Dow Jones averages higher at 1 PM with gains in Industrials Utilities and Railroads. Kansas City livestock market reports mostly higher than Wednesday's averages with top cattle prices and ranges for steers heifers cows and calves and early lamb sales steady to slightly weaker in places.
Wallace Hazlewood city engineer and building inspector searches ordinance books to answer if dynamite blasting is legal. Workers cutting trees at Sixteenth Avenue and Washington Street for a new Furr Food Store request permission to blast out stumps now that foundations are underway.
Amarillo builders kept a brisk pace with at least one new home started per day this week. City hall issued permits including a $4,000 five room frame house at 3410 Monroe Street to F. D. Jackson and a 2300 addition at 413 North Fast Eighth Avenue to Howard Gann. Builders note many large houses are being converted into apartments.
The War Production Board announced new rules effective yesterday banning retail purchases of suits or trousers with unfinished ends and prohibiting home or local tailor cuffing wool trousers. The cloth-saving order specifies no one may finish trousers with cuffs for their own account.
An 85 year old widow Lilian W Nicholson lay in a hospital for starvation. In a barren 10 room Cambridge home she kept several hundred cans of cat food and bought steak costing 80 to 85 cents a pound for her 18 cats. Neighbors said she seldom bought food for herself. The house held cash uncashed checks hankbooks and stock certificates.
WILLIMANTIC Conn UP Sporting Guide Bill Early fired a rifle only once to save a lie. A deer frequented Early's garden near the river. When a hunter approached along the stream the deer moved into the yard. Early raised his 22 and fired a warning shot over the deer's head. The animal fled to safety.
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