Notable Amarillo items from Around Then column
The column catalogs local happenings including Mrs. John Barton nurturing a tiny rose bush grown from seed, and several births at Northwest Texas Hospital. It notes Metropolis connections like Col M. B. Kendrick meeting Vice President Barkley in Washington, birthdays, and civic notices. It also lists Post Grad work for Dr. Lipscomb, DAR and Colonial Dames proceedings, a Civil Air Patrol citation for Earl Penn, and medical and hospital notes from Northwest Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarile Osteopathic Hospital
Joe Lipscomb
Parker
New York
W. D. DeGrassi
West Tenth
Colonial Dames
DAR
Abilene
Daughters of the American Revolution
Dallas
Earl Penn
North East Eighth
Civil Air Patrol
Penn
GAP
Florda
Truman
ST. Anthony's Medical
Don D. Lassiter
J. E. Henry
West Sixth
Doris Cook
McMurry student writes on new Radford Center on campus
Travis Jordan of Amarillo, a McMurry College student, contributed a feature on the Radford Memorial Student Life Center now under construction on the McMurry campus. The $600,000 building is due to be completed this summer. Also reports note Mrs. Zeb Moore recovering from a broken arm, Mrs. Mayme Campbell’s Dallas trip and dust storm, Norma Steel starting as county attorney secretary, and a free cakes and coffee promotion for auto tag buyers in Amarillo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travis Jordan
Amarillo
McMurry College
Abilene
Galleon
McMurry
Radford Memorial Student Life Center
Murry
Zeb Moore
West
Tenth
Moore
Dallas
Tyler
Charles Campbell
Charles
Palestine
Campbell
Norma Steel
North Aldredge
John Peterson
Steel
Neva Laxson
Liquor Control Board
Lubbock
Hubert Cole
Potter County
Our Younger Generation: Barbara Mott and Wanda Wardlow
Barbara Joan Mott, an eighth grader at Gam Houston Junior High, serves as social chairman and pursues basketball, baseball, photo collecting, and airline stewardess as a goal. Wanda Jean Wardlow, Amarillo High School secretary of the students advisory committee, is a 16 year old junior from Borger with interests in softball, riding, swimming, and multiple sports, aiming to teach or marry into wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ora Wright
Barbara Joan Mott
Gam Houston Junior High School
A. J. Mott
Sanborn
Wanda Jean Wardlow
Amarillo High School
Borger
H. C. Wardlow
Lake
Amarillo timelines span shipping eggs and vaudeville plans
In April 1920 the town shipped a carload of eggs to Havana Cuba amid prohibition driven growth, while across the Panhandle three gravel sources obviated distant surfacing. Ross Rogers plans big-time vaudeville for Deandi Theater to draw full houses, a rare achievement for Amarillo’s size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainview
Havana
Cuba
United States
Panhandle
Ross Rogers
Deandi Theater
Amarillo
Also Mentioned on This Page
John Barton
van Buren
The
Globe News
Roses
Barton
Jo’ G Lee
Hayden
M. B. Kendrick
Milam
Washington
Barkley
H. E. Smith
Virginia Wilbanks
Claude Frey
E. Raffkind
Patricia Ann Austin
Sarah Lee Potter
Frank Velebil
East Fourteenth
St. Anthony's Hospital
Northwest Texas Hospital
W. H. Bolden
North Tyler
Maurice Wilkinson
West Ninth
Leroy Judd
Stratford
Clyde Cope
Claude
Floyd Hilker
Channing
W. H. Harmon
Happy
N. K. Cook
Osage
Roger Curtis
Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital
L. C. McClain
H. D.camp
East Seventeenth
Ladell Pugh
Cline
Bill Nixson
Lynn
Lucille Stanford
Madison
C. S. Clarke
Polk
Arthur L. Tolbert
Maurine Keys
Low Pendley
Ronald Lee Rhea
Peter R. Thompson
Clyde W. Robertson
Sudan
Dennis G. Schiegel
LeWanda Peddy
North East Twenty-second
Barbara Dwight
Prospect
M. W. Gordon
Julia Loewenstern
Paul Ponce
Arthur
Leo Garcia
Cleveland
Charles Jameson
Dumas
James G. McCauley
Heath Furniture
Taylor
Heath
Tim
Albert
Rkee
Ouch
Rory
Tjim
US Border Patrol
Civil Service
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