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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1951
Page
2
A weather oriented debate over government control of rainmaking experiments sparks concern about disruptions to regions. Two Washington information services offer opposing views on economic impact of war weariness, rearmament, and potential world conflict.
A Washington report suggests the public calms yet fears higher taxes while Stalin’s rise and global tensions mount. A humorous public relations exchange details a Hadacol subsidy suspect and a revealing letter from Montez Tjaden of LeBlanc Corp to Tack, recalling Navy service and a ranch visit with military brass.
A reader asks how to address a woman who signs as Montez Tjaden in a letter. The suggestion is to use Madam if the marital status is unknown, or Miss or Mrs only if the person’s preference or marital status is known. The writer proposes invoking Emily Post guidance to craft a proper, courteous salutation.
A movement in New York seeks broad gambling legalization to purge boss gamblers and corruption. The current compromise allows betting at race tracks with legal sanction and state take, while off track or bookie bets remain criminal.
Winchell asserts United States senators show the underworld relies on gambling as a major revenue source with horse gambling making up 90 percent. He argues illegal bets fund bribes to officials and that the public ultimately pays through their two dollar wagers.
Mrs H O Dorris of Clovis submits a puzzle about 100 attendees: men women and children. Combined spend is 100 dollars. Children share 14 2 7 percent of the total. Men pay 6 7 times the children, women pay 3 7 times more than children but 1 1 17 times less than men. Determine counts of men women children and the price per ticket.
A reader presents a puzzle about a tape circling the Earth at the equator. If the tape must be one foot above ground all the way around, how much extra length is required beyond the 25,000 miles? The classic result shows the needed extra length is about 2 pi feet.
A garbled column cites Mr Adams touting corn kernels as packing material and a new dental cavity prevention from University of Wisconsin researchers to drink water after sweets. It recalls Arthur Godfrey in Philadelphia muttering dog food and Grant Perl’s travel notes from Monte Carlo detailing Naples officials confiscating matches, Italian hospitality, Agip gas, and Monte Carlo gambling changes.
A reader asks if the AI will travel and invites short, crisp observation letters for publication. The request seeks brief, letter like notes about experiences and sights, to appear on the page as reader submissions.
Tack reports March wind in the Panhandle fell 18 percent from last year and 26 percent from 1949. The note highlights the unusually weak March winds across the region.
In a restrained kickoff to spring, April arrives mild and calm with modest weather and light activity. Local officials report no major events or disruptions as residents ease into the new month.
Inquiries arise about a February 16 event where a sharp water temperature drop near the Texas coast caused 30,000 tons of fish to die. The pattern mirrors High Plains incidents, with heavy hail and rain washing into a creek, freezing the water, and driving fish to die within minutes.
Brief notes describe the issue of small fish released into cold lakes suffering shock when transport cans heat up in trucks. Fish turn over on their bellies within seconds as water temperatures remain chilly.
Speakers at the 29th annual Southwest District conference of the National Recreation Association at the Herring Hotel include Jane Darland assistant professor at West Texas State College and Charles F Reed of New York field department manager. Darland speaks on New Ideas for Womens and Girls Programs while Reed discusses Recreation Problems in Communities with Nearby Military and Defense Installations. Recreation workers from Texas Louisiana Oklahoma Arkansas and New Mexico attend.
Riverside, California April 3. Law rence Walker was at a bank about 20 miles away within hours of the slayings he is accused of. Robert G. Moore, a March Air Force bank teller, reports Walker was in the bank by 12 30 PM on March 26. Investigators say Richard Cook, 18, was shot on a desert road between 11 10 and 11 25 AM that day, and Cook's wife Doris, 18, was killed shortly after. Walker admits his car sideswiped Cook but denies involvement.
The Fourth Circuit upheld a tax court ruling that rebates paid by optical firms to doctors are not deductible as a necessary business expense. The Lillys, owners of City Optical Co in Wilmington, claimed over $121,000 for 1943 44 and Mrs Lilly's $11,000 Duke Optical Co discounts were denied.
H D Williams aged 50 was killed in Houston yesterday when his station wagon collided with a city bus. A second occupant of the automobile was seriously injured.
The speaker notes that increasing the great circle diameter by two feet raises circumference by a little over six feet using pi. The Brain achieved a quick result in three seconds, while the remark teases the audience about underestimating tape needs and about being fooled.
Playwright Eugene ONeill, suffering Parkinsons disease and a fractured knee, has been moved from Salem Massachusetts hospital to Doctors Hospital in New York City. The transfer reflects his doctors and close friends being in New York. The knee injury remains in a cast.
A reader seeks to buy an Ironrite ironer at a reasonable price and a three picture 8 by 10 picture folder. Phone number listed as 3 1944.
A three month old male Persian kitten in town needs a loving home. The owner cannot keep him and requests interested adopters to call after 5 PM at 4 1493.
Mrs Miller asks finder to return papers from a brown leather billfold lost March 26 between Junkins Dry Goods Store and Kress on Polk Street. She requests no money but keep the billfold. Call 2 2335.
Person seeks in-home childcare and ironing services with reference available. Provides phone number 3-8692. Likely a personal advertisement from Mrs Morris offering child care and domestic help.
A resident of the west part of San Jacinto seeks to keep one or more children in her home to assist a working mother. Contact MRS. J. B. N. at 5358 for details.
John Davis 59 seeks farm employment willing to relocate anywhere. Ex-cow puncher with no encumbrances. Contact Box 485 Clovis New Mexico.
A working girl reports leaving a watch on the wash basin in the Montgomery Ward lounge on Thursday March 22. Someone picked it up and did not return it. She asks the honest finder to return it to the Montgomery Ward store cashier.
Mrs J L Cogdell offers six Gunn Bros stamps in exchange for Green Stamps. Call 9085. Residence 415 Sunset.
Mary seeks room and board with an elderly lady or couple near town. She wants supervision for her 18 month old son while she works and to stay in the home. Interested parties should call 2-8976 after 6:30 PM.
Funeral services for Mrs. Kate Bouldin of Yuma Arizona were held at 2 pm in the Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel with Joe B Watson officiating. Pallbearers were W D Christopher T V Jackson Tol Collins Jack Farwell R A DeFee and Toy Johnson. Burial followed in Llano Cemetery. She was 76 and died Thursday in Yuma and is survived by four daughters and three sons.
Hughes Springs seeks defense area designation to ease credit restrictions and promote housing around a 73 million dollar Lone Star Steel expansion within a 35 mile radius. Hearing with defense officials set. Patman arranged the meeting with local leaders including Mayor Dillard Rolston and Judge Tom E. Robertson among attendees.
Mrs Clara Samossoud, Mark Twain's surviving daughter, announced plans to auction the writer's 3000 book library and house contents next Monday. Items will be donated to colleges and museums, including the Hannibal Missouri boyhood home collection. The five acre Hollywood estate will also be sold as the couple begins gypsy life.
Walter Thurston former US ambassador to Mexico left for Washington to join the State Department policy planning committee at age 55 after retiring from his Mexico post. He will replace George Butler on the planning committee and brings 36 years in the foreign service to the new role.
Los Angeles reports the Superior Court approved the sale of nine paintings from the $600 000 estate of late George Buddy DeSylva composer and movie producer who died July 11 A Renoir valued at 75000 and a Van Gogh valued at 55000 are among the works with a minimum asking price of 183050
Mexia on April 3 reports the possible first triplets in town history born Saturday night to Mrs. John Dabney and her unemployed World War I veteran husband. The three boys, in satisfactory condition, one placed in an incubator, join nine older siblings aged two to 17.
A tipsy gunman staggered into a South Dallas liquor store and pointed a pistol at Manager L. C. Moskowitz. Moskowitz knocked the gun away and summoned officers. Moskowitz noted the man likely sought whiskey, but the store policy bars sales to intoxicated persons.
A major CIO textile strike halts work for more than 43,000 workers in North and South Carolina Virginia Tennessee Alabama and Louisiana over a 13 cent hourly raise and benefits. Talks broke off and no side moved to reopen negotiations leaving workers in a period of sitting and waiting. Southern mills produce denim duck and sheeting to fill government orders seeking wage parity with Northern plants.
Rites honoring Mrs. Sally D. Purdom 88 mother of C J Purdom of Amarillo were held in Hico Texas with burial beside husband and son. She died Sunday night at a daughter’s home. Born March 17 1863 she taught Sunday school over 50 years and remained active in church until ill. Eight children 23 grandchildren 17 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild. Granddaughters Mrs R B Latham Jr Amarillo and Mrs Leo Fields. Grandsons J J Simon Amarillo and Don Purdom Lubbock.
A compilation of warranty deeds lists transfers by C T Ware to C G Improvement, Luz Diaz purchase, Westview Realty parcels, Crestview and Ridgemere lots, and multiple others with prices from $10 to $12,850. Also includes marriage licenses Roy Sheppard Deenavin with Joyce Weaver and a divorce case Cline versus Cline in Domestic Relations Court.
Lille, France announces a new television transmitter that is now on air for 15 hours weekly. Paris offers about 25 hours of programming weekly. The government is spending around 330000 dollars this year to fund television programs.
The Ama rillo Seabee unit of Organized Construction Battalion 8-15 will be inspected tonight by a board of officers from the Eighth Naval District. The local unit comprises five officers and 30 enlisted men and competes with zone winners from Austin and Oklahoma City. The district covers Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Arkansas and New Mexico.
Golden Gate Quartet tickets are available only by mail for the present. The Negro singers, slated here on May 2, are sponsored by Radio Station KGNC as a benefit for the Amarillo Symphony Orchestra. Mail orders should be addressed to the orchestra in care of the radio station. Ticket prices include tax: Front parquet and boxes two dollars. back parquet and logos one dollar seventy five. balcony sections three through five one dollar fifty. sections one and two one dollar. center balcony one dollar.
Funeral services for Ernest Lee Richards 33 will be held at Sudan Baptist Church at 10 this morning. Rev Wayne Perry will officiate. Burial in Sudan cemetery. He died Saturday night in a truck accident near Tulia. Survivors include his widow, brother J R Richards of Sudan, and his parents Mr and Mrs Rube Richards of California.
British and German police arrested 15 heavily barricaded Communist squatters on Helgoland. They will be taken to the mainland and tried by a British court for illegally entering the forbidden North Sea island used as a bombing range by Allied forces. Police used welding torches to open the flak-tower door after a day-long stand-off with the youths, including four girls.
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