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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1947
Page
7
A nostalgic look contrasts old horse powered routines with new aviation and mechanical farming. The piece imagines farmers using planes and automated harvesters to cut time, while noting fog delays and experimental devices like a mechanical cornpicker and an oat harvester that processes grain. A Utah mining anecdote follows.
The Asylum of Horrors is set to play at the Paramount Theater Friday and Saturday at midnight. Tickets are $1, with seating on a first come basis. Dr. Silkins and Frankenstein lead a 55 minute stage show in five scenes plus the screen feature The Ghost Goes Wild.
In a boastful passage the speaker claims a mirror replaces the hired man, asserts the mirror worker can husk more corn, promotes a book MY BACK TO THE SOIL with labor-baiting devices, and notes a two dollar price at bookstores.
Box office opens Wednesday for Lauritz Melchior concert at Municipal Auditorium. The world famed tenor performs Wednesday evening with a 35 piece orchestra. Prices range from 1.80 to 3.60 dollars including tax with good seats still available.
Mrs G W Tower of 1018 A Harrison curates a collection of over 800 clover leaves in eight frames. The Amarillo woman preserves four to seven leaf varieties pressed and mounted, with favorites including a heart shaped lapel pin and frames holding 166 four leaf clovers and 259 larger four leaf clovers.
Mrs. Snow of Dayton Ohio visits her parents Mr and Mrs W S Batson at 900 Taylor Street. The item notes that pavements laid in Italy's ancient cities during the 16th century remain in use in some cities.
Wartime visual training ideas adapted for peacetime use. A preview of Disney's color short The ABC of Hand Tools will be shown at 7 PM Wednesday at the Herring Hotel in Amarillo by the General Motors Club. Educators and trainees will discuss classroom visual aids and industrial tool training.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce will assign men to standing committees for the next year within a few days. Virgil is noted among those expected to serve.
Patterson urges chamber members to indicate two preferred committees by mail. Past committee members may stay on their current panel if chosen. Committees listed include aviation civic affairs highways industrial live stock and agriculture retail merchants publicity tourist development wholesale and jobbing conventions reception and goodwill hospital membership. It notes 25 pounds of feed needed to bring a pallet to laying age.
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