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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1947
Page
12
Cliff Mace of Amarillo offers commercial ranch and roof painting with a heavy duty spray truck and trained crew. He provides free estimates and has painted 198 units at Pantex village using Pittsburgh Glidden Dutch Bay and Hunsley white lead paints.
Lima Peru announces plans for its first radio electronic exposition scheduled in July and August highlighting new communications tech and industry participation.
Setauket, N Y April 21 U P The Setauket telephone strike is a family affair W C Parick and his son in law Rex Heins telephone workers picket their own home which contains the Setauket Stony Brook exchange all day Their meals are cooked by the chief operator Miss Helen Parick a second cousin who is not on strike At meal times the men slip in the back door.
The B. M. Goff Company in Amarillo offers custom artificial limbs finished in 15 days. Located at 118 East Fourth Street the shop provides in stock and made to order limbs with private fittings and expert guidance by Mr. Goff and I. C. Ewan, a veteran surgical garment fitter. The firm offers night and Sunday service and operates a dedicated fitting room with telephone 6155.
Clyde Bearden runs a South Amarillo service station at Washington and 22nd offering Phillips gasoline, garden tools including hoses rakes and mowers, Thor ironers and washers, Fram filters, headlights, tires, and tubes. Staff promise courteous service, reasonable prices and complete car wash and lubrication with guaranteed satisfaction.
Arvell Meador promotes renewing all magazine subscriptions by phone at 24976 with add on services such as address changes, 30 day billing, and information access. Offers gifts and new subscriptions for major titles like Time Life and Readers Digest from 4001 Polk Amarillo Texas.
Western Business Supply at 208 West Tenth Street announces a large chrome furniture selection including three passenger settees, arm chairs, chairs without arms, and stools in antique brown dark red dark blue and dark green upholstery. Furniture features cold rolled steel chrome plating and leatherette upholstery suitable for lounges reception rooms or display floors. Call 2-8333 for details.
A brief note says people with normal color vision can distinguish about 150 hues but still cannot reliably tell red from green in automotive contexts.
Finklea Electric Company at 512 West Fifth Street advertises a fair supply of home cooling units and electric fans with Philco radios in several designs. Limited Philco portable and cabinet models arrive. A radio repair department, run by Ed Beville, offers pickup and delivery service. Also stocked are light fixtures and broad electric appliances with wiring services available.
Lamesa police search for leads in the bludgeoning death of Johnny Bailey a 60 year old taxi driver found late Saturday in his taxi. A Mexican farm laborer heard an argument after the car stopped and noted a wallet with 70 dollars in the vehicle. Authorities believe Bailey likely knew his killer and picked him up while driving.
Delegates from Amarillo College will be chosen today to attend the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association meeting in Alpine on Thursday and Friday this week. Betty Merydith, daughter of Mr and Mrs M I Merydith near Higgins, will be a delegate and serves as president of the Amarillo College Press Club and editor of the Ranger the college newspaper.
The piece notes that rattlesnakes do not rattle as a warning before striking a target they intend to eat. Only enemies capable of injuring the rattler are warned by the sound.
City News Stand at 323 Polk Street near Capitol Theater proclaims broad selection of magazines, comics, reprints and pocket books. New arrivals within two weeks include May Coronet Better Homes and Gardens Readers Digest Ladies Home Journal McCalls Redbook with Good Housekeeping in stock now. A feature on the Timby home at 2902 Tyler appears in Better Homes and Gardens. The Coronet story For God and Texas by Green Peyton traces Rev. Pierre Bernard Hill from Kilgore toward Heaven. The shop carries 225 current titles and 200 reprint titles with 12 new 25-cent reprints in stock.
The Amarillo Book Bindery and Gift Shop at 3119 West Ninth, owned by Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Vaughn, offers a wide range of Mother’s Day gifts including Hallmark cards, jewelry, pictures, clock and lamp selections, leather goods, monogrammed items, and free name stamping for Mother’s Day. Telehone orders invited at 2 2538.
The Amarillo Secretarial School opens summer term June 1 and urges early registration due to high demand for trained office personnel. Classes, taught by four instructors led by Mrs. Foringer, offer full secretarial and accounting courses with up to date equipment. The school serves veterans under GI Bill provisions and accepts calls or visits at 800 Jefferson, phone 2-3594.
Dr. Arlin Turner a West Texas State College alumnus from Canyon has won the 1947 Guggenheim Fellowship for creative work in American literature. He will take a leave of absence from LSU to complete a biography of George Washington Cable.
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