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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1947
Page
7
Amarillo hosts the world debut of Duel in the Sun as Gregory Peck and Joseph Cotten head a Hollywood star group. Guy Madison, a rising youth contender, joins the premiere lineup in the Plains city event Monday night.
Van Johnson leads a star list for the film Duel with possible guest Lillian Gish or Shirley Temple. A sunset parade precedes the showing at the State and Paramount theaters. The tour includes Dallas Fort Worth Houston and San Antonio with wide release starting May 7 in 300 cities. Tickets at box offices $1.30 prime. matinee 80 cents. children 50 cents.
Three Amarillo Boy Scout troops earned top honors at the Regional Sectional Bivouac for Senior Scouts held at Buffalo Gap Camp near Abilene with 150 boys present. Amarillo Explorer Post 19 took second in the A-Division. Post 6 San Angelo and Post 33 Dumas won first in A- and B-Divisions respectively. Amarillo Post 9 led by Dr. C E Colgate won first in C-Division. In Sea Scouts, Amarillo Ship Tumbleweed placed first in B-Division. Abilene Ship Fannin first in A-Division, Breckenridge Ship Texas second. Representing Amarillo were members from Explorer Post 9 and 19 and Sea Scout Ship 24.
W. H. Boyd of Borger was fined and costs after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated in county court at Panhandle. Capt. Polk Ivy of the highway patrol said Boyd was arrested Friday after an accident near St. Francis on Highway 60.
Pistol carrying charges were filed today in county court against Mike Ariza and Josh O Neal following a gun battle in the flats in which Ariza was seriously wounded. O Neal was previously cleared by the Potter County grand jury on assault with intent to murder charges.
DAB offers a powder puff application that dries in an hour with a smooth gloss finish and a two year guarantee. National radio ads and features in Life, Collier's, Sat Eve Post, Popular Mechanics note the product. Distributors serve the Texas Panhandle with expansion to 57 counties and invite orders and free literature from Lubbock Cover Co. in Lubbock, Texas.
Rejino Rodriguez was no-billed by the grand jury on a fault with intent to murder after being charged with shooting at Ray mond Gutierrez on April 7 at 200 North Cleveland.
Panhandle district and county extension workers met at the Herring Hotel to discuss remodeling farm buildings. W S Allen of Texas A M College Extension Service led sessions with slides on remodeling. C H Bates spoke on census figures guiding extension work as Knox Parr and Miss Dorris Leggitt directed the meeting.
The Amarillo health department reports a jump in quarantine cases for scarlet fever with multiple children placed under quarantine yesterday. New quarantines include Noel Swift age 8, Alvin Boney age 8, Victor Copeland age 6, and Victor Lee Dale age 3. Officials planned to lift quarantine for three other children this morning. No fatalities and 22 cases since the year began.
San Jacinto Youth Center fundraising falls to an all time low of 4 988 68 with donors D S Larson and Curtis Pond contributing. Secretary John Fairey urges more gifts to reach over 5 000 by week end as construction starts and old bills are paid. Mail gifts to Box 2433.
Burglars broke into the Royal Pig Cafe at 112 East Tenth last night, taking 10 or 12 dozen eggs and about 60 cents in pennies. Entry was by breaking a rear window glass and releasing the latch. The Royal Pig is owned by Chisel Benton.
Shapely Joan Hiatt won the Miss Amarillo title in a benefit bathing beauty contest at the Paramount Theater. Sponsored by the Panhandle Concert Bureau, she was named Amarillo’s candidate for Miss West Texas in Vernon on May 8.
Cave Britain left Amarillo this morning for Dallas for a brief business trip.
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