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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1944
Page
5
The telegraphic list outlines multiple events at 501 Lincoln Street and various venues. Details include gym classes for businesswomen and young matrons, Spanish for adults, a piano recital by Ann Venable, youth clubs, a review of The Apostle by Mrs. Joe Coffee, Red Cross sewing and gauze cutting, and a rummage sale among others. Also noted is a prewar production rate for ice refrigerator furnaces.
Miss Dorothy Coard won the May Day Queen title after a close election by the Twenty-One Plus Club Downtown USO. She will perform Monday at 8 30 PM with attendants Ruth Gillit Virginia Good Marie Onstatt and Louise Smith. Regular Monday dances serve soldiers over 30.
The Women’s Auxiliary of the Texas Association of Osteopathic Physicians and Surgeons met in Dallas yesterday. Mrs. B. E. Mann was named Secretary-treasurer of the organization. Three billion feet of timber burned in U S forest fires in 1943.
The Pleasant Valley Home Demonstration Club met at Mrs. C. V. Knox's home to plan a rummage sale for late May. Members should bring items to Mrs. H. J. Pankratz by May 17 for a full-day prep session. The group also commits weekly work at the Red Cross chapter house and discussed kitchen tools to save.
The Esther McCrory Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will meet at 3 o clock Monday afternoon in the Federation Club Rooms. Mrs. William Boyce, program director, announced that Mrs. Paul Shelford will review A Bell for Adonna by Paul Hershey. Members may bring guests. Hostesses for the meeting will be Mesdames J. Ray, Lee Bivins, A. H. Meyer, W. L. Prosser, C. O. Kiser, E. E. Roos, C. C. Kellogg, and Misses Grace Meyer and Ruth Tolbert.
Seven divisions from Pampa Army Air Field move Saturday to Buffalo Lake to stage a major gala program supporting the Fifth War Loan. Amarillo and Lubbock teams join, with a grudge boat race, aerial demonstrations, and a re-enacted Pacific battle labeled Rabaul Harbor.
Miss Lucy Mae Ratliff won first place in the junior college voice contest at the Mary Hardin-Baylor College Music Meet in Belton. The Belton student receives a $100 scholarship and is a resident of 727 North Cleveland Street.
Miss Ruth Yows daughter of Mrs Ethel P Yows 2116 Washington Street was named a new member of the D F C social club at Texas Tech in the annual presentation ball. The Amarillo High School graduate is a Tech junior in a white net gown with a ruffled neckline fitted bodice and sweeping gold sequin trimmed double skirt while wearing an orchid.
The Musical Arts Conservatory presents 11 year old Ann Venable daughter of Mr and Mrs H A Venable of 2102 Washington Street in a piano recital in the conservatory drawing room at 745 this evening. She is assisted by Wanda Lee Long Larry Gardner and Jerry Gardner speech pupils of Thelma Allen Martin and studies under Bonnye Beth Baker.
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