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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1950
Page
15
A News-Globe report highlights timely acts of courtesy by local youth who helped a man reach a waiting bus. The item features residents from Amarillo and Lubbock, with various social notes including travel, birthdays, moving notices, hospital updates, and military assignments across the Northwest Texas area.
Fire Marshall Ed Spann recalls Amarillo landmarks from the early 1900s. A five story addition to the Amarillo Hotel, costing 330000, will begin soon on Third Avenue and Polk Street, moving the old frame hotel to a new location for use as employee housing. Many original structures were relocated or burned as the town grew.
Beverly Jean Burnett, 13, seventh grader at Elizabeth Nixon Junior High, is president of her homeroom and secretary of the music class and Science Club. She loves swimming, vase collecting, and piano, and aims to become a dress designer. Red hair and blue eyes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Burnett. Boots Bingham, 12, seventh grade at Horace Mann Junior High, is homeroom vice president. She enjoys football and music and dreams of becoming a pianist or singer. She has light brown hair and blue green eyes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Bingham.
Betty Jane Ross, 27, a former girlfriend of actor George Raft, was arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of possessing marijuana after police found a tobacco can containing mari juana in a trailer she shared with Norma Jasper, 27. Jasper and Patricia Farrell, 42, were also booked but Farrell was later dismissed. all others held for trial May 3.
A Paducah saddle maker, Carl Darr, likens his callouts at night to a doctor as cowboys rouse him for emergency repairs. In Northwest Texas, Darr fixed a broken stirrup for a Pitchforks Ranch rider before work the next day, while Bill Tippett supervised chaps being crafted for the tall ranch hand.
Darr, a Hill County native, crafts saddles from $185 to $1000, detailing customer specs from saddle trees to fringe. Cowboys visit the shop to select leather, tooling, and ornament options while children test rides spark interest. Darr recalls starting as a saddle maker around 1944 and enjoying leatherwork since youth.
In Williamstown Massachusetts the firemen annual ball was disrupted when male dancers were called off the floor five times in under two hours due to false fire alarms.
A strong Apal Windstorm swept across Kokomo Indiana toppled a roof device at the airport used to measure wind velocity. The incident underscores the storm's intensity and disruption in the city.
The National Safety Council warned that postwar traffic safety is slipping as March deaths rose 15 percent to 2,440 from 2,120 a year earlier. The report highlights growing complacency in road safety nationwide.
Laura Wheeler offers a new bedspread pattern with crochet and embroidery instructions. The ad promotes pattern 650 with transfer motifs and single-stitch techniques, inviting readers to send twenty cents to Amarillo Globe News for the pattern and a Laura Wheeler book.
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