Round Town Gossips and Birth Announcements
Amarillo roundup with local notes of young Joe Dooley earning his first dollar, family travel plans including Harringtons heading to New York, and varied social items. Includes births, named babies, weekend visitors, and community notices across streets and neighborhoods in Amarillo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Cooper Offfield
Whitefield
Fillmore Street
Ruth
Eighteenth Avenue
Cooper
North Carolina
Joe Shields
Doris
Forrest
Mark Chilton
Canyon
Wanda Dunter
North West
First Avenue
Alvis Painter
Leo Fisk
Mobeetie
Marjorie Miller
Allison
May Horne
Squash as big as a watermelon spotted in Hereford yard
A giant squash described as big as a watermelon rests in Farris Salamy’s back yard at 1505 Hayden Street. He plans to use the fruit to grow seed for future enormous squashes. Also notes on local families with injuries and medical details, and mothers visiting sons at Camp Bowie maneuvers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolyn
Frances Studer
Floyd Studer
Washington Street
Brown
San Marcos
Sam Seay
Taylor Street
Colorado Springs
George Best
Amarillo
Belen
Texas Tech
O. V. Vernon
LaNell
Sunset Terrace
Brownwood
Barbara Jordan
Ong Street
Richardine Windsor
Sue Harrison
Olney
A. W. SoRelle
Kentucky Street
Barbara Ann Dunn
Wichita
Kan
J. H. Dunn
Hayden Street
Farris Salamy
Farris
P. L. Beyer
Polk Street
Roy Burke
Melvin Beyer
Oliver Burke
Camp Bowie
Maneuvers
Louisiana
J. D. Lawson
Anna Ruth
Fillmore Street
Peggy Smith
Mineral Wells
John Lawson
Camp Walters
Ted George
West
Eighteenth Avenue
Wales
Georges
Mr. George
United States
Amarillo Theater Alumni Win Massachusetts Scholarships
In Amarillo the week covers local theater heroes Dickie Dye and Lucien Upshaw who won scholarships to the Priscilla Beach Theater in Plymouth for six weeks. The program offers 40 scholarships from 1,000 applicants, with actors studying diction makeup fencing and lines for multiple plays each week. The piece notes their pride and best wishes as they depart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AATT
Dickie Dye
Lucien Upshaw
Plymouth
Mass
Priscilla Beach
Dye
Mr. Upshaw
Amarillo
Little Theater
Massachusetts
Priscilla Company
Also Mentioned on This Page
Joe Dooley
Mr. Dooley
Hughes Street
Amarilloans
Don Harrington
Sally
New York
Harringtons
Wales Madden
Wales, Jr
Monument Lake
Trinidad
Colo
Madden
Bowie Street
Jack Sitton
Globe News
Sitton
Dallas
J. R. Haley
Beverly Ann
Houston
Barbara D. Woodson
Antonito
Isabel Raffkind
Jackson Street
Braniff
Lahoma City
Tulsa
Allura Art Shop
W. 7Th Ave
Happy
Blitz Hoover
James Farwell
Jack Workman
A. O. Sanders
Dwight Newby
C. P. Atwood
Alice Joyce Holley
Mary L. Glovier
Virginia Lee Moorehead
Martha Williams
Claude Pickett
Anne Stuckley
Waco
J. W. DeSautell and Son
Bill
van Buren Street
Fort Worth
Riley Strickland
Cheyenne Terrace
Blanche Calhoun
E. R. Thomerson
Taylor Nelson
Stanley Ray
Janet Sue
St. Anthony's Hospital
S. J. Nelson
North
Lincoln Street
St Anthony's Hospital
H. H. Hale
Jimmie Howard
Anita Lynn
C. M. Mayfield
North East Tenth Avenue
Stovall
Fisk Building
Tyler Street
Howdy
Bill Mann
Jimmy
D. I. Barnett
Amarillo Hotel
Joyce McGuire
Mary Jean Gooch
Texico
Miss McGuire
Polly Shamblin
Madison Street
Fred Phillips
Dothan
Ala
J. S. Grodjeski
Nineteenth Avenue
Nettie Cobb
Ralph Kenniston
Eleventh Avenue
Virginia McKirahan
Calvin Draper
Mary Ellen Garrison
Joe Bob Brown
Irvine Kerns
Benton King
Raymond Mack
Carl Knupp
Tri-State
R. E. Posey
R. T. Thomsen Jr
Wayne
West Tenth Avenue
Birmingham
Thomsen
Linde Air Products Company
M. H. Schaffer
Des Moines
L. V. Cradit
Dr. Cradit
Betty Rose
Shhaffers
Vancouver
Canada
California
Alma Wilcox
Southern Methodist University
Lina Bra
Monroe Street
Downman
Bea Mideke
Oklahoma City
Betty Howle
Milam Street
Lewis A. Gunn
John A. Ferton
Lansing
Mich
Thomas A. Culpepper
Houston Street
Las Vegas
Culpeppers
Gunns
Ferrans
A. F. Whitefield
Waxahachie
E. S. White
O.K
Webster
NEWS
Ed J. Maloy
Patsy Lou Jordan
O. H Jordan
James O. Smart
Borger
W.M. Chapman
George Work
E. G. Work
Los Angeles
W. R. Oldham
Winchester
L. T. Yates
Hillsboro
Leota Riggins
Groom
T. J. Stratton
Alabama Street
Gartner
Pampa
P. M. Lawson
Fillmore Street, Medical
Earl Yocum
Maxor
Jackson
Marshall Headle
Lockheed
America
RJ. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
America’s
Headle
A. M. Yocum
Thomas M. Wheat
Howard Brooks
Cleveland Street
Patay Jo Jones
Elmer Jones
Hereford
Chris Witt
Pittsburgh Street
Surgical
Doris Staats
Earl Blankenship
Harrison Street
Patsy Morton
G. Morton
Medical
E. L. Brown
R. C. Lokey
Bivins Street
Peggy Jean Stockett
J. R. Stockett
Haseen
Newman Boxwell
Howard Boxwell
East
Ninth Avenue
J. M. Gipson
Denton
E. R McNeal
Snyder
KE. E. Dyer
Wewoka
Okla
Amarillo Printing Co
Trip
Sanitone
Panhandle Laundry
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