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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1946
Page
19
Amarillo reports a drop in stray animals with 166 live dogs picked up in the month, 3 reclaimed, and 3 dogs remaining in the pound. Other strays included 66 cats 45 rabbits 3 cows a horse and a raccoon as the pound man logged 1,865 miles and 290 calls.
Lynn County judge Tom Garrard used a 36 inch advertisement in the Lynn County News, Toho ka, to reprimand citizens for pulling up road stakes. The notice titled Notice, Please notes a large road building program funded by taxpayers with engineers and staking crews at work.
Judge Garrard notes repeated stake destruction on surveyed roads. He cites 50 cents per stake and 110 stakes per mile, costing 55 dollars per mile to set, with some stakes reset up to three times raising costs to 165 dollars per mile.
Mr and Mrs 8 W Bridgeman of 2409 Buchanan and Miss Cynthia Glasgow of River Road left yesterday for Seattle Washington to spend three weeks vacationing.
A home fat loss remedy claims quick reduction of body fat using four ounces of liquid Barcentrate mixed with grapefruit juice in a pint bottle, taken as two tablespoons twice daily. It promises visible results, a money back guarantee, and cites drugstores selling Barcentrate.
City general fund receipts for July totaled 48 448 dollars with water department receipts at 72 185 03 and miscellaneous services 2 171 13. Sewer use charges reached 11 916 17 while sanitary sewer revenue bonds brought 1 500 261 and interest 1 439 09.
Mr and Mrs J E Watkins of 807 Belleview will depart Monday for a week long vacation in Corpus Christi.
Amarilloans return to civilian life as nine men are discharged at the War Department Personnel Center Fort Sam Houston Texas. The group includes Pvt Joe L French Pantex Village Pvt Oscar W Cox 1814 Pierce Cpl D W Ross Jr 318 East Fourth Pfe Alvin C Hellyer 410 East Sixth Pvt Henry Fluellen 1003 Buchanan Staff Sgt Huell W Bingham 1401 Buchanan Staff Sgt Fay H Wallace 212 North East Fifth Cpl John K Washburn 111 East Seventeenth and Sgt Montie Cobb 1404 Monroe.
Swiss alpinists Alfred Sutter and Bechtold Hediger reached the 13515 foot Matterhorn summit in 13 hours joined by guides Alex Taugwalder and Alex Graven from Zermatt. This marks the fourth ascent of the north face in 16 years following the 1930 first ascent by Franz and Toni Schmid. A nearby note records Tarboro North Carolina operates a municipally owned milk plant.
A sheriff sale is scheduled in Potter County Texas to satisfy a 1928 judgment in Pierce Petroleum Corporation against W H Neusch. The property, Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter Section 46 Block 2 AB M Survey Forty acres, will be offered at public auction for cash on the first Tuesday of September 1946 between 10 am and 4 pm at the courthouse door Amarillo. Sheriff W M Adams and Deputy J P LeNeveu oversee the sale.
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