19 Aug 1941
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1941
Page
1
A column contest ends at noon with 202 entries. Judges from out of town will rate submissions, and the top writer will be invited to fill in next week for Old Tack and be paid 100 dollars. The Globe News notes large word volumes and varied club items while highlighting popular themes and mortgages.
Amarillo High School and three junior high principals will interview new students starting Aug 21 to ease school placement before openings on Sept 3 and 4. Conference leaders include R. B. Norman, Elizabeth Nixson, I. D. Maharon, and E. L. Hunter. students should bring their credits record.
Funeral services for W. C. Stockett Jr who died after a bicycle automobile crash will be held at 2 pm Wednesday at First Baptist Church. Rev. Harvey P. Wolfe of Seldon Texas will officiate, with burial at Llano Cemetery under Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home. Survivors include his parents sister grandmother and maternal grandparents of Amarillo.
The seventh guest column by Ruby Cook blends humor and opinion with an education on the B-19 bomber size and capacity. It contrasts jokes about gender humor with stark figures on bomber dimensions, range, and payload, then shifts to witty quips about family and culture.
Heavyweight champion Joe Louis and his wife Marva plan to drop divorce suit and reconcile, their attorneys said. Byrd denounces national defense effort as ineffective and urges temporary halt of social legislation. Dallas police radio reports a Bowie Texas bank robbed of several thousand dollars earlier today, with few details available.
Chicago report notes a hairdressers association designing five defense styles to keep hair on workers, especially women, while on factory belts. Styles suggest hair lengths of two and a half to three inches as safe and practical for use around gears and assemblies.
Detroit August 19. Circuit Judge Guy A Miller grants John Thomas Roberts a divorce after he testifies his wife left him nine days after their 1906 marriage. Roberts says I guess she isn't coming back.
Hugo Oklahoma case reports 65 year old watchmaker Leonard collapsing dead of a heart attack while police prepared to shoot his dog suspected of rabies. The dog escaped in the excitement.
In Carlsbad New Mexico Shorty Broadbent keeper of a roadside curio shop held a large rattlesnake up for a traveler's snapshot. The snake slipped and bit him doctors say he will recover.
A jumble of reader letters and small ads fills the page. Listings include requests for half day work from two colored women, a widow seeking correspondence with a man aged 40 to 50, a widow offering elder care, a reward notice for a mislaid $2000 bill with a $500 bounty, a mother seeking baby care, a kitten offering, a woman seeking night child care with references, a colored girl seeking cook or maid work, and a small home interview call in Margaret Wills School district plus several contact numbers and addresses.
Grandmother of five children aged three to nine requests assistance as mother remains unemployed and health issues strain care. The note describes a widowed household needing support from kind readers in Amarillo. Separately, county officials will begin tax equalization hearings at 9 am tomorrow as taxpayers appear to contest valuations.
Friona defeats Amarillo Pinkney Packing 3-2 after 12 innings as Williams drives in the deciding run on a walk and single. Pinkney’s Charles Peak stars with two RBIs on perfect defense and power. Game lasts 2 hours 35 minutes. no return game date set.
The brief shows top league leaders with players from Boston Washington New York Philadelphia St Louis Brooklyn and others, listing games at bats hits and averages along with scattered figures. A second fragment invites readers to donate clothing for a local family, with a contact number for collection.
Sir Robert Montgomery, film star and assistant naval attaché at the U.S. embassy in London, arrived in a northern Ireland town to visit about 200 American technicians and workers quartered there. He said he would stay a few days and may visit Dublin before returning to London.
Manuel Simmons aged 56 an electrician died in a local hospital about 8 30 this morning after a brief illness He is survived by two sisters Mrs B R Hughes of Amarillo and Mrs C I Hughes of Manila Ark He lived at 1311 East Fourteenth Avenue The body is at U S Griggs Funeral Chapel pending arrival of relatives and completion of funeral arrangements
J F Manning, 82, of Amarillo, remains in serious but stable condition after an automobile accident Friday. He suffers a fractured pelvic bone and other internal injuries and is hospitalized at Northwest Texas Hospital.
An armored truck delivered $5,000 worth of furs to a Wisconsin State Fair exhibit while police guarded the unload. Three Boy Scouts then assumed guard duty with Scout knives, as a crowd watched the unusual scene.
Mrs Farley injured in a two car collision near Forest Hills School yesterday morning is improving at St Anthony's Hospital. Her husband Mr Farley and their daughter Mrs Ed Gamble suffered minor injuries and were discharged this afternoon. Mrs Helen V Dudley also had minor injuries and was released after first aid.
Los Angeles reports T. L. Tally will give a $40,000 pipe organ to anyone who can move it out of the building he plans to raze. Dismantling moving and reassembling the organ is estimated to cost about $3,000.
Hollywood producer Gene Markey, long known for his Hollywood career spanning twelve years, has been summoned by the Navy. Details of the call and its context remain limited as the situation develops.
Kenneth Kelly son of Mr and Mrs R H Kelly of 1600 Crockett Street is improving at Northwest Texas Hospital but remains unable to receive visitors after a serious illness.
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