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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1946
Page
2
Mrs Goodman seeks a small house dog for a hard of hearing owner and will travel to Amarillo after adoption. Contact 1204 North Taylor Dear Tack. Also lost a brown billfold with Hawaiian design including a driver’s license social security card and some money. Notify Waples Platter Company at 2 3208.
British troops kept a tight corral around Haifa port following disturbances in which illegal immigrants tried to scuttle a transport bound for Cyprus. The report notes terrorism may be subsiding as unrest cools in the area.
A drought tale mixes with a satirical sports parody as the weather trust misses rain despite widespread impacts from Panhandle to High Plains. The piece honors Mel Davis of Pampa and laments CIO wage tensions while urging sober forecasting and faith in rain.
A 10 year old girl in Pleasant Valley asks for help finding her small black and white collie dog missing since August 11 from 122 Cliffside. She requests contact at 2 5458 and seeks a male dog for adoption hints to help her find a good home.
Mrs J R Pope of Route 3 Box 209 G Amarillo Texas reports a wrist watch lost last Saturday. She offers a $5 reward for its return and states the watch holds personal significance.
A reader offers two dogs for adoption. One is a black female part chow and cocker spaniel, the other a tan male with black and white streaks not terrier. They both like children and can be seen in the back yard at 605 South Pierce.
Voters in New York head to the polls in a multi race primary that could echo Midwestern upsets. Baldwin faces Coudert in the 17th district while Harlem’s Powell encounters Reynolds backed by the GOP and Louis. Upstate, St George challenges Bennet as Hannigan faces Marcantonio in a three way Democratic fight.
A Mrs C W Dunaway and husband, former Marine, seek a furnished or unfurnished house or apartment in Amarillo near downtown. They live at Pantex Village while husband runs a cafe, want daytime home time for family with two children, a six year old boy starting school and a four year old girl. Contact apartment 619 Pantex Village or Industrial Cafe West Third and Hayden.
A note from a widow seeks the lady who found a small black coin purse in the basement at Anthony's to leave it upstairs in the store office. The purse contained a silver dollar and three $5 bills, claimed as rent money. She was seen near the towel table, but contact is lost.
Mrs. Quincy Ford thanks an unknown Good Samaritan sending her purse found last Nov 3. She notes nothing was taken except a small amount of money the finder may keep, and expresses gratitude for returning her other belongings.
An applicant offers babysitting for children aged one to six from 1 PM to 6 PM citing experience. Contact Frances Jean Willis by phone 7266 or visit 602 Alabama Street. She also seeks part time morning or day work and invites visits to 307 Monroe Street Apt. 6.
A mother cat and four weaned kittens are offered for adoption by Maxine Smith at 502 South Cleveland. The mother is a good mouser and the caretaker requests that the adopter take at least one kitten. Telephone 2-3680.
Four room house, room and board, wages. Bus fare paid. Contact Mrs A P Jackson Gen Del Stinnett Texas for employment.
Mrs H W White offers an Oxford gray top coat size 28 for $20. Discharged husband re enlisted, no longer needed. Contact 814 N Roosevelt St or phone 4731 for details.
Hattie Wafford reports household ironing tasks to be done at her rear residence at 403 South Arthur. She asks for assistance with laundry and ironing services.
A cafe in SPRING saw two youths pull a gun and steal 350 dollars from a cash register while a dozen customers ate drumsticks and drank beer. One waitress kept serving as the robbers fled toward Conroe, and patrons calmly resumed eating.
A 27 year old burglar and two companions were arrested after breaking into a Dallas liquor store. Four policemen spotted the open door and detained the group, placing all three in the city jail.
Officers and city police responded to a False Burglar Alarm at Whiteway Food Store 2405 Filmore around 9:30 last night. Investigators found a smashed large front window caused by a blown open screen door, triggering the alarm.
Aug 19 Haifa Palestine a nationwide plan by three underground Jewish groups appeared to fail to materialize by 4 PM. A quiet mood followed a tense weekend as Jerusalem saw a bomb scare at the post office and military spot checks. British sources denied an intercepted uprising plan by Stern Ha Ganah and Irgun Zvai Leumi, signaling cautious calm in the Holy Land.
Gertrude Mathews of Erick Oklahoma died at Northwest Texas Hospital at 10 30 this morning aged 78 she came to Amarillo for treatment two weeks ago survivors include two daughters Mrs Frank Prescott and Mrs J T Werner both of Amarillo and 16 grandchildren body in state at N Griggs & Sons Chapel awaiting funeral arrangements
Well trained Nationalist reinforcements with air support joined the battle at Kaifeng, Henan capital, facing a numerically superior Communist foe. Ta Kung Pao said government circles expect a favorable turn along the Lunghai line where Gen Liu Pochamps forces push a 175 mile front with about 200000 veterans.
CIO National Maritime Union asked CIO United Steelworkers to join a lake ship operators strike. Negotiations continued in New York and Chicago as NMU aimed to halt Great Lakes traffic by Friday. NMU vice president Joseph Stack directed port agents to seek NSW support and to urge steelworkers not to unload struck vessels.
The barometer at McDavid Brothers Clothiers shows unsettled weather and indicates more rain tonight. The device previously forecast rain before last night’s shower. A. W. Me-
An old advertisement touts Bee Brand Insect Spray as quick acting and economical with 1% DDT. It claims safety for children and pets and notes availability in pints quarts and gallons with complete directions on the container.
In early modern times scurvy was the deadliest disease on long sea voyages and barometer use is discussed as key during voyages.
Officials reported a fire in a pile of used tires at American Pipe & Junk Co. 910 West Fourth causing light damage to the tire pile and nearby old battery boxes stored nearby.
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