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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1951
Page
2
A humor filled column collects jokes and quips from various sources about manners, authority, love, and everyday quirks. It stitches together blunt one liners and light political slyness with punchlines about clerks, paroled behavior, scientists and social mores.
The piece reviews Lauch Book Magazine edited by Ken Berglund and published in Wichita. It lampoons female attire and dating banter with jokes about bones and pursuit, noting the magazine’s Whiz Bang style and low-grade humor yet calling it among the better in its class in the United States.
A pair of U S Marines in Korea seek correspondence with local young women. One is 21 and the other 22. both list c o f F P O San Francisco addresses. Names Dominick J. Andreassi and Howard Hamilton appear with unit details and contact info.
The House approved a housing rider to relax down payment requirements on homes up to 12 000 dollars. Under the provision veterans using the GI Bill would need four percent down for under 7 000 dollar homes, rising to ten percent for 7 000 to 10 000, and eight to twenty percent for higher price ranges. The change aligns with broader anti inflation efforts and follows Senate endorsement.
Members of the Townsend Club plan a free watermelon and cantaloupe feast Sunday at 3 PM in Sanborn Park. Music will be provided by a violin and guitar, with Mrs. Iva Mathewson as secretary-treasurer and Wv. Wyatt, the president, speaking on the Townsend pension plan at the close. Similar clubs are forming nationwide, like the Amarillo group.
Beaumont mayor Otho Plummer said he opposes Southwestern Bell Telephone Company's request for higher rates. The city council scheduled a mid-September hearing, but Plummer warned the increases would exceed 250000 dollars and that the city is satisfied with current phone rates. He said, we’re going to stick with them.
Twenty Amarillo Hi-Y boys travel to Camp Grady Spruce in Dallas for a five day program sponsored by the Southwest Area Council of the YMCA. Accompanied by Gerry Morse and R. Paul Fowler, the group includes youths from Dallas and several Texas towns.
The Corps of Engineers will hand over a further dozen dormitories at Amarillo Air Forces Base to the Air Force this afternoon. This transfer adds 17 dormitories in Area A, with five already turned over on Aug 4, and includes one mess hall. Each area will eventually hold two mess halls and 34 dormitories, built by the Del E Webb Construction Company.
George Tomberlin of Amarillo posted a $1,000 bond on an assault with intent to murder charge after waiving exam before Justice C W Carder. He allegedly struck Carl Hunter of 413 East Eleventh with a hammer Sunday night. Hunter was not seriously hurt.
Amarillo CPA Leonard Gerhardt 4206 Ong has been elected a member of the American Institute of Accountants national CPA society. A Kansas native and West Texas State College graduate, he holds a Texas CPA certificate by written exam and is affiliated with H. V. Robertson & Company.
On August 21 the United States will observe Labor Day with all security and commodity markets and exchanges closed. The notice confirms a nationwide market shutdown for the holiday.
Northern Ireland tuberculosis patients may travel to Switzerland for treatment under a new plan funded by Ulster's Tuberculosis Authority. The arrangement aims to secure medical care abroad while controlling local costs and expanding available therapies.
Residents of the oil port sought shelter in churches as a 130 mile per hour hurricane bore down on Mexico's east coast. Warnings said the storm, which has caused 115 deaths in Jamaica, could strike between here and Tuxpan, south, with heavy rains and rising winds threatening floods and loss of life in outlying areas.
Bridge hand and bidding sequence diagram with West east vul, North East bids, and final contract after double redouble. Opening lead described as ace and king from west and east shows defensive entries and declarer play considerations.
In last year’s national championships a rare grand slam was reached by John R. Crawford of Philadelphia and Mrs. Margaret Wagar of Atlanta. Crawford signaled strength in diamonds and clubs while Wagar’s five spades hinted at six hearts, prompting a smooth finish after her ruffing of the opening club.
Mr and Mrs Gayle Cavin 2711-B Duncan welcomed a baby boy Gayle Jr born last night at 9 30 in St Anthony s Hospital Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Sid Carter Canyon Highway and Mr and Mrs John Cavin 3010 Hayden Great great grandparents are Mr and Mrs A A Jeffers Hamilton
Isaiah Phipps aged 19 of 1000 North Tyler pleaded guilty in county court to aggravated assault for striking Louise Denson over the head with a bottle. He was fined $50 and costs.
John Amend, director of police training and current ally of Police Chief Sid Harper, is a candidate for police inspector a role to be created Oct 1 as part of department reorganization. Amend would take many duties from the chief, easing him of detailed personnel tasks while improving administration. Amend is Alaska born June 14 1920 with Air Force service experience.
Air Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross holder Amend joined the Amarillo police in 1947 and built the department training program from two weeks to two months courses. Chief Harper plans to promote two lieutenants to the detective division, L. C. Howard and Luther Bartlett, raising detectives to ten.
Egyptian Ambassador Kamil Abdul Rahim toured Amarillo cotton fields inspecting irrigation methods and comparing Egypt’s Nile reliant growing with South Plains practices. He noted Our wheat imports and cotton exports with the U S and discussed regional oil issues before continuing to Oklahoma City Memphis and Washington with his wife and two sons.
Robert Allen Hopper dies at Veterans Hospital from polio at 34. Services set for 2 p.m. tomorrow at Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel with Rev. William E. Everheart of Westminster Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial at Fairmont Cemetery in Denver, Cole. Survived by wife Elaine, daughter Kathleen, 7, sister Mrs Max Euwer of Sulphur Louisiana, and brother Edgar Hopper of St Louis.
Police investigate the theft of a parking meter head from the sidewalk in front of 113 East Ninth Street this morning. The incident prompted a street survey for further clues as investigators seek suspects and security footage.
Harold Miller city traffic engineer advised closing Washington Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues from 12 to 1 on school days to create a play street. The plan also calls for no parking on Adams Street between Seventh and Eighth, no parking on the north side of West Eighth from Adams to 109 feet west of Washington, and designating the south side of Seventh Avenue between Adams and Washington as a loading zone.
John D. Foster of Lubbock died yesterday morning in Veterans Hospital after two months as a patient. The 59 year old born March 13 1892 at Alvarado Texas was a member of the Church of Christ. Surviving are his wife Ruthie and six children, including Danny and John Robert, all of Lubbock, plus daughters Orbie Selby Cromwell and Glenn Morgan Peroraen and Aubrey Crisp. Funeral services and burial will be in Waurika Oklahoma, with N S Griggs and Sons handling the transfer.
Egyptian mummies used ramie fiber for wrapping, highlighting ancient textile practices. The source notes ramie as a key material in burial wrappings, reflecting product choices and trade in ancient Egypt.
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