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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1951
Page
4
City officials will meet with commissioners to discuss plans for a new underpass on East Tenth Avenue, widening of North East Eighth, and widening and opening of North West Eighth as a bypass route for Highway 66.
Helen Thompson notes the second in a four part series on Merrill Lynch investment classes for women at Amarillo Center. George Simms of Merrill Lynch explains reading financial statements and the balance sheet, current working capital, leverage, and book value while stressing the importance of earnings records and industry comparisons. Virgil Patterson, First National Bank president, speaks on banking changes and the role of banks today.
In Johannesburg the South African Dutch Reformed Church warned that 75 percent of today’s divorces start on the dance floor. The memorandum blamed sex stimulation in modern dances for causing divorces and said dancing degrades unmarried people to animal-like levels. In Duncan Oklahoma a city manager recalled a farm magazine article payment he received with no knowledge of the author.
NEW HAVEN Conn Aug 23 Ziegler Sargent 70 vice president and treasurer of Sargent & Co hardware makers will retire Sept 15 to return to Yale and study for a master’s degree in American history He hopes to earn the degree by June 1953 He graduated from Yale in 1903.
In Winamac Indiana rescue workers failed to locate 3 year old Kathryn Dilts after pulling her father James Dilts Jr from an overturned car. The child’s body was later found beneath the vehicle with her face pressed into mud. Doctors said she apparently suffocated.
Texas Highway commissioners E. H. Thornton Jr of Galveston R. J. Potts of Harlingen and Fred Wempie of Midland, on a state wide tour, will be guests of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce at a 6:30 dinner in the XIT Room of the Herring Hotel tonight. They arrive this afternoon and depart tomorrow morning, accompanied by
A contingent of 770 US Army Air Force officers and men arrived at La Rouunelle to help man a large American air depot in France. The depot is at Chateauroux, about 150 miles southwest of Paris, with the force aboard the troopship General Stewart arriving today.
Los Angeles reports Gary Merrill 36, Bette Davis husband, is free today of martial bonds with Barbara Leeds. Merrill and Miss Davis, 43, wed July 28, 1950 in Juarez Mexico. Leeds had an interlocutory decree in LA. Davis and Merrill obtained Mexican divorces. Davis had married Sherry previously. A note on a historic window tax adds context.
Actress Margaret O'Brien, 14, has court permission to spend part of her $175,000 bank total on a Beverly Hills duplex. Her mother, Gladys O'Brien, said the girl intends to buy a $30,000 half interest in the duplex where they reside.
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