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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1940
Page
3
Amarillo Business College marks its thirtieth year offering diversified business training in Amarillo. President C. H. Wileman invites inquiries as the thirty-first Fall Term opens Tuesday September 3 with many students already enrolled. Tuition is moderate and easy terms are available for new students.
Gatlin Glass and Paint Co at 417 East Tenth Avenue reports a strong year with courteous service and quality work. The firm offers glass for homes and businesses, car windshields, mirrors, and a full year-round floor refinishing department. Also promotes a wallpaper sale and Dove season hunting gear via Tom and Roy Gun and Key Shop at 17 Tyler Street with repair and key services and gun rentals in the Panhandle area. Their phone is 20771.
Dr. Eva F. Dodge, associate in charge of Alabama health department maternal hygiene, has been sent to Puerto Rico by the Children's Bureau to assist in organizing a maternal and child welfare program on the island.
J M Red Simpson of Simpson Tire Company markets Hawkinson treading to restore life to worn tires. The process presses non skid rubber onto the tire face without baking, preserving the carcass. Thousands of tires have been Hawkinson treaded in the district and major fleet operators are customers.
The Indians have not had a home game rained out since June 10, a major drought breaking record for the Tribe.
Prospective students are urged to enroll soon for the six month course at the San Jacinto School of Beauty Culture located at 2713-17 West Sixth Avenue Amarillo. Enrollment opens September 9 with a large fall class anticipated as the school touts job placement and sales training across beauty services and cosmetics. The notice also notes Lichtenstein and Prussia remain technically at war due to postwar treaty oversights.
The Amarillo Secretarial School announces fall term starts September 3 with enrollments on September 2. Located at 800 Jefferson Street in Mrs. Bess Orr Foringer’s private home, the school offers a full commercial course including shorthand typing English spelling comptometry book keeping and office skills. The program features individual instruction and evening classes to fit employed students.
Mrs. Foringer advertises a business subjects program for youth with updated teaching methods. Readers are invited to write to 800 Jefferson Street or call 2-3594 for an appointment to discuss enrollment. A note mentions tests determining which motion pictures cool a person the most in hot weather.
In Pritchard near Mobile five of 22 council candidates are barbers. G V Dismukes runs for mayor, aiming to win from a field that includes fellow barbers. Election remains set for September.
In San Francisco a mother’s call for an ambulance followed her 11 month old Richard French swallowing two linked safety pins. The ambulance hit rough pavement. the infant coughed and the pins were expelled. In Montgomery Alabama a bronze marker honors Sidney Lanier, the poet once hotel clerk at the Exchange Hotel where the Confederate cabinet first met.
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