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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1950
Page
24
This second article in a five part series explains tuberculosis is highly infectious due to the tubercle bacillus and stresses contact as key. It warns active open cases should be isolated until cured or no longer dangerous to others to prevent spread.
An educational note describes how tubercle bacilli infect via inhalation and ingestion, detailing virulence levels and why exposure duration matters. It cites that about 90 percent of cases originate in the lungs and 10 percent from the gastrointestinal tract, with warnings about close daily contact and droplet infection.
Peter Thompson has been signed by Columbia to star opposite Sunny Vickers in Ridin the Outlaw Trail, a Durango Kid Western with Charles Starrett and Smiley Burnette. Fred Sears directs and Colbert Clark produces. Thompson recently completed a featured role with Randolph Scott in Santa Fe.
Property owners on West Fifteenth Avenue blocked a bid to require 15 foot setbacks from the street to allow for possible future widening. The measure was tabled after a petition against it and objections citing loss of property use. The panel found current right of way adequate for three traffic lanes plus parking. The commission also awarded a golf clubhouse locker room addition contract to Claude E. Mathis and deferred school board plans to close West Fourteenth Avenue for Amarillo High School arterial training.
Sunny weather is likely in the Panhandle after heavy rains. H C Winburn of the Amarillo weather station says conditions should dry out over the next few days with mild temperatures. Amarillo measured .10 inch of rain in the last 24 hours, totaling 17.78 inches for the year, 2.52 inches above normal, while nearby towns reported variable rainfall from .02 to .28 inches.
Fred K. Stroop of Waxahachie was killed yesterday in a two car collision near Milford. He served as business manager of Scott and White hospital in Temple from 1904 to 1938 and retired in 1936 to manage farm properties near Waxahachie. Nora Wain, novelist and Post correspondent, injured after slipping from a plane at a Korean airport.
Will Rogers Range Riders prepare for the annual Boys Ranch Rodeo and Barbecue at Old Tascosa. Charlie Lowe to barbecue beef for 1 30 p m with Am arillo Junior Chamber of Commerce handling serving. Proceeds support Boys Ranch. tickets 1 50 for adults, 75 cents for children under 13. 4 000 to 5 000 expected.
Twelve of seventeen members of a amateur emergency radio network answered weekly roll call last night. Gus Goodnight, the network coordinator, said the 10 meter band station completed the check and will report to the North Texas emergency net on 75 meters next Sunday morning before forwarding to the American Radio Relay League headquarters in West Hartford Conn. The setup keeps members in readiness for emergencies. First station to answer last night.
WSCYX owned by Tex Smith in Amarillo along with several responding stations in the area including W5LTM Gordon Berry W5MYH J D Fisher W5NTD Joe Boucher W5NHY Bobby Rigler W5OFD Lynn Glasgow WSOIE Claude Harrison W5PSN Bill Gunderson W5TCX Calvin Finley W5QOV R L Ethridge Hereford WS5RBA Gene Kimbell Dimmitt and Bob Kind straw Amarillo The line ends with a dismissive line you cannot make a good hand out of a heel.
Thomas Jefferson Barnes, 76, the first county judge of Mc Curtain County Oklahoma, died in Texarkana yesterday. Born in Sevier County Arkansas, he moved to the Indian Territory in 1902 and settled at Goodwater. He later served as county judge after Oklahoma achieved statehood.
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