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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1947
Page
4
Downtown Amarillo will illuminate Saturday evening at 6 o'clock with new decorations including plastic stars bells and balls. A parade starts at 1 30 p m featuring rubber animals from Jean Gros parade units.
Roy Dey runs a 25 year old Blum barber shop charging 35 cents per cut while most shops in the area charge 75 cents. The article notes Erie occupying about four-fifths of the island of Ireland.
Post master W D DeGrassi warns Amarillo will see record mail this season with 1 500 000 pieces monthly through cancelling, 23 000 parcel sacks, and a Christmas rush that may double. Officials urge Dec 10 for out of state packages and Dec 15 for city rural delivery, strict packing, brown wrapping, one side address, and ample stamp purchases to ease congestion.
The post office will station men at the two entrances to assist shoppers and open windows longer beginning Dec 10. About 200 staff, plus 10 borrowed Army trucks, will handle mail across 21 trains and 30 airplanes daily as 200 workers aim to clear all mail by Christmas Eve. Former service members get preference.
A branch of the Yale Institute of Alcohol Studies will be established at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth with Dr. E M Jellinek aiding in forming the institute. The unit aims at prevention and treatment of alcoholism. The item notes a meeting held to organize the branch.
At 1 10 and 3 06 and 5 02 and 6 58 features plus 2 00 3 56 5 52 7 48 8 44 PM. Star The Hucksters Clark Gable Deborah Kerr Leon Without Reservations Claudette Colbert John Wayne Rex Piesta Cyd Charisse Esther Williams Texas Romance of Rosy Ridge Van Johnson Thomas Mitchell Victory Shanghai Gesture Gene Tierney Victor Mature Harmony Cheyenne Dennis Morgan Jane Wyman Liberty Bar 20 Ridges Again The Maddona s Secret Lyric The Guilt of Janet Ames Rosalind Russell Melvin Douglas Ding Dong Williams Night Clubs The Nat Russ Rogers 11 piece orchestra Friday Saturday Avalon Mitch Mitchell Music Makers every night except Sunday Aviatrix open every night Frances Irvin vocalist Carlton Scales orchestra Rainbow Garden open Tue Sat Rip Ramsey Texas Wanderers Rumpus Room Thomas Dinner House Otis Wyatt piano
Kay Francis stars in State of the Union with curtain at 8 15 PM in Wyoming headlining bill. Bill Elliott John Carroll named for Glamour Town Hollywood Movietone News. Esquire presents The Foxes of Harrow with Rex Harrison Maureen O Hara plus color cartoon Paramount News. Rialto features Buffalo Bill Rides Again with Richard Arien Lew Lehr comedy color cartoon serial news.
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