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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1950
Page
2
Funeral services for Scott Heywood 78, longtime oil operator and pioneer in Amarillo and Spindletop fields, are set for 3 pm Monday at Miguez Funeral Home Jennings Louisiana. He died Tuesday night at his Jennings home and is survived by his wife.
Frederick C. Othman reports on Dr. McCay's experimental bread that shoppers and co op stores praise as white bread with extra milk solids and soy flour. The FDA rules threaten to redefine it as not bread, halting interstate sales. Congressional figures debate labeling and regulatory limits as experts seek a path for a superior loaf.
In Los Angeles on December 1, a Superior Court judge arranged a custody sharing plan for 16 month old Mae Shane. Gerald D. Shane, 25, actor salesman, and Jeanette Nowitzke, 21, drug store worker, will take turns caring for the child. The father has the child from 8 AM to 6 PM while the mother works, and the mother will have custody from 6 PM to 8 AM. The judge did not press for marriage.
The annual death rate fell by ten percent in 1948 reaching 30 deaths per 100000 population. Death rates for women declined more rapidly than those for men.
Mrs Lehman offers two dogs free to good homes. One large yellow dog and a grown black and white dog, partially trained as a guard. Dogs left at City Dog Pound 614 West Fourth, paid for board through week end, contact 26776.
Requests the man who remained with a car after an accident on Highway 287 six miles north of the Canadian River Bridge on November 22 to contact O. L. Dennington of Dumas Texas. Call collect at 2-2093 or write Box 689 Dumas.
Trade offer: I have a new pellet gun available in exchange for teen stamps or Gunn Bros. Thrift lamps. Contact via phone at 2-8064.
Advertises keeping children in their homes during afternoons and nights. Provides contact by phone 3-5860 and address 614 North Tyler. </s>
Four boys aged seventeen to nineteen seek work in common labor ranch duties brick laying or truck driving. Call 2 9587 and ask for Mrs Vealfe.
A mother cat with three or four half grown kittens is offered to a farmer. They are good mousers and ready to relocate. Phone 2681 with address 2420 East Tenth.
Four pairs corduroy trousers size 10 blue overcoat size 12 all wool tweed suit size 12 two khaki trousers size 8 about fourteen shirts size 6 to 12 three Levis sizes 10 to 12 one gabardine Western-style trousers size 10 or 12 phone 3-2515 3619 North East Twenty-third.
A young widow with four children ages 2, 5, 6 and 1 year seeks donated clothes. Readers with outgrown items may deliver them to the family. contact phone 3-3471.
A reader advertises ironing services for home use at 65 cents per hour. Also offers washing and stretching curtains. Provides references and a contact phone number 30419.
A three quarter bedstead in pineapple mahogany with a clean innerspring Beauty Rest mattress and steel slat springs is offered for trade for a divan that makes a bed. Interested parties may call 2 6813.
A widow, past middle age, seeks correspondence with a man aged 68 to 75. She prefers companionship and a steady, respectful match, hoping to find someone who shares similar interests and values.
A reader advertises a fur coat and a cowboy suit size 12 for sale at low price. Also offers two good baby buggies a baby car seat and a baby gate for sale or trade for S H Green stamps. Contact phone 3 8033 or visit 4125 Van Buren.
Mrs Maggie Smith seeks the return of her 12 year old brindle and white bull dog that slipped from a car in the 1900 block of East Tenth on Sunday night November 26. The dog answers to Jiggs or Shorty and a small reward is offered. Contact 3-3236 or 3-5458.
A reader offers a living room suite a baby’s bed and a rollaway bed for trade or a very cheap sale. Contact by phone at 3-8448 for arrangements.
Home ironing chores requested with contact details. Phone number 3 9426 or drop off at 2222 Sanborn. Reasonable rates expected.
Messenger advertises a wanted item for purchase or trade. The seller seeks a good used men’s suit size 44 long and a bedstead that can be traded for or converted into a Hollywood style or lady’s suit. Contact via phone 3-8247.
Shopper misplaced a billfold Saturday November 25 containing six dollars and many photos. It bears a Wichita Falls address. If found, return to 4218 Harrison or call 3-5855.
A compact white bathroom heater is offered for trade in exchange for a book of stamps. Also a furnished doll house in good condition is offered for trade for a book and a half of stamps. Phone 3-4059.
Wanted, pre-school age child to keep during day. Will give best of care in Christian home. Located in Scale Addition. Phone 3-9748.
Bundle includes baby bathinette stroller and combination auto seat swing. All in good condition and offered at reasonable prices. Call 3-6571 for details and to arrange pickup.
Classified note advertises a ladies fitted coat size 16 for sale with contact phone 3 3639 and a call line for interested buyers.
A classified notice seeks to buy a small spinet piano in good condition. Respond by calling the provided numbers 5061 or 8188.
A brief request notes desire for a comfortable home with high quality care for one or two small children during work hours. Contact via phone number 6534 for arrangements.
Personal ad offers a baby bathing tub and a teeter-babe in good condition for sale. Call 2-1041 if interested.
I offer a full size iron bedstead with springs and mattress in exchange for a bed of half or three quarter size. Phone 3-3230.
A colored girl asks for any job except cooking, available day or night. She requests compensation above $15 and invites calls to 30995 asking for Clara at 309 North Hughes.
I offer in home sewing crochet and laundry services. I will work on shirts dresses linens and baby care while you shop or run errands. Years of laundry experience and careful attention to detail ensure quality results.
Free bassinet available for pickup at 1204 South Johnson. Interested readers can call 2-8557 to arrange collection. First come, first served.
Practical nurse advertises readiness to provide references and requests immediate employment. Includes contact phone number 3-0438 for inquiries.
Advertising a bassinet with liner and legs for sale at a low price. Call 3-9130 or visit 100 North Louisiana to inquire or arrange pickup.
Last Friday on Third across from the Atlas Hotel a new Slack dress and belt were lost. The owner, Mrs. Bandy, reports illness after her husband’s death and offers a reward. Contact 22738 or deliver to 1604 Tyler Apt. 5.
Three books of Green stamps offered for Gunn Bros blue stamps. Call 30664 to arrange trade.
Sharon O Neale seeks the return of a red billfold lost at the Horace Mann Price football game at the field on North Hayes on November 19. The billfold contains her name in gold and photos. the finder may keep the money. Call 3-4044.
Dear Tack I am Linda a woman around 35 seeking a caring man for marriage. I am interested in correspondence from the right person.
The article details Communist plans to infiltrate labor unions, clubs, Negro groups, and schools to push a peace petition. It cites Gus Hall’s July national committee remarks arguing peace must not mean accepting colonialism or paving the way for socialism. It portrays two years of staged agitation and party funding behind the Stockholm Peace Appeal.
A 1950 Globe report reveals the Stockholm Peace Appeal originated under strict Communist control. It details how the Cominform backed efforts to mobilize signatures, infiltrate unions and mass organizations, and direct youth and women to push an antiwar agenda, with a five million signature goal and parallel drives across states.
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