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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1942
Page
4
Amarillo launches its first civilian defense drill under a statewide daylight blackout. Air raid wardens will man posts and simulate emergencies including traffic stoppage, sheltering, and a citywide alert sequence.
Pattern designer Anne Adams offers pattern 4109 in sizes 36 to 50 with slimming lines a V neck and darted bodice. It requires 312 yards of 39 inch fabric for size 36 and is sold by mail from Amarillo Globe Pattern Dept New York for ten to sixteen cents plus pattern book offers.
Amarillo Civil Air Patrol officers from the Borger unit attended the Hutchinson County Pilot's Association banquet in Borger last night. Lieutenants Eugene F. Kendall Bob McDonald and Jack Sitton assisted with CAP organizational problems during the gathering.
Police classified Rosa Riley's gas theft as the loss of the week. While she was away, someone siphoned 14 gallons from her car tank. She returned home by bus to find the gasoline missing. A mention notes the first recorded tarpon caught in 1885 near Punta Rassa, Florida.
Mrs. Larney Barnes and several women met a Philadelphia soldier Higginbotham after a wheel and tire rolled off a light truck near Eleventh Avenue and Fillmore Street. They retrieved the wheel and tire with his help, then drove him to Amarillo Field. The tire and wheel were later collected by the Broome Electric Company.
Tokyo reports Imperial HQ says a Japanese destroyer flotilla sank an Augusta class battleship and two destroyers near Guadalcanal on November 30, with one Japanese destroyer lost. Also notes that the first apartment houses in the U.S. were called French flats.
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