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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1948
Page
5
In a December snowstorm a lonely boy named Danny lacking a home and a leg finds others mock him. He constructs a lifelike snow man and wishes for friendship as a sunlit fairy appears promising to make the snow figure real, signaling a hopeful transformation tomorrow.
Children in Los Alamos public schools will start early this year learning to typewrite. A course on the use of typewriters and adding machines is scheduled for fourth and fifth graders.
A columnist warns that card sense often beats general intelligence in gin rummy. Carelessness leads to losses, while memory of discards and careful play improve outcomes. The piece stresses relaxed focus, avoiding careless discards, and strategic use of known matched sets.
DALLAS Dec 6 Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Samuel B. Perkins 76 co founder of a chain of retail department stores in Texas and Oklahoma. Perkins died in a Dallas hospital yesterday. He and J J Perkins founded a Kaufman dry goods store in 1898 and built a large wholesale and retail network. His retail outlets include McKinney Greenville Cooper Paris Sulphur Springs Winnsboro and others in the region.
Perkins oversaw most of the time management for a wholesale firm with a trade area spanning Texas and parts of Louisiana Oklahoma New Mexico and Arizona including cities Longview Marshall Kaufman Athens Corpus Christi and Durant in its reach.
Raymond Everett 63, UT architecture professor and noted wood carver, died in Austin after a month long illness. He joined the University of Texas faculty in 1915 after five years teaching at the University of Michigan.
Amarillo residents are urged to help provide food clothing or toys to needy families this Christmas. Call Community Chest Christmas Cheer committee at 6359 to participate, with efforts coordinated to reach all social agencies and avoid duplications, says committee chairman Jack Haas.
All cases at the Chest are grouped by family size from two to six or more, with a ready index. Agencies listing families include Child Welfare Association State Department of Public Welfare Potter County Welfare Society and Catholic Welfare Society Travelers Aid Society and Social Welfare Society. Other needy families should be reported to the Chest office by a church or nearby organization. The moose can grow 78 inch antlers in three months.
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