Community Hosts and Birth Notices Highlight Amarillo Week
The week features house warming guests at Arétind Ten and Mrs. Leon Watkins's home and multiple birth announcements from local families including Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Metcalf and others. Navy updates, college honors, sick room notes, and hospital news from St Anthony's and Northwest hospitals fill the social calendar alongside visiting guests and Christmas Letters to Santa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wir
Leon Watkins
North East Thirteenth
Cora Lee Wiles
Thelma Eubanks
Jessie A. Es
Bessie Melvin
Amarillo Briefs and Family Updates From Local Phone Book
Live on a farm near Perryton were in Amarillo shopping last week. Mrs W R Gowdy of 1508 Buchanan is home from the hospital after an illness of several weeks. A Peterson of 1518 Bowie has left the hospital but remains quite ill at home. Carla Jean Farnsworth, 2700 Taylor, celebrated her sixth birthday Saturday. In Tulsa Mr and Mrs F C Scott of 2043 Hayden visited friends last week. A baby boy was born to Giles R Phillips aviation ordnanceman first class US Navy and Loretta at the US Naval Hospital San Diego. The Amarillo couple live in San Diego. Phillips serves with Patrol Squadron 46 at North Island. The couple has one other child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fairmont
Cherron King
Casa Grande
Ariz
L. V
Sue” Chillders
Harrison
Kenny
Gloria
Je Donn Bryant
Lynn Jones
Masterson
Texas
Ora Louis McCaffree
East Seventh
Charlotte Mathis
C. B. Mathis
Texas Technological College
Alton
J. E. McAvoy
East Thirteenth
D. O. Kretz
West
Topeka
Kan
Santa Fe
L. C. Johnson
Hayden
Navy News
Sanford S. Shrot
US Navy
Amarillo
Sproston
San Diego
Cal
Charles Edward Detten
John Detten
Naval Training Center
Perryton
W. R. Gowdy
Buchanan
A Peterson
Bowie
Carla Jean Farnsworth
Taylor
Tulsa
F. C. Scott
Giles R. Phillips
Loretta
US Naval Hospital
Phillips
Patrol Squadron 46
Naval Air Station
North Island
Squirrel Hunt Ends With Dog Hoisted From Tree
Syracuse report says Henry Brennan’s dog Goliath was stranded 35 feet high on a tree limb after a squirrel hunt. Firemen needed 40 minutes to rescue the dog, who has been adept at treeing squirrels but failed to retrieve this one.
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Syracuse
Henry Brennan
Goliath
Brennan
Canasta analysis of a costly misplay by East
Oswald Jacoby reviews a Canasta hand where East discards a queen and South wins over 3000 points. The column argues the king should have been discarded earlier, a ten would have been safe, and East swapped strategy midstream amid six rounds left.
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Erast
East
South
It's Dangerous To Swap Horses In Canasta
NEA service describes a canasta session where a joker was revealed and bidding turns led to a freeze. South melded A A 2 and joker 9 9 while East built to king king king and 2 8 8, West added a king, then East ended with deuce, king, two queens, and ten. observers note East and West hands and safe discards, ending with East counting cards.
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East
South
West
North
Faye Emerson to marry Skitch Henderson in Mexico
Actress Faye Emerson and disc jockey Lyle Cedric Henderson fly to Cuernavaca to wed tomorrow. She will wear a modest gown and plans a Mexico City honeymoon before returning to New York for a family ceremony.
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New York
Faye Emerson
Lyle Cedric
Miss Emerson
China Reds Push Military Training Schools
Peiping dispatch from New China News Agency says Communist China will open five military training schools shortly. Government asks all over 17 to enroll. Schools will cover flight artillery tank naval and anti aircraft training.
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Hong Kong
China
Peiping
Reds
New China News Agency
Canasta Column Prepares FAQ Based on Reader Questions
Mr. Jacoby will not answer individual canasta queries but will publish the most frequently asked questions in his next column for reader guidance. The format aims to clarify rules, strategy, and common pitfalls based on popular questions from the audience.
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Jacoby
New York Philharmonic to Perform at Edinburgh Festival
The New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra will appear in Europe for the first time in 20 years, performing seven concerts at the 1951 Edinburgh Festival under conductors Bruno Walter and Dimitri Mitropoulopoulos.
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Edinburgh
NEW York Orchestra
Scotland
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra
Europe
Bruno Walter
Dimitri Mitropoulos
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Ralph Earl Metcalf
Box 415
Panhandle
Northwest
Margaret Spencer
Geneva Walker
Essie Elliott
Anna Chamberlain
Bertha Lattimer
Nancy Watkins
Ethel Prescott
Davie Roland
Margaret Berry
Lois Young
Jimmy McPherson
Lida Prescott
Billy Joe Trout
Nita Belle
Lois Pope
Essie McPherson
Lizie Davidson
Oliver
Eva Belle Hanson
Lois Vandergriff
C. E. Lane
Dean Pavillard
A. C. Istoe
Ruby Guese
Claude
Northwest Texas Hospital
Manuel Hernandez
Skellytown
Northest
Sunset
St. Thony’s Hospital
Louis Seliier
Borger
Tom Oliver Dooley
Sunray
Joseph R. Larson
Minnesota
G. J. Kolander
Slayton
Minn
J. M. Kolander
Parker
Jimmie Watts
Nara Visa
Frank Covert
Temple
James A. Coleman
Monroe
Amarillo Club
Morris McCartt
Theo Zweig
Jefferson
Dick Duval
Portland
Ore
Mary Bess Zweig
New
Monda
Navy
ST. Anthony's Hospital
Reinaldo Cantu
Arthur
Maxine Wilson
East Ninth
Nina~ Beeler
A Polk
Willa Mae Brantley
East Second
Johnnie Bolt
Perico
Tex
Ethel Goodman
North East
Ba Harbin
Missirginia Bay
Amma Bartlett
David Burrell
Robert James Jones
Sam Presley
Billy Dee Howard
Pantex
W. c C. Harrell
van Buren
J. B. McKennen
North Tyler
Pearl Ellison
Dallas
Surgical
Louise Wixom
Washington
Roy Dean Weightman
Dumas
Orville Weightman
Larry Wayne Klinke
Inez Holloway
North East Tenth
Dickie Waterfield
Elsie Haynes
Miami
Eileen Butler
White Deer
Rickey Lynn Butler
Lindel Ray McCollum
East Slope
J. M. Price
Judy Lynn Bogard
Bill J. Bogard
West Eleventh
Northwest Hospital
Deborah Fowler
Edward Mitchell
Herbert McInturff
Henry Lee Dooley
Evelyn Metcalf
Joyce Walls
Kathleen Odom
Johnnie Burrows
Jerlene Dodson
Naoma Lynn
W. H. Harrell
Lane Butler
Connie Thomas
J. B. Lewis
Henry Barber
Otis Armstrong
Emma Lewis
Roy Elliot
Glyn Morris
M. E. Dwight
Harrison Garrett
A. S. Zamora
Ernest Jones
Gerald Diaz
Daniel McEwan
Evelyn Wood
Ruth Hernandez
Erlinda Samon
Jayne Seliger
Gordon Bryant
Lucille Perry
Mildred McLaughlin
Joe Conde
Morris Lowenstern
John King
Lester Grumke
Dodis Pitt
Pearl Kanady
Nile H. Hight
Evaleena Anderson
May Pattison
Elmer Mencler
Junior Anderson
Blue Mound
Okla
J. R. Stump
Ronson F. Goodrich
Goodrich Oe
Tire Headquarters
Fillmore
Wrigley
Squirrel Hunt
Oswald Jacoby
NEA
Cae
Mexico
Faye
Skitch
Wat Ae
O Andrei Corates
Albert
Willie
Mrs. Jones
Manie
MR. Beasley
Dag Wood
Excellency
Mister Ryder
Milwaukee
MOE
Slabber
Sally the Sailors Restaurant
Michael
Honeybelle
Ashi
Jane
Anderia
Franz
Count Moritz
Southern Equipment & Supply CO
Zenith
Boxwell
John
Furbach
Polk St
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