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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1947
Page
15
The Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food price index for the week ended December 16 slipped to 7.02 per pound across 31 commonly used foods. Prices rose for nine items including wheat corn oats barley beef ham cheese peas and hogs while 13 items fell or were steady.
Bruce Pfahl age 30 address 1308 West Eighteenth was charged in 47th District Court Canyon with stealing scrap iron valued at over 50 dollars from G R Wilson a Randall County farmer. He was arrested here last night and transferred to Canyon.
The Potter County Tuberculosis Association report shows the 1947 Christmas Seal sale at about 11 000 of the 25 000 dollar goal. About five thousand letters were sent for seal purchases, with 11 thousand containing seals and four to six thousand recipients not yet responding.
Amarillo College will host a holiday music program in the college auditorium at 11:15 tomorrow morning. Dean Folsom D. Jackson leads the blended Yuletide greetings with "The Night Before Christmas" by Fred Waring. Performances include the boys and girls quartets and mixed quartet, with Linda Lee Mack and Travis Ellis coaching the piano and Dean Jackson accompanying. Admission is free and the public is invited.
Mrs. Jean Griffin of Amarillo confirms by long distance call that Lt. John V. Hayes, previously of Haskell and now stationed in Tucson, is among 12 Army fliers who died in a Tucson B 29 crash. Staff Sgt. Ernest L. Frazier of Pampa is also listed among the casualties.
Benjamin Phillips was no billed yesterday by the Potter County grand jury on a charge of passing a forged check. The case involved a check forged with the signature of M. J. Robinson. Phillips, 200 North Arthur, and Robinson, Lubbock, are former employees of an Amarillo photographic studio.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Carlton A. Steadman for a robbery at Ben Chilton Service Station at 749 North Fillmore. He was sentenced in the 47th District Court to five years. Co-defendant Thomas R. Choiniere’s conviction was also affirmed and he was moved to the Texas Prison System.
A Labrador retriever trotted into a shoe store and left with a shoe belonging to Mrs. Charles Packard who was trying on pumps. A clerk chased the dog ten blocks through downtown before recovering the shoe.
Dr Lau ren Donaldson of the University of Washington showed a Bikini Bay sea shell in Olympic Washington. He said the shell would retain radioactivity for about 1 600 years.
Amarillo 20-30 civic club held its first officer election at a Herring Hotel dinner. New leaders include J. Howard Miller as president, Bob Ewing as vice president, J. W. Faust as secretary treasurer, and Bill Adams as sergeant at arms. First board members are Robert G. Cobb, John Wiley, Charles Flanagan, Jim McCausland Jr., and Bill Lane. Guests were Glenn Callahan and Nelson Hall.
Cab Calloway Amarillo Negro is in Potter County jail today in lieu of 750 dollars on charges of stealing six electric sweepers. He allegedly took the sweepers from G Black manager of Airway Branches Inc Capitol Hotel. Calloway was formerly a porter at the hotel. The Borger Disabled American Veterans chapter sponsored a forget me not sale recently.
An advertisement touts Mendace as a tasteless internal medicine that targets coughing sneezing and choking from bronchial asthma. It claims rapid help by clearing mucus improving breathing and sleep with guaranteed money-back satisfaction.
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