Christmas Home Decorating Contest Class 4 Event
A local Christmas decorating contest entry features a Biblical picture doorway and an outside Christmas tree. The assignment highlights new homes less than a year old and notes the date of completion.
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1947
Page
5
Most Simple Decoration May Capture Top Prize
Amarillo Garden Club urges city wide entry for Christmas decoration contest. judges will canvass the city with emphasis on religious Nativity themes in Class I. prizes range from 30 cents to 1.50 dollars with new homes under one year many entrants urged to join.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Care the Globe-News
Amarillo
Hollywood
Elwood Clark
Kendall
Sir Launfel
Santa Claus
SMU votes against joining National Students Association
Southern Methodist University students choose not to affiliate with the NSA by 432 to 296. The NSA had been branded Communist by the student council. New class presidents elected include Earle W. Pitt, Herbert Durham, Dick McKissack, and Kyle Rote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
U.P
Southern Methodist University
National Students Association
NSA
SMU
Earle W. Pitt
Herbert Durham
Dick McKissack
Kyle Rote
County to fix squeaky courthouse elevators with ladder
Bowen Cox county purchasing agent says the Potter County Courthouse elevators will be repaired by installing a steel ladder up the shaft. The mechanism sits in the penthouse above the eighth floor and workers cannot access the top to grease it. Traffic currently stops at the sixth floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Potter County
Bowen Cox
Four NMMI Cadets to Return Home for Christmas
Four New Mexico Military Institute cadets from Amarillo are due home Saturday for Christmas furlough. Named are Newman E. Boxwell, Daniel A. Ritter, James M. Shelton Jr., and Joe B. Wells, with listed parental addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico Military Institute
Amarillo
Newman E. Boxwell
Howard FE. Boxwell
Taylor
Daniel A. Ritter
Jess Ritter
Hughes
James M. Shelton, Jr
James M. Shelton
van Buren
Joe B. Wells
Joe L. Wells
Fountain
Box supper raises funds for Texas Side school club
A box supper hosted by the home economics club at Texas Side school in Texhoma brought in 75 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas Side
Texhoma
Firemen Open Ticket Sale for Amarillo Folk Shows
Firemen in Amarillo begin selling admission for late December folk music events headlined by Eddy Arnold and his Grand Ole Opry group with Lonzo and Oscar as a feature. Tickets are sold by all fire stations and via telephone orders, with proceeds supporting the firemen pension fund. Adults pay $1 and children under 12 pay 50 cents, with some box office sales only. Showtimes run 8:30 p m December 30 and 31, plus a 10:30 p m performance on December 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Eddy Arnold
Grand Ole Opry
Nashville
Tenn
Woman falls in restaurant injuring leg in Madison
Mrs. Sandra Hendry tripped on stairs during lunch at a Madison restaurant causing a broken leg. She landed near the board of trustees head nurse and a hospital superintendent, prompting local attention and a cautionary moral lesson. A second item notes a prowler report after officers found a drunk man in a tree. another line laments a police car collision due to missing emergency equipment and siren implying higher city costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
U.P
Sandra Hendry
Hendra
Board of Trustees
L. C. Howard
Max Lenaburg
Johnson
Fourth and
Polk
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Tex Smith
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Zale
By Bob Heston
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Mark Miles
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