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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1947
Page
8
A private Christmas dinner is planned for Saturday at 2024 Washington, the Amarillo AA house, a symbol of new life for Panhandle residents united by a fight against liquor. The head of the Amarillo AA, unnamed publicly, will address guests and emphasize self help first.
A speaker at a White House event explains AA approach to alcoholism emphasizing voluntary recovery. Patients are admitted, not pressured, with hospital care for physical health and ongoing case worker support. About 75 percent remain abstinent and regain social function after joining meetings.
Between trains visitor here last night was Mrs Jud McCown sister of B L Morgan 2608 Hughes. She lives in the Fiji Islands and is en route to the West Coast to take boat passage home. She has been in the United States since June visiting with her family for the first time in 13 years.
An AA program summary lists the twelve steps toward sobriety. It covers admitting powerlessness, belief in a higher power, turning over life, moral inventory, confessing wrongs, readiness to remove defects, asking for help, listing harmed people, making amends, continuing inventory, seeking spiritual guidance, and carrying the message to others.
In Goshen Indiana Curtis Miller age 61 pleaded guilty to assault and battery but Judge Aldo J. Simpson found him innocent after Miller said he pushed a neighbor woman during an argument over her children. He claimed four years of pestering by the woman.
Nathan Bell was elected president of the Tucumcari Kiwanis Club for 1948, succeeding the previous year’s leader and signaling continued club leadership in the community.
A 79 year old man William Raish and his 75 year old partner Christine Dow married in Albuquerque after living as a couple for 35 years. They had traveled from Pueblo, Colorado to wed. Mrs. Raish said she is young at heart and so is he.
Mr and Mrs Dick Carlton of College Station announce the birth of a daughter on December 15. Mrs Carlton is the former Patricia Jones, daughter of Mr and Mrs R W Jones, 313 West Thirty sixth.
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