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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1931
Page
8
Appeals list dozens of Amarillo families in need for Christmas, detailing ages from infants to teens, siblings, and unemployed parents. Readers are urged to donate clothing, food, shoes, toys, and school supplies to numbered cases in Belmont Park Additon and surrounding areas.
Mrs H H Cox of 1601 Taylor Street phoned the Good Fellows League offering a bed with spring and mattress to a needy person. Several families lack mattresses, and volunteers call for donations by phone 6262 to arrange pickup.
Twenty Amerillo families starving and cold were rescued yesterday when the Khiva Shrine Patrol led by Fred H. Galle adopted them. The group conducted its own investigations, visited hovels and huts, and reported on conditions. Howard Anderson serves as the Shrine Patrol president.
A family faces a child care challenge as the grandfather, now unemployed, cannot provide for the grandchildren. Authorities consider options for shelter, support, and guardianship arrangements to ensure the minors’ safety and well being.
A sequence of appeals from mothers and children asking for Christmas aid. Families include a girl of 14 supporting five relatives, a crippled father, and low incomes around ten dollars weekly. Neighbors and doctors vouch for their need as they seek clothing, meals, and gifts to brighten the holiday.
A list of numbered appeals seeks help from Good Fellows to aid struggling families facing hunger and poverty this Christmas. Cases include a single father with a baby, an elderly mother with sons, a back yard family with ill members, and households lacking clothing and heat.
The passage lists several families in need of help for Christmas. It describes parents, children ages 17,13,11,9,7,6,4,3,1, and a frail elderly person, seeking clothing, shoes, undergarments, a Christmas dinner, layettes, and toys. It urges Good Fellows to investigate needs and provide groceries and gifts to brighten the holiday.
The Federal government inaugurated a twenty four hour weather reporting service in Sweetwater as a component of the coast to coast air travel network. The new service aims to assist aviation operations with continuous regional weather data and timely forecasts from a nationwide network.
Services for Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Smith aged 69 were to be held at 4 p m at Fundamental Baptist Church Amarillo with Rev T D Sumrall officiating. The body was to be transported to Wheeler for burial. She died Tuesday at her daughter’s home on North Arthur Street. Surviving are seven daughters and three sons including Mrs F A Gaggers Mrs Lester Black Mrs F F Monroe Mrs Paul Shumate Miss Lydia Smith E L and J L Smith of Amarillo and Mrs Guy Killen of Chemah Okla Mrs C R Wheatherly and Rev A E Smith of Wheeler two brothers J F Merritt of Mt Pleasant and J L Merritt of Winnsboro.
In Tampico on December 23 a three year old girl Margaret Boyer found a safety razor blade and swallowed it while unsure what to do. Her parents and doctors report no apparent ill effects after the incident last Saturday.
Bomberger, a 50 year sentence inmate at Dallas County jail, was paroled from a state penitentiary last Christmas but promptly burglarized a house and later tied to a nine robbery spree in Tarrant County. He received nine 99 year sentences.
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