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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1946
Page
4
Jack Walsh of Walsh Food Store notes two trends in the day after Christmas shopping. Shoppers seek foods requiring minimal preparation and non rich items as an antidote to holiday meals. He cites soups, stew meat, ground meat as preferred. He also references a slow economic news cycle affecting mood.
Khiva Temple solicits 489 hospital memberships to fund crippled children care at a Panhandle drive. Donations come from Khiva Temple members Amarillo area and four Panhandle towns, with 60 dollars deductible for tax. Proceeds support hospitals operated since 1922 benefiting over 100000 children.
Funeral services for Winfield Scott Prentice 35 former Amarillo resident singer and composer will be at Centenary Methodist Church Lawton Oklahoma. Prentice died from injuries after a car crash near Fabens last Monday. Albert Olsen 24 a soldier injured in the crash is hospitalized in El Paso. Prentice was son of Roy W Prentice Panhandle division Santa Fe trainmaster. He began in church choir and recently composed an operetta Captain Jupiter and was cast in Pagliacci for an American Opera Company Los Angeles production.
Horton McGaha, a male nurse at Northwest Texas Hospital, won first prize of 100 dollars in the six rooms and under division for his Christmas home nativity scene. He illuminated the display at midnight to please sightseers and greeted a hospital delegation visiting his display. He says he likes people and to talk.
The post office is up on Christmas deliveries as workers finish cards and packages. Officials note the calendar shows 364 days until next Christmas and urge continued care with holiday mail.
Master W D DeGrassi noted a morning surge as parcels arriving Christmas Eve and yesterday were handled by extra staff. Late arrivals were sorted overnight and sent out by truck once offices opened. Lines formed only at general delivery windows. The rose, source of many popular flowers, is highlighted.
Fourteen persons charged with drunkenness were in the county jail yesterday morning for Christmas breakfast. There were fifteen present for breakfast this morning. Four teen drunks were booked yesterday.
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