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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1951
Page
2
Sailors with the US Sixth Fleet in Naples hosted 1,000 local orphan and poor children as fleet guests during Christmas. Many sailors stayed aboard ship while others visited Rome or Florence on holiday leave. The event paired sailors with Naples youngsters for a festive day aboard the base.
Dr. David Patton notes ideal Christmas weather and reports playing golf four of the last five days.
Paul Allingham, now in Kansas after 35 years in Amarillo without a hat, sports a single western hat and nothing else. The striking lifestyle change follows a long residence in Texas, highlighting a dramatic switch in personal style.
The Globe Times readers weigh Pogo humor and reflect on Christmas traditions and social mores. A Chicago-style column surveys jokes, marriage humor, and aging perspectives, noting changing holiday customs and a minister's parable about wealth and charity. The piece also sketches a Canadian fraternal convention's playful street scene.
A group staged a playful caper as a dainty blouse flew from the center, followed by a skirt and a scream from a woman when a bra and panties were hurled through the air. The prank ended with the victim released, clothed, and enriched by a new bill for her cooperation.
Texas enjoyed the strongest Christmas trade, likely the best in the nation. While the East and South were dull, and California and the West Coast slow, Texas stood out for brisk sales.
A jumble of lost and found items includes glasses near Fifth and West Ninth streets, car keys on Seventh between Polk and Tyler, brown horn rimmed glasses near Walsh Food Store on Washington, and a note of a dog and a bull dog missing with a reward. Also listings for furniture to see at 1102 North Taylor, a couple seeking a farm home with work, a small dog to give away, a 7 month old male cat for give away, a rug trade for stamps, clothing needs for a boy and man, and a baby sitting offer.
Ross R Stephens age 19 son of Mr and Mrs C H Stephens 202 North Florida has been promoted to sergeant in the Army after a year and five months of service. He is assigned to the 147th Armored Signal Company at Camp Roberts California. He attended Amarillo High School and worked for Ideal Food Stores before joining the military.
A visually impaired resident of Scotland constructs a full residence in a period of eighteen months. He designed and supervised the project, overcoming accessibility challenges and funding the work through personal savings and small grants. The home features adaptive features to assist mobility and daily living.
Dean Henderson a 28 year old railroad mechanic pleaded guilty to first degree murder in a Laramie Wyoming case admitting he killed his parents on Christmas Eve to spare his mother from being alone after his father fell ill. He was bound over to district court for trial without bond.
Betty Gibbon 32 of Los Angeles remains hospitalized with a back injury after an automatic pilot failure caused a brief rampage on a twin engine airliner 45 minutes from Amarillo. Fifty eight aboard including servicemen bound home for holidays. Plane landed at Amarillo Air Terminal where passengers were examined at St Anthony's.
A historic Cairo church, among the oldest in Christendom, features a marble pulpit and an ivory-inlaid ikonostasis. It is noted as the residence of Saint Barsum the Naked for about twenty five years.
In Shawinigan Falls Quebec on Christmas morning 1920s era details, Jean Marie Trottier a 24 year old bachelor shot at carolers, wounding Police Sgt Mathias Lachance and killing Constable Louis Langevin 58. After a manhunt Trottier died by self inflicted gunshot wound triggered by a 303 rifle. Coroner ruled murder and death by own action while of unsound mind.
Three Amarillo residents were injured during the Christmas season. A 15 year old, Joe Virden, suffered head lacerations when his gift scooter hit a car at Georgia Street and Canyon Highway and was resting well at home. John V Sudduth, 61, was in good condition after falling from a taxicab in the 2700 block of North East Eighth. Mrs E O Shuey, 301 Hastings, received burns when a hot water faucet handle detached while bathing.
Charles LeRoy Burk of 422 Cleveland a Korean war veteran is home on sick leave from Corpus Christi Naval Hospital after being recalled to duty Sept 11 1950 and wounded in Korea March 6 He previously served in the Marines 1949-50 and is a former Amarillo High School graduate and apprentice carpenter with Barfield Lumber Company He will report back Jan 4 to the hospital.
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