Christmas Notes and Local News From Amarillo 1950
Amarillo lists Christmas guests and homecomings from Houston Clinton Canadian and Denver. Baby births at St Anthonys Hospital and Northwest, GI travelers home for holidays, and local education and hospital news highlight community life in Amarillo Texas with names and addresses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hildebrandt
Denver
Wes Izzard
Lipscomb
Baby Department
Maurice Berger
Apt
Pantex
St. Anthony’s Hospital
C. EF. Dunn
North Alabama
St. Anthony’s
Dwicht I. Eliott
West Fourteenth
Northwest
Floyce Hanna
Georgia
Bill Talley
Front
Amarillo
Washington University
St. Louis
Donald Coulser Edleman
School of Fine Arts
Melvin David Lechten
Hyman Lechten
Tyler
Ralph Finnell Raburn
T. M. Raburn
University of Denver
Edwin Henderson
North Polk
William D. Nix
van Buren
Richard L. Cazzell
Florida
Henry Lee Stout
Fort Worth
Community Public Service Company
Perryton
Delmer M. Miller
North Lake
E. W. Walton
Borger
Julia Fae Haynes
Hughes
Mary Latham
Fisk Building
J. Kirkpatrick
Dalhart
Pauline Lamone
Odessa
J. C. Callen
Lincoln
Paul Nisnadder
Jim Wilson
Canyon
Mary Alice Cox
Fillmore
G. O. Standley
Paul Jones
North Hughes
Louis A. Ptacek
Johnson
Edith Meahham
Kathryn Latimer
Hedley
Bertie Faye Saunders
Box 218
Lucile Reid
Harrison
Calvin Brittain
Dumas
Sally Sharp
East Fifteenth
J. J. Holcomb
North Tyler
D. F. Fanslee
North Roosevelt
James Ray Brown
Cleveland
Mary Lee Strickland
T. L. Garrison
Channing
Richard Hans
Vega
Murial D. Foster
North Buchanan
Jose Quintance, Jr
Garita
James Oscar McKinney
Clarendon
Nocgrthwest Texas Hospital
Mary Allice Elliott
Dois Foust
Lucille Young
Raymond Lawrence
Margaret Sims
Lara McCollum
Ruby Summers
Wanda Alexander
Louis Channing
Mabel Hampton
Albn Moore
Ina Wilkes
Katherine Ie Carl Blackburn
Robert Cobb
Ray Reeder
Dallas
C. B. Reeder
Jackson
Amarillo Glob
Texas
Son of a Gun Stew Then and Now in Amarillo Camps
A reminiscence of pioneer rangeland cooking features John Snider’s description of son of a gun stew. Iron-rich beef parts including liver heart sweetbreads brains are boiled with suet and onions, served with sourdough biscuits and coffee. Snider recalls a hotel tasting and the camp ritual of cooking outdoors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Snider
Minnie Timms Harper
Mr. Snider
Clerical Work Most Popular With Students In Texas
A survey of 4 014 school children in eight Texas cities shows clerical work as the most common after school job. Retail trades employ most youths, with news boys earning the most and grocery workers earning the least. Hours vary with longer weeks in grocery stores. many start before age 12, and pay often falls under 50 cents hourly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Panhandle
Lubbock
Special Music At the Aviatrix in Amarillo Tonight
Hugo Loewenstern Jr and Frances Irwin present an 11 piece Amarillo band at the Aviatrix on North East Eighth Avenue from tonight through New Year’s Eve with Miss Irwin as vocalist. Sponsored by the Panhandle Club, the dance is open to the public and Loewenstern’s Christmas night performance drew a capacity crowd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugo Loewenstern
Frances Irwin
Amarillo
Tommy Dorsey
Aviatrix
North East
Eighth Avenue
Loewenstern
Miss Irwin
Panhandle Club
Three Killed In Shooting In Ashville NC
In Ashville North Carolina on December 27 a state highway department worker, C L Shelton, 25, shot and killed his 3 year old stepson Harold Shelton and relatives Dora Pittman and Delmos Pittman then wounded two others before shooting himself. Shelton remains in critical condition. authorities say he acted after a recent estrangement from his wife Marie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashville
State Highway Commission
C. L. Shelton
Craggy
Sheriff's Department
Shelton
Harold Shelton
Dora Pittman
Delmos Pittman
Stokes Pittman
Grady Pittman
Marie
Pittman
Chiang Kai shek urged invasion of China mainland
The Central Daily News urged American financial and materiel aid for a Nationalist invasion of the China mainland to relieve pressure on UN forces in Korea. It argued a nationalist assault would ease the Red threat to Indochina and prevent surrender or war against the Russians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taipei
Formosa
Central Daily News Today
China
United Nations
Korea
Chiang Kaishek
Nationalist Party
Red China
Indochina
United States
No Halls for The Commies
The Communist Party of the United States sought a Brooklyn meeting hall for its 15th biennial national convention after the Livingston hall canceled the reservation citing pressure. The convention opens tonight with public rallies in Manhattan, the Bronx and Brooklyn. Leaders from across the country plan working sessions starting tomorrow behind closed doors at an undisclosed location.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Communist Party of the United States
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Bronx
Livingston
National Committee
Two Enlistments For Air Force
The Amarillo Army and Air Force Recruiting Station reports the enlistment of Lynn Alton Glasscock and Manuel Hernandez as privates in the Air Force. They will receive basic training assignments at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. S. Foust
Northwest
Alvey Young
Amarillo
Joe Green
Mack McKinney
Bob Elsey
Perry Browder
Jim Hall
Fort Leonard Wood
Sallyann Logsdon
Women’s Air Force
Wright
Amarillo Army and Air Force
Lynn Alton Glasscock
Earth
Manuel Hernandez
Shelleytown
Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Cape Race Delivers U.S. Aviation Supplies to Italy
Brindisi reports the American freighter Cape Race arriving with a cargo of United States aviation equipment and supplies for the Italian air force, marking aid delivery on December 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Brindisi
Milk carton thwarted Detroit burglar in icy chase
Detroit authorities report a would be robber tried to rob Mrs. Dorothy Kozol as she returned from a grocery. She struck him with a milk carton, freezing milk on his face in subzero temperatures. The thief fled empty handed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Dorothy Kozol
Age distribution of respondents by ethnicity
The data show 32 percent aged 14 and 15, 28 percent aged 16 and 17, and 6 percent aged 18 or older. Among those questioned, 2,202 were Anglo-Americans, 1,675 Latin Americans, and 128 were Negroes.
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Bill Ramsey
Jimmy
Ramsey
R. Green
Eoa Scott Radke
Woodrow Baldwin
Los Angeles
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Ledia Baldwin
West Eighteenth
A. R. King
C. L. King
Delbert McGuire
North Texas State College
Denton
Ella McGuire
West Fifth
Eugene McGuire
Clais McGuire
Corporation
MPP
Colleee
Ted Oeed
Tricia Culp
Radford School For
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Jack Culp
Phil Darnell
Bill Howell
Bill
Charles Pyles
David Wayne Young
Santa
G. E. Curtis
Taylor
Robert
Purcell
Okla
Evelyn
Curtis
Wesley Hospital
Oklahoma City
S. E. Fish
Whitman Fish
Willie
Mamie
MR. McAttic
Aees
Eati Akrei
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Chiang
Globe-News
Mae R
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Zenith
Fisk
Joe B. Johnson
Phore
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