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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1943
Page
2
Wednesday marks the final lunch at the Rose Bowl Tea Room for the duration, announced by Mrs. Norwood West acting president of the Amarillo Junior Welfare League sponsor. Menu includes Italian spaghetti pineapple salad French bread cake and coffee with reservations via Mrs. Fred Fyfe at 2 0575.
Wartime guidance urges home front housewives to favor quick compact dishes that can cook unattended. Recipes include Spareribs With Stuffing and Kidney and Bacon Loaf, with omissions and simplifications fitting 15 to 20 minutes prep and oven finishing times. A church meeting note and a potato crop surplus item are also mentioned in this fragment.
Tonight features Rebekah Lodge I O O F Hall eight, Bonita Chapter O E 8 at 50444 Taylor Street seven thirty, A A U W sewing at Red Cross rooms seven thirty, New Year party hostesses at Amarillo Army Air Field Hospital six thirty, Handicraft at USO auditorium eight, country dancing with old time orchestra at USO auditorium eight thirty, Victory Command dance at Downtown USO eight thirty. Wednesday includes Kappa Delta Chi dance and dinner at Amarillo Country Club, dancing class by Cpl Harry Presutti at USO eight, Handicraft at USO eight, Victory Command dance at USO nine, and a service men game party with phone call home grand prize at Downtown USO eight.
Miss Ann Ochsner daughter of Mr and Mrs E C Ochsner hosted an open house Sunday afternoon at the Ochsner home 2402 Hughes Street with more than 75 girls and boys in attendance. Assisting were Misses Jane Ochsner Marion Saunders Mary Nell Gibson and Patsy Clare Northcutt.
A columnist notes how postwar women balanced home life with new duties both inside and outside the home. She lists common tasks from resisting door to door sales to chauffeuring, volunteering, and social obligations, asking readers to reflect on the expanded workload since the war.
The OPA office invites applications for rent examiner and rent inspector posts. Top applicants from the civil service exam will be filed from the list. Positions pay $3200 for examiner and $2600 for inspector plus overtime. four years of experience in organizing directing or managing business or public affairs required.
Announcement of the marriage of Bernice Wilson of Wauchula Florida to Niles Pendleton of Amarillo. Vows were exchanged on Oct 19 in Ridgeland South Carolina. The groom, a Coast Guard Water Tender Second Class, is an Amarillo native and 1941 Coast Guard recruit, stationed temporarily in Rhode Island.
C O Williams of Pittsburg Plate Glass braved heavy snowfall to clear his walks and driveway. He lost his fountain pen while shoveling but located it again the next morning before work. A brief blurb notes a 1944 fashion tip from Amarillo clerks about popular shades and a San Jacinto tale of a woman waking late and misreading morning for breakfast.
A Christmas morning birth at St. Anthony's Hospital produced a boy to Pvt. and Mrs. Frank Kinney at 7 22. The father is overseas and the family lives at 1313 East Twenty fourth Avenue. Northwest Texas Hospital reported no Christmas births. The first Amarillo baby of the New Year will receive gifts.
Court records list warranty deeds from Ruth G Bush to West Texas Mortgage Co and Ruth G Bush et al to West Texas Mortgage Co dated December 21 1943. The Parmley divorce case Thelma Richardson Parmley vs Edwin Watson. State civil service notices require rent examiners and inspectors with three years experience in real estate appraisal or related fields. A Poland youth bombing in Madrid is reported along with Detroit expressway project notes.
The American P-47 Thunderbolt fighter leads the high altitude fighter class, ruling the skies above 25,000 feet with unmatched performance and presence in aerial combat scenarios.
A guidance column on parenting patience and bonding with infants. It warns against weak mother love and urges genuine interest and involvement from parents to foster well adjusted, self confident children. Streett promotes a feeding schedule leaflet for new mothers and provides mail requests through The Bell Syndicate.
Australia bureau manager Brydon Taves of United Press and wartime correspondent Pending Arthur Raynor were killed in a plane crash while covering the American landings at Cape Gloucester New Britain. London Times correspondent Tan Morrison and ABC war reporter Hayden Lennard were injured in the same crash.
Rev. B. B. Crimm a Baptist preacher and rodeo style evangelist from Marshall arrives in Amarillo praising horse and dog work and announcing nightly meetings awaiting church cooperation. He claims to have preached about 659 sermons yearly for 30 years and has overseen over 120000 church joinings. His hounds Wolf and Fox travel with his tent church as part of his equipment.
Bobby Vandergriff a 14 year old from Fort Myers Florida spent the night in Amarillo to see the first snow he had ever seen and to consider hitchhiking to California to visit a sister. He said if it gets colder he will buy an overcoat as he travels with a Vermont soldier commenting on his Florida winter wear. The pair shared coffee as Vandergriff traveled west as a guest of the GI for the moment.
An unidentified woman crawling across an icy Topeka street was struck by two cars but not seriously hurt. She reached the curb, rose, and walked away, according to police.
A ranch near Marshall showcases fine blooded stock led by Radiant McDonald a renowned Radiant McDonald lineage stallion. Also shown are a three gaited walk trot horse by Diamond Jim and a five gaited Wood's Choice progeny. A roving pastor quizzes horse owners while praising his 15 hounds. Mayor Jenkins is noted as having married sisters. There are 44 000 post offices in the United States.
Brazilians plan to engage in combat near Montevideo as part of an expeditionary force. The Dec 28 report notes rising tensions and mobilization activities in Uruguay and adjacent areas.
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