30 Dec 1942
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1942
Page
1
Renovations and supplies advance for USO facilities as Auditorium unit receives four chairs and drapery materials. A $3,000 furniture order is en route, while Downtown USO allocates about $5,500 for non expendable furnishings including social and game rooms.
An, unclear clipped column lists a reward for a missing animal and requests a return. It includes notices from Mrs. Violet Womicke of 412 N W 8th Ave and Lena Bayne Borger Texas seeking pen pals aged 50 to 55 and a 25 year old woman seeking a job as a truck driver or filling station worker with a valid CDL.
A collection of small classifieds includes a reward for a brown wool scarf lost on Polk Street with return address 2116 Buchanan 81, and a $1 reward for a missing black crepe belt near Magnolia Cafe in Amarillo. Also notices seek a companion for an elderly lady, a sugar ration book found for Essie Love Drake, and a housekeeper or companion listing in Amarillo, Texas.
Naval personnel plan a Saturday night arrival to set up WAVES recruiting at the Herring Hotel. Ensign Floy Minor will head the staff with two enlisted WAVES from Stillwater Oklahoma to answer training and officer questions. Over 200 women have requested application blanks from Globe News.
Roy Greenhill received a letter from Lewis C. Huff of the Texas Salvage Committee thanking Jeff M. Neely as an unsung hero. The message credits Neely’s partner for double duty in the Pot ter County salvage effort aiding the war effort and expresses sincere appreciation.
An intensive campaign targets female enlistment with a West Texas quota of 600 WAACs. Local recruiters, led by Sgt T K Morris, plan outreach to women through clubs, colleges, and business schools while emphasizing aptitude and service to Uncle Sam. Lieutenant Rose Smothers, who previously recruited the Rangerettes, is to begin interviewing applicants in January. Aussies in Cambridge praise American openness as Mrs Robert Bishop predicts more brides of service men will follow.
Jimmie Fidler writes from Hollywood on December 30 about the Office of War Information seeking to view films before release. He rejects censorship beyond wartime needs and notes Hollywood’s past and current tensions with press and radio, plus a column of Hollywood gossip and a list of 1939- seven-year-ago notes.
Sheriff Bill Adams declares dry black-eyed peas are as good as canned for January first luck and meals. His family plans to eat peas from the victory garden as Bill Adams Jr. heads to the U S Naval Academy with his peas for the journey.
Fifteen motorists paid fines yesterday for a stop sign violation with one fine of three dollars making the motorists total seventeen dollars in the group. Several vagrancy charges were on the docket and the overall fines paid, including motorists, reached seventy seven dollars.
Amarillo Army Air Field seeks 1200 women to fill trades and professional roles including teaching, mechanics, drivers, stenographers, and bookkeepers. Openings target men in 3-A and 4-F drafts but women may apply, with training at Amarillo Field. No written tests. experience review only. Receivers may visit Plainview tomorrow and Clovis Friday and Saturday to apply.
The OPA examines the number of gasoline ration books issued to wholesale merchants and travel bureaus in Texas after complaints that competitors received favored mileage. Amarillo and Abilene boards reportedly granted preferred mileage to salesmen, while rules limited salesmen to B books, pushing rivals into restricted territories.
Berlin radio said a small number of British bombers conducted nuisance raids over Western Germany last night.
A collection of personal lost items and ad notices. Dick Mayer seeks a found billfold at Country Club area with contact at 8105. A reader offers reward for a white fur mitten. A man seeks inland work at 53 and offers references. Mrs Keith’s purse lost near Walgreen or Polk Street with calls to 9071. A wrist watch, a yellow gold Winton, lost downtown last Saturday.
A collage of small classified notices includes a middle aged woman seeking a shared farm home, another colored woman seeking day work or housecare, a request to inform Opal Lovett of a letter at Amarillo Post Office, and a job seeker wanting hearth and cooking duties with room and board. Also two social security cards found bearing Ruby Nichols and Opal Blanton names, a lost purse and overnight case with contact in Pampa, a found child’s brown golash to claim at 308 South Kentucky, and a horse lost or strayed five miles west of Ralph near J M McCasland place.
Working couple seeks a housekeeper with clean habits and morals for room board and good wages. Two daughters aged 11 and 5. Call 2 3684 or visit 1218 West 12th Ave.
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