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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1946
Page
4
The weekly United States Employment Service report shows labor surplus rising in Amarillo. Over 1,000 job seekers registered through USES, with 234 referred to jobs and 97 hired, mostly within the local area. Inside counts: 128 registered, 129 outside. There are 659 employment opportunities, 461 outside and 198 inside Amarillo.
North Amarillo Kiwanis Club held a noon luncheon program where members performed. Oscar Hargett and Roger Harris sang a vocal duet, a quartet including Lee Hunter Ben Ratliff T C Todd and Al Reville sang, Herbie Carmack and Clint Hill played breakdown music, and Charley Smith led a quiz session with members earning all day stickers for correct answers.
Officials urge completion of advertising copy for the 1946 Amarillo Fat Stock Show catalog this week. To meet distribution before March 4, copy must be at the printers by Saturday. Advertisers not yet contacted should call 500 Tyler for details on copy and schedules.
Mrs Burrell Hill of 1613 Pierce was called to Pampa yesterday by the serious illness of her mother Mrs J E Puckett. She was accompanied by her granddaughter Karen Gay Ferguson.
Amarillo High School A Cappella Choir travels through six Texas cities with stops in Memphis Childress Vernon Wichita Falls Waco and Dallas. Choir director Julia Dean Evans praises Texas hospitality as performances include Childress High School and Vernon concerts, plus a state music clinic in Waco.
Tickets are selling fast for a Friday night benefit dance for the annual children s clinic sponsored by the auxiliary to the Hospital and Clinic. The event runs 9 to 12 in the Crystal Ball room of the Herring Hotel with Phil Phillips orchestra. Tickets handled by Mrs B B Jaggers and Mrs J Francis Brown.
Kaiser and Frazer dealers from 20 Panhandle Oklahoma and New Mexico cities will gather in Amarillo tomorrow for a dealer meeting at noon at the Herring Hotel. William Pitt of Dallas, regional sales manager, will speak. R. J. Carter owns the local Kaiser Frazer Agency at 509 Pierge.
Corpus Christi Feb 6 O R Olin Culberson announced his bid for reelection to the State Railroad Commission, erasing doubts about his 1946 political plans.
The article sketches Dr. Fincher’s Alabama upbringing, migration to Texas, and family background. Born to a Confederate veteran father and a mother from an Anderson family with French Huguenot ancestry, Fincher pursued cotton farming stories, attended Austin College, then Louisville Seminary. He served in Commerce Texas before moving to Amarillo, and later did Apache missions in Mescalero New Mexico before returning to Texas.
The piece details Turner’s 12 years in McKinney ministry, his return to Amarillo to become Ellwood Park Presbyterian Church’s first pastor, and his early missionary work among the poor and marginalized. It also mentions Dr and Mrs Fincher with two sons and two daughters and five grandchildren, naming daughters Mrs Currie of Parker Arizona and Mrs Sell wife of the Tallahassee Florida First Presbyterian pastor.
Arsenizing itching relief claims from a Blue Tar Ointment promote immediate relief for eczema rash and related skin conditions with a money back guarantee if the first tar fails to satisfy. Application guidance suggests repeated use as needed until healing.
Dr. Fincher and his wife at 2011 Washington share a long life of service. E. B. Jr. contemplates teaching or writing in New Jersey while Hugh Fincher, home from the Navy, plans his future. The Ellwood Park Presbyterian Church at 1008 South Jackson numbers about 150 members and centers on building God’s Kingdom rather than a large congregation.
An advertisement touts St. Joseph Aspirin as guaranteed quality and purity. It offers 12 tablets for 10c and a 100 tablet bottle for 35c, urging readers to demand genuine, pure, fast-acting aspirin at low prices.
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