Our Younger Generation
Ida Lou Campsey, 14, daughter of J. H. Campsey of 708 Fairmont, is vice president of the Sam Houston Honor Society and a Student Council representative. She reports for The Ranger and is historian for Future Homemakers of America, with knitting and pen pal writing as hobbies and nursing as her aim. she skates and plays basketball and soccer. Kadie Skelton, 15, Horace Mann freshman, daughter of D. T. Callahan of 721 North Cleveland, is homeroom reporter since 1948 and enjoys football, swimming, tennis, with nursing or airline hostess as goals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ida Lou Campsey
J. H. Campsey
Fairmont
Sam
Kaye Dawn
Kadie” Skelton
Horace Mann
D. T. Callahan
North Cleveland
Old Leeward Home prompts Amarillo move
Mrs. C. D. Jackson recalls the Fifth and Lincoln house built in 1900 that is now being moved. She described bay windows, a bathtub and water pipes before sewers, and noted her husband’s saddle and harness shop on Polk Street. The piece links the home to the Jacksons and to other early Lincoln Buchanan houses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. D. Jackson
Harrison
Fifth and Lincoln
P. H. Leeward
Fifth and Buchanan
Amarillo
B. G. McCully
East Twelfth
St. Anthony’s Hospital
W. R. Rich
Sparta
Cal
Jesus Flores
Arthur
J. J. Gibson
Nazareth
Northwest Texas Hospital
Amarillo Farmers Market History and 1935 Pickle Suit
A 1927 proposal for a farmers market in Amarillo led to the city hall foyer market limited by traffic and priced at 25 cents a day. The market faded as housewives favored supermarkets, while 1950 notes show limited local demand and small drive-out sales. a 1935 pickle shipment suit reveals long court timelines and aging jars amid a tainted cucumber dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of City Development
Amarillo
Art Bralley
Consignee
No Favoritism in Harris Lofthus Court Says Judge
Amarillo readers see Judge Harris E Lofthus pledge equal treatment for all traffic tickets and court matters. He notes a shift from cancellations to standard processing as tickets flow in through the mail. Also lists several names under Northwest Texas medical notes and mentions UT Austin students in a freshman English exam eligibility update.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cently
Globe News
Amarillo
Corporation
Harris E. Lofthus
Lofthus
Northwest Texas Medical
Linda Thornton
Channing
R. T. Bailey
Claude
M. W. Hogan
West Fifth
T. M. Lanier
Crockett
Buster Lockridge
East Twenty-eighth
Sammie Page
W. ©. Bowles
Fillmore
Lee Barnes
Shattuck
Okla
Johnnie C. Preston
Texhoma
J. D. Bills
North West First
J. E. Dennis
West Tenth
Ira Wall
West Twelfth
University of Texas
Robert Skeen
Shakespeare Memorial Theater Announces 1950 Season
Stratford on Avon plans a six and three quarter month summer program honoring Shakespeare. The Shakespeare Memorial Theater will run the longest season yet with Measure for Measure opening on March 9 attracting American and continental tourists seeking the Bard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stratforn -On - Avon
England
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Memorial Theater
Also Mentioned on This Page
Ora Wright
Jessie Neal
McMasters
Clarence Faubion
Washington
Jack Frye
Taylor
Earl Adams
Lincoln
NAVY
Monroe
Udell Baldridge
Pearl McQueen
West Hastings
Mclean
Drew Ward
George Orrick
Kellerville
al Duncan
Milton Cunningham
Pierce
Jess Ledbetter
Sally
C. F. Murphee
Melba Jean Hanner
Neuches
Santa Fe
W. J. Hanner
C. D. Wright
Briscoe
Bishop
Dan Laxon
Madison
A. T. Barton
Ray Swafford
Dumas
Columbian Camp
ST. Anthony’s Medical
O. C. Eagleston
North Jefferson
J. E. Ferguson
North Hayes
Wilma Gray
Spring
Viola Knudsen
Stinn
Margaret Renfro
Canyon
Earl Herring
West Eleventh
Jim N. McCaskey
James P. Skelton
Billy Don Winters
Borger
Mary E. Rawling
Panhandle
D. E. Bevan
Tyrone
Oklo
R. E. Garter
Belleview
Monroe Harris
North Bowyer
Frances Franks
Dalhart
Grace Graham
East Eleventh
S. H. Davies
van Buren
W. B. Steveson
Hughes
Bill Stevenson
Austin
Houston
Shamrock Hotel
S. S. Siebel
Avondale
Airline
Short Lines Pioneer
Dan Thomas, Jr
Joe Jones
Pioneer
Chicago
Wisconsin
H. A. Hutchinson
TWA
Phoenix
Ariz
Glen Hall
Waynoka
Dickie Dickerson
Girard
Tex
Herman Hill
Mr. Hill
H. B. Hill
Childress
John Corley
Corsicana
J. B. Dickson
Tyler
Corley
Laurel Stinnett
Wayne Dammier
George Downey
Lander
Wyo
Orlando
Fla
Downey
Sam Schwartz
Cando
Jack Schwartz
East
16Th
Great Plains
Schwartz
North Dakota
Oris Gilbert
Memphis
Thomas E. Noel
Tommie Noel
O. E. Bevers
Lakeview
Hall County
Dallas
Lurline Thompson
Smart Farm
Jonnie Hightower
North East
Sixteenth
Put & Take
Seventeenth
Buchanan
Margaret Wills School
Stewart
Mize
Nou Oy
General Paatures Corp
Milo
Sue Sheg
Rick
McNavy
Syndice
Butterball
Nolan
Dugan
The
Globe
North Panhandle
Dresden
Pierce Street Floral and Gift Shop
Pho
Amarillo Printing Company
Broome
FISK
Griggs Burial Association
Griggs
N.s.griggs & Sons
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