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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1950
Page
13
Arbor Day season note by Anna I Hibbets bird chair and Amarillo Garden Club member praises birds for aesthetics recreation and economic value. She highlights birds aiding gardens by beauty music field observations and pest control with economic benefits to farmers via weed seed and pest reduction.
An article urges planting trees shrubs and hedges to support seed and fruit eating birds. It lists crops and trees that attract birds, notes the economic value of birds, and cites government bulletins on feeding birds during winter while urging homeowners to be friendly neighbors to feathered wildlife.
In Huntington New York Fred Maas a company official hums a valentine verse praising Calvert Reserve whiskey. The ad copy touts Calvert Reserve Blended Whiskey 86.8 proof with 65 percent grain neutral spirits from Calvert Distillers Corp New York City.
Pat Buford 47, proprietor of KHBG Okmulgee Oklahoma, died Sunday in a hospital here. Funeral services were to be held here today.
Funeral services for Baz H Plemons 65 will be held at 2 pm tomorrow at N S Griggs & Sons Chapel with Dr E B Fincher officiating Burial will be in Llano Cemetery Plemons died yesterday at Northwest Texas Hospital He lived in the Panhandle since 1887 except two years in Colorado He was born August 8 1884 in Henrietta Texas and moved to Amarillo at age three He served as city pound man and was formerly with Matador Land and Cattle Company Surviving are his wife Nannie a son Earl a daughter Mrs Jim Adrian a stepson J L Jones a brother Hawley Plemons and a sister Mrs Hortense Bramblett He loved ranching fishing and cattle and was a member of the Methodist Church.
Police search for a hatchet faced gunman who last night hijacked the White Front Package Store at 1002 East Tenth and escaped with $15 after a drunken customer disrupted the stick-up. The suspect, about five feet ten inches tall, fled down the street as the event ended abruptly.
Emily Post answers young readers about appropriate attire for a first real dance, recommending navy blue suits as versatile for church and other occasions. She also advises separated parents to sit together at their son's wedding if they can endure the situation, and discusses whether a bride should send her own engraved invitations reading Miss . . . requests the pleasure of your company.
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