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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1946
Page
2
Washington discussions include goofy hat contests at cinemas and a rocker chair hat, while national policy contemplates Truman’s future, budget strains, and a push for meat once daily. A new book argues meat three times daily strengthens the nation and character amid postwar expenditures.
Dallas report states two Chicago men in a taxicab near a wrong turn were challenged by City Detectives George Williamson and J Sansone. The men claimed to be from Chicago and Texas before being ordered to accompany officers.
The Amarillo Chess Club will hold its regular meeting Tuesday night at 7 30 in the chapel of the Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home. Membership is open to those interested in chess regardless of knowledge.
Doris A. Coffee of Amarillo was appointed a member of the dance committee by the board of directors of the Texas Union at the University of Texas, Austin.
The Newcomers Club holds a meeting on Tuesday at 1 30 in Federation club rooms. Reservations should be made with Mrs. D C Keever at 2 4514.
Wednesday Welfare Luncheon Club members will attend at 12 oclock in the home of Mrs. C R Eaton 3806 Tyler. New York leads the nation in recorded kleptomania cases with the highest total among states.
Kansas City cattle receipts total 15 000 with 14 000 salable. calves 1 200. bulls steady to unchanged. cows steady to strong. Beef steers and heifers mostly good to high good with top prices near 16 75 to 17 50. feeders active with gains in some lots. Major buyers taking moderate numbers early. prices quoted for various grades and weights across the market.
USDA cattle hog and sheep summaries show slow to steady trading with some strength in select lots. Cattle buyers steady to strong on good steers and yearlings. highest bids near 17.75 for large steers, most heifers 13.50 to 16.00, beef bulls weak around 13.00 to 14.00, vealers firm outside. Sheep and lamb markets mixed with early slaughter lambs steady to 25 cents lower, good to choice western lambs around 15.25 to 15.50, ewes steady to weak at 7.75.
Mark T. Miles at 1303 West Eighth is named foreman of the city park department replacing O. B. Howell who resigns. Robert R. Feeney joins the police department after Army discharge this month. Aubrey A. Braail returns to the fire department from military leave. Otis A. Strange transfers from the park department to the water department.
Lt. Col. FF. S. Russenholt, a world wide authority on ducks, will speak at a Borger meeting tomorrow night at 8. The location will be announced then. All Panhandle sportsmen are invited with no admission. A 40 minute Ducks Unlimited film will be shown.
Potter County tax assessor Frank Hoyt estimates less than 2 percent of county automobile owners have obtained 1946 license plates. With 14,000 cars and only 600 plates, 40 days remain before the March 31 deadline for plates and March 1 start date. Truck plate sales are also slow.
Marriage licenses listed for Jefferson with Elmo Pilot Sanford Payne with Betty Jo McDearmon Lowel Otis Denny with Mary Charline Knox Glen W. Green with J L Manasco Oddis L Berry with Joy Lavane Cantrell Truitt F Stewart with Gladys G Smith James L Herring with Bradean Albertson Quintin V A Whitford with Pauline Bauman Donald H Brummer with Joy Dell Piderback. District court actions include divorces of Bonnie Jean Green H L Green Sidney C May Rose Lee May Agnes Chamberlain Clarence Chamberlain and Edna Elizabeth Potter. A number of warranty deeds are recorded transferring lots in various developments to named grantees with prices noted.
The combined senior high and Elizabeth Nixson Junior High School orchestras directed by Miss Louise Dicken will perform Friday at 8 in the senior high school auditorium. No admission charged. Program includes overtures marches symphonies and popular numbers with several solo numbers.
The Horace Mann Parent Teacher Association intermediate group will gather Tuesday afternoon at 2 30 in the school. The featured program topic is Managing Your Moods.
Margaret Bromert daughter of Dr and Mrs J F Bromert freshman music major at North Texas State College Denton sang on a recent Junior Mary Arden program accompanied by Dortha Braxton Shamrock. She won a voice scholarship from Domenico Fadino of the Robbins School of Music NYC. While in Amarillo she belonged to MacDowell Harmony clubs and Gregorian Guild.
Amarillo High School will receive fifty pairs of new roller skates within a few days, principal R. B. Norman said. The order placed before Christmas last year has shipped, adding to the 110 pairs of fiber wheel skates for physical education and skating parties in the armory and girls gymnasium.
The Mystic Weavers Needle club is set to meet Thursday at 2 30 PM in the home of Mrs C W Rogers 1618 Hayden.
Capt William Foster Fletcher on terminal leave with 17 months piloting C 54 cargo planes in Amanita. His wife Carolyn, 9, and mother in law Mrs J Wirt Rogers reside at 406 Alabama. He served two years and three months in the Army plus overseas aviation instructing, with Air Transport Command in Casablanca. He returned to the United States Feb. 7 and arrived in Amarillo yesterday. Previously in Pampa as a photography business operator before aviation instruction and Army service.
William Troy Wallace 50, formerly of Hedley, died this morning at 3:30 in an Amarillo hospital from heart disease. Survived by widow Ethel and daughters Linda Lee Judy Kay Patricia plus two stepchildren Dorothy Lou Johnston and Walter Don Johnston. Brother C. C. Wallace of Houston and sisters Mrs. C. E. Ewing Panhandle and Mrs. J. R. Cowan Clarendon. Body at Grigg Chapel.
Amarillo Council 1450 of the Knights of Columbus schedules two meetings this week. The regular council gathering is set for tonight at o'clock in Cathedral Hall, 1110 Washington.
A convent committee will assemble at the same place and hour as planned on Wednesday night. Wisconsin faces annual weed costs estimated at about 25 million dollars by scientific inquiry.
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