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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1947
Page
2
Tax Collector Frank Hoyt announced no more license numbers could be reserved to speed up license plate gates. A state daily sale report requires orderly issuance, so reserved numbers cannot be sold out of sequence. Higher AE numbers may wait weeks as 1947 plate sales proceed briskly without reservations.
Southwestern Life Insurance Company shows a year end total of 580 million dollars in force and 67.3 million added during the year. Amarillo manager G W Mills announced the 44th annual financial state ment to policy holders as Dallas home offices released figures. The company reports assets at 137.0 million and policy owners exceed 190 000 with 1 200 holders at the 1903 start. Representatives include G Selvin Allen Lola B Daniel and others.
Discussion of an application to raise the bus fare in Amarillo will be one of the main items before the city commission at 7:30 tonight. Other business includes ordinances to close unused streets rights to sell street lights and miscellaneous items. Several taxicab drivers are expected to appear for conferences and the commissioners will likely discuss wrecker police calls.
Three more drivers for a veterans free transportation company were arrested last night for driving without a license. Corporation Court Judge J A Kirkman set their trial for 10 oclock tomorrow morning. Three others arrested late last week will be tried at the same time. Arrested last night for alleged violation of the city taxicab ordinance were Thomas B Hall Ben T Huddieston and William A McClendon.
The annual stockholders report shows assets of 7.7 million dollars a rise of 595 thousand over 1945 Premiums written for the year climbed 818 thousand to a record 5.805 million The Texas stock company organized in 1920 operates on a direct selling select risk plan with home offices in Dallas and district offices in 19 Texas cities including Amarillo
Marie Roberts of Kansas City is jailed in Potter County on a $1000 bond for theft over $50. She faces charges for allegedly stealing a purse containing about $60 from Ada Brazel on a Santa Fe passenger train in the area.
The article outlines renovations for the Senior High School including storage and cold storage on the first floor with an art room a metal shop auto mechanics shop and conference rooms. The second floor would house journalism mechanical drawing library and a theater for visual education. A large portion of the third floor would be classrooms. Remodeling would add a new gymnasium about 50 thousand dollars new home economics laboratories and a new ventilation system for the auditorium and classrooms.
Wanted: a woman for general housework and ironing about four hours daily. No cooking required. Flexible morning or evening shifts. Owner notes wife ill and unable to help. Phone number 5135 at 412 East 9th.
Northwest Texas Hospital superintendent Buck Beringer told the Pilot Club that county officials support expansion but differ on how and when. He cited bed shortages, a 173 bed facility with 28 beds in halls, and a planned 60 to 75 room nurses home. He warned the project requires coordinating all hospital departments and predicted a two year timeline before expansion, with bonds not yet voted.
Dallas residents Mr and Mrs Pete E Buch protest trash and obscene marks in Amarillo Fillmore Street underpass. Buch, district manager for Canada Dry, visits Amarillo monthly and notes tourists see dirty streets as driving through the underpass.
The Potter County grand jury met this morning to investigate several cases including theft burglary and worthless check offenses. Before buying check the want ads.
A 6 year old boy, Myron Jenkins Jr., started a 1946 Ford in reverse while left in a parked car at Sixteenth and Washington. The car zigzagged across the street and struck a tree. Fenders bent, gas line broken, tank cap damaged. the child vowed not to repeat the stunt.
Fifty one gun salutes rang at Soestdijk Castle at 1 30 A M to announce the birth of Crown Princess Juliana's fourth daughter. The six pound nine ounce baby was born as the all female line of succession continues. Church bells and cannons marked the news as Hollanders learned at 7 A M.
Hanson Post No 54 American Legion will meet at 8 tonight in the YMCA Municipal Auditorium. Acting commander F H McGregor urges all members to attend, noting several officer vacancies will be filled at this time.
Cattle and hog trading mixed with gains and declines noted. Kansas City receipts show cattle steady to slightly higher with some steers up to 25 cents. hogs mostly steady to 15 cent shifts. sheep offerings steady to higher on some lots. Chicago markets saw hogs generally 25 to 50 cents lower, cattle and calves mixed with higher cross-category prices for select steers and cows.
A humorous prose item blends wordplay about water with puns and quirks. It weaves light quips on rivers and Niagara Falls with jokes about drinking, ice, and a fountain pen writing under water, ending with a dark twist about life and death.
P. D. Moseley and others transfer property to Paul Cook per warranty deed filed in courthouse records. Document lists parcel identification and signatures of grantors. Property location unnamed in readable text. Recording information not provided.
Amarillo recorded a dramatic temperature swing from a high of 69 to a low of 24 degrees this morning. By noon the thermometer reached 34 with a forecast to climb to 39 this afternoon before dropping to 22 overnight.
Mr and Mrs D B White of 4002 North East Eighth are grandparents to twin daughters born to Mary Nell White Morris of Houston. The babies arrived a few days ago, matching Morris’s birthday. Morris herself was a twin at birth in 1917.
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