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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1951
Page
17
A vintage car lot listing numerous used autos with modest flaws and strong emphasis on affordability. Highlights include a 1941 Nash 4-Door, 1940 Packard 4-Passenger, 1941 Buick Century, and several Chevrolet, Ford, and Dodge models. Prices range from 9 to 650 dollars with financing offered.
A bustling dealer ad lists numerous prewar and postwar autos for sale. STUDEBAKERS include Champion and Commander models with heaters and overdrives, priced around 1295 to 1895. Also present are Nash, Chevrolet, Pontiac, Frazer, Ford, and a variety of 1947 to 1950 models with features like radios, heaters, and overdrives. Local dealer details and contact information included.
A cluttered autos and trucks advertisement lists numerous 1940s and 1950s models for sale from Freeman Motor Co and Forester Truck Co. Highlights include 1950 Ford Tudor and 1949 Pontiac Chieftain with Hydramatic, 1946 Oldsmobile 76, and multiple used trucks from GMC and Dodge. Prices range from about 695 to 1495 dollars, with contact numbers and street addresses provided. The ad emphasizes bargain pricing and large stock.
The Phillips 66 basketball team meets Texas Tech at 8 tonight at the Sports Arena with American Business Club sponsorship. Tickets are on sale at Vance Hall and Henry Blackburn sporting goods.
A woman, Mrs. Frances Crawford also known as Betty Joe Glendinning Betty Snyder and Rebecca June Adams, received a 30 day sentence for intoxication after pleading guilty to drunkenness and filing a false report about a murder hoax involving her companion. She will be sentenced on the additional charge March 2. She has lived in Amarillo Pampa and Borger and previously told of witnessing a murder in San Pedro California.
Classified items include a service station attendant wanted with phone contact 2062, sale of 100 head stocker pigs at market price from Conlen Texas, a movable 3-room trailer apartment at 2601601 Spruce, fertilizer numbers 38143, a private bath garage apartment at 2508 Taylor, a 3-room modern apartment with electric refrigerator at 1908 Lincoln, a well built 2-wheel trailer with 6 tires at 2213 Sanborn, a 4-piece blonde bedroom suite with Philco radio at 400 Prospect Ph 2-5777, a Plorance range, two 9x12 rugs and lamps at 8038 Florida.
Washington February 20 The Post Office will move much of its short haul mail by truck rather than train. Assistant Postmaster General John M. Redding called the shift the most important change in basic postal transportation policy since airmail. The move, to save money, starts in the next few weeks for mail 200 miles or less and may involve competitive bidding for contract truckers. Short haul mail costs about 100 million dollars yearly. Surveys have been made from Chicago St Louis and Boston with more to begin from Indianapolis Pittsburgh Philadelphia Harrisburg and New York.
City of Amarillo invites sealed proposals by the City Secretary office until 3 00 PM on Tuesday February 27 1951 for earthwork sub grade concrete curb and gutter caliche base and bituminous surface Plans specs and proposal blanks available from City Engineer Stanton M Field. Each bid requires a certified check or bidder's bond of at least five percent of the proposal and prevailing wage rates must be paid. The city may accept or reject any bid and waive formalities.
Santa Fe System reported 22 845 carloadings for the week ending Saturday, up from 20 640 in the same week of 1950. Connections supplied 13 444 cars versus 9 306 a year earlier. Total cars moved reached 36 289, compared with 29 946 in 1950. The railroad moved 30 911 cars in the preceding week of the current year.
The General Land Office and School Land Board will accept sealed bids in Austin until 10:00 A M on May 1 1951 for oil and gas leases on multiple school land tracts river beds and submerged areas across Texas. Lists and details available by March 1 1951 from Bascom Giles Commissioner.
A married father of a seven month old daughter, Shay said he set the blaze hoping to escape military service by obtaining a criminal record. He claimed the act was a mistake meant to start only a small fire and the sentence was deferred in circuit court pending a probation report.
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