Amarillo library guards books with fines and calls
Miss Mim Alice Green Amarillo’s chief librarian explains how the city recovers overdue books. She notes annual fines are small and most accounts are resolved after slips calls and weekly follow ups. The library funds city services and salaries from these recoveries.
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Don Chadley
Alice Green
Virginia
Miss Green
la Amarillo
Amarillo
Pines
Courthouse Square
Amarillo Public Library notes shifting reading trends
The Amarillo Public Library reports a circulation of 85 900 with readers favoring practical how to guides on interior decorating plumbing radio repair and home vocational titles over fiction. Gone With the Wind remains a longtime popular choice with seven copies though rarely on shelves.
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Amarillo
Miss Green
Amber
Amarillo Public Library
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del Palma
Pamela Kellino
Charles O. Gorham
Schulberg
Charles Jackson
Robert Gibbons
Venus
Gwynn Thomas
America
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Bret Harte
Wilhelmina Harper
Mrs. Bag
Thomas
Alfred Einstein
T. M. Pearce
Salo Baron
Parnell Callahan
Frances Winwar
Burton L. Hotaling
Norman G. Shidle
Henry Hay
Traffic Violators Sent to Church by Seattle Judge
Seattle motorists convicted of major traffic violations face unusual penalties. Judge Roy DeGrief ordered offenders to write a 300 word essay on stopping and identifying after an accident or attend church every Sunday for six months, with affidavits for attendance. He argues the penalties reinforce responsibility beyond fines or suspended jail terms.
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Seattle
Roy DeGrief
DeGrief
Stork Born In Car On Freezing Night Near Crawfordsville
At five degrees below zero in sub zero conditions a Karlson couple rushed to Crawfordsville hospital but delivered their daughter Karen Karlson nine miles from town. Doctors report both mother and baby are well.
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Freeman's
Amarillo Globe
Amarillo
Texas
Stork Attica
Ind
Karen Karlson
Arville Karlson
Crawfordsville
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