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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1945
Page
2
The column riffes on heat waves in Dallas and a Port Arthur football defeat, notes quail and rabbit trends in Texas wildlife, and includes readers’ letters from Amarillo about Southern manners, aging, and wartime social issues. It blends weather gripes with local humor and civic commentary.
I lost a red coin purse containing $10, given as a Christmas gift. One $5 bill was wrapped in red Christmas paper. Reward offered for its return. Contact Mrs. A. C. Gelach at 2-2598 904 Adams.
Six month old female brown and white collie named Santa is missing from 1713 West Ninth. She has no collar or tags but is very friendly. A reward is offered. Call 6091 or contact Jo Ann Green.
A man’s yellow gold Bulova wrist watch was lost while delivering mail Tuesday possibly near Sixteenth Avenue in Country Club addition. A reward is offered for return. Call 7708. A narrow black belt was found on Tyler Street between Twenty seventh and Twenty eighth. Call 6754 or go to 2701 Polk. Two part Persian kittens seek homes. Call 5970 or visit 500 Cleveland. A terrier for a pet home Wanted. call 7172.
A small coin purse has been lost containing two five dollar bills. No other details are provided about location or contact information.
A collage of snap items including a missing money claim from Margaret Ann Hainze, dogs offered for good homes, a Hollywood reader tale about cinema trailers and plot surprises, Idol Chatter reflections on stars, and a note on ammonium sulfamate weed killer. The column blends community notices with entertainment and light commentary.
Mrs. Sullivan reports a green Schaeffer fountain pen lost on a lobby table at the downtown post office on December 14. A reward is offered for its return. call 4660.
Mrs Jimmy Daley of 3900 Polk reports a lost ear ring from an Eisenberg set. She believes it disappeared between Tyler and Polk on Sixth and offers $2 reward for its return. The ring features eight aquamarine stones set in gold.
A box of mechanic's tools was stolen from 1014 Taylor. A $25 reward is offered for return or for information leading to its return. Call 26851. Duke Anderson.
A request to find roller skate rollers for a friend who has lost both legs. The plan is to adapt them into a scooter to help him get around. Contact at Grand Cafe for arrangements.
The ad offers fine blooded puppies to generous buyers. It specifies ample food water and warm beds. The seller lives five miles north of town on Hillcrest Avenue near River Road, first house north side. J. W. Flanagan noted.
A water or feed additive suphurous compound claims to destroy intestinal germs and worms in chickens, reducing disease and production loss. It keeps fowls free of blood-sucking insects and claims improved appetite health and egg production at low cost, with money-back unsatisfactory.
Mayor Joe Jenkins and commissioners Bob Epperson and Oscar Hargett meet at 7 30 to review the annual city audit for the year ending Sept 30 and to consider new personnel rules from the personnel board to take effect New Year Day. A public hearing application to rezone a lot at Twenty second Avenue and Fillmore Street from dwelling to retail designation is filed.
Streamlined psychiatric methods salvaged 50 percent of workers cracking under wartime strain and allowed them to return to vital war industry jobs. Among those helped were psychoneurotic patients and others so ill they would usually be lifelong hospital inmates, signaling potential postwar planning benefits.
The typhus fever outbreak in Naples earlier this year was controlled by the U S Army Medical Corps using two new tools. DDT insecticide and new methods to apply DDT powder to kill lice reduced transmission.
The Soviet Union expands fuel security by developing synthetic oil, with six plants under construction in Siberia to cut long distance oil transport.
Tahiti faces an epidemic of dengue fever with closures of schools theaters and night clubs as the illness spreads to nearby islands. The disease spreads by certain mosquitoes, causes fever skin eruptions and joint pains, rarely fatal, and is a common malady for Allied troops in the tropical Pacific.
Braniff Airways announced rate reductions up to 40 percent on air express service for perishables including fresh fruits vegetables mushrooms seafoods and fish. The tariff took effect yesterday and runs until April as an experimental move to gauge traffic volume.
Sheriff Bill Adams was sworn in as Potter County official yesterday morning though his name was missing from the published oath list. Officials then completed deputy appointments across departments.
War Department confirms Pvt Jesse G Chavez of 206 South Arthur was wounded slightly on December 16 in Germany. The notification informs Mrs Chavez of the status.
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