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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1949
Page
16
City Electrician Jack Coffee advised employees to hold their hand on the fixture for a minute to stop flickering of recently installed fluorescent tubes. The lights hang about 12 feet from the floor and the remedy was discussed amid local complaints.
Dr. H. A. Waller of 3615 North East Eighth urged feeding birds in snowy weather. He warned birds will starve without crumbs and other feed scattered on the snow, noting birds quickly learn where to find food.
A compact unit plugs into any home outlet to magnetize or demagnetize tools. It claims to simplify repair tasks by handling items from screwdrivers to hammers and other small hand tools.
City and county engineers meet on field work for routing East Twenty-seventh Avenue from Cleveland Street to Grand Avenue. The project aims to create a by-pass for Amarillo heavy traffic and provide an all-weather route to the Tri State Fair Park and proposed stadium, with curves planned where the street offsets at Osage Street. The city handles engineering and the county will pave under a joint agreement.
At LaGuardia Field Pan American's special services unit deploys 23 linguists to assist non English speaking travelers. The multilingual team translates messages helps with immigration health and hotel arrangements. Notable members include Charles W. Rinka Roy Kershis John Vahey Lya Balas Lottie Thompson Francois Micha Alexander Hess Claudie Renault Patrys ead Pari sian Raul Lombardo and Thomas Stanley Iriguez Luciano.
Wheat poisoning in cattle appears in livestock grazing wheat pastures causing calcium deficiency in the bloodstream and serious health concerns for herds and farmers.
The Czechs have created a new potato that tastes like an apple and can be eaten raw. It offers vitamin C that withstands boiling, making it unusually versatile for consumption in raw form.
Mrs. Tennie A. Johnson, 61, of 2509 West First, Amarillo, died at 7 this morning in Northwest Texas Hospital. She had lived in Amarillo 24 years and was a member of Central Church of Christ. Survived by husband E. E. Johnson of Amarillo and sister Mrs. Ida Fields of Coleman. Funeral arrangements are pending at Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home.
The Municipal Auditorium basement hosts the printing of city personnel rules. Ralph Blake notes the rules span 48 pages and twelve hundred copies are being printed.
Thickened fuel used for flame throwers and bombs replaces wood and coal kindling to start fires in large industrial boilers. It saves time and fuel, offering a wartime advantage in ignition efficiency for power plants and manufacturing facilities.
General planning for the 1940 city recreation program continued with the City Park and Commission. No specific recommendations were made and no action was taken, according to O. D. Thompson, commission chairman.
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