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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1948
Page
4
The Globe newsroom gains a new Webster International dictionary replacing an old worn edition. The 3 350 pages list about 600 000 words and include minor new terms like goat suit and atomization while Zyzzogeton remains the odd front nibbling note about a large leaf hopper.
Amarillo children react to news of an oil tanker arrival from Recife Brazil loaded with castor oil. The report notes no difference in children’s reaction and marks the cargo as castor oil on the vessel reaching the eastern port.
The Amarillo man Claude Orville Williams appeals a two year car theft conviction arguing whether simply being in a car counts as possession. Evidence showed him in the vehicle but not driving it, and the question of possession lacks clear legal precedent.
Mrs Leota Spaude of Harrison notes patrons drink coffee all morning and doubts raising prices to a dime. She argues regulars would not keep buying if prices rose and believes a single shop increasing the cost would hurt its business even if others followed later.
Forest Hill School PTA members plan a box supper at the school. President Mrs Sam Martin announced the event. Lee Hunter Horace Mann principal spoke on The Budget of Human Values with students Ronnie Lamberth and Delores Davis presenting budgeting graphs. Refreshments followed the meeting.
John Anderson 55 survived a fall from a platform as a train roared in and rolled into the trough untouched by two passing cars. Erie plans to ease prison conditions and relax rules.
The Toastmasters Club will hold a guest night at the Herring Hotel at 8 p.m. next Tuesday with an auction of household articles to fund toastmaster pens for members.
Arthur Truitt of the Truitt Buick Co. has returned from a business trip to Oklahoma City.
Amarillo hotel hosts annual banquet at 7 p m Saturday night January 24 guest speaker is Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice John Edward Hickman of Eastland elevated last week after Justice James P Alexander died Hickman named to the high court by Gov Beauford H Jester last week and has served on the court since 1945 He earned a UT law degree in 1910 and was admitted to the state bar Incoming officers W W Gibson president Selden Simpson vice president Rex Boyd secretary
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