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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1949
Page
19
A collage of used car listings from a dealership includes 1946 to 1949 models across Ford Chevrolet Plymouth Mercury and Pontiac with prices ranging from around 225 to 3695 dollars. It features dealer contact details and notes on condition overdrive heater and radio options with several private sale mentions.
The globe wirephoto explains fronts and pressure features with isobars low and high centers. Frigid air moved east into the Atlantic states with scattered rain and snow near the Great Lakes, 20 below in North Dakota and snow reaching the Mexican border.
A local car sale roundup highlights a 49 Cadillac Fleetwood with radio heater and whitewall tires in black or green, a 48 Pontiac station wagon with hydramatic, a 48 Fleetline with radio heater, a 48 Oldsmobile 98 sedan, a 49 Mercury with overdrive, a7 Ford with radio heater, and 48 Chevrolet pickups. Harvery Southworth of Fillmore advertises contact via phone 6391.
Potter County commissioners consider revising the tax collector office layout if the city tax office moves into space used by the school tax office. A proposed change would move the counter to join the north end, estimated at 150 dollars.
Proposed ordinance to close Van Buren Street between South First Avenue and the Fort Worth Denver railroad right of way will be presented at the city commission meeting. The move, requested by Lee McMurtry and Amarillo Cement and Builders Supply, would free part of the dead end for a loading dock tied to a new First and Van Buren building. The 50 foot section from First Avenue to the railroad is unused and all adjacent property owners have signed the petition.
In Durban and beyond violent clashes between natives and Indians escalate as police exchange fire with looters. More than 100 killed in street fighting since last Thursday after a boy was injured in a dispute with an Indian peddler, with 25,000 Indians fleeing. The unrest also reaches Johannesburg as authorities scramble to contain the spread.
Amarillo city officials will salvage ten thousand feet of 8 inch asbestos cement water pipe at Amarillo Army Air Field to connect new wells drilled last summer to the 36 inch pipeline. Ditching machines are delayed by weather and other jobs, delaying start around January 15.
County Clerk Loren Jones asks the board to approve moving a photostat machine into a adjoining room on the second floor of the courthouse. The former auditor’s room would become storage space, with a partition removed at an estimated cost not to exceed 300 dollars.
Sheriff Paul Gaither's office may replace old roll top desks with flat glass topped units. The county commissioners tabled a $750 request for new office equipment while directing Auditor John Crudgington to provide filing cases chairs waste baskets and other needed furnishings to modernize the office.
The Fair Park steelwork progress slows as cold slippery conditions halt heavy lifting. County engineer Frank Harrison says one major truss remains to be placed and 60 percent of stone work is finished. Contractor Ira Stephenson cannot raise the steel due to the frigid weather. Work has paused since last week’s bad conditions.
Park superintendent Mark Miles says bids for Memorial Park sidewalk construction will be requested within weeks after finalizing walk plans. He notes weather will not delay the work much as concrete can set with minimal wear and calcium chloride is used to prevent freezing.
Work to resurface dirt streets to remove ruts from the recent snow will begin this week once the streets have dried. The public works department says crews are ready to proceed as soon as conditions permit.
City engineer Stanton Field reports the engineering department stays busy when weather halts field work. Maps must show all changes in water and sewer lines and equipment, including valve locations on unpaved streets to allow rapid shutoff during line breaks. The looped system helps limit outages and maintain pressure. Real estate agents and contractors regularly request depth and service area information.
Members of the Potter County Juvenile Advisory Board will study ten tentative sites for a county juvenile detention home. Plans call for using the present County Farm property. Barracks-type buildings from Amarillo Army Air Field will be used. Attending the first meeting were County Judge E. E. Jordan Judge W. N. Stokes Roy Snodgrass Roy Kerr and several women community members.
A charge of theft over $50 was filed this afternoon against Melvin Stevenson 28 of 516 West Second in connection with the theft of a box of mechanic s tools. Detectives Sunday night recovered the box of tools when they arrested Stevenson. The tools were EKillio m
Roy Miller district manager of the C. Penney Company from Denver presided at a Penney store meeting in the area today held at the Capitol Hotel. The session focused on store operations and staff coordination with local Penney managers in attendance.
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