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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1942
Page
2
A Panhandle weather note precedes a lively reader letter exchange on girdles and fat women. The writer contrasts girdles with corsets, jokes about fashion norms, and laments looming supply issues while musing on social expectations and marital dynamics.
A reader letter exchange defends hog and cattle feeds arguing hogs require the same nutrients as cattle and critiques a columnist remark about hogs. The note mentions Texas residents W A Williams Vega Dwight Newby Colorado Springs and a lost pointer named Pat with contact numbers.
Deputy Sheriff Dick Vaughan and Postmaster W. D. DeGrassi both quit smoking last week after long habits. DeGrassi resolved to quit after staring at a cigarette in a drug store and vowed to stop when he smoked the last one. Vaughan faced a test trip to Gatesville with heavy smokers and resisted, unsure who would break first.
A personal ad montage lists several notices: a 18-year-old boy seeking dairy and farm work with target ages 55 to 65 for a gentleman friend, Howard at 321 North Lamar Street offering contact. A note from Mrs R M Gardner with a lost music package reward, and a nursing call for a reader with a phone number. Also a 14-year-old seeking after school work, Dean Cleveland at 732 N Cleveland Street with phone contact.
The Texas Graduate Nurses Association announces a nurse refresher course at St. Anthony's and Northwest Texas hospitals starting February 2. Open to inactive nurses with 160 hours of service over eight weeks plus class work. no tuition. Applications via the Graduate Nurses Association District Two secretary in Amarillo.
A tongue in cheek explanation for San Sorigino a nonplace used in censored military cables. The piece notes Sans origine means without origin and warns Amarilloans not to chase maps to locate the location. Known as a code for decoded cables with spacing hints revealing French origin.
Jim Jackson, Amarillo youth and seaman second class, sang On the Road to Mandalay after being pressured by peers for an amateur San Diego show. Lt George O Brien helped him, and he appeared on the Anchors Aweigh radio program last Saturday and is slated to return this week. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Folsom Jackson. his father heads Amarillo College music department.
Mr and Mrs J R Barnhill of 1204 B West Tenth Avenue will leave tomorrow for Tucson Arizona to visit their son Coleman Barnhill and daughter in law Mrs Coleman Barnhill. Mr Barnhill operates the Dr Pepper bottling plant in Tucson.
The Southern Great Plains Federal Credit Union holds its annual meeting tomorrow at 7:30 p.m. in the Soil Conservation Service conference room in the old post office building. Members include employees of the FSA BAE coordinator's office and regional attorney.
On January 30 the President's Birthday Ball will be held in Amarillo at the Nat the Mayfair Night Club the Rainbow Gardens and the Aviatrix Club. Wit Thoma's orchestra the Dixie Revelers the Sons of the West and Carlton Scales orchestra will play. A $1 ticket admits a couple to all four dances with proceeds for the Amarillo Crippled Children's Council and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis. Similar dances will be held nationwide.
Funeral services for Mrs. Jack Smyth 62 long time Amarillo resident will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at Boxwell Brothers Chapel with Rev. F A Foster Episcopal rector officiating Interment will be in Llano Cemetery Pallbearers named James P Edwards Fred Seidenstrang John Snider Albert Bivins W A McEvoy Raymond Russell She is survived by a sister Mrs Ida Brock of Forest City Missouri.
Five men headed for Huntsville today on extended visits. Uncle Bud Russell drove the prison van to pick up Jim mie Blake serving two years for forgery S. M. Liles also two years for forgery from Ochiltree County Ben Isadore a five year murder convict David Haynes a parole violator and Hubert Lee Martin a suspended sentence violator were taken to Texas prison.
Amarillo Little Theater plans to shift into high gear supporting Civilian Defense. The board approved converting two upcoming plays into benefit shows for national defense with all door receipts donated to the Service Men’s Civic Center. Five members leaving for military service were honored at a dinner.
Saunders and Thomson return from a weeklong trip to New York for the Paramount Fire Insurance Company stockholders meeting. Saunders also attended an Hartford insurance meeting. Thomson visited his brother in Washington and joined meetings in Dallas with the Association of Insurance Agents and Mid-year Casualty Insurity.
R B Norman principal at the high school announced that students who did not attend Amarillo schools last semester must register this week for the second semester. He said this applies to registration in all Amarillo schools. Final exams began this morning and continue through tomorrow. The new semester starts Monday. Se vereu will again permit second hand passenger cars to enter the country.
J Dean Walker longtime Amarillo insurance man died yesterday in Abilene at a local hospital. He had lived in Abilene for seven years and is survived by his wife three children and three uncles J P Walker Fred Walker and Forrest E Walker. Funeral services are planned for tomorrow afternoon in Abilene.
The West Amarillo Christian Church invites members to a 7 o'clock dinner with the theme Christians in Action. Four talks will cover We Have a Faith by Arlo Kelley, We Have a Church by Carl G. Clifft, We Have a Brotherhood by Mrs. Lee Sparks, and We Have a Kingdom by Mrs. Homer Jacob, opening with a prayer by Herman Ford.
A vintage advertisement touts a tonic that promises to restore appetite by promoting digestive juice flow and easing stomach discomfort. It claims to supply mineral matter in soluble form to restore red blood color and boost fighting strength.
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