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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1946
Page
7
Randall County sheriff and tax assessor collector M. E. Cantrell announces his bid for reelection. He thanks voters for support, cites past service, and notes duties will rise postwar. Cantrell plans personal visits in Canyon and urges voters to consider his candidacy before the July Democratic primary.
Mrs AE Casey notes a prewar item in the classified columns. An ad reads for sale a ladies electric refrigerator, prompting her question if men had them too in the wartime era.
Dallas representatives of Pinkey Vineyard A. F. Madison Earl Burtz John Gillham and Bill Gallemere meet W. A. Orth head of the OPA in Dallas to press for a milk price rise for Amarillo. They seek 36 cents per hundred pounds after a 26 cent increase granted January 10. The Feb. 1 stoppage deadline remains.
In a Li'l Abner strip recalled by Dick Turner Worth, Salomey is described with a remark from Fred Ramzel of the sewer department stating the illustration comes from the side of a cow.
Amarillo housewife Mrs. C R Sears has built a lucrative hobby from rhyming and originality winning prizes in national radio contests. She has collected war bonds, radios, watches, encyclopedias, and a refrigerator totaling nearly 1200 dollars in four years. Sears is a four time winner on Quiz Kids and has also sold poetry to The Denver Post and Southern Agriculture. She encourages entrants not to be discouraged when entries are not accepted. The article notes she lives in Amarillo with a construction foreman husband and that West Texas is not a prime contest locale.
Architecture plans for two new Amariso schools and a cafeteria at San Jacinto School are on the education board agenda. A Dwight Morrow School project includes moving the old building to El Alamo Park for a community center. Also planned are a consolidated Negro school at North Hughes and Fifth, replacing Fred Douglas School and Patton High in North Heights.
The Associated Press reports 17 000 overseas veterans will begin returning home today aboard 19 troopships docking at two East and four West Coast ports. Ships include New York arrivals Hagerstown Victory Borinquen Santa Rosa Newport News Edward Collins Harry Wilson and Los Angeles Staf ford Windham Bay Crittenden LST 768.
City counc il will report informally to the city commission on a new taxi ordinance for Amarillo. City manager A P Hancock said studies of other cities are underway and Philadelphia has been asked for a copy of their taxi regulation. It will be several weeks before action is taken as the commission wants a thorough study before passage.
N. V. Moss the city water superintendent inspects a pair of work gloves and asks if they are genuine Hammus Alabamus in a brief exchange.
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