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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1951
Page
5
Readers from Amarillo identify top improvements including stronger traffic regulation and more police at intersections, street repairs, and better street lighting. Comments call for red light district cleanup, broader traffic enforcement, and city street improvements to ease congestion and hazards.
The Panhandle-Plains group of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers screened a Bureau of Mines color film titled Texas, surveying the state’s resources and industry. A nominating committee was named, with L S Johnson of Amarillo as chair, for officers to be elected at the February meeting. About 15 members attended from Amarillo Borger and Lubbock. Cleon Ligon chaired, and future program host R P Vail of Cabot Carbony in Pampa will present Study in Black.
The 15th annual Globe News Golden Gloves regional boxing tournament begins at 8 PM tonight at the Municipal Auditorium and runs nightly through Saturday. Tickets are on sale at Maxor Drug in the Fisk Building.
Corwin Keenan of Leigh Fisher Associates is in Amarillo to finish a report for the City on airport needs. The firm advises remodeling the existing terminal rather than a new building and will include airline contract recommendations due by April 1. Final plans await the Fisher report and city officials urge preserving federal funding for the remodel.
Mrs. Marvin A. Mitchell about 30 of Biltmore Courts sustained minor injuries when she fell from a car as it began to move from Art's Cafe on North East Eighth. The vehicle was driven by her husband. She was transported by Boxwell Brothers ambulance to St. Anthony's Hospital for lacera tions on her legs and a head laceration and was dismissed.
Amarillo Sertoma Club unofficially adopted Kids Incorporated city wide youth program as a major project after a talk by Ralph Dykeman. Four members volunteered as basketball coaches including Buck Long Sertoma president. Buck Long announced Parkmoor Drive-In Den as the permanent meeting place with weekly Monday gatherings at 6 30 P M.
Shawneetown in Gallatin County with about 1600 residents is described as the oldest town in Illinois, reflecting its long history and early settlement status.
An advertisement notes the French West Indies offer one million gallons of colored Martin ique rum for export. The claim highlights scale and regional production as a selling point in trade promotion.
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