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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1947
Page
8
A Chicago piano company uses air freight to deliver pianos to customers in New York Philadelphia Reno and New Orleans. Large freight planes can carry 32 pianos per flight.
In antiquity a 150 foot wide canal connected the Nile to the Red Sea, turning Alexandria into the gateway to the East. The waterway enabled trade and movement between northern Egypt and eastern regions, shaping the city’s historic role.
Tickets are on sale for the Amarillo Girl Scout Council dinner to be held at Cathedral Hall at 6 pm on February 13. Miss Alice Mulkey will speak, officers will be elected and installed, tickets cost 1 dollar and can be bought from neighborhood chairmen or the Girl Scout office at 605 Taylor. Deadlines set for February 6. All registered adult scouts and troop committee members are invited.
Elvin C. Copeland son of J. C. Copeland 2206 North West Third has been promoted to sergeant by 58th Airways and Air Communications Service Group Headquarters Naples Italy. He arrived overseas in June 1946 and serves as a cryptographic specialist ensuring air force policing in Europe. Copeland graduated Amarillo High School May 1944 and attended Amarillo College. He previously worked as a draftsman for the Amarillo city engineering department.
City sewer crews in Amarillo deal with odd blockages from rags and household items to roots and even a discarded .38 revolver. Supervisor Ray Ramzell notes most stoppages arise from house connections, with about 75 percent starting in homes. The department budgets 15000 annually for maintenance and operates a 10 man construction crew alongside two full time workers.
If railway accidents were the only possible cause of death and if a passenger traveled 100 miles a day on American railroads, his life expectancy would be 20,000 years.
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