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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1940
Page
2
A list of meetings and social events across Amarillo venues including the Tol Capitol Hotel and various street addresses. Activities cover dinners, receptions, bridge club, Rainbow Girls, sorority alumnae, church classes, and home demonstration club gatherings scheduled for the week.
Miss Dawn Adkins daughter of Mr and Mrs H L Adkins 2410 Hughes Street will marry William Harris of Fort Smith Ark tonight at 8 in the First Christian Church Luther G Roberts will officiate The church will feature white and pink peonies palms ferns and can dies The couple will honeymoon and reside in Fort Smith where Harris is an attorney
Buffalo Lake announces a free Independence Jubilee featuring speed boat racing call boat regattas aquaplaning water skiing surf board riding and hiking. Amarillo and Road Runner Motorcycle clubs plan stunts including a two rider on one cycle crash and Orville Brasher blindfolded jump through a burning hoop with cash prizes. Events, open to all riders, begin 3 pm Thursday near the boat docks with a Wednesday night dance in the Recreational Building and separate dances Thursday night. Admission to the dance is 50 cents per couple.
A dense listing of 1:00 to 12:00 programs across MBS TSN NBC and INS networks. Entries include marriages, news, music segments, orchestras, talk shows, and special features with station notes and wattage. Indicates Amarillo area lineup with multiple live shows and reruns through the day.
Network corrections adjust daily serials and music segments across NBC CBS and WABC outlets. The schedule features Jack Armstrong Daily Serial, Little Orphan Annie repeats, Dance Music Orchestra performances, news periods with Paul Sullivan Lowell Thomas and H V Kaltenborn, plus various talks and dramatic serials through 6 PM Central Time.
The N. B. C. Club formed at Amarillo Junior College held a picnic at Palo Duro Club grounds over the weekend with swimming and hiking. Members included Neil Spann Betty Caldwell Elizabeth Rollins Yvonne Stevens Catering Stone Beverly Lumpkin Dorothea Dell Scheihagen. Guests were Pat Harris Margery Ann Mayberry Mary Margaret Hume Martha Rollins Charlotte Anne Gregg Nancy Caldwell Betty Cowart Janice Jones Pauline Martin Wanda Stevens LeClaire Eakle Glyndol Calvert.
The River Road Home Demonstration Club will meet with Mrs. E. P. Jones at 2 30 oclock Wednesday afternoon.
Pattern 4386 is offered in women sizes 34 through 50. Size 36 requires 3 yards 35 inch fabric and 2 yards ric rac. Send fifteen cents for this pattern to Pattern Department Amarillo Globe New York. Additional ten cents brings latest Pattern Book.
Miss Ruth Margaret Anderson wed Howard C Brown Jr in a morning ceremony at the Anderson home 1917 Van Buren Street. Pastor R Thomson officiated as Allyne Davis played bridal music and Merle Anderson was maid of honor. The couple resides at 817 Maryland Street.
Miss Mary Lewis Scott of Austin was honored at a chicken barbecue given by her sister Mrs Lawrence Hagg at the Fain Ranch. Barbecued chicken with all the trimmings fed about 30 guests.
Ruth Millett examines gender success through Claudette Colbert’s 1938 top female salary, contrasting Hollywood wins with Sadie Smith’s stalled path. The piece seguees into fashion notes on earrings and a compact with a built in light, then Paris hat print trends.
A reader request column lists residents seeking housing trades for rent and various jobs. Entries include a carpenter paper hanger, a 19 year old for housework and child care, a 17 year old for child care and light housework, a general house worker, a dependable colored woman for housekeeping and laundry, a middle aged woman for cafe kitchen or practical nursing, a colored girl for cleaning and ironing, Elizabeth Davis at 1902 Harrison rear, a married man for farm work, a seamstress seeking sewing work, and a Christian woman willing to care for children at night.
Panhandle wheat harvest progresses with cars of grain arriving in Amarillo from across the Panhandle. A local grainman says showers may have slowed activity slightly. The Amarillo Grain Exchange reports 179 cars received. a year ago at this time receipts were 466. Wagon wheat price to farmers at the mill is 56 cents.
L D Huffstutler conducts a singing school at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church on Sixth Avenue and North Taylor. Classes run daily until July 12 with morning theory 9 to 11 and harmony 11 to 12, and practice evenings 8 to 9 30. Roy B Flippo of the Amarillo Community Singers invites the public to attend all sessions.
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