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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1948
Page
20
A Harris County judge rules drunk driving illegal while kissing a dog is not. The drunk driver, who had been in a collision, kissed a small dog as police arrived, and was fined and jailed for drunk driving.
Wayne Edmondson, 18, Navy recruit from San Diego, returns on 13 day leave to Amarillo to visit Maverick Club, his former home base for sports and training. He recalls support from club members, notes funding cuts, and backs a community membership drive to sustain youth programs.
Mrs. B F Harper president of the Panhandle Penwomen announced the prize results from their short course in creative writing held June 8 9 10. First prize worth 25 went to Mrs Osie Wilson Miami for A Candle for a Fool. Second place went to Mrs Laurine Chambers Chinn Borger and Mrs Carolyn Deason Timmons Ama for A Pair of Mongrels and Rope Enough respectively. Third went to Mrs Bess Mangle Goree for Two Months Is Tomorrow. Frederick Nelson Litten Northwestern University Chicago judged and lectured at the three day clinic.
In Dallas 125 Cement Finishers Local 549 AFL members rejected a $1 daily wage rise seeking $2 more, while a nuisance picket around two Southwestern Bell exchanges supported a 31 cent hourly boost. The CIO Communications Equipment Workers were involved. Electricians Union Local 59 AFL resumed work under the old contract as negotiations continue. In Austin a tramp who drank chlorinated water from a housewife’s tap was jailed after she reported him.
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