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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1943
Page
4
A dense schedule of meetings and events lists venues across Amarillo with times from 2:39 to 8:30 pm including Beta Sigma gatherings Rainbow for Girls USO dances and church and club functions. Notable entries include the USO auditorium events and several church and civic group meetings through Thursday.
A 14 year old, after school, starts a baby tending business with her mother's guidance. She keeps an appointment book and tracks earnings learning home management and parenting lessons, gaining responsibility and practical work experience. Her mother supports a structured, beneficial opportunity over downtown work and argues against letting youths seek casual jobs.
War era food guidance urges careful buying and rationing to avert shortages from gas, floods, and crop setbacks. It promotes home gardening, canning with pressure cookers, and new Wartime Canning instructions, with June 15 free samples via Government Printing Office.
A mountain pheasant burst through a kitchen window at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George G. Root in Portland Oregon. The bird struck a dishpan, toppled it from a hook and the pan fell over the pheasant, killing it. Local reports describe the odd incident as witnessed by the homeowners.
Rev and Mrs C A Norred recently moved from Fort Worth to Amarillo joining the Central Church of Christ and visiting about a third of its roughly 1000 members. Mrs Norred says Amarillo is hospitable. The couple's sons Arthur Jr and Bob are highlighted with military and sports notes.
Wartime workers are urged to start the day with hearty fare like cinnamon snails and fried pressed cereal. A recipe for cinnamon snails with cream cheese filling is provided. A San Francisco note describes overcrowded Jap Town housing, with 37 Negro workers in a former Japanese home and even bathtubs rented as beds. The report closes with a trivia line about hammerhead sharks using their heads as rudders.
J W Hill Purniture Company workers were treated to a Park picnic hosted by Mr and Mrs Hill in Palo Duro Park Monday. Attendees enjoyed horseback riding games and a fried chicken dinner with ice cold drinks.
Shelton class meets Friday at 9 30 am for business and social session with Group I hostesses. Girls Auxiliaries hold annual camp at Ellwood Park Friday starting 10 30 am for ages 8 to 17 with 25 cent fee lunch to be brought supper served by the society Mrs C L Culpepper missionary to China will speak. YW A house party Friday and Saturday at the church with registration at 10 am and sessions starting 11 am. Culpepper to speak Friday evening in the main auditorium public invited banquet to follow.
In Erie Pennsylvania the chimp named Scrap displays Jekyll and Hyde behavior at the zoo. He calmly eats ice cream yet can surge into a warpath mood, attacking his cage. His latest rampage damaged the quarters which are under repair and being reinforced for double protection.
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