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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1946
Page
7
The Amarillo Globe column lists varied social notes with guests visiting from Dallas Miami Fort Worth and Oklahoma City. Entries mention weddings birthdays new arrivals and traveling families as well as hospital and public notices across Amarillo Texas reflecting a bustling community page.
Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce hosts a banquet at 7 PM with barbecued chicken and installation of new officers. The event at Amarillo Country Club precedes a dance with Nib Noble and his orchestra. tickets are $5 a couple and 125 have been sold. Arlie Hudson is the new president as the Jaycees mark their 10th anniversary. Corky Campbell visits relatives in Dallas for several weeks.
City news lists guests visiting families, returning travelers from Oklahoma City to Sulphur and McLean, plus residents visiting St. Anthony’s Medical and Surgical rosters including Mrs. Marvin Ruffin and Mrs. Laura Denny. Read like a society column, with multiple names and addresses.
Bill Andrews, a Texas A. & M. former Sandies star, will join the Aggie football squad this fall after three years in the Medical Corps. A first lieutenant from Amarillo, he served as an administration officer in San Antonio and will be a senior studying business administration.
The Red Cross class in junior and senior life saving is open for enrollment in Potter County. Swimmers with life saving certificates are in demand as instructors for Red Cross swimming classes. Interested persons should report to the instructor at 6:36 tonight. The class is mixed for ages 16 and older and there is no Red Cross charge.
Bill Ratliff and Vernon Bryant of Phoenix visited Mr Ratliff's aunt Mrs Alice Culberhouse at 1200 Pierce in Amarillo and left today for Elk City Oklahoma.
Kenneth Austin son of Mrs Lorene Austin of 1305 Monroe travels to Albuquerque New Mexico for a two week visit with his uncle Joe Lilly. Upon return he will attend a 10 day Presbyterian youth summer conference at Cota Glenn. Camp opens July 22.
Ground has been broken for a $200 000 addition to the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. in Ama. The new two story building will be 66 by 52 feet and located behind the present exchange. The project will provide 4 000 more telephones and total costs with equipment exceed a million dollars. C S Lambie and Co. are the contractors.
Twenty thousand dollars in building permits were issued yesterday. Tidwell and Tidwell receive approval for four four room frame houses at Osage Street at five thousand dollars each. A L Blankenship at 4815 West Tenth obtains a five room brick veneer residence and garage for seven thousand dollars. Wayland E Trimb le at 2007 Washington earns a five room frame dwelling for five thousand dollars.
Pat Oles, son of Mr and Mrs L M Oles of 810 Avondale Lane, returned to Amarillo yesterday after two years in the Navy medical corps. A 1944 Amarillo High School graduate, he trained at Balboa Hospital in San Diego and served at Norman Oklahoma and Corpus Christi. He plans to begin a pre medical course at Amarillo College this fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Anthony and their son Jimmy of 1902 Monroe are vacationing in Colorado.
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