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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1950
Page
15
Youth baseball action at Georgia and Wolflin features wild pitching and a near beaning as one batter is hit by a throw. A middle aged rooter voices concern while a game pause shifts the lineups and a loud crowd reaction follows.
Jackie Miller, 14, at Elizabeth Nixon Junior High, starred in football and basketball last year and led his class as sergeant at arms in STARS and Hi Y. Presley Allen Fowler, 14, eighth grader at Sam Houston Junior High, likes puzzles and aspires to be a farmer, nicknamed Buster. Amarillo sportsmen plan a Texas Wildlife Federation quarterly meeting with W R Howren, Dave Britain, and Charlie Greer. Mr. and Mrs. B D McGuire of 113 North Lincoln have returned from California visiting Los Angeles relatives and touring Catalina Island and Hollywood. Seven Californians returned home after visiting Mrs. L A Yates in Amarillo, including Mrs Nina Griffith of Davis. Mrs. Pearl J Tennyson and son Jonesy, of Green Acres, return from Jackson Miss visits. Seth Carlin, son of Mrs P H Flynn, 1409 Jefferson, plans to leave.
A compendium of local highlights from Amarillo spanning 1900 to 1945 notes the demise of the Amarillo Fair and Racing Association, sheriff candidacy of J W Pottinger, and McCalls Magazine offers in 1900. It recalls prohibitionist activity and White House visits in 1912, hardware ads, Coca Cola bottle changes, and a shine parlor in the same year. 1925 marks tutor appointment for Herbert O Willborn and the sale of City Light and Water Plants to Southwestern Public Service Co. It also mentions 26 oil wells in Hutchinson County and a rain-seeking dynamite attempt on Polk Street. 1935 recordsまた 16 of 30 parked cars on Polk Street being from out of town, Esther Johnson’s European tour plans, and the Normandie model ladies hat. The 1945 notes include veteran loans, Butch Jenkins in Amarillo cinema, a new baby for the Worleys, and Maj Carl Hill Jr earning Silver Star and Bronze Star in Europe.
Saturday for a two weeks trip to Sioux Falls South Dakota to visit relatives. Mrs Nancy B Wiseman 408 Alabama will return home Sunday after a visit with relatives in California. Mr and Mrs W R Laughlin and children Barbara and Bob Green Acres Apartments have returned after a week’s visit to Wichita Kansas and Carthage Missouri where they visited relatives.
Il Tempo reports Rita Hayworth may rejoin cinema soon as director King Vidor seeks her in a new film. Aly Khan leaves the final choice to her after Hayworth reportedly turning down prior offers.
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