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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1950
Page
19
Inexpensive car list from 1940s classified ad style. Includes low mileage 875 asking price, contact at 1218 West Third Street, phone 38228, and notes on other makes like 1947 Pontiac and 1942 Hudson. Limited legible details.
LeRoy Blanks, 32, of 1602 West Twentieth, remained at St. Anthony's Hospital after a two car crash at Tenth and Fillmore at 6 am. She drove a car that struck Marvin Williams, 46, of Hil land SD. Taken to the hospital by police, she complained of head and neck injuries with X rays not yet finished at noon.
Jasper McClinton 47 and a juvenile accomplice were arrested after a theft of a case of oil from Herring Hotel Garage at Second and Pierce. Oil recovered. McClinton is charged with theft over 5 and held by county authorities. juvenile turned over to juvenile services.
Tom Collins Powers of White Deer pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in Potter County court. He was fined 150 dollars and costs for a July 14 collision between two cars on North East Eighth in front of the Trix Drive Inn.
Like new radio metal prop landing lights. Price 2650 or offer. Contact 3-5998. Also 60 HP airplane for sale or trade for rotary machine equipment, automobile or motorcycle. 701 Cedar, Plain.
Dwight Ruppett, a Van Nuys grocer clerk and former technicolor lab tech, travels to Amarillo to seek a wife on NBC’s People Are Funny. He has drawn hundreds of letters, will appear at local events, and stay sponsored with a Plains Chevrolet car during his Amarillo stop framed as a lively publicity week by KGNC and Sundown Playhouse.
County Clerk Loren Jones reports 308 absentee ballots cast in the July 22 Democratic primary with the deadline at midnight tomorrow. The tally is light vs 849 in 1948. Twenty-one of 68 mailed ballots have been returned as of now.
Three identical bids were received from Bennett Printing Company George D Barnard and Co and The Stock Company for 12 500 poll tax receipts and 17 500 exemption certificates The Stock Company was not named as the awardee Austin Commissioners awarded the Barnard bid at 484 per item including the two Dallas firms and the third bidder.
Potter County commissioners authorize a 21937 dollar right of way settlement with George Killian for damages from widening US 66 west of Amarillo. Includes real estate removal of a home cafe, and rebuilding the tourist court front. Also authorize condemnation against Sunset Drive-In and Bearden Theaters for theater screen relocations.
Board of Insurance Commissioners in Austin Texas certifies The European General Reinsurance Company Ltd London England complied with Texas laws as a condition to do business for the year ending May 31 1950 and assigns certificate number 2093 and company number K-320 with the official seal and signature of George B Butler year 1950.
Authorities took a juvenile suspect into custody for the July 5 stabbing of John Hernandez a 20 year old amateur boxer at 1325 East Ninth in an early morning brawl. Hernandez was treated at St. Anthony's Hospital. The youth will be charged as a juvenile delinquent.
The $90,000 damage suit of Homer Lewis Medlin of Dallas against the Rock Island Railroad opened in federal district court today. Medlin died after his car was struck by a Rock Island train on Oct. 30. The petition seeks damages of $73,421.90 plus $20,000 exemplary. Attorneys Palmer & Rochelle of Dallas represent the plaintiff.
Senate judiciary committee approved President Truman’s nomination of William H. Hastie to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, marking the highest judicial post for a Negro in the nation. Hastie, 45, former Virgin Islands governor and ex-US district judge, serves on a recess appointment and hails from Knoxville Tennessee. The committee did not disclose the vote and the nomination proceeds to the Senate for final action.
Fort Worth records show county delinquent tax collectors located 160 acres with no taxes paid from 1919 to 1927. The parcel lies at the bottom of Lake Worth, confirming the long‑pending tax remedy.
A 1950 notice from Austin Texas lists a certificate and company numbers with Western National Indemnity Company of San Francisco. The document cites Texas law for the year ending May 31 and appears in relation to a want ad section.
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