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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1947
Page
10
The Deb-Ette Club hosts its annual Indian Dance at Amarillo College Gym with 75 cent admission for singles or couples from 9 to 12. Barbara Husbands says gym will feature totem poles and teepees, members in Indian attire, and many young social-set attendees.
The Friday night event at sunset featured a putting meet with Art Querry taking first place. Participants included J R Brown Bill Jenkins Jack Bush Bill Hall Donny Art MeKay Jr Aubrey Robertson Perry Burks Morris Loewenstern Earle Coffee Dr W M Carl Randy Smith Cecil Smith Cecil Holland Bill Utter Bob Gleason ran the event.
The annual child health clinic will be at the Herring Hotel August 15 and 16 with 35 staff from Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital conducting a preschool health examination for ages 1 to 8. Dr. Ray McFarland of Wichita will coordinate and lecture on early childhood issues. a $1 registration fee is charged.
A well dressed woman entered city purchasing agent Jess Pate’s office and insisted she would keep a banty rooster despite police and health department objections. She argued the bird is clean and not a nuisance, crowing at 5 am in the apartment house need not trigger complaints.
Coeur d Alene Idaho. Sentencing of LeRoy Gardner sixteen year old confessed auto thief was delayed as jailers could not bring him to court. Other prisoners jammed the cell lock and a locksmith took five hours to open the door.
Bobby Lee Lummus 17, blind since birth, seeks a typing or piano tuning job in Amarillo to fund his senior year at Amarillo High and plans to attend UT law school. He types 60 wpm, hopes for a seeing-eye dog, and prefers an office role to meet people while continuing studies and activities at the Texas School for the Blind.
A man known as Bobby says he is not good at fishing and lacks luck. He tunes pianos and waits by the telephone hoping for an office job offer, mentioning the number 23481.
A group of young residents share lifelong dreams in a feature by Betty Burkhalter.LEVORA MANNING 17 aims to be an Amelia Earhart type while COTTON DAVIS 21 dreams of horse trading. Others name piloting, acting, veterinary work, art, farming, or sculpture as their early goals.
Perry Spencer, 13, uses two crutches and a leg brace to hike 14 miles in six hours with three fellow Scouts to earn his First Class Scout badge. He swam 50 yards, staying on his back, despite infantile paralysis begun at age six. His mother notes the hike cured his crutch swinging habit.
Mr and Mrs Sydney Rozet move from Rising Star to Amarillo and stay with Mrs Rose Leith at 800 B Lamar while seeking an apartment. Mr Rozet will enroll at Amarillo College.
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