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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1951
Page
2
A miscellany of old jokes and quips from The Laugh Book touching on hats salads arguments and endearing country humor. It includes a tongue in cheek tale about a farmer losing pigs and a light note on a wedding gift of pajamas featuring a hen and rooster.
A dated suggestion for travelers advises women to wear laundered khaki for a clean, fresh appearance. It warns against plain blue jeans unless altered and urges husbands to modify jeans or pedal pushers before their wives ride in two door sedans.
A reflective column discusses attitudes toward newcomers in Amarillo, noting that some residents doubt strangers’ motives while urging warmer welcomes. It contrasts city life with hometown realities, musing on patience, prejudice, and the varied paths of women and families. It mentions travel, life experience, and exercise from daily chores.
Lindsay Warren as United States Comptroller-General accuses the Maritime Commission of two billion in misused funds that are unaccounted for and unlikely to ever be resolved. The remark notes denial and ongoing controversy surrounding the missing money.
A fragment discusses someone named Mr. Timmons or another person and states that if identification is made, a $100 check will be issued. The brief text implies a rapid response by Globe News and a promised reward contingent on identifying a person.
A letter reports residents in Kerrick observing humming birds each summer visiting a flower garden on the south side of a house. The writer notes up to four birds at a time and mentions several kinds not previously seen in the Panhandle during multiple summers.
The speaker urges Beulah to verify sightings of large moths versus humming birds, suggesting neighbors assist, and notes a team could visit Kerrick. It explains humming birds are daytime and moths dusk diversions, while appearances can resemble each other.
A newcomer writer defends Amarillo landlords as kind and helpful to a family with a child, noting their support during illness and acceptance of the grandson. The letter shares gratitude toward the landlord and his wife and contrasts with negative views. A travel note advertises Rusty Miller at La Vera Lodge in Pinedale Wyoming with a four person fishing trip for a week at 300 dollars including boats guides and transport.
The article analyzes how bidding shapes play in bridge, using a Bermuda international championship hand where Britain reached three no trump but the bid caused their defeat. It describes the English declarer winning the first trick with the queen of clubs, then cashing three diamonds to release trump control, and planning the jack of diamonds when in dummy, with Schenken examining the hand from the West.
Mr Miller is an expert at this and the chances are that any per sons who engage him would have ex cellent sport. Much depends upon the weather and the mood of the fish, always in fishing, but Mr Miller will guarantee them a run for their money. And he knows trout fishing and where to go. If interested write Rusty Miller, care of La Vera Loder. Pinedale, Wye. And send it air mail. The better plan is a wire.
Various items for sale and services listed including pool table at 2216 Washington, a portable vacuum cleaner, saladmaster and rug pad, furniture like an oak dining table, a coaz tove upright range, a navy painted bed with springs, a four drawer dresser, a cedar chest, an S&H stamps book, and a puppy. Ads also offer child care, housework jobs, ironing, and housing or trailer rental requests. Contact numbers provided.
Robert Brierey of 908 Travis has been accepted as a third year student at the graduate school of credit and financial management at Dartmouth College. The program opens August 3 and is funded by the National Association of Credit Men, the Credit Research Foundation, Inc. and The Aroostook? Tuck School of Business Administration. Ms. Brierley is assistant credit manager of The Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation.
Panhandle Independent Garage Men's Association will meet tomorrow night in the Commissioners Court, Room 313 of the courthouse. Speaker is scheduled after a recent trip to Indian Territory and a conference with Guy N. Cummins, secretary of the National Automotive Maintenance Association.
Commercial fishermen may take Salmon on the north side of Lough Poyle which separates Ulster from Erre, but not from the south or republican side.
The play shows Schenken exploiting a heart weakness after a bid. He uses the ace of clubs and queen of hearts to force a win of eight tricks. If West attacks hearts, South can set up spade tricks, else South makes the contract.
Vicksburg Michigan July 7 33 Mrs Jean Gregory a 27 year old mother of three seeks a marriage proposal from a man earning about 100 dollars a week to support her children and her mother cancer patient Amanda Farrow. More than 200 applicants have been screened with many more planned to view her. she will marry only if the right man comes along and would require funds for her mother’s operation. An offer from a Chicago couple with no strings attached was declined.
Guests from Emporia Kansas enjoy their visit in Amarillo while planning for a Boy Scout home project. David and Johnny joined Dr. and Mrs J B Bord to visit Mr and Mrs W W Elledge in Sunset. Elledge is an assistant cashier at the Amarillo National Bank.
A bovine hoof and mouth outbreak is reported among dairy herds in Bolivia, prompting authorities to monitor cattle movements and implement containment measures. Local farmers assess losses as veterinary teams investigate the spread and advise quarantine.
Delbert Daily suspects his son Duke’s national soap carving prize of $1 may be a ruse as the boy spent 20 cents daily during the contest. The father recounts how Duke hid the project’s progress by breaking the soap bricks, leaving a nearly worn, legible statue and prompting a plan to claim the $10 prize check before Duke's pride grows. Dale recently returned from Camp Stewart near Kerrville with honors, adding to the family pride and concern.
Horoscope for born today July 23 urges self restraint and diplomacy amid jealousy. It advises pursuing politics teaching or stage, using charm carefully in romance, and choosing a sympathetic partner. Tomorrow’s signs list zodiac birth days with career options and cautions across cancer through gemini with delays and hunches.
Washington July 22 The Office of Price Stabilization authorized soft drink bottlers to raise prices to retailers to 96 cents a case. The move could lift retail bottle prices to 6 cents each, though Coca Cola may keep current pricing. The ceiling applies to 6 and 12 ounce bottles, effective July 23. The rule aims to relieve bottler hardship and allows up to a 16 cent wholesale boost per 24 bottle case, with deposits for bottles rising to cover replacements.
San Francisco fire officials rounded up suspects in a pre dawn apartment house fire at 214 Haight Street the College Court Apartments that killed eight people and injured 23. Witnesses described scorched walls water boiling from hoses and occupants fleeing from windows as firefighters battled the blaze in a crowded four story frame building.
Elmer Adams and his wife of Battle Creek were crowned king and queen of the Central Sunbath ing Association today as members applauded. Floral wreaths crowned them yesterday during the final ceremonies of the annual convention attended by about 550 people. An election parade selected Adamses from a field of 33 candidates, with Anis Ecapp of Chicago officiating and noting a rule that participants must pose for a photographer.
A mother guides her young son through a department store during an anniversary sale. The boy asks what an anniversary sale is and where the birthday cake is, prompting a simple explanation about the store's birthday.
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