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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1945
Page
15
Mrs Sid Carter and her children Billie Jean Virginia and Charles plan to travel today along the Canyon highway to Stephenville to visit Mrs Carter's mother.
A compiled classified panel lists multiple vehicles for sale or trade. Included are 1939 Studebaker Commander, various Ford, Chevrolet, Plymouth, Pontiac and Dodge models with taillights, tires, and prices. Also noted are trucks and trailers, with shop contacts Bishop's Service Station and individuals in Texas offering or seeking purchases.
Local ads list ball bearings brake linings and clutch services from Clyde K Brown Sales Co and King Trailer Co. Amarillo area shops offer rebuilt fuel pumps starters and generators. welding and wrecking services. Braden distributor info. several for sale listings include trailers farm equipment and a 39 Ford dump truck, a 42 National trailer house, a camping trailer, and a Ravens trailer. Narrowed aviation note touts 175 horsepower engines refinished and licensed by CAA for sale or trade with Taylor and Heath.
A flood of small ads offers a graduate nurse job in June, housing for care duties, various furniture and appliances for sale, a piano, a Pekingese dog, a 1945 air conditioning unit, a combine, real estate, and help wanted including waitresses and general housework. Entries list contact phones and addresses, reflecting typical late midcentury classified pages.
The section lists ongoing programs at Paramount STATE CAPITOL RIALTO LEON REX STAR VICTORY TEXAS LIBERTY LYRIC venues. Highlights include Without Love with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, Crime Inc with Leo Carrillo and Tom Neal, Between Two Women with Van Johnson and Gloria de Haven, Sagebrush Trail with John Wayne, Rationing with Wallace Beery, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves with Maria Montez, and One Body Too Many with Jack Haley plus other titles and stars.
Aviatrix and THE NAT offer nightly dance tunes with Carlton Scales and Fritz Cowan bands respectively. Rainbow Gardens features Sons of the West Monday through Saturday. Mexican Inn plays most nights with Ermon Gray. Mayfair showcases Jimmy Meek Orchestra. Blue mirrored Room and Avalon offer weeknight and weekend music. rille Hotel and Old Tascosa present nightly orchestras led by Ralph Willoughby and Dick Morton.
Ideal weather keeps crowds flocking to the Great United Shows midway on the Tri-State Fair Grounds. The carnival opened Tuesday and runs through June 10 with more rides for children than other carnivals. Capt Monty Beehler and his dog and monkey and pony show headline as the midway’s biggest attraction, drawing capacity crowds. J George Loos, manager, announced a Sunday matinee to aid working parents taking younger children.
Miss Zoe Allen visits her sister Mrs. T. J. Homnsley in Huntsville for three weeks and plans to visit another sister Mrs. Houghton in Abilene.
Miss Joan Risher daughter of Mr and Mrs M C Risher Borger has left Amarillo College to spend the summer in Borger.
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