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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1947
Page
4
A humorous piece contrasts idealized domestic duties with a woman's real scattered day, lampooning chores from shining boots to vacuuming, while musing on American women’s paradoxes. The author cites a mock Gallup poll among women, noting coyly polarized views and playful sarcasm.
May collections of vehicle fees totaled 21706.12 as reported by Potter County tax collector Frank Hoyt. Passenger car payments totaled 6536 for the county state fund while commercial vehicle licenses reached 3627. A remittance to county officers was 220.48. About 1382 went to the county treasurer and 10097 to the state highway department.
A local Amarillo tale describes a chicken named Baby that sang and laid eggs but could not crow. The bird, once owned by the late Mrs. Frank Mitchell, reportedly transitioned to a rooster-like state with a larger comb as feathers changed during the fall season.
Mrs Mitchell frowned as a creature described as a real he man spur strutted through the yard. It was said to be a laying hen that had perhaps set some eggs and…
Corine Gascho, a Johnson Street School pupil from Pierce, is named among 500 winners in NBC Quiz Kids Best Teacher contest. She earns prize money and a Quiz Kid gold key, honoring Miss Melva Karnes as the admired teacher. Half of Texas winners hail from the Panhandle with others including Beverley Edwards and Mrs Floyd McSpadden.
A Panhandle pair among three Texas winners were Jimmie Dean Howze, 16, with teacher Mrs. M. C. Goodner of Clarendon, and Doris Bates, 17, under her teacher Miss Mildred Hulsey of Tulia. Nancy Storey of Canyon and Jerry Lou Gaylor also contributed letters from Texas.
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