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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1947
Page
9
Mrs Dewey Nicholson at 1322 Tyler reports a fat brown prairie dog scratched at her door. The animal wandered inside an apartment building and was soon cornered in a box by two city workers from the water department after the Nicholsons called the pound.
Pilot Club hosts a benefit carnival at the Eleventh and Pork amusement park Friday June 20 with all proceeds to sponsor a school for children with speech impediments. S. B. Rhodes donated rides labor. tickets and pop sold by club members. School opening tentatively August 31 for preschool children excluding those with organic trouble, announced by president Mrs Frances Munn Cyrus.
City jail capacity of 32 inmates was exceeded as a surge of itinerant harvest laborers arrived. Over Saturday night 72 prisoners were booked for breakfast and 64 remained by Sunday morning, many held for drunkenness and disturbances.
The national average flax yield in 1946, a favorable year, stood at 9.6 bushels per acre.
Palo Duro Assembly No. 113, Order of Rainbow for Girls, keeps selling pencils at 50 cents each through Saturday. Returns from last Friday’s campaign were about $100. Janette Robb, worthy adviser, announces the chapter’s practice drill.
Houston woman Mildred Tucker age 27, mother of three, seeks to sell one eye for surgical proceeds to start a small business and support her children. Her husband John Edwin Tucker, 28, disappeared last December after a bakery accident in Fort Worth. She believes he might be an amnesia victim and has not received relief assistance.
YMCA announces enlarged summer schedule under Paul Fowler with weekday game rooms 9 to 5, Saturday 9 to 4, closed Sundays. Church softball 7 30 to 9 at Fair Park, Red Cross swimming Tuesday and Thursday mornings at Gem Lake, beginner 10, advanced 11. Tennis clinics 9 30 Wednesdays Ellwood Park and Fridays Sam Houston Park. Also Co Ed Club meetings and events at YMCA this week including open house and dance.
Worth Merle Freeman of Amarillo received a degree at the sixty sixth annual commencement exercises of Colorado College held in Colorado Springs Saturday.
Mr and Mrs Jack Wyatt of 2009 Jackson returned from New Orleans where their son George earned a diploma at Tulane University School of Medicine, graduation exercises marking a milestone for the family and graduate.
The company announces it will continue producing and supplying replacement parts for the discontinued automobile for a period of five years. This commitment ensures ongoing service support and vehicle maintenance capability for owners and dealers.
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