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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1950
Page
15
Amarillo notes list visiting relatives in Waco and Lub bock while noting military moves. Local births and hospital reports include multiple newborns and a grandchild. Social items cover travel, civic events, theater rehearsals, and community notices with names and addresses.
A thrift pattern from Laura Wheeler offers six towel motifs for linens. Includes charts photos and concise directions. Send twenty cents for the pattern to Amarillo Globe News Needlecraft Dept. P.O. Box 161 New York Print Lab. Also fifteen cents for the Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book with 104 illustrations and beginner friendly designs.
Auctioneers in Greenburg Ind presided over a large Hereford sale near Fort Worth in 1920 with 56 head selling for 26775 dollars, averaging 476 per head and a top price of 2550. By 1931 Amarillo hosted the First Fat Stock Show with a grand coronation, stock pavilion events, and baby beef sales. In 1940 drizzle dampened openings as Panhandle events highlighted bulls and calves with strong price support and regional pride.
The Range Rider column notes a prize win in a New Year resolution contest and mentions Hal Mad Stone L H Berger of Parker who touts a so called mad stone from an albino deer said to prevent rabies. It recalls historic mad stones used on animal bites and cites Henry Borger finding the relic near Sandstone Oklahoma about 45 years ago. The Spanish Club in Amarillo encounters trouble arranging a Capitol Hotel lunch after a booking mix up blamed on Judge Stokes and Saul Kaye for poor Spanish.
Ora Wright profiles Jimmy Holmes president of his class at Ablo High School. He has served three years, is in the band, and loves auto mechanics with a goal to own an automotive related business. He is eight, with dark brown hair and blue eyes, son of Mr and Mrs FE Holmes, 4213 West Twelfth. Louie Flores, known as Lucky
Dr Arne Frantzell of a university in Sweden says he developed X rays that reveal muscles, skin and fat along with bones in a single image, claiming a new diagnostic capability.
Mrs Blythe Sears of Amarillo may attend Milwaukee’s National Contesters’ Convention this summer. A prize winner on the Quiz Kids program, she has claimed ten radios among other awards and is described as quite eligible for the event. Mr Cooper, a Santa Fe passenger train conductor, was fined in a hospital stay.
Police in Edmond Oklahoma respond to a frantic call and find a skunk caught in a rat trap after failing to track an escaped leopard earlier in the week. The incident underscores repeated wildlife sightings in the area and prompts local wildlife officials to remind residents of safety precautions.
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