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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1951
Page
25
An advertisement for a local loan or financing business features the slogan The Home of Practically Painless Payments. It provides a contact number 205 Buchanan P. 2-1163 and uses persuasive language to attract customers seeking easy installment options.
Featuring a 50 Chrysler New Yorker Club Coupe with automatic transmission and white wall tires. Also listed are a 50 DeSoto Custom Club Coupe and a 50 Ford Custom Tudor with radio heater and overdrive. Includes a Ruby Maroon SO Pontiac Town Sedan with radio and heater and a 5 Studebaker Commander Starlight Club Coupe with overdrive and white wall tires.
Used Auto Sales at 309 S Fillmore lists numerous 1940s era cars with prices from 495 to 1895. Models include Studebaker Champion, Ford Club Coupe, Chevrolet Styleline, DeSoto, Buick Roadmaster, and Plymouth pickups. Items feature heaters, radios, overdrive, and specific mileages. Contact phone 2-7925 for details.
Several listings scatter throughout the page offering used cars and parts. Highlights include a 1948 Special De Luxe Plymouth with 23,000 miles, a 1947 Chevrolet Coupe, a 1950 Plymouth Station Wagon, multiple Studebaker and Ford models, assorted Chevrolets, Buicks and Pontiacs, plus JEEP 1950 with 5,000 miles. Also advertised are auto parts suppliers and services nearby, with contact numbers and locations like 1015 Georgia and 715 Fillmore.
Local display lists several used pickups with descriptions including a 42 GMC 34 ton model and a 46 Dodge 6x16 setup. Mentions heater and overload, tires described, plus spring and fair conditions noted as rough. Advertising tone suggests avaiable units with varying specs and conditions.
Classified pickup panel entries show a 1946 Dodge one ton panel a 1946 Chevrolet half ton panel a 1941 Chevrolet half ton truck and a 1946 Dodge six ton model from Hedgecoke Motor Co at 501 West Sixth with phone number 447. Includes dealer contact and model details for local buyers.
The city of Amarillo prepares for an April 3 1951 election to choose a Mayor and two Commissioners. Precincts 1 through 11 are defined with polling locations Potter and Randall counties. Officers for each precinct are listed with presiding and assistant judges and clerks. The notice mandates posting at polling places and publication in local papers.
NEWPORT Washington U P reports H E Stanton assistant project director at the Albeni Falls dam recounts a near disaster as his outboard motor launch drifted toward the falls after the engine failed. He frantically cranked the controls and, as in the movies, the engine caught at the last moment allowing a safe return.
In Green Bay a mechanic, John Sullivan McKeefry, faced speeding charges after claiming he tested a newly repaired car in town. The judge dismissed the tale, ordering twenty five dollars and costs.
Rosalind Appleton a ballet dancer from Edinburgh Scotland is noted as the daughter of a Nobel prize winning scientist.
Pattern 7041 promises a versatile pinafore sun dress skirt with or without bib in sizes 2 4 and 6. Readers are invited to send twenty cents to Amarillo Globe News for a pattern copy and to print address zone and pattern number. The notice promotes an Alice Brooks Needlework Catalog with illustrated crafts and hobbies.
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