Yale honors Amarillo boy with Hubert Ralson Scholarship
The Hubert Clark Ralson Scholarship will award $3,000 to an Amarillo High School boy entering Yale University Class B. Selection based on character leadership and promise. fund established in memory of Hubert Ralson who died in a New Haven car crash last spring. Hubert, a Yale top student and campus leader, is survived by Mr and Mrs John W Raison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubert Clark Ralson
Amarillo
Yale University
Yale
Hubert
New Haven
AHS
John W. Raison
Monroe
Ed L. Roberts
W. B. Burke
Donald K. Walker
Amarillo Woman Fined for Carrying a Pistol
Jazie Nevels, an Amarillo Negro woman, was fined $100 and costs after pleading guilty in Potter County court to carrying a pistol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jazie Nevels
Amarillo
Potter County
First woman named bureau chief in a Japanese ministry
Kikue Yamakawa is appointed chief of the Women's and Minors Bureau in the Japanese Ministry of Labor, becoming the first woman to hold a bureau chief post in a Japanese ministry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kikue Yamakawa
Ministry of Labor
Anne Adams Pattern Book Seeks 30 Cent Pattern Request
Sewing pattern T4707 offered in multiple sizes 34 to 52 with crepe or single fabric options. Includes illustrated instructions and fit tested, mailing address in Amarillo Globe News for pattern request plus 20 cents for the Anne Adams Pattern Book and a free child’s dress pattern from the book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Adams
Amarillo Globe News
Pattern Dept
West 17Th St
New York
N.Y
Mrs Howard 64 Dies at Vega After Year of Ill Health
Mrs Amelia Louise Howard aged 64 died last night about 11 at the Vega home of her daughter Mrs Ruthie Murphy. She had lived in Amarillo 22 years and with a son Criss Howard at 3803 Lipscomb for a year. Born Feb 11 1887 in Berlin she came to the U S at age six and lived in Texas since. Survivors include three sons Frank Oscar Bennie and four daughters Bessie Jessie Charlene Georgia May and 22 grandchildren. Funeral arrangements are by N S Griggs & Sons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amelia Louise Howard
Amarillo
Ruthie Murphy
Vega
United States
Texas
Bowie
Howard
The
Baptist Church
Frank Howard
Lott
Tex
Oscar Howard
Bennie Howard
Bessie Teakell
Tulia
Jessie Anderson
Charlene Byars
Georgia May
LeClaire
Iowa
N. S. Griggs & Sons
New Warden Of Rebekahs Named At Fort Worth Assembly
Amarillo woman Georgia Ford was named warden of the Texas Rebekah Assembly at Fort Worth where newly elected officers were installed. Other officers include Myrtle Russell Electra president Evelyn Lovelace Bedford vice president Bertha H Porter Fort Worth secretary Frankie Masserang Fort Worth treasurer Ruby Jobe Teaff Waco representative Captalin Coleman Fort Worth state advisor Iantha Demaree San Benito and M M Madison Big Spring grand messenger Mae Self Terrell on the widows and orphans board. Two Amarillo women also received the knights degree, Mrs. Margaret Spender and Mrs. Anna Chamberlain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Texas Rebekah Assembly
Fort Worth
Georgia Ford
Maryland
Charles M. Ford
Ford
Myrtle Russell
Electra
Evelyn Lovelace
Bedford
Bertha H. Porter
Frankie Masserang
Ruby Jobe Teaff
Waco
Association of Rebekah Assemblies
Captalin Coleman
Theta Rho Girls of
Texas
M. M. Madison
Big Spring
Grand Messenger
The
Odd Fellows
Mae Self
Terrell
Widows and Orphans Home Board
Iantha Demaree
San Benito
Rebekahs
Margaret Spender
Anna Chamberlain
Bureau Seeks 500 Members for Amarillo BBB Drive
Amarillo Better Business Bureau launches a membership campaign with twenty teams of eight workers each targeting 500 new members. Co chairs Tom Kritser and Frank Helvey lead divisions as 610 prospects exist and 160 active members. Jack Proper outlines aims while Tris Coffin of Cleveland vies for secretary manager amid a director's meeting. Coffin, Harvard graduate, previously with Cleveland and Boston Bureaus, joins to lead membership and advisory work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Better Business Bureau
Herring Hotel
Tom Kritser
Frank Helvey
Cochairmen
Kritser
Soe
Jack Proper
Kruser
Tris Coffin
Cleveland
Gordon Morrison
Boston Better Business Bureau
Boston
Bureau
Coffin
Harvard University
Sets Rites for Gun Victim
The body of Frank Allen Ivy a 20 year old who died from a pistol wound last night will be sent tomorrow by Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home to Lometa Texas for funeral services and burial. Ivy home was 209 Florida and he died while en route to Northwest Texas Hospital after a gunshot wound above the heart yesterday afternoon around 530. A small caliber pistol was found nearby. A verdict of death from gunshot wound personal safety related was returned today by justice of the peace Mrs Ivy Wilkinson. Ivy and wife Margie had lived in Amarillo about three weeks after moving from Galveston. He was born Oct 19 1930 in Waco surviving wife and his mother Mrs George Ivy Lometa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Allen Ivy
Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home
Lometa
Tex
Mr. Ivy
Florida
Northwest Texas
Ivy Wilkinson
Ivy
Amarillo
Galveston
Waco
Margie Ivy
George Ivy
Buchanan Street Baptist Church to add 48 by 58 feet
Plans for a one story addition to Buchanan Street Baptist Church at Sixteenth and Buchanan have been submitted for city inspector approval and building permit. The 48 by 58 foot addition includes six Sunday school rooms an assembly room and rest rooms. Architect is Howard Ensign. No cost estimate was submitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchanan Street Baptist Church
Sixteenth and
Buchanan
Howard Ensign
Bulgarian exile speaks in Amarillo week of talks
Tzvetan Litov, exile from Plevan Bulgaria, fills several speaking engagements in Amarillo this week. He will speak tomorrow night at 7 45 at the First Church of the Nazarene under the National Committee for a Free Europe. Litov also speaks Thursday noon before the Rotary Club after Monday noon before the Kiwanis Club and Monday night at the San Jacinto Methodist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tzvetan Litov
Plevan
Bulgaria
Amarillo
First Church of the Nazarene
National Committee For A Free Europe
Mr. Litov
Rotary Club
Kiwanis Club
San Jacinto Methodist Church
XIT Boys and Music Fragments In Pierce Market Notes
Readable bits show Cedric Foster and Harvey Hardy among XIT Boys and Just Good Music segments. Markets and news brief mentions dim Pierce and local music notes. The partial items suggest a nostalgic catalog of personalities and tunes in a small town newspaper page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heatter
Harvey Hardy
Markets & News
Dim Pierce
Driver Fleeing Hit-and-Run Endangers Newspaper Carrier Boy
Police hunt a light blue 1941 Ford after it smashed into a Cadillac near Thirty seventh and Van Buren last night then fled while a newspaper carrier boy, Bill McCrary, Jr., 14, chased to obtain the license. The Cadillac owner is Clyde Robertson Jr. of 3600 Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill McCrary
Thirtyseventh
van Buren
McCrary
McCrary Lad
Cadillac
Clyde Robertson, Jr
Jackson
Sues Railroad For $200,000 In 108th District Court
O L Sims sues Fort Worth Denver Railroad for 200000 claiming permanent disability from injuries on January 30 1948. He says a fall in a caboose occurred when about seventy cars of slack were suddenly run out while he worked as a brakeman. Represented by a Tulsa attorney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
108Th District
Fort Worth
Moss Misses Hearing Over Anti Annexation Bill
City Manager N V Moss could not attend in Austin for hearings on the anti annexation bill after Braniff flight from Amarillo to Austin was canceled due to engine trouble. He sent telegrams to Texas Legislature expressing Amarillo's opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. V. Moss
Austin
Navy Veteran Seeks New Start After WWII Service
A 32 year old Navy veteran who served half a decade during World War II is married with two children and looking for a fresh employment or community opportunity. He describes his wartime experience as shaping his work ethic and seeks stable position.
Safe Burglary At Childress
In Childress on March 20 burglars struck the United Super Market and stole an undetermined amount from the safe. The break in was found at about 7 am by manager W C Bates who said the rear store door was smashed and a sledge hammer plus two screwdrivers were left beside the safe. Police Chief Dick Williams and Sheriff Kermit Waters reported the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Williams
Kermit Waters
Seven Puppies Die in Garage Fire at Seventeenth Street
A towel wrapped around seven cocker spaniel puppies caught fire in a garage apartment at 712 West Seventeenth, killing all. The blaze, likely sparked by an electric lamp kept for warmth, occurred in the remodel of owner R. S. Denton’s unit. the apartment itself remained undamaged. In other notes, Texas held 11 percent of the nation’s 84,179,000 cattle as of January.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Seventeenth
R. S. Denton
Texas
Mrs. LaVerna Womble Mitchell Rites at Blackburn-Shaw
Funeral services for Mrs. LaVerna Womble Mitchell wife of Maurice Mitchell were held this afternoon at 4 in the Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel with Dr. Francis W Pritchard officiating. Burial was in Hereford Cemetery. She died Sunday morning in St Anthony's Hospital after a long illness. She was 35 and a lifelong Hereford and Amarillo resident born May 10 1915 in Hereford. Survivors include her husband a son a daughter her mother and two brothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Hereford
Amarillo
Doctor climber rescues himself from upstairs fire
A doctor from Cudworth, Scotland, trapped in an upstairs room, escaped by reaching a thin copper radio aerial wire to swing to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cudworth
Scotland
US Cities With Population At Least Fifty Thousand
A roster highlights 231 cities across the United States that have populations of 50,000 or more, reflecting urban growth and demographic shifts. The list spans multiple states and includes major hubs, mid sized centers, and regional capitals contributing to varying regional dynamics.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hubert Ralson
Hessie Hamilton
Miller Street
Flint
Mich
Kellogg
Kellogg’s
Battle Creek
Mrs
Buchanan Church
Y Technicolor
Fred Gabbard
CLUB
Runnymede
Cooper & Melin and Tolzien
Blus
Patricia Neal Ruth Roman
Amarillo Radio
SKGNC
KFDA
andNalee
Gordon
Morgan Beatt News
iBaby
Bob Hope
NBC
Big Town
Deems Taylor Co
Tom
S. W. Neigh
Childre
Johnny Lee Will
Platter Palace
Riders Purple Sa
Bors
Borden
Weldon Bright
Jack Berch
Dave Garroway
Man Perkins
Dr. Malone
Texaco Star
Melody
Panhandle Plains
Wur iWunstop Duzzii
Markets
Pepper Young Fr
Stella Dallas
Lorenzo Jones
Portia
Lil
iPerry Mason
Elmer Davis
Jack Armst
Jack Armsti
Erwin Canhar
Auditio
Hannibal Cobb
Buckbo
Jimmy
Inews
BNING
Ley Wakely
Betty Crocker
News
David Ami 'Quuck
S Qiuck
Ty Fla
Jabbo Watson
Paymaster
E. Merchant
Kuzin
Kenya
Cisco Kid iCisco Kid
Big Jon
Sparky
Flynn
Mystery Theater
Mrs. North
Luigi
Nates
Capitol Cloakr
Elliott
Adio Prograi
Gabriel Heatter
Fulton Lewis
Bill Johns
iHud
Howdy
Monte
John Steele
Trav
iFrank Edwards
Bob Poole
CBS News
Sons of Pioneer
Dr. Webber
Arthur Godfrey
Arthur
Godfrey
Bing Crosby
Renfro Valley
H. Trenjour
Eddie E Arnold iGrady Cole
S&h
Green R
Wom Club
Ai 'Nat
Chicagoan
Treasure Chest News
Sey
Smoky Joe
Dixie
Robert Hurleigh
Old Corral
J. Lisemore
Peggy Lee
Cedric Foster
Pioneer Playboys
Mark Trail
Mark Trial
Clyde Beatty
Washington
Oval
KGNC
Charlie Crudgington
Gordon Suits
Wes Izzard
Bob Izzard
NBC News
Sues Railroad
Moss
Childress
Mrs. Mitchell
Texaco
Abela Sal
Cooper - Roman
Amarillo’s
Morton
Featuring
Guy Dell Ekelund
Boyd
E Sons
Ding
Werrin
Star Nite Club
East Tenth
Dallas Hiway
Grand Ave
Bob Wills
Plage Eth
TC Sev Yee
Windetorm
Bonde
Sams Boice Age
Insurance Fete & Orm Sr. Wllo
Piote Glass
R.F.C
Ansley Cleaners
1Th & R.F.C. Rabbit Fur Coats
Liberty
Urubu
Vulture People
Bill Boyd
Art Davis
Polk
MacDonald Carey
Shelley Winters
Dennis En
Betsy Drak
Pretty Baby
Fong
Rex Theater
America
Ann Blyth
Farley Granger
Snow Dog
Yvonne de Carlo
Wim. Powell
Palo Duro Canyon
Georgia
Maureen O’hara
John Payne
Cassino
Korea
PLUS
Mewiex
W. 6
W.fillmore
Victaire
Dallas Highway
Coavio-Niventeresa-Wright
Eae Slu
Ld Ae
Walter Fitzgerald
Paramount
Joan
A Crawford
Columbia
Barker
Way Parkshale
Willard Parker
Una Merkel
Alan Reed
America Pinkerton
Capitol
Emerg i
Rialto Toul
Leo Carrillo
Frank Ross
Ero Charles Winninger
Phil Silvers
Dick Foran
Texas Road
Leon Errol
Buckarees
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!