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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1950
Page
17
A Amarillo watchmaker, Willa Mae McCandless, based in Levine's on Polk Street, urges regular watch care. She explains the balance wheel beats 5 times per second, equaling 18 000 motions per hour and about 432 000 daily, illustrating why routine cleaning is essential and guarantees her workmanship.
E L Smith at 116 East Fifth in Amarillo promotes 33 years of band and orchestra instruments plus pianos organs and jewelry. He invites old and new customers to visit the Amarillo Band House where a repair department handles all instrument types.
The Dutch government recognized the Chinese Communist government today in The Hague. Dr J Vixie Boxse, secretary of the Dutch Embassy at Peiping, delivered notice to the central government and to the Chinese Nationalist ambassador Dr J H Kinghui Chang that the Netherlands no longer recognizes Chiang Kai-shek's regime.
Fred Exposito owner of Fred's Beauty Salon invites old and new customers to book Easter hair styling. Located Rooms 318-319 Blackburn Building, call 23342 to secure an appointment before Easter peak. Exposito highlights vibrant, healthy looking hair and notes the salon's operators are experts. he is a former Amarillo city styling winner and placed fourth in a state contest.
Born to day a sense of humor mitigates your stern masterful personality. You are careful about business matters with a filing cabinet mind. You are socially adaptable with many contacts and friends who can aid your work. Fond of travel you will visit far places in your lifetime.
Mead's Fine Bread advertises longer freshness using modern baking and new ingredients. It emphasizes quality materials and a snowy white texture with a rich brown crust and makes toast, breakfast, and school lunches appealing. The ad notes nationwide Panhandle delivery and rapid distribution to grocers and cafes.
Tuesday brings guidance from Aries to Pisces with leadership, aggressive selling, public prestige, productive effort, and entertainment plans. Focus on organization, cooperation, and initiative to achieve desired results and explore new ideas. Dist by United Feature Syndicate.
Seventeen of the managers of enterprises recently nationalized in Hungary are women.
City Builders at 513 East Fifth Street Amarillo markets one bill home ownership and commercial work through a single company. David Hickman handles projects from yard work to building houses offering general contracting licensed engineers metal and electrical work plumbing roofing insulation plastering painting and more with financing options. The firm affiliates with 11 of Amarillo’s outstanding firms serving homeowners hotels offices industrial plants apartments and tourist courts.
Amarillo Monumental Company at Thirty-First and Fillmore Streets offers one of the largest selections of monuments and memorials in the Southwest with nearly 700 designs to choose from. They sell high quality materials backed by quarry guarantees and feature many copyrighted artistic designs not imitated by lower grades. The company advertises low prices, a monthly payment plan with no interest, and urges early orders before Memorial Day to avoid rush.
Duncan Hines shares a method for oven broiling chicken to retain moisture at the High Hampton Inn in Cashiers North Carolina. Use three spring chickens to feed six, prepare stock from backs necks livers and gizzards, salt pieces individually, score with butter, bake 350 degrees for 1 to 1 1/2 hours, then keep warm and add flour to pan juices.
Marshall Deaton offers half price or less on many magazines with 78 week Time and Life deals, Reader’s Digest, Ladies’ Home Journal, Woman’s Home Companion, American Magazine, Collier’s, Better Homes & Gardens, and more. Subscriptions available by phone or mail, with reduced rates and multi year terms.
The instruction describes browning butter in a roaster, adding stock, and making gravy. The finished gravy is to be served immediately and poured from a gravy boat.
Flames swept through five buildings in Fort Worth with a strong northwest wind last night, destroying three and severely damaging another. The losses hit poultry market, a residence, and a planing mill, with Fire Marshal C. C. Killian estimating the total at about $35,000.
Funeral services were conducted here yesterday for Charles K. Barnum managing editor of the Brazoria County Daily Review. He died in Angleton Saturday night after a brief illness, age 66.
Gatlin Glass at 417 East Tenth offers tailored auto glass cutting and expert installation for all car and truck windows and windshields. Hugh Gatlin supervises work, with 12 years in Amarillo, promising precise fits, safe door mechanisms, and a variety of mirrors for homes.
A readers letters column discusses candlelight during daytime gatherings and the etiquette of using candles with daylight. Another note resolves a Jr. naming quandary by suggesting a different middle name for the child to avoid future confusion. A dunking question advises dunking with a small bite and spoon rather than dipping with fingers.
Mrs Post answers that the bride’s family must provide for out of town bridesmaids, but not required for others. Hospitality to the groom’s immediate family is optional and not standard practice.
The Civil Service Commission said 800 fewer civilian federal jobholders on March 1 than February, the lowest since March 1942. Including overseas staff, total federal civilians reached 1,949,000 at month start. Hong Kong to waive anti rabies vaccine for year end inoculation plan.
The Sprinkler Company at 2904 West Sixth has secured Texas Lawn Sprinklers dealership and reports higher installations this year than all of last year. Bill Bannister and Ted Busch praise the system’s performance while Frank Talley notes design and installation delays. Out-of-town crews are booked for Pampa Canadian Stratford and Dumas in six weeks. Sprinkler heads and parts assure trouble free use and skilled technicians handle installations. Free booklet and estimates available by visiting writing or calling 3-4168.
Wichita Falls report cites 17 year old amateur boxer Richard York charged with rape after assault on a 14 year old schoolgirl last Thursday. Two juvenile suspects to be transferred to juvenile authorities.
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