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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1951
Page
23
Classified listing showing autos, trailers, planes, trailers, and home furnishings for sale or trade. Items include 1951 Chevrolet, 1948 trailers, Schults trailers, 1941 Ponterfield airplane, a 4 room apartment, pony, pistol, and various household goods with contact numbers and payment terms.
Miss Evelyn Oppenheimer will review Rivers Parting at 2 o'clock tomorrow in St Andrew's Episcopal Church Parish Hall. Courtesy by Sanger Bros of Dallas. Presented by the Church Women's Auxiliary. Written by Shirley Barker about England and New Hampshire. Program opens with 30 minutes of piano by Mrs. Robert McKenzie. Nursery provided. Open to the public. A silver offering will be collected.
Four medical groups meeting with the Texas Medical Association elected Houston doctors to lead for the coming year. W. M. Pratt, C. F. Miller, John S. Minnett, Paul V. Ledbetter, Kleberg Eckhardt, James E. Dailey, Robert B. Morrison, Henry R. Hoskins, W. Harris Connor, Paul Power, David Wade, and Don Morris were named to top posts across eight associations in Galveston.
Rastosthenes of Cyrene is cited as the father of scientific geography for his early estimate of the earth's circumference. His calculation occurred when knowledge of the globe was limited and distant regions unknown to most people.
Hereford May 1 Special Directors of the Deaf Smith County Rural Electric Co operative were re elected in a close contest after a rival slate entered the race. Incumbents Seigler Wright Draper Birkenfeld Miller Watkins Osborn held on by margins from 10 to 30 votes over Curtis Traweek and supporters. Traweek urged reform of the nominating process and opposed extra funds for a headquarters building amid rising debt from about 500000 to 2000000 dollars. Defeated were Hunter Perrin Hays Noland Higgins London Kershen. Election judges were Coconaugher Gass Morrison.
Warranty deeds transfer property across multiple blocks and neighborhoods including Famous Heights Westview Browning and Amarillo Heights with named buyers such as Eva Davis J. C. Green and Anna Murphy among many others. Marriage licenses issued for Lucere Apodaca Scrimshire Pantes. Court of Domestic Relations sees several divorces including Jersig Cobb and Hernandez Ferguson.
Santa Fe System carloadings for the week ending April 28, 1951, reached 24,671, up from 23,492 in the same week of 1950. Cars received from connections totaled 14,393 versus 10,959 a year earlier, and total cars moved were 39,064, up from 34,461. The railroad handled 38,210 cars in the preceding week.
The Amarillo High School newspaper The Sandstorm earned a first class rating from the National Scholastic Press Association for fall issues. Editor Sue Cearley led a staff including Janelle Williamson business manager and student editors Carol Bliss Julian Levine Jean Duvall Bonnie McNutt Carolyn Higinbotham Nancy Bursey and others with a large team of reporters photographers and assistants.
The National Honor Society will initiate new members this evening in the Amarillo High School cafeteria at 7 30. The program includes talks on character leadership scholarship and service by society members. Principal R B Norman will discuss the organization history at Amarillo High School.
Leslie Pfeiffer, head of the Texas Classroom Teachers Association, will address Amarillo public school teachers at 7:30 p m in Elizabeth Nixon Junior High auditorium. J H Flathers will preside and officers will be elected from a slate led by Mrs T C Sparks including Enlow, Allman, Willoughby, Davis, Bryan, Boothe, Wharton, Bush, Koesjan, Pumphrey, Hammitt, and Boswell.
Ralph E. Taggart president of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and leading anthracite spokesman died unexpectedly at his Radnor home. He was 64.
Rationing of cattle hides dramatically reduces Chile's shoe production in 1950. Trade ministries report tighter supplies and higher costs impact manufacturers, with footwear output falling as producers adjust to the new limits.
The globe News shell bowls travel to Childress Portales and Tucumcari as a feature of the Lets Go to Hawaii contest. Two Panhandle residents will win a 10 day Hawaii vacation by guessing the shells. Carrier boys join in selling subscriptions with a tight schedule across towns including Watkins Dry Goods City Drug Grace Furniture Rexall Drug and Bob Moss Pharmacy.
Amarillo goodwill trippers plan their first out of state trip of the season to Guymon Oklahoma tomorrow. Buses depart at 8 from the Polk Street side of the Amarillo Building. The group will join Guymon’s annual Pioneer Day celebration. Cigarette tax cuts reduce ZanZibar prices.
Rep. Walter E. Brehm of Ohio was found guilty on five counts of receiving $200 contributions from Emma Craven in 1948, with a possible 15 year sentence. Jurors acquitted him on one count and a judge previously dismissed two other counts. Brehm’s lawyer plans a new trial or appeals.
The article notes a long gap before the indictment was returned and Judge Matthews did not announce when Brehm will be sentenced. Typically sentence follows ruling on a motion for a new trial, and she allowed Brehm to remain.
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