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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1947
Page
9
Family visits and departures fill local social notes with guests from Barnett, Canon City, Deming and more. Births announced at St Anthony's and Northwest Texas Hospital, plus a Mother's Day dinner plan and various travels to Dallas, Denver, and Amarillo.
Mrs. Cora Fondy of 813 Forest hosts Mrs. Fred C. Wolf and daughter Ann of Seymour Wisconsin and Mrs. Rene Collins of Kemp Texas. They will stay until after Mother's Day. Paratrooper Roland Young visited family in town and flew to San Francisco after furlough. Northwest Texas Medical lists several names under Surgical categories with addresses in Amarillo Pampa Vega Dumas and others.
Amarillo Advertising Club members will hear R William Archer, director of publicity for Southwestern Life Insurance Company since 1939, discuss A Philosophy of Public Relations for Our Day at the noon meeting in the Herring Hotel next Monday.
War Assets Administration officials announced that 192 veterans bought miscellaneous furniture at a Grand Prairie mail order sale. Amarillo purchasers include W. J. Bromert A. J. Glover R. H. Hibbets Hubert Cheston J. Dallas Smith Ray K. Jones and others. prices ranged from five to six dollars for chairs and desks up to eleven dollars for file cabinets and over fifteen dollars for a typewriter.
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Smith of 1215 Rusk and Grady Fox of 1614 Washington left yesterday for Kansas City. Mrs. Smith will visit friends while Mr. Smith and Mr. Fox proceed to Davenport Iowa on business. They plan to return Monday.
A humorous collection of short anecdotes and puns on newspapers, stamps, family names, animals, and everyday oddities. The speaker riffs on media, language, and clever gadgets with quick quips and playful wordplay.
City health records show 55 total deaths in Amarillo last month with heart disease at the top at 15 fatalities. Cancer was second with nine victims, followed by seven premature births and eight apoplexy deaths. Most deaths occurred among 45 to 64 year olds (16), with 27 women and 28 men.
J W Hill Furniture Co, Amarillo, marks its 10th anniversary at 911 Polk since 1940 with a 10 room gallery reopening after wartime closure. Open house is 7 to 10 pm hosted by seven associates. building covers 25 200 square feet. West Virginia lawmakers approved a two year operating budget exceeding 118 million dollars, up from 86 million in 1945 47.
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