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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1947
Page
4
To Korea Lt. John T. Price Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Price, 3110 San Jacinto, is en route for duty in Korea after graduating from Amarillo High School and West Point. He was stationed at Fort Bliss, El Paso, before this foreign assignment.
May 28 marks the registration deadline for three Girl Scout day camps. Brownie camps will be at Ellwood and San Jacinto Parks while Intermediate camps will be at Sam Houston Park. Camps run June 2 to 13. Registration through troop leaders or the Girl Scout office at 605 Taylor Street. Site chairs are Mrs. Leland Brown Ellwood Park Mrs. C A Stein San Jacinto Park and Mrs. F O Holland Sam Houston Park.
Panhandle county and district clerks will convene tomorrow afternoon in the Potter County courtroom for a called Northwest and West Texas Clerks Association meeting. Delegates for the state convention in Breckenridge on June 12 will be elected and other business matters discussed.
Globe staff writer notes Corpus Christi filled part of its bay to make room for growth, building a seawall and moving growth to the bluff overlooking Corpus Bay. Population around 112,000 with a new city manager. Houston booms toward a potential million, spread possible along coastal plains. A 35,000 pound WWII memorial war tank sits on Corpus bluff replacing an older WWI cannon.
Don Severson of Chicago vice president of Montgomery Ward & Co. visited Amarillo on an inspection tour of South Plains and Panhandle Ward stores. He was joined by R. H. Fields and W. D. Davis. They traveled by plane to Kansas City after visiting Amarillo Plainview and Lubbock.
New and rebuilt radiators for all cars trucks tractors. Visit or call S13 West 6th at 6666 for service and parts.
Miss Ruth Minton, local Scout executive director, urged Girl Scouts to register for Camp Kiwanis this summer. The first three sessions are closed with waiting lists. the two week session July 6 to 19 remains open but filling fast. Out of town applications accepted. register at the Girl Scout office 605 1/2 Taylor.
A training course for Brownie Scout day camp counselors was held yesterday in Cathedral Hall under Miss Catherine Rives, local Girl Scout field secretary. Attendees included Mrs. Leland Brown Mrs. C A Stein and Mrs H G Alexander among others.
The jury could not agree on how close to Crockett Street 1613 should stand. Judge W E Gee dismissed the 108th District Court panel after it was impossible to settle the case filed by A R Granberg and S C Kuykendall to stop E H Hamic from building 25 feet from the street. The suit involved title and city setback rules.
Charles Bates, Mrs. Lloyd Hamilton, Mrs. E. K. Jones, Mrs. W. C. Stallings, Mrs. C.S. McGuire, Mrs. Thomas Armstrong, Mrs. G. E. Grimm, Mrs. Charles Davis and Mrs. J. Howard Miller.
Miss Rives announced that training for Intermediate Scout counselors will be held next week, outlining sessions and participation details for leaders and aides.
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