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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1946
Page
7
Personal items list trips to Nashville Ohio and California visits by Wood Standlee Vincent Roth and others. Births and birthdays noted plus a family move to Amarillo and a new home on Harrison. A recipe for corn sticks and a brief property purchase added.
Community notices report residents returning from Shamrock and moving to Canyon. Families and visitors are listed with addresses including 313 B East Twelfth and 1405 Fillmore. Midwest and western Oklahoma connections appear with Hill from Denver and Gwyns visiting Wichita Falls.
Seventeen graduates of Price College will receive their diplomas at 8:30 tonight in the college auditorium. David Hardin, recent Navy V-5 test passer, will enter St Marys in California next September and serves as class president. Valedictorian is John Vincent, salutatorian Rabey Funk. The glee club, directed by Bros Peter and Aidan, will perform songs including Ave Maria and America. His Excellency Most Rev Laurence J Pitt Simon, bishop of Amarillo, will preside.
Fearing polio could cut attendance, Disabled American Veterans in Corpus Christi assure no local cases. Five cases are in city hospitals from other communities. public gatherings of children remain limited though most quarantine was lifted. Amarillo delegates and local participants plan to depart Friday for the June 13 department convention.
Pete the Stork reappears at the back door of J C Penny Co after a month long absence. He is disheveled and silent, with P V Alexander saying no punishment is planned. Pete will be refreshed and resume officiating at event functions in a few days.
Santa Fe’s net railway operating income for April 1946 totaled 3 083 806 dollars, down 1 118 721 from April 1945. Gross for the system was 32 236 426 dollars, 11 106 744 less than the prior year. Operating expenses reached 24 638 452 dollars, 2 888 991 lower than April 1945.
Red paper poppies sold on Poppy Day in Amarillo raised 1455 for American Legion Auxiliary relief and rehabilitation of disabled veterans. Thanks were given to 37 volunteers and Ott Landis who helped organize. prizes from Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Baracat rewarded top sellers Biddie Maxwell Pitt Blankenship Gaut and King.
A ditching machine begins work Monday to excavate the San Jacinto Kiwanis Club Youth Center pool at 607 9 Carolina. The pool, a central goal for Amarillo youth recreation, will be ready this summer if funds flow in. The club has raised 25000 of the 50000 needed, appealing to the public for donations through secretary George W. Kercher or treasurer Earle Sparks.
R T Finney traffic manager for Braniff Airways western division, based in Denver, visited Amarillo yesterday to review operations and meet local staff.
The gladiolus belongs to the iris family, reflecting its classification among related flowering plants.
The Annual Construction Recapitulation shows $61 660 176 in building permits within Amarillo's corporate limits over 20 years. It notes excluded residential expansions in 15 fringe additions and several million in nearby industrial work near General Mills and Burrus Elevator outside the city. The peak years were 1926 and 1927 with $16 475 528 and $10 476 528 respectively.
Mrs. Jessie Johnson and Mrs. Dorsie Gardner of 1912 Pierce Street nurture two almond trees in a Panhandle yard. Planted four years ago against nurseryman warnings, the trees bore blossoms two years after planting but were frost killed then. Now about 15 feet high they expect a fair crop this summer despite earlier doubts.
Carl A. Peterson mailed City Auditor W. E. Gibson a bill for 6.80 dollars demanding reimbursement for windshield wiper repairs he claims were caused by traffic patrolmen issuing tickets. He cites three incidents of wiper damage and pledges further action if unpaid.
The Red Cross 1944 45 fiscal year report records 1192 deaths 6218 injuries and 158457 buildings damaged or destroyed across the United States.
Staff Sgt. Roy W. Weatherly son of Mr and Mrs W P Weatherly 1910 Lincoln is slated for discharge this week at Camp Chaffee Ark He arrived in New York Friday aboard the Claymont Victory from Le Havre He served 16 months in France with the 670th Field Artillery Battalion
New officers for 1946 47 will be elected when the Fourth Degree Father Dunne General Assembly of the Knights of Columbus meets at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon June 2 in Cathedral Hall 1110 Washington.
A brief listing notes a Chesterfield club event titled Supper C Flut Frolics at NBC venue. The item highlights lines for living segments and is framed as a community schedule blurb.
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