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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1943
Page
2
The Brownie Scouts invite Amarillo residents to a memorial party honoring Juliette Low founder of the Girl Scouts. The event runs from 2 to 3 PM Saturday in Cathedral Hall. Each Girl Scout should bring a nickel for cold drinks and pennies equal to her age for the Juliette Low Memorial Fund.
The First Presbyterian Church starts a seven week Wednesday series titled The Church and America's Peoples. A 6:15 p.m. covered dish supper hosted by the Narcissa Whitman Circle precedes devotional time and study groups for Junior and Intermediate, Seniors, and Adult and Young People. Nursery care will be provided.
J A Hazlewood notes the donation from two Amarillo Army Air Field squadrons totaling 1900 for the Community and War Chest. He praises soldiers serving abroad and laments civilian reluctance to give, while remarking on soldiers’ limited pay versus local affluence.
The YWCA hosted a Halloween party for girls aged 6 to 14 at 501 Lincoln Street. Highlights included a grand march, costume prizes, games, spook house, fortune telling, plays, dances, and ghost stories with decorations made by the children.
Veterans of Foreign Wars plan to sell 10 000 Buddy poppies next Saturday in Amarillo. BE. R. Bruce, chairman, says 6 000 were sold last year and proceeds aid relief and entertainment for wounded soldiers. Co. B. Parks is commander of John B. Golding post No. 1475, sponsor of the sale.
Potter County home demonstration council held a monthly meeting in Room 104 at the courthouse with Mrs. Jess Walter presiding. Miss Pauline Lokey led a discussion on recovering books. The next meeting is set for December 6 at 2 o’clock in Room 104, courthouse.
Mrs Joe Coffee will speak at a joint American Legion and Auxiliary meeting at the Legion Home tonight. Both groups will hold separate business sessions starting at 8 o clock with music by Palmer Wheeler. The auxiliary chairs the November December programs. committee members include Mrs Henry Cusick and others.
A schedule of meetings and social activities across Amarillo venues includes A A U W sewing, Red Cross rooms, Junior Business Women's Club at Capitol Hotel, Amarillo Chapter 787 Order of the Eastern Star, American Legion Auxiliary, Rebekah Lodge, Principals and Supervisors Junior High, PBE0 Chapter B, and luncheon hosts at 12:30. Victory Command dances at Downtown USO, Alpha Alpha Beta Sigma Phi at Federation Club Rooms, YWCA classes, Presbyterian circles, First Christian Church sale, First Baptist Women’s Missionary Society luncheon, and assorted church group gatherings throughout the day ending with Globe News Want Ads.
Women of the Women's Council prepare a three day bazaar in Fellowship Hall with items on sale including dressmaker forms shoes clothing gifts and plants. Luncheon at 11 30 daily and supper at 5 30 with chili pie and soup. Public invited.
Amarillo fire department members report strong ticket sales for the benefit ball. Dances will be at The Nat Rainbow Garden and the Mayfair starting at 8:30 p.m. through midnight. Tickets available from any fireman or at fire stations. Chief Earl Curry notes sales exceed last year.
Durango Colorado November 2 UAR John Craig father of four children will leave today for the Denver induction center the first pre Pearl Harbor dad from Durango to be drafted at his own selection Craig was the county draft board clerk for three years After he called every available non father in La Plata County he placed his name at the top of the list of eligible fathers and resigned State selective service headquarters named his wife as the new clerk and she promptly ordered her husbands induction.
Fines assessed in corporation court at the city hall totaled 294 dollars with 49 dollars collected from 20 motorists.
Angelina County churches white and black joined in a stadium gathering to pray for the safe return of more than 4,000 county residents in the armed services. It marked the largest religious assemblage in Lufkin history.
The War Production Board warned of likely stricter lumber use controls as retail and wholesale stocks run critically low. It reported a 35 percent drop in retail stock in early 1943 and a 62 percent decline since January 1942, with wholesale stocks 50 percent below 1942 levels and 30 percent under 1943 levels.
Britain introduces the Avro York a transport version of the Lancaster bomber capable of carrying 50 passengers and convertible for freight. It measures 78 feet in length with a 102-foot wingspan and is powered by four Rolls Royce Merlin engines. The medium range aircraft targets flights around 1,000 miles and is entering small scale production.
Recovery of all 150 North American aviation plant workers stricken by food poisoning appears certain. Of 51 hospitalized, only two remained in hospitals and these were out of danger. Chemists continue investigating cafeteria food samples served Friday night at the plant cafeteria operated by a private concern.
The Army announced that Thanksgiving Christmas and New Year holidays will not affect induction. No men will report to or be shipped from reception centers on November 27 December 24 25 26 or January 1 2.
A personal notice asks help locating a white Russian Wolfhound named Tula with brindle head. Reward offered. contact Arlan McSwain at 3504 Harrison Street or call 6401 for information. Also available ads seek home care for children and a 17 year old schoolboy offers grocery work with a commercial operator's license.
Job posting from Mrs Blackburn seeking a permanent housekeeper for a motherless household in the country. Family includes father and three boys aged 10 12 and 17. Applicants should call 5476 for details.
A free Jugoslav radio said partisans are forming an air force to aid the fight against the Germans. Some planes have reached partisans, who call for former jail arm members to report for duty. A communique cites heavy fighting in Montenegro near Kolashin and Berani and defeats of German infantry and tanks.
The Yank, the Army weekly, reports overseas soldiers oppose wearing campaign ribbons by non overseas veterans. It urges War Department to issue the ribbons and stop store and post exchange sales. One Amarillo soldier bragged how ribbons drew attention as boys covered their chests.
Dallas 12 year old Jackie Leonard suggests paying for waste fats with ration stamps to boost salvage. Max McCullough, head of the OPA regional office, forwards the idea toward Washington noting token use for ration stamps.
Semi official Jugoslav sources report General Djukanovic, a strong Mikhailovitch ally and Montenegro governor since the 1941 coup, was killed by Partisan forces in Montenegro. Partisans accuse treachery, a charge supporters call false.
Evangelist R. E. Delafield outlines a week of sermons at Carpenters Hall 212 West Seventh Avenue. Tonight the subject is Hell What and Where Is It followed by Bible instructor Mabel Vierce presenting The Coming World Ruler. Topics include Floods Famine Earthquakes Wars and Astrology on Wednesday and The Rich and Lazarus on Friday. Sunday features Russia in Bible Prophecy.
Amarillo's city commission will meet for routine business. Bids on automotive equipment from last Tuesday will be reconsidered, with the only purchase from that time a $7,000 street sweeper.
Lt. Mauree Dollar, heavy for the TWA plane from New York to Amarillo, was forced to deplane in Wichita, Kansas after the load became too heavy. He weighs about 200 pounds and was the heaviest passenger aboard, while his wife, former Miss Eaton Hawkins, remained aboard.
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