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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1948
Page
17
The Amarillo Chapter SPEBSQSA announces a charter presentation on December 12. The Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet (SPEBSQSA) will highlight the charter event and its aims.
Perry Ford notes the December 12 singing in America is tentative after postponements. The next meeting is on Wednesday night November 24 at the Herring Hotel Crystal Ballroom. New chapter president is P. Townsend with Paul Ellis as director. The first quartet, Amil Mask, Charles Reeve, Roy Lowe and Jim Restine, debuted as The Four Flats at the Dallas state fair and later renamed Four inors.
Homer Martin, formerly of Dallas, manages remodeling for the Skaggs Drug Store at 619 Polk. The store plans to open late December with a 25-person local staff and a self service format except for prescriptions and perfumes. Martin has moved his family to West Hills and bought a home at 4604 Gem Lake Road.
Amarillo school board president Dick Bivins will attend the Texas School Board Members Association meeting in Houston on Friday November 26. He said he will pay his own expenses and intends to report back to Amarillo on the convention activities.
A panel of 50 educators conducted a three day study of Amarillo School operations last spring. Committees were formed to study recommendations in library pupil activities plant and administration guidance service curriculum and instruction with named members leading each group.
Reservations for turkey dinners at the Presbyterian Church annual bazaar must be made by Wednesday evening. Mrs. Joe Witt coordinates dinners by phone. The event features booths for handiwork foods white elephants candy popcorn and pink lemonade a fish pond and fortune telling with proceeds benefiting the Children’s Home.
The 468th Composite Group holds a business meeting at 8 tomorrow night in the Herring Hotel. Topics include reserve officer policies and active duty procedures plus a talk on the current military government in Japan. Miss Ruth Ann Tolbert travels from Amarillo to Hobart, Ohio, due to her mother’s serious illness.
Miss Ora E Burrows of 1002 Van Buren enlisted in the WAC this morning at the Amarillo Army Station. Captain John Tilton said she will be assigned recruiting duty with the Amarillo station and will have offices at the Amarillo Induction Center and Amarillo Air Field. Burrows served two years in the WAC during the war and spent 14 months in the European Theater as a switchboard operator.
J. P. Hutcherson of 4200 Hayden told police his green Ford sedan worth 41 dollars was taken last night from 801 Lincoln. The vehicle and owner details are on file with local authorities.
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