Around Town and Milestones in Amarillo Society
Mrs. Carl Adams buys a new hat after searching for fitting headwear and poses for a photo in Sunday school. Notes of social visits, births at St Anthony's Hospital, guests from Washington and New York, moving plans, and hospital news across Northwest Texas Hospital and St Anthony's are listed with multiple addresses and local figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Adams
Pierce
St. Anthony's Hospital
J. C. Steele
Harrison
J. H. Wilderson
Cleveland
Doss Thompson
Brooks
St. Anthony’s Hospital
William Martin
Hayden
James Cook
West Fifteenth
Forrest Jones
Virginia
Northwest Texas Hospital
Charles Hollis
Lincoln
D. F. Boggess
Claude
Don A. Weisenman
Amarillo
Houston
Honolulu
S. H. Kress Company
Kress
Weilenman
Ethel L. Weilenman
A. M. Weilenman
Polk
Young County
Northwest Texas Hospital News Medical
Rue Sanders
Spearman
Charles R. Dixon
North Pierce
Ray Isham
North West Second
G. D. Chavez
Tucumcari
Lillian J. Calvin
Taylor
W. F. Barnes
Dumas
Sandra Lee Pickett
Buchanan
W. B. Wilson
North Cleveland
Jim Fought
Channing
Don Collins
Fountain Terrace
Adalene Henry
Ong
John Arthur Burton
Sixty Three Scouts Honored At Llano Estacado Court of Honor
Sixty three Boy Scouts received merit badges and advancement at a Llano Estacado Council Court of Honor held at Horace Mann School. Tuck Cornelius of Troop 24 earned the Eagle Scout award. others gained Life Star and First and Second Class ranks. Eight scouts joined Operation Roger duties to aid in wartime veterans postcard distribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Llano Estacado Council
Horace Mann
Tuck Cornelius
Ernest Huckaby
James Norman
Claude Jones
Don Fitzgibbon
Spencer Smith
Sidney Baird
Bobby Bruce
Carroll Forrester
Jim Parmelee
Dan Graham
W. C. Weaver
Jack Rodgers
Charles Schmidt
Royal Abrahamson
Edward Provus
Garland Campbell
Charles Ford
Paul Bennett
Garrett Barker
W. C. Splawn
Doyle Quisenberry
Bob Johnson, Jr
Johnny Smith
Spencer Baird
Eddy Elliott
Clyde Smith
Leslie Balmain
Bobby Clement
Camp Deta Glen
Maurice McNeil
Robert Brownell
Billy Glover
Bill LaShier
Walter Wolfram
Don Hart
Dan Ritter
Taylor Bassett
Herbert Hill
Pat Mitchell
Bill Sparks
Jerry Gardner
Jimmie Jayroe
Cornelius Mack
Ronnie Hanna
Bob Berry
Billy Cross
Dan Ferguson
Army Air Force Service
War Department
Rule Out Murder in Death of Band Leader
Dallas deputy sheriff ruled out murder as the cause of death for Hogan Hancock a 46 year old Dallas band leader and former Music Corporation of America executive whose burned body was found in a car south of Lewisville Denton County A parkland hospital report cited burns and carbon monoxide poisoning and a Denton justice of the peace verdict attributed death to suffocation
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Bill Decker
Hogan Hancock
Lewisville
Denton County
Decker
Parkland Hospital
Hancock
Music Corporation of America
Justice of the Peace
J. P. Follis
Denton
Druggists from Amarillo Attend State Meeting in Austin
Thurman Gholston leads Amarillo Retail Druggists Association representatives at a joint Texas Pharmaceutical Association and Texas Pharmacy Board meeting in the Stephen F. Austin Hotel Austin. The session covers general business and pending legislative proposals before the legislature’s next session as Gholston returns to Amarillo Friday. The narrative also notes the origin of two bits four bits with Spanish reales.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Austin
Thurman Gholston
Texas Pharmaceutical Association
Texas Pharmacy Board
Gholston
Amarillo Retail Druggists Association
West Texas Pharmaceutical Association
West Texas Group
Stephen F. Austin
One-Armed Linotype Operator Demonstrates Speed in Florence
Earl Hucks, a linotype operator at the Florence Morning News, works the 90 key machine despite losing an arm in a 1942 construction accident. After three months of vocational rehabilitation, he returned to compose the paper with skill and speed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florence, S. C
U.P
Morning News
Earl Hucks
Hucks
Co-Ed YMCA Club Plans Saturday Night Dance
The Co-Ed Club of the YMCA-YWCA will meet Saturday at 8 PM in Municipal Auditorium for a Sad Sack dance hosted by Betty Jo Horn Barbara Baker Wanda Brown and Alice Barnes. Miss Virginia Good announced last week’s Barn Dance popularity and folk dance interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ymca-Ywea
Municipal Auditorium
Betty Jo Horn
Barbara Baker
Wanda Brown
Alice Barnes
Nickelodeon
Virginia Good
Grady Wilson
Adrian McClish
Bill Jackson
Reuben Noel
Charles Whittington, Jr
Sonny Cooper
Man With Missing Limb Operates Linotype Fast
A man training to become a linotype operator can set a 22 inch galley of 7 point type in 40 minutes using an artificial finger on the stump of his missing limb. He controls more than half the keyboard with this device.
Peanuts Derive Name From African Nguba
The source notes that peanuts were given the name goober derived from the African term nguba, linking the legume to its original regional name and language.
Relief At Last For Your Cough
Chronic bronchitis may develop if a cough chest cold or acute bronchitis is not treated. Creomulsion goes to the seat of the trouble to loosen and expel phlegm and soothe inflamed bronchial membranes. It blends beechwood creosote with other medicines and contains no narcotics. If not satisfied you get a refund.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pete Knight
Washington, D. C
Knight
Admiral Smith
Frank Metaxa
New York City
Harold A. Gallarneau
Lipscomb
R. N. Miller
J. M. Crain
Alvin R. Young
E. V. Harris
Helen Nabers
Colonial Apartments
Mel Sammons
Carol Wall
Perryton
Eatonton, Ga
Howard Paul
Hughes
Fort Worth
E. A. Paschal
Oklahoma City
Mrs. Paschal
Midland
West Tenth
Quentin Lowry
Floyd Jones
Maryland
Reta Wiley
South Johnson
Lucille Benish
Jim Benish
Orlando
Fla
Benish
Norris Ewing
Washington
C. D. Roberts
Fillmore
South Texas
J. M. Webb
George Berry
Ladonna Jane
George William
Lubbock
J. C. Holman
Prospect
R. R. Nation
Pampa
Imogene McCully
Pillmore
Ed N. Watson
Tohoka
Wayne Prescott
John Smith
Ponca City
Okla
Smith
Southwestern Stationery and Bank Supply Company
Roy Threet
Little White House
West 10Th
T. E. Wardell
Pantex Village
Kentucky
W. J. Smith
Georgia
Estelle Fields
Canton
Robert Earl Noland
G. T. Noland
Exell
J. M. McMahen
West Eighth
H. L. McMahen
Martha Ann
Jannett
Stratford
D. D. Woodall
Jefferson
C. W. Farr
Panhandle
J. F. Chadwick
North West Seventh
T. B. Jones
O. A. Clounch
C. L. Morris
Vega
D. I. Gill
North Buchanan
W. L. McDonald
Dudley Hill
West Eleventh
C. R. Maxwell
Borger
Lloyd Kemper
Boy Scouts
Jerry Brainerd
Robert Bruce
John Gordon
Billy Joe Ballard
Bobby Owens
Kenneth Johnston
Wel Dorney Proddeone Weis Pophry
REG
U.S Pat
Oram
Deal Jorkim
Mikee
Triumph
Jorkim
MR. McKee
Allus
Andy
Black John
Mark
Cathy
Jochnnie
Honest
Johnnie
Goomiee
Sant
Cutt
State Furniture Company
Taylor St
Bill Mauldin
Big Brother Claus
New Mexico
Mer
Cretney Drug
John Garvey
Optometrist
Polk St
Vaughn
Contracting and Service
Crera
West
Monroe
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