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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1947
Page
16
Amarillo Aggies hold their regular meeting this evening in the Blackstone Hotel. The Amarillo ss. Club also meets for dinner at 7 o clock.
Mrs Minnie Lee Frye of Pine Bluff Arkansas visits her mother Mrs A Stone at 1918 Bowie Amarillo. Mrs Lucille Olson of Hereford also called on Mrs Frye yesterday.
Chief George Cooper pleads for help in reducing fires as Amarillo faces higher insurance rates from rising losses. A parade tomorrow at 11 am on Polk Street will promote fire prevention with participation from police, firefighters, patrol, bands, and insurance salesmen. A broad committee led by Henry O. Moore coordinates week activities with many local organizations as supporters.
Community Service for Camps and Hospitals a Red Cross unit for 10 counties will meet in the Amarillo Veterans Hospital library at 2 o clock Wednesday afternoon. Volunteers will discuss furnishing a ward reception room and will include representatives from Red Cross chapters in the ten counties.
The school board opens bids at 7 30 tonight in the superintendent's office at the Senior High to decide if building a Negro school is affordable. Architect Macon Carder redrew plans and changed from brick to concrete to cut costs after earlier bids were rejected.
City commissioners will decide on barricading Fourteenth Avenue between Polk and Tyler after zoning board recommended a daytime closure during school hours. A regular City Commission meeting follows tonight at City Hall.
Betty Ruth Brown of 2113 Jackson and Beverly Locke of 1309 South Fillmore are among 170 girls at Texas State College for Women Denton chosen to serve this semester as student assistants. Brown is a sophomore and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Brown.
Community members ask if energy bills reflect true usage or if winter coal charges were added, prompting discussions on billing practices and utility transparency.
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