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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1940
Page
2
A reader lists plasterer and stucco work, waitress, yard work, driver, housework, and a colored girl seeking quarters. Names include Tack, Nelson, Mrs. G, Bertha, Marilyn with addresses and contact numbers. Trades offered range from servicing, driving, to cooking and living quarters.
Classified plea from a teacher and two adults seeking a neat honest woman aged 25 to 45 to cook, do housework, and care for a 14 month old. Room and board offered at $10 monthly, no laundry. Location Quinlan Hunt County Texas. Also other notices include various job seekers and a dog to give away.
Amarillo High School faced a surge of student candidate activity as 59 students competed for all class and school offices. Campaign banners covered halls and pits while preparations for a runoff or general election on Friday proceeded.
The State Department of Education lists Amarillo High School as the 17th largest in Texas with 1,738 students. Dallas Tech leads at 2,884 followed by Reagan Houston 2,783 and several Dallas and San Antonio schools. The article ponders whether school size affects football success and notes Masonic Home High School of Fort Worth as a historic contender.
Washington reports the Treasury expects peacetime outlays of 13.0 billion dollars for the current fiscal year with a deficit about 5.76 billion. The total spending would be second only to 1919 and the deficit exceeded only by 1918 and 1919 figures as Congress nears the end of large appropriations for the year ending June 30.
The four candidates sharpen activity with one month to go. Willkie campaigns via Jersey City and New England while Roosevelt plans defense facility tours in upstate New York Ohio and Pennsylvania. Thomas attacks both major candidates in Washington as Browder ends his effort in Madison Square Garden New York.
The Amarillo High School Band Parents Association will hold its first meeting of the 1940 41 scholastic year tonight at eight o clock in the high school. R I Beeman president announced plans for the year and committee members will be appointed. The high school band has presented one concert and plans a second.
City county and school officials met late today to discuss the possibility of a new property tax appraisal. Each unit would receive a separate valuation, while the joint option of a single valuation for all units is also on the table. Seventy percent of Japan and mountainous.
The First Baptist Church Philathea Class will meet at 2 30 o'clock Thursday afternoon in the home of Mrs. B. J. Pate at 88 Kentucky Street. The Amoma Class will gather Tuesday at 7 o'clock at Mrs. J. H. Greer’s home on Harrison Street for officers. Vaughan Class hosts a forty two party at Mr. and Mrs. John Cavin’s home on Hayden Street with a long list of officers and refreshment attendees. The T. E. L. Class meets Thursday at 12 30 at Mrs. C. W. Rogers’ Hayden Street home. Maria Class installs new officers at luncheon with gifts and presentations.
Five year old Barbara Jean Ashford daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Ashford 2400 Brooks Avenue was honored at a birthday party Saturday afternoon at home. Mrs. Ashford was aided by Mesdames L. R. Barker George Wyre and Miss Louise Wyre. Ice cream cookies balloons and lollypops were given as favors. Guests included Nelda Margie Wyre Laquetta Carline and Tommy Jo Coffee Betty Joyce Fern Keahey Melvin and Gaston Fowler Rheta Jo Dutton Maxine and Frankie McDowell Billy Richard Barker and the honoree.
Regulations set to define deferment for the 16 404 000 registrants with local boards judging each case. No blanket class deferments. dependents and essential occupations key. Doctors dentists policemen and others likely deferred. six month review after deferment. Local boards will wait lottery results late Oct to determine order of selection.
The Potter County Federation of Women's Clubs will meet at 2 30 Tuesday afternoon in the Federation Club Rooms. The agenda includes interesting discussions and full attendance is desired by the arrangements committee.
A luncheon meeting of the S. H. C. Wives Club will be held at 1 o clock Friday afternoon in Mrs. Madsen's Dining Room on the Panhandle Highway. Reservations may be made by telephoning Mrs. Pete Hackley or Mrs. Lee Henderson, who will arrange transportation for those without automobiles.
The Four F Home Demonstration Club will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday at Mrs. B. V. Robinson’s home on Sherrill Drive. Miss Pauline Lakey will lead a lesson on frozen lockers. Members are urged to join the kitchen achievement tour on Wednesday.
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Eyewitness accounts describe first day raiders at 20,000 feet over England's east coast with anti air craft bursts. Bombs struck near a convent where 12 nuns prayed. windows were shattered but the nuns remained unharmed as the city faced early morning bombardment.
Central London residents saw puffs like shell bursts over the Thames Estuary as raiders dropped 12 bombs on a southeastern London residential area. A German plane on a reconnaissance flight over the city’s northwest disappeared before dawn. Londoners slept after a Sabbath of steady attacks ending with a brief 20 minute alarm. Air fighting continued over the region.
A Friday night surprise birthday party was held at the San Jacinto Baptist Church for Byron Ferguson. The decorated room featured pink and white streamers, a central white birthday cake, and gifts arranged around a table. The event included an hour of informal entertainment.
Watchers report a Spitfire chasing a German Messerschmitt over Kent at high speed as haze shrouded the combat. Engines screamed, then a plane vanished briefly before the Spitfire reappeared. Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico traces back to 1699.
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