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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1951
Page
21
Classified reads like freight and trailer ads listing various 1940s to 1950s trucks motor homes and trailers for sale or trade. It also notes Afghanistan changing the Hindu Kush to Hindu Koh.
Alma Lourillier asks locals what they would miss most about Amarillo if forced to go elsewhere. Marvin Blair cites friends and cool summer nights. Floyd Fisher values the climate and friendly people. Dale Roberson praises Amarillo's well laid out streets and orderly city design.
The document records owners managers editors and stockholders of the Amarillo Globe for October 1 1951. It lists Publisher Wesley Izzard Editor Fred Post General Manager Shelby Kritser and G W Camp as Business Manager with Globe News Publishing Company as owner. It notes holders of 1 percent or more of stock and security holders, bondholders and mortgagees, plus the average weekly circulation of 28 865 copies. It is sworn before a notary and dated October 6 1951.
Forrest Buckley and J R Owens, both long-time Amarillo residents, express attachment to the city. Buckley says he would miss family most if forced to move, while Owens notes seven years in Amarillo and considers it home, citing friends and the community.
Amarillo cartoonist and lecturer Hutson will speak at Tulia Tuesday night before the Tulia Parent-Teacher Association. The appearance is sponsored by the Tulia Lions Club.
Oral health claims promote Dr Caldwell's Senna Laxative Syrup Pepsin as a gentle vegetable laxative free of salts. It touts mild action and thorough relief, promising regularity and relief from stomach sourness, with a money back offer and mail order to New York.
Clarendon, Oct. 8 funeral services for Leonard Louis Gay 17 will be held at 2 pm Tuesday in First Baptist Church with Rev. L A Sartain officiating. Burial in Citizens Cemetery under Murphy Spicer Funeral Home direction. He died from a shotgun accident yesterday while his mother handed him the gun. Survivors include his parents four sisters and a brother.
A House military appropriations subcommittee demanded an explanation from the Air Force regarding why information about the new guided missile Matador was released to the press and public. The Oct. 8 inquiry seeks details on the timing and handling of the disclosure.
Committee hearings examined a multi billion dollar military public works program. Chairman Mahon of Texas criticized the disclosure as outrageous. The Air Force announced September begins a new phase in the program.
Mahon said the committee formed its first guided missile squadron and piloted bomber Mata dor, noting the weapon was not named in hearings and discussed in hushed tones.
Gen Omar Bradley left by plane for Europe from Washington on Oct 8. He is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and will confer in Paris with Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower and other North Atlantic military officials.
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