Barretts of Wimpole Street featured on Friday radio
The third coast to coast program in Great Scenes From Great Plays airs Friday 7 to 7 30 pm on KVAI. Basil Rathbone and Beatrice Straight reportedly bring Barretts to life with a religious message about healing through faith and church guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Basil Rathbone
Miss Beatrice Straight
Walter Hampden
Episcopal Church
The
Episcopal Families of
Amarillo
KVAI
Barretts of
Wimpole Street
Rudolf Besier
Beatrice Straight
Robert Browning
Sherlock Holmes
Lady McDuff
Michael Redgrave
the Barretts of
National Council of the
Protestant Episcopal Church
Episcopal Actors’ Guild
80 Enroll in Amarillo Girl Scout Leadership Course
The Amarillo Girl Scouts report 80 women enrolled in leadership classes after a city drive. Mrs. R. F. Gwyn said this will yield enough leaders for a strong scouting program. Registration was led by Mrs. J. R. Rushmer and sessions run at Polk Street Methodist Church under several instructors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo Girl Scouts
R. F. Gwyn
Band Members to Head to State Fair After Dallas Game
About 100 members of the Golden Sandstorm Band will ride a chartered bus from Amarillo at 2 30 Saturday morning after the Sandie Woodrow Wilson School football game in Dallas. They will stay with Woodrow Wilson Band Parents Association families and return to Amarillo by 9 Sunday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Golden Sandstorm
Sandie Woodrow Wilson
Dallas
Clyde Rowe
Sandstorm
Amarillo
Woodrow Wilson Band Parents Association
Dixiecrats Form Georgia States Rights Party
In Augusta on October 14 the Georgia States Rights Democrats founded a party to back Gov. Herman Talmadge and Strom Thurmond. More than 300 delegates attended the convention as party organizers filed presidential elector candidates with the Georgia secretary of state. Ed L. Willingham of Augusta was named chairman and pledged full support for the Talmadge organization. Thurmond urged Georgia to repudiate Truman era Democratic leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augusta
Georgia
States Rights Democrats
A Strom Thurmond
South Carolna
National Democratic Party
Herman Talmadge
Atlanta
Talmadge
Georgia States Rights Party
Ed L. Willingham
Willingham
National Party
Thurmond
Truman
Democratic Party
William C. Stokes Funeral Friday
Last rites for William Claude Stokes 55 will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Blackburn-Shaw chapel with Rev. Earl Hatchett of Pierce Street Baptist Church officiating. Burial follows at Llano Cemetery. Stokes, an independent trucker, died Wednesday morning at Northwest Texas Hospital and had lived in Amarillo eight years. He was a Baptist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Claude Stokes
Blackburn-Shaw Chapel
Earl Hatchett
Pierce Street Baptist Church
Llano Cemetery
Stokes
Northwest Texas Hospital
Amarillo
The
Baptist Church
Algerian geranium oil price soars amid labor costs surge
High labor costs have raised Algerian geranium oil to about twenty times its prewar price, signaling a sharp shift in production costs and market pricing for essential essential oils.
Foreign aid bill to top eight billion dollars in 1950
Washington reports the next Congress faces a record foreign aid program exceeding eight billion dollars for 1950. Western Europe China Japan Korea Turkey and Austria are listed as recipients with over four billion for European recovery and requests for rearming Western Europe and Asia. President Truman must submit the budget early in January and the election outcome is not expected to alter the plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Congress
United Press
Europe
Trieste
Austria
Greece
Turkey
China
Japan
Korea
Asia
Budget Bureau
Truman
Thomas FE. Dewey
Dewey
In Talks It’s Wallace Three to One
Henry Wallace will out-talk President Truman in Milwaukee on October 14. Truman speaks once at Borchert Field where the Brewers play. Wallace, Progressive candidate for the presidency, will address three talks in Milwaukee including a broadcast. A roller skating revue has leased the main auditorium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Henry Wallace
President Truman
Truman
Borchert Field
Milwaukee Brewers
Wallace
Progressive Party
Miss Alice McGuire to Speak at Amarillo Conference
Miss Alice McGuire of Dana Point California Christian education worker for the Presbyterian Church USA arrives in Amarillo Sunday for a two day conference on the new official graded curriculum. She travels from Memphis and will also visit Plainview October 26 and Tulsa October 27 to complete her work in the Amarillo Presbytery with 4829 Presbyterian USA members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice McGuire
Dana Point
Cal
Christian Education
Presbyterian Church USA
Amarillo
McGuire
Memphis
Plainview
Tulsa
Amarillo Presbytery
Presbyterian USA
Episcopalians to Hear Allen at St. Andrew's Supper
Allen Early Jr. will speak at St. Andrew's Parish House during the Church Men's Supper Club meeting next week. The club resumes after summer recess and will gather at the church with Early, who observed Russian operations in Korea after the war, returning recently from a nine week study tour of five European nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen Early, Jr
St. Andrew’s Pal Church
Mr. Early
Korea
Jam Jar Club Party Features Games and Dancing
Informal table games and dancing are planned for the Jam Jar Club party at 7:30 Friday night in the YWCA.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YWCA
Reducing Classes Planned at YWCA
Registration for the YWCA Women’s Reducing Classes will occur during two sessions in the YWCA gymnasium. Classes run twice weekly with morning sessions at 9 for housewives and evening sessions at 5:30 for business women. The course runs through Jan 10 with a $5 entrance fee and a required physical exam. Miss Virginia Dacus leads the instruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
YWCA
Virginia Dacus
Poland Charges US Rebuilding Germany at UN
In Paris on October 14 Polish delegate Dr. Oscar Lange accused the United States of financing a “rebirth of imperialistic Germany.” Lange warned the European recovery program risks German militarism amid a bitter UN economic committee session attended by 58 nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Poland
United Nations
Germany
Oscar Lange
University of Chicago
UN Economic Committee
Funeral Friday for Mrs. Eileen Gilliland
Funeral services for Mrs. Eileen Ruth Gilliland age 28 of 3902 Polk will be held Friday at 2 pm at Central Church of Christ. J L Roberts of North Amarillo Church of Christ will officiate. Burial follows at Llano Cemetery. N S Griggs & Sons Funeral Home in charge. She died Tuesday morning after a long illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eileen Ruth Gilliland
Polk
Central Church of Christ
J. L. Roberts
North Amarillo
Tompkins Jr. Improves After Surgeries in Lubbock
Gordon P. Tompkins Jr., son of Mr and Mrs Gordon P Tompkins Sr of 1914 Tyler, has passed the critical stage after two emergency operations at West Texas Hospital Lubbock for ruptured ulcer and peritonitis. His condition is satisfactory and his father reports progress Thursday morning. The father returned to Amarillo while Mrs Tompkins stays with him in Lubbock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon P. Tompkins, Jr
Gordon P. Tompkins
Tyler
West Texas Hospital
Lubbock
Young Tompkins
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Telephone Workers Strike in Michigan
Detroit reports 17 Michigan Bell Telephone Co offices disrupted as union operators walk out or picket statewide. The wage dispute with the Communications Workers of America has persisted for months, with lines in Sault Ste. Marie and pickets at Marquette Saginaw Cadillac Bay City Jackson Escanaba Iron Mountain Ironwood Ishpeming Ypsilanti Ann Arbor Crystal Falls Royal Oak and three Detroit exchanges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Michigan Bell Telephone Co
Independent Communications Workers of America
Sault Ste. Marie
Marquette
Saginaw
Cadillac
Bay City
Jackson
Escanaba
Iron Mountain
Ironwood
Ishpeming
Ypsilanti
Ann Arbor
Crystal Falls
Royal Oak
Also Mentioned on This Page
Stars
Barretts
News-Globe
Kinsey
Kinsey Silver
Havers
Yin
KINSE
LV Fes de
Kinsey Distilling Corp
Liefeld Po
William C. Stokes
King Postures Syndicate
England
Colonies
Miss Alice McGuire
Caltron
Gholston Drug
Episcopalians
Allen
8S & M
S & M Drug
N. Fillmore
Gray
Cretney Drug Stores
Mi . Freeman
Pole
Mrs. Gilliland
Kryptok
C. T. Shropshire
Ellis Carp
Ptical
Gordon Tompkins, Jr
Michigan
Flexalum
Empire Venetian Blind Company
Amarillo Tex
Jamestown New York USA
Airline — Steel
Cordovan
Stele
West
Rae
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!