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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1951
Page
2
The News-Globe asks readers to vote on Amarillo as The Friendly City or propose a new slogan Smithville The Friendly City is floated. Readers may mail, card, or call in opinions and orders for a moon book due Nov. 1 with a $1.10 tariff.
Effie Burkhalter reports that four Amarillo High School juniors and seniors earned nine presidency roles. John Jenkins leads the Hi Club, National Honor Society, and chairs the Student Council. Toby Wise presides Allied Youth and the senior class. John Gordon heads the AHS orchestra and Sandie Band. Spooky Canova leads the sopher class and sophomore choir.
A subscriber from Amarillo writes to The Amarillo Daily News praising Tack and his travel columns. She notes unusual October blooms of locust trees and lilacs, recalls a warning against buying Rio Grande Valley orange groves, and reports a fraudulent land sales issue where buyers seek refunds. The letter condemns citrus land sales in Texas and urges caution.
U S Denny a Van Zandt County farmer was convicted of murder and given a life sentence. Attorneys announced plans to appeal. Jury deliberated one hour and five minutes. Denny killed Steve W Bolt 80 on a country road near Myrtle Springs June 12. Two others George Dixon 41 and Ben Taylor 59 also died in the case.
Classifieds list seekings and item exchanges including a request for young women aged 20 to 25 from Varnsville SC to respond to a Marine contact, plus numerous animal and child care notices, trades, and employment offers. Items include a missing dog Mug a white English bulldog, two-week puppies, and a female chow, dog and bird dog finds. Also yard-sale style trades for stamps clothing furniture and baby equipment along with babysitting child care offers and clerical work notices.
Tickets went on sale today for the Ducks Unlimited Breakfast opening the Panhandle hunting season. The event at Silver Grill Cafeteria 704 Tyler on Nov 11 starts at 4 30 AM to allow hunters to reach blinds early. Proceeds benefit Ducks Unlimited. Tickets cost 1 each and may be bought at local sporting goods and related stores.
Elizey, a prominent young sociologist formerly of Amarillo, will address an open meeting at 8 PM Monday sponsored by Family Service at the Arts and Commerce building Amarillo College. He teaches at Stenhorn College in Columbia Missouri and will discuss The Family in the Present World Crisis.
Since 1900, 133 major conflagrations across the United States and Canada caused 1,274 deaths and destroyed 40,000 buildings, with property losses valued at 785 million dollars.
KGNC will broadcast two football games this weekend. The Texas A M and TCU clash in Fort Worth is set for 1 45 pm with Kern Tips and Alec Chesser on commentary. A high school game airs tonight at 7 45 pm with Bill Edwards and Bob Izzard providing play by play and color.
Henry Ford McCracken, 34, was found legally sane and sentenced to death in the San Quentin gas chamber for the murder of 10 year old Patricia Jean Hull. He killed the girl after abducting her from a theater, beat her to death in a motel cabin, and buried the body in a nearby canyon.
The Christian Science Lesson Sermon titled Doctrine of Atonement for Sunday October 21 emphasizes at-one ness with the divine, urges obedience to God's law, and cites II Corinthians 5 17 Matthew 10 38 and Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures p 19 noting repentance and reform essential to participate in atonement.
Chicago reports another day of cool, damp conditions as the penant and raincoat weather returns. The cool belt covers the nation with only the far Southwest and parts of the East spared. Clouds persist across the Great Lakes and Plains, with rain in the Midwest and snow flurries in northern regions. Temperatures dip in the Mid-Atlantic and Northern New England.
Mrs. R. L. Underwood of 2800 Washington visited her two daughters while her husband hunted deer near Norwood Colorado. Their daughter Nancy is a junior at Texas State College for Women in Denton. Nancy then went to Fort Worth to see Rev and Mrs Robert A Geer who are pursuing masters degrees at Southwestern Baptist Seminary where he pastors Bynum Baptist Church. Mrs Geer is Roberta Underwood. Mr Underwood and two friends Max D Hardy and C H Smoot each shot a deer before returning home from Colorado.
Fire destroyed the Flagler high school and junior high school building, the second misfortune in a little over a month for the eastern Colorado town. A September air show crash had killed 20 people, including the pilot.
London reports the British War Damage Commission has paid about 2.8 billion dollars since April 1941 for 3,420,000 buildings damaged or destroyed by enemy action during World War II.
Los Angeles October 19 A group of college students announced the formation of the National Collegiate MacArthur Club. Chairman Bob Munger a George Pepperdine College junior said the organization has 200 members across 15 campuses and aims to support General Douglas MacArthur's ideas not necessarily his presidential bid.
Charleston WV estimates show more than 85 million tons of coal valued near 1.4 billion dollars will move through retail yards in 1951 to warm the homes of over 14 million families.
Dr. George Gallup head of the Gallup Poll says the Republican Party remains a minority group. He told the University of Minnesota School of Journalism that a GOP candidate would need broad cross party appeal to win a national election.
Peiping radio said a 24 year old woman pilot for the North Korean air force named Tai Sen hi on her first mission set a warehouse afire during bombing runs. The report described her as vivacious and flying on bombing missions.
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