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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1951
Page
27
A Studebaker sedan is offered at 695 dollars as part of a big lot sale. The ad highlights door model styling and a bargain price for quick purchase. Local dealer emphasizes availability and immediate delivery with old time sale cadence.
Numerous used cars listed with trade offers. Studebaker Commander 1949, Ford Tudor 1941 at 85 down, Buick 1941 trade for pickup, 1940 Port Tudor sedan for equity, 1946 Chevrolet convertible 650, Pontiac 1949 Sedanette with hydromatic, Lincoln Cosmopolitan 1949, 1951 Chevrolets and Ford Custom 8 Tudor Sedan, 1951 Dodge 4-ton pickup priced around 1245 to 1995 with miles noted. Contact numbers and locations included.
Local classified ads list numerous trucks tractors and pickups for sale or trade. Highlights include 1 1/2 ton 2 ton and 4 ton models from Chevrolet GMC International and Ford with castings like grain beds and winches plus a 46 Diamond T tractor and 30 foot trailer. Contact numbers and street addresses provided for several items.
Help wanted advertisement from Globe-News seeks a young man for city delivery work at The E. S. Cowie Electric Co. 700 Van Buren. Experience preferred. Do not phone. See Bill McKinley for quick results.
Hollywood fashion note by Virginia MacPherson reports teen girls copying actor Tony Curtis. Estalle Allardale notes curls, checkered vests, and loafers as shifts from feminine styles to male-inspired trends. She cites Janet Leigh as better example and recalls Valentino and Cary Grant fashions. Preacher Roe tops Brooklyn pitching as a southpaw 20-game winner, first since 1932.
Classified ads listing various items for sale and employment, including a 1949 Special Deluxe Plymouth in A-1 condition with extras, a second lien note, a lost billfold, a cash reward offer, employment for a high school or college boy, training for finishing and pressing, a furnished house for rent, a lost black poodle, waitress position, a 1950 Chevrolet for sale, and a young man for delivery and store work. Includes contact numbers and locations such as Delmar Kee, 400 Harrison, Karl's Super Service Station, 1704 Canyon Road, Texas Garage, and General Office Supply.
Wayne A. Grant district director of the Texas Employment Commission reports Amarillo’s labor market showing September non agricultural employment at 42,750, up from August. An expected total of 43,700 by mid November driven by construction wholesale and retail trade and government gains, with shortages and outside labor needs noted.
Clayton L. Bagwell an aerographer's mate second class from Amarillo has joined the staff of the Commander Fleet Air Wing 6 in Japan. He is married to Elizabeth E. Loew. He entered the Navy in 1946 after recruit training in San Diego and West Texas State College. Bagwell is assigned to the aerology department and is a graduate of the Naval school for aerographers at Lakehurst. He served at Fleet Weather Central in Guam before going to Japan.
Soncy Community Club sponsors a Halloween Carnival tomorrow evening at Soncy School at 7 30. The event offers games and refreshments with proceeds aiding school repairs and invites public attendance.
Funeral services for Joseph Cornell English truck driver killed in a New Mexico highway crash will be held at Seth Ward Baptist Church Plainview at 2 pm Thursday. Burial in Silverton Cemetery. Survivors include wife four children and several siblings.
The article states that at 273 degrees below zero centi grade or minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit all heat is removed from an object. It explains the concept of absolute zero as the point where thermal energy ceases to exist in matter.
Adobe Walls Council Boy Scouts of America in Pampa held a budget and program planning conference. About 70 volunteer Scouters from 15 Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle counties attended. A. W. Paris presided, with 3,600 members noted as the current total and a round up program to extend scouting to hundreds more. The budget awaits November executive board approval in Pampa. A. Max Hatfield from Dallas attended as a guest.
Archaeologists report discovery of pod-corn from ancient Southern New Mexico digs. Each kernel was enclosed in its own pod suggesting unique cultivation or storage practices by prehistoric peoples. Further analysis aims to date the find and understand agricultural origins in the region.
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