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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1947
Page
8
A 19-year-old father seeks advice on abandoning his wife and baby amid marital strain. The Dear Miss Dix column warns that abandoning the child has lifelong consequences and weighs the responsibilities of parenthood against impulse and youth.
Nashville announces the engagement of Juanita Elizabeth King to Charles Edward Ramzel. The couple plans a Sept 14 wedding. Juanita is a graduate of East Nashville High School. Charles Ramzel, son of Mr and Mrs R A Ramzel of Amarillo Texas, studied engineering at Vanderbilt University after serving in the U S Navy.
Dothan Alabama reports recall of Dr John Owen a pioneer country physician who equipped a gig with a bell counter to measure each wheel revolution and tally miles traveled He charged patients by the mile a method he devised in the early 1800s to reflect distance rather than flat rate.
A stranger flashed a badge and asked for credentials. Guthrie handed over his wallet and walked with the man along the street. Near the bus station, the stranger returned the wallet and growled your creden
Amarillo venues list a full slate of daytime and evening gatherings. Meetings include music teachers at the Amarillo Hotel, New Century Club at King's Cottage Tea Room, Newcomers Club at Federated Club Rooms, and several clubs at local homes or YWCA, with times from noon to 7:45 PM.
The reader asks if a sister, an unwed mother, can marry the baby’s father by proxy so the child bears his name. The adviser explains proxy marriage requires both parties free to marry and present, and cannot be used to supersede a current spouse.
Though disliked in urban areas the ling star is praised by the U S biological survey as an effective first class destroyer of Japanese beetles, highlighting its pest control value despite public misgivings.
London report profiles George Wilson, 96, possibly the oldest film actor on both sides of the Atlantic. He works in Hal Wallis’s So Evil My Love alongside Ray Milland, says he may become a featured player at 100. He started films a decade ago after a military outfitting career and notes his "son" is waiting at the gates, his nearly 70-year-old son Lambert Wilson.
Final plans for the 1947 48 opening were completed at a rural teachers meeting. Students enroll tomorrow at five schools with registration starting at 9 00 am except Highland Park at 9 45 am. New students must show birth certificates and vaccination against smallpox. First grade must be 6 years old. County buses start Wednesday morning with the first day of class.
George Marlow of Guthrie Center Iowa visited Pittsburgh when a man accosted him after he left a bus and stole $160 in cash. The incident occurred September 1 and police were alerted.
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