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Miss Sarah Brashears aged 1007 Monroe has returned from Dimmitt where she visited her parents.
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1946
Page
7
Miss Sarah Brashears aged 1007 Monroe has returned from Dimmitt where she visited her parents.
The Office of Price Administration filed two federal suits seeking triple damages for violations of Foods Products Regulations. One targets Kearns Grain and Seed Company of Amarillo for overcharging 46 cars of grain sorghum totaling 174 723 92 dollars. The other names Henderson Grain and Seed Company of Farwell Palmer County for overcharging on a car of grain sorghum amounting to 13 513 68 dollars.
Amarillo College reports a new enrollment peak of 655 full-time students, with 25 more added that morning. Total may exceed 800 with about 150 vocational and night students by week’s end. Space expansion adds four new classrooms and redecorated laboratories.
Amarillo soldier Billy Jack McKeand of the Sixth Constabulary Regiment appears in three Life Magazine photos in the August 26 issue. Overseas since March, the technician fifth grade, a 1944 Amarillo High School graduate, is shown at a gate checking passes toward constabulary headquarters as the regiment works to improve occupatio n forces in Germany under Maj. Gen. Ernest N. Harmon.
Potter County commissioners approve winter gear and road notes. A Balderson BV II snow plow costs 428.75 from R B George Co. A 1946 2 ton Chevrolet truck is bought for 2468.89 from Plains Chevrolet Co. A water storage tank is purchased for 400 from Goldwater Brothers. A road view report opens West Amarillo at 320 per acre for 0.84 acre.
In Batavia Illinois the Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church pastor forbids kissing at weddings calling it unethical for public worship saying it provokes giggles and guffaws. He urges couples to hold hands instead in front of the altar and congregation.
Mauldin comments on wedding intimacies calling joining of hands a sacred service not a social function. In church the kiss is forbidden for the couple but allowed by the pastor for the best man and close family in the vestibule. The first steam powered factory in America was a New England furniture plant in 1815.
The Fall term of federal district court scheduled to begin this morning is postponed to about the first of October. Judge James C. Wilson of Fort Worth, who stayed here through most of the Summer, is on vacation.
Northwest Texas and St Anthony s hospitals in Amarillo are designated depots for streptomycin under Civilian Production Administration allotments. Shipments arrived yesterday by air express for distribution in the area, with a limited but valuable supply to treat typhoid and undulant fevers.
Mrs. Wilson was arraigned on an abandonment charge brought by her husband John Wilson. Magistrate Jacob Dogole permitted bail of 1000 with a hearing set for Oct 15. The couple pledged to reunite with their daughters Betty Jane 10 and Diane 3 after the period. The father received $10 as aid when the couple had only $1.35.
Excelsior Springs readers are invited to request a free book titled Rheumatism from The Ball Clinic. The text argues drugs provide only temporary relief and promotes a drugless method tied to mineral waters. A second free booklet Good Health, Life's Greatest Blessing is included with prompt letters to The Ball Clinic Dept. 2301.
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