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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1946
Page
14
Advertises Golden Peacock Bleach Creme claiming to improve hands by removing brown spots freckles and roughness. Promises whiter clearer smoother skin after a few treatments day or night. Sells 50c and 1.00 at toiletry counters with free sample offered by Golden Peacock Dept 1 B Paris Tennessee.
Amarillo College announces its largest faculty ever under Dr. A M Meyer president with 35 full time instructors and 19 new staff members. The roster includes Dr. Loraine Bruce mathematics and others across social studies business administration english engineering biology and more. Several veterans return from last year’s staff to teach English French biology library music and other subjects.
Between 1922 and 1943 Haifa in Palestine saw a dramatic population rise from about 24 thousand to more than 120 thousand, reflecting rapid urban growth and migration.
Amarillo schools face crowded classrooms with 20 groups across four elementarys placed on half day attendance. Superintendent Chas. M. Rogers cites Forest Hill Humphreys Highland Horace Mann and Glenwood as affected. Enrollment totals rose to 10 212, up 253 from the third day in 1945, with Mann Hill Forest Hill San Jacinto Summitt and Humphreys Highland reporting largest increases.
Officials report two printing mistakes affecting ration stamps Spare 51 misread as 5 and Spare 41 misread as 51. Correct stamps restore five pounds sugar, while incorrect stamps are unusable. Applications for new books must be filed by holders at the courthouse price control office, with Fort Worth issuing the replacements. Merchants told not to honor Spare Stamp 5.
Absentee ballots for the upcoming municipal water bond election indicate heavier turnout than the January voting. As of this morning 27 absentees had been cast, with 5 000 ballots prepared for Saturday’s vote on a two million dollar water revenue bond for expansion and improvement of the system.
District Judge John J. Rawlins, while observing a voting machine recheck in the records building basement, was approached about a divorce. He sat at a desk among barrels of soap and fly spray, convened court, heard two witnesses, and granted the divorce.
A teacher shortage kept about 90 boys from metal trades shop classes at Amarillo High School. Superintendent Chas M. Rogers said Archie Pool, a machinist and metal trades worker, was hired to fill the position after a last minute resignation left the staff without a qualified teacher.
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