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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1950
Page
5
A reader quiz from The Amarillo Globe News Information Bureau provides brief facts on topics from fish coloration to voting rights. It includes questions and concise answers on blueback fish stripes, women’s suffrage numbers, dash in cooking, Douay Bible origin, flower fragrance, Liberty head on coins, water expansion on freezing, and early peace efforts.
Nursing school alumnae gather at St Anthony's Hospital nurses home for registration at 10 this morning and a two day homecoming. Miss Esther Klinke presides at introductions with welcome by Mrs Maynie Walker and response by Miss Ann Tapkan. A hospital tour follows. Dinner at VFW Hall tonight. Brunch and barbecue scheduled for tomorrow at Amarillo CC and Ellwood Park.
Mobile detectives report Fireman Joseph R. Gurganus, 29, caught hauling groceries from the county poor house for personal use. Detective Capt. Talley Rollings states the theft explains ration shortages at the facility.
A 16 year old former Brooklyn hospital inmate, Stanley Openshaw, is sought by police for questioning in the park bench homicide of his 70 year old father Martin Openshaw, an exporter. A 13 state alert lists arrest for homicide and notes the suspect may be armed.
Funeral services for Noah David Hughes visiting Nazarene preacher who died yesterday morning at Northwest Texas Hospital will be held at 2 this afternoon at the First Church of the Nazarene with Rev J F Hamm officiating Burial under Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home is planned at Llano Cemetery Pallbearers include J H Willis H W Oliver W Wag g Ed Everts William Scofield H H Hagemier Walter Johnson and Lee Howard He was 67 and lived at 2503 Wilson born in Owen County Kentucky came to Amarillo in 1926 licensed to preach in 1907 and joined the Nazarene Church as a preacher in 1913 Surviving are his widow Mrs Pearl Hughes six sons two daughters two brothers and three sisters including sons George W David H and Joe all of Amarillo R B Hughes Houston J P Hughes Rock Island IL and T S Hughes Ozona TX Daughters Lois Eddy Amarillo and Ruth Riggle mar of Washington DC Brothers Joe W Hughes Snyder OK Cecil Hughes Monte Della CA Sisters Alice Gibbons Tucson Ariz Annie McCarty St Louis and Ida Craighead Fulton Mo
Cairo reports Egypt and Britain will start discussions on the Suez defense tomorrow. Egypt will demand removal of British troops and asserts its forces can guard the waterway linking the Mediterranean and Red Sea. About 25,000 British troops are stationed there. Field Marshal Slim represents Britain. Haidar Pasha and Col Ismail Sherin Bey represent Egypt.
Frederick B. Warren aged 65 a field representative of the American Newspaper Publishers Association and former publisher of The St. Louis Times died of a heart attack today in Midtown Hospital after a brief illness.
Glamorous Marian Martin swimsuit pattern 9060 offers a strapless beach version with a bra top and boning directions. Sizes 12 through 40, with size 16 needing 2% yards of 35-inch fabric. Send 25 cents to Amarillo Globe News Pattern Dept for complete illustrated sew chart and pattern book preview.
Izvestia hails Moscow Bolshoi Theater as the greatest opera and ballet house but cautions that its traditional view of operas and ballets as lush spectacles often contradicts life and psychological and historical truth.
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