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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1952
Page
11
Western intelligence reports East Germanys push to form a 12 division army of about 375000 men is stalled by Moscow. Berlin seeks Soviet funding and reduced reparations but gains no promises of military equipment. Officials say the cadre army may expand to 60000 but 12 divisions unlikely.
Thirty members of the Amarillo K-9 Training Club gathered at the McAfee ranch to hear W. D. Morgan of Lubbock give basic obedience instruction. A Boston terrier named Pug, trained five weeks, demonstrated many commands. A follow up class is set for 6 PM next Sunday at the McAfee ranch for interested dog owners.
Allied infantry repelled a Chinese assault of at least 750 troops on a western Chorwon hill. In five days of fighting the 45th Oklahoma Division reportedly killed or wounded about 1,175 Chinese. Farther south U.S. pilots claimed MIGs with 2nd Lt. James F. Low earning his fifth kill amid air battles over Manchuria and Namsidong.
Three Wheeler County jail inmates Wayne Turner Billy Lyden Sealf and Robert Hicks escaped between 8 10 and 9 PM. They were seen near a Shamrock service station at 12 30 AM with a fourth boy and may have traveled by car. The sheriff investigates car wait and tracks to verify movements.
Babies were born in Amarillo yesterday at the rate of 2 555 annually. Seven four girls and three boys were born at Northwest Texas and St Anthony s hospitals yesterday afternoon. The hospitals were almost as busy Saturday and expect to be busy today.
A head-on collision near Smyer 14 miles east of Levelland at 12 15 AM left one dead and four injured. Lewis Goodluck Mitchell died at Lubbock Memorial Hospital. Cpl James Marshall and James Taylor were among the injured treated at hospitals. Other passengers unnamed. Both cars were demolished.
An elderly visitor, Moses Tatum of Mexia, was hit by a car near his nephew Henry Archer’s home in Amarillo after stepping from a city bus. He suffered a compound fracture of the left leg and was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital by N S Griggs & Sons ambulance. condition listed as fairly good. The accident occurred around 9 30 last night at North Hughes and Seventeenth Avenue.
The 71 year old Mrs. Meadows was hit by a car driven by Dr. Gorrie who said he saw her in the street after exiting an underpass. He could not avoid the collision. she was taken to hospital by Griggs ambulance.
The death toll includes Judge Cooper a veteran Amarillo lawyer and former Panhandle Republican campaign manager. Funeral plans are pending while relatives in Amarillo Hereford and Granbury assess burial options. The accident occurred during a leisure trip to the West Coast with family members.
In St Louis on June 15 Southwestern Bell Telephone Co and the CIO Communications Workers recessed talks to June 30 so union negotiators can attend their national convention.
The piece notes the scramble for delegates to the Chicago GOP nominating convention with Truman and Eisenhower trading calls for spending cuts. In Maine the Taft Eisenhower fight shapes the primary as Owen Brewster and Gov Payne clash. Georgia to name 28 electoral votes and DC Democrats hold a no vote primary for six delegates.
A science note explains that light takes a little over eight minutes to travel from the Sun to Earth, highlighting the constant speed of light and the vast distance between the two celestial bodies.
19 year old Hurley Broach Jr suffered minor injuries when his motorcycle collided with two cars at Seminole and North East Eighth at about 9 45 pm He was treated at St Anthony's Hospital Authorities said the motorcycle struck the eastbound taxi fender pushing it into a westbound car The taxi had two passengers Mrs Richard L Williams and her daughter en route to Japan to join her husband serving with the armed forces Only Broach was injured with cuts to an arm and leg.
A man arrested after a Beasley burglary admitted involvement as officers and store officials found the cash register pried open and a strong box containing checks and account records disturbed. The break in occurred Saturday night when the alarm tripped as he departed the store.
Funeral services for Henry FE Dotson a longtime Santa Fe employee will be held at 10:30 Tuesday at Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel. Burial will follow at Llano Cemetery. Dotson 66 died Saturday in St Anthony’s Hospital after 32 years with the railroad in Amarillo. He was born Oct 4 1885 in Decatur Texas and survived by his wife three daughters a son a brother and three sisters.
The region stayed hot with highs in the high 60s to 70s and brutal 108 in Imperial Nebraska. Chicago reported its hottest day in nearly three years at 41.4. New York reached 90.6 the year’s high. A Midwest to Dakotas corridor saw relief from scattered thundershowers.
Warden Elwood Wilson will administer 20 lashes to a prisoner using a short broom-handle whip with nine flat leather thongs. The punishment, counted stroke by stroke, will be delivered straight-armed before Barbieri is taken to the infirmary for treatment. Outside, Mexican workers paid tribute to President Miguel Aleman with a serenade outside his home.
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