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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1950
Page
5
Gov Chen Yi, ruler of Formosa after Japanese rule, was executed by a single pistol shot. His death ends a brutal regime blamed for widespread Formosan killings and sparking the 1947 uprising.
Defense Secretary Johnson and Gen. Omar Bradley met Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Tokyo to hear his views on Americas position in Asia. They visited MacArthurs office on the sixth floor of the Dai Ichi building downtown.
Elkhart Indiana June 18 rescue crews freed a 33 year old farmer from a caved in well excavation after days of entrapment. The man suffered injuries but was reported in stable condition at a local hospital. Police and fire units coordinated the operation and two neighboring farms assisted with equipment.
A farmer named Henry Milton Randall was buried while digging a well in the back yard of his Sunnyside addition home in Elkhart. A neighbor assisted as the incident occurred, and the victim was laid to rest after the collapse.
Three fishermen aged 20 to 26 were pulled to safety after their boat capsized two miles west of the Buffalo Lake dam. Rescuers T. M. Gammill and Lloyd C. Griffin, fishing about a mile away, hauled the overturned craft to shore. Names of the capsized boat members were not known to Gammill.
Detroit authorities seek 55 year old David Voke after a long criminal record beginning with a 1911 horse theft arrest. He has 49 prior arrests and 13 convictions, mostly for car theft and larceny, and is now wanted for stealing a Cadillac.
The Republic National Bank announced plans for a new 40 story downtown Dallas office building. The structure will rise 36 stories above ground with four levels underground.
George Thomas Enoch 71 of Amarillo died about 7 40 p m at Northwest Texas Hospital after a weeklong illness. A carpenter by trade and financial secretary of Carpenter Local 665 he was active in the labor movement for decades. Survivors include his wife Stella and several siblings. Funeral arrangements are pending at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home.
The Amarillo city recreation department offers free Monday swimming for grade schoolers at Thompson Park Pool 11:30 to 12:30. A June 27 start launches a Tuesday to Friday swim course. Tennis instruction by Bill Miller at Ellwood Park 1:30 and Memorial Park 3:30. A Memorial Park band concert and a free Sam Houston Park movie Tuesday night. Golf instruction signup at the Playground with Ross Rogers course starting after registrations, led by Dick Turner.
In Edgewood Texas two young men H. C. Thornton age 21 and Jerry Lynch about 17, both from Grand Saline, died when their light plane fell southwest of the Van Zandt County community yesterday.
Laura Wheeler offers a glamour-apron and safety-first oven mitt gift idea for showers. The ad promotes pattern 856 with crochet and knitting charts, photos, and directions, plus a Laura Wheeler Needlecraft Book with illustrations of various craft projects. Send twenty cents for the pattern or book to Amarillo Globe News.
Dalhart storekeeper Caylor Caddell heard a racket at his front window and found a one legged pheasant banging against the plate glass. The stunned bird, evidently injured, was turned over to Game Warden Jess Feits for handling.
A twin engine DC-3 on a Miami to Venezuela route carrying 15 people has been missing for nine days. The Coast Guard was advised today. The aircraft, owned by New Tribes Mission of Chico California, included three missionaries and five children among its passengers and crew of three.
The Potter County Democratic executive committee meets at 8 in the county courtroom to draw ballot places for candidates. Chairman Charles C. Gibson estimates about six percent of an office’s annual salary as the cost, with school superintendent races bearing the highest fee.
Harold E. Shahan 32, Randall County agricultural agent, suffered a lip cut and possible left arm injury when his 1947 Pontiac collided with a 1949 Oldsmobile on Highway 87 between Amarillo and Canyon. Water across the highway contributed to the crash. Cunningham, driver of the Other car, Adrian Cunningham of House of Adrian, was uninjured. Shahan was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital for examination after the incident occurring around 10:35 p.m.
A child’s view of a father as a strong, loving figure who consoles after punishments and shares family life. The speaker recalls a stern yet caring dad who works hard, builds for the neighborhood, and includes children in practical, playful gifts and responsibilities.
Final rites for Mrs Bettie Blanchard, 82, Amarillo churchwoman, will be held at 2 pm in First Presbyterian Church. Rev. Galen H. Onstad to officiate. Burial in Plain Cemetery. Survivors include three sons, a daughter, eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. French Morocco aims to end cement rationing by year end.
Lehigh's $800000 physical education and recreation building houses a 75 by 42 foot pool seating 60. Notable features include a submarine window six feet long for technique spotting, non-slip end-wall tiles for fast turns, stainless steel starting boxes, embedded handles for backstroke starts, and mechanisms to hold air at 70 degrees and water at 78.
L E Gribble son of Judge and Mrs Luther Gribble of Wellington will join the experimental research department of the Pontiac Division General Motors Corp Pontiac Michigan, starting July 1. Belgium abandons plan to send a floating fair to American ports on a ship.
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