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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1948
Page
17
Homer Rowntree joins the city tax office as a special deputy tax collector. He will pursue delinquent personal property taxes and beer liquor licenses, with about $72 000 in delinquent assets estimated. Fire crews tended a trash fire at 1012 East Tenth early morning.
British sources report Marshal Vassily Sokolovsky has left Berlin possibly for Moscow. He heads the Russian occupation zone and dominates Berlin crisis news as Allied Control Council meets disruption continues after Soviet demands.
Doyle Rankin Penny, 26, last seen Monday night after attending a Southwestern Public Service Company safety meeting where he works. He wore a cream shirt, pink Army-type pants, brown shoes and hat. 5'11", 165 pounds, with a wart on his left hand. Authorities ask anyone with information to contact his parents at 1201 Buchanan.
A massed concert featuring 230 band students from Golden Die Band Elizabeth Nixon Junior High and Sam Houston Junior High, conducted by Dr. D O Wiley with assistants Clyde Rowe and Fred Rattan, occurs at 8 PM. Admission is 15 cents for students and 25 cents for adults. Proceeds fund band expenses for state contests on April 30 and May 1.
Burglars stole $40 last night from Hill Grocery at 711 West Seventh after forcing a rear door hole and unlocking the main door. Police also investigated a break-in at Thompson Barber Shop on West Sixteenth, where a window was broken but nothing appeared missing.
Larry Mills of the American Osteopathic Association visited Amarillo College West Texas State College and Texas Technological College as part of a three week Texas tour under the State Vocational Guidance Committee. He told about 40 physicians and surgeons students that thousands of physicians will be needed by 1960 and emphasized strict selection to raise student quality. Mills noted freshman slots for 1948-49 are nearly filled with a June 1 deadline for viable applicants. 3,800 applicants seek 460 openings.
Temple April 9 State Sen. Buster Brown says he will not seek another term from the 21st District citing inability to afford the job. He argues the $1,200 biannual salary fails to cover actual expenses and income loss during the legislature.
A seventh attempt to set fire to the home of Armour & Company worker Earl A. White was reported. Police said a bottle of gasoline or naphtha was thrown against his door yesterday afternoon but did not explode. CIO officials denounced the act as a form of intimidation in the ongoing strike situation.
Six reports in 10 days describe bottles or jars of kerosene with makeshift cloth wicks ignited and thrown at Armour employees homes. No fires of significant size occurred. A J Pittman district director United Packinghouse Workers issued a statement after repeated incidents.
Dalton Eason of 400 North East Eighth pleaded guilty in Potter County Court to carrying a pistol and throwing incendiary devices. He was fined 200 dollars plus costs. The statement disavowed by the Dalton Eason holding in the county jail and tied to union activity, while the McCartys deny involvement in the strike tactics.
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