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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1951
Page
12
United Press reports a four week end series of air crashes leaving 44 dead 5 injured and 2 missing. Most victims were servicemen including nineteen Air Force men in West Virginia. Other crashes occurred in Maryland California and Florida with search efforts and identification of victims continuing.
President John G. Brown of the Amarillo Apartment and Property Owners Association heads a Texas Apartment and Property Owners Association executive committee in Austin to discuss policy on public housing and Senate Bill 353 the Slum Clearance Bill. Members are to appear before the state affairs committee tonight to debate the measure.
Hollywood April 9 Met baritone Robert Merrill says he is shocked and depressed after being fired for coming to Hollywood instead of joining the Met spring tour. He insists he could not abandon his operatic career and notes a dropped project with Aaron Slish of Punkin Creek. A baby obituary mentions a newborn death with survivors including twins and two brothers.
The B-25 crew fought four hours to clear a jammed landing gear then bailed out. Pilot Capt. Paul V. Chapman set an automatic course over Chesapeake Bay. The plane cartwheeled along Morningside Street and crashed into the Snyder home, killing the Snyder infants aged 6 weeks and 6 years and a brother-in-law Irvin Buyer. The Snyders and Mrs Buyer were injured. Separately a DC-3 Southwest Airlines crash Friday missed safety by about 100 feet, crashing at 2900 feet just below Refugio Pass on a San Francisco to Los Angeles flight.
Services honoring John William Dees were held at 10:30 A.M. in the First Christian Church with Rev. Hubert Thomson presiding. The body will be sent to Dallas for burial. Dees, 64, died Saturday at his home 2110 Mirror after living in Amarillo since 1948. He belonged to the Methodist Church Masonic Lodge Hanson Post American Legion and Disabled American Veterans. Survivors include his wife a son a sister and a brother.
Funeral rites for Carolyn Sue Northern seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs H H Northern were held this afternoon at 4 oclock in the East Side Church of Christ with Arthur L Golden officiating. Pallbearers were J A Rush William C Boyce Jr C S Oliver and W M Adams. Survivors include the parents a brother James Harvey and two sisters Norma Jean Dorothy Jane and grandparents Mr and Mrs Ed Robertson of Dawson Texas and Mr and Mrs E H Northern of El Paso. Burial was in Llano Cemetery under N B Griggs Sons.
A fragmented note indicates Merrill was billed in advance to appear with the Met's spring tour, with the schedule starting today.
Graveside rites for Gary Lynn Ryan infant, 3 days old, son of Mr and Mrs C A Ryan of 3806 East Twelfth, were conducted at Llano Cemetery this morning at 10 o clock by R E Rieg er elder of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.
An improved type of Ulster Cottage, a prefabricated house eligible for government subsidy, is now being made available in Northern Ireland.
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