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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1951
Page
13
William C. Townes, architect, approved plans for a Union School building to be built in Union, with an estimated cost of 48,500 dollars. The 120 by 28 foot structure will include nine private rooms, six for boys and three for girls. Plans will be available at the architect's office, 1208 West Tenth, and the Dodge Reports plan room, 909 West Sixth.
The Amarillo Exchange Club will tour South Amarillo tonight to start painting aluminum trash cans as part of Clean-Up Week. Each can costs 50 cents, with proceeds funding a Cerebral Palsy Center home. The target area is a rectangle between Washington, Travis, Fifteenth and Thirteenth Streets. H. F. Reid will apply the first aluminum coat in five to six days.
Potter County commissioners accepted a United Spanish War Veterans offer to relocate their flagpole from the old library site to a spot south of the court house approach. The pole, first erected on Armistice Day 1930, will be set in a concrete base with plaques crediting both the veterans and Woodmen of the World.
Ralph Edward Wells, an ex-con from Amarillo jailed for car theft, fatally wounded cab driver Walter Truman during an attempted hold up in Indianapolis. Wells was shot by patrolmen Eugene Sowers and Harold Day and died at the scene. Truman died in hospital. Wells had registered at the Indianapolis police station after partial car theft sentence.
A 1951 advertisement invites readers to mail twenty cents for pattern 7159 a lacy pineapple dress crocheted in simple straight skirt style Sizes 2 4 6 Pattern directions and materials listed through the Amarillo Globe News Needleworkers ask for a copy of the Alice Brooks Needlework catalog highlighting crochet knitting embroidery and other handwork Free pattern printed in the catalog
Funeral services for W. T. Leachman Sr. were set for 4 p.m. at Polk Street Methodist Church with Rev. Eugene Slater officiating. Pallbearers included A. D. Lidia and J. R. McKinley among others. honorary pallbearers were church stewards and McDavid Bible Class members. Leachman, 77, died Saturday night at St. Anthony's Hospital. burial at Llano Cemetery. Survivors: wife, three sons W. T. Jr., E. F. Leachman, W. M. Leachman. seven grandchildren. two great grandchildren. Burial by Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Home.
Sergeant James L. Hearn telephoned from Tokyo to his mother Mrs. C. R. Hearn at 907 Grand. He serves with the 40th Fighter Squadron based in Pusan South Korea and was in Japan on a rest leave when he called.
William T. Graham and Graham HoeMe Plow Co. Inc. sue Jeoffrey Manufacturing Co. in federal court over brace and spring clamps used in chisel type plows. Hearing expected to last 10 days to two weeks. Graham seeks injunction and accounting of profits. Legal team includes Clay ton Heare, Claude A. Fishburn, Orville O. Gold.
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