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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1945
Page
4
The Post Office Department handles 700 million shipments yearly averaging 5 pounds each. Air express processes 1.75 million shipments at about 20 pounds. Railway Express handles 200 million shipments. The largest tree limb spread on record is a live oak near Hahnville Louisiana at 170 feet.
Several books were added to the In Memoriam Shelf at the Amarillo Public Library. Opal Wheeler's Sing for America honors Bradley D. Kimbrough, a pianist and former choir director who died March 17, donated by Hortense Woodburn. Other memorials include E M Humphrys with works by George Wharton and Kate O'Brien donated by various supporters, plus Paracas Embroideries in memory of Harriett Close Bisbee and The Practical Book of Garden Structure and Design for Modena Veale, with donations from the Pierian Club and others. In Memoriam volumes stay on display. Rainfall in Hawaii varies widely by island.
Elizabeth Nixson Junior High School in Amarillo seeks $5,000 to outfit its 68 band members and about 40 orchestra players with new uniforms. The drive features student volunteers selling tags for 1 to 10 dollars on Polk Tyler and Taylor. Each uniform costs 50 dollars and the old outfits are over 12 years old.
The Chinese Republic was founded in 1911 marking the end of imperial rule and the rise of a republic led by Sun Yat sen and other reformers. The event reshaped China's political landscape and set the stage for subsequent republican movements.
Interstate Theater manager Jack King pioneers seat repair tech. He designs a tie moulder and, with a local shop, builds a machine to renew springs at high speed. An employee creates a seat pressing machine, seats are refurbished with dry cleaned covers for better condition. Interstate officials claim first rights on these inventions for theater circuit repairs.
Amarillo residents prepare for the United National Clothing Collection opening tomorrow. Sixteen churches will host depots with sorting at the Federated Women’s Clubroom Municipal Auditorium. Local chairman Jimmy James urges clean usable clothing shoes and bedding to aid millions of war refugees. Amarillo aims for two carloads as part of a national goal of 150 million pounds.
Madame Suzanne Silvercruys sculptor painter and lecturer will address Knife and Fork Club members at 8 tonight at Amarillo Country Club. She plans to model a club member using a wire armature and moist plastic. She is author of A Primer of Sculpture now in translation and notes her husband Maj Edward F Stevenson and Baron Silvercruys as a Belgian ambassador link.
Ruth Royle of Nebraska and temporary Lubbock resident files suit in 108th district court seeking 75000 against C. W. Parr and others. She says she was injured when the car she rode in collided with a vehicle driven by Wade Furr, alleged to be employed by C. W. Furr, on August 17 near Globe News.
Rev. Neal D. Cannon of Polk Street Methodist Church delivers the opening address for the Northwest Texas Conference Women’s Society of Christian Service executive council session. Mrs. R. H. Rutherford of Stamford presides as the two day gathering at Polk Street Church continues with choir singing and a public program.
Funeral services were set for 4 o clock this afternoon in Sardis Mississippi for W D Chamblin 78 father of E L Chamblin of Amarillo who died yesterday at his home in Sardis Burial will be in Sardis Cemetery Chamblin a Fort Worth and Denver Railway engineer lived at 721 North Buchanan and left yesterday to attend his father s funeral Wife unable to accompany him Survivors include the widow a daughter and four sons.
Amarillo Army Air Field seeks yard beautification help from local homeowners. The engineers request shrubbery trees and flowers to replace failed winter plantings and reduce soil dust on the post. Call 2-5501 extension 275 or 335 with name address and item offered.
Frank Tolbert of Amarillo, former Globe News sports writer, has a short story in the current Saturday Evening Post. A Marine Corps sergeant, Tolbert has gained wide recognition for stories about service and has appeared in Collier's Esquire and Leatherneck where he serves as a Leatherneck correspondent.
A battlefield report from Watervliet Arsenal describes a Long Tom 155 mm gun mounted on a medium tank chassis firing at a seven foot thick German concrete pillbox from 1500 yards and scoring a direct hit with the first round.
The text notes that as early as 1630 booby traps used baskets of eggs fruits and other foods and peddler carts made to seem abandoned would explode when touched by enemy soldiers.
Clarence Williams was found guilty of robbery by assault after a 1 hour 15 minute jury deliberation in 47th District Court. He faces 15 years in the state penitentiary for robbing T. A. Ferguson of money and beer.
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