Dearth of new births in Amarillo area noted
At mid afternoon yesterday no babies had been born in four Amarillo hospitals since Tuesday morning at 7 45. Northwest Texas Hospital reported a newborn son to Mr and Mrs O H Motley at 1402 North Harrison. Hospitals contacted included Northwest Texas St Anthony’s Amarillo Osteopathic and Washington Center.
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Amarillo
O. H. Motley
North Harrison
Northwest Texas Hospital
Northwest Texas
St. Anthony's
Osteopathic
Washington Center
Humpy Campbell’s wartime ride from Hawaii to Love Field
Story traces Humpy Campbell from Sea Scout days to Army Air mechanics training in Hawaii in 1940, his years as a prisoner of the Japanese, and his return to civilian aviation work with Dallas Aeromotive Company. It notes his family, late 1930s plans, and a near-miss at Love Field, plus later veteran entrepreneurship in Amarillo with Nolan Clark Jr.’s phone service venture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humpy” Campbell
Army
Hawaii
Hickam Field
Waikiki Beach
Mayme Campbell
Tyler
Globe
Humpy Campbell
Pearl Harbor
Philippines
Mindanao
Wainwright
Air Force Reserves
USA
Love Field
Dallas
Humpy
Dallas Aeromotive Company
Nolan Clark, Jr
OSS
Amarillo
Mr. Clark
Princess Elizabeth Expected to Have Second Child
A royal source says Princess Elizabeth is expecting her second child this summer. Officials noted she will likely cancel public engagements for the coming months and return from Malta next month. Buckingham Palace confirmed her schedule through mid October but denied any pregnancy reports. The birth would follow Prince Charles by nearly two years, born November 14, 1948.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Elizabeth
Clarence House
Malta
Buckingham Palace
Prince Charles
Amarillo Notes From Local and Northwest Texas Areas
The page surveys local social notes from Amarillo and Northwest Texas. It lists visits, guests, and travel over Easter holidays, including families of Kendalls and Grovers, plus guests of Plano and Wayland College. It includes military assignments, a college Shakespeare role for Duane Byars, and notes on business sales and motor trips among local residents.
Our Younger Generation profiles two junior high students
Lucy Amerson, 15, Horace Mann Junior High, leads Girls Athletic Association, serves as Y-Teens vice president and home room secretary, captains girls volleyball and basketball, aims to be a PE teacher or rancher, with brown hair and blue-green eyes. Mildred Jordan, 14, Elizabeth Nixon Junior High, is home room president, Spanish class vice president, former Halloween Queen and Literature Class president in Georgia, enjoys reading and collecting salt and pepper shakers, hopes to be an intelligent, broad-minded individual.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lucy Amerson
Horace Mann Junior High School
Girls Athletic Association
R. Amerson
Lincoln
Mildred Jordan
Dimples
Elizabeth Nixson Junior High
Georgia
Family’s Period of Happiness Brief
PITTSBURGH, April 14. Twenty years after Frank Allega left Italy to seek fortune in the United States and his wife joined him, Arturo remained in Italy. Arturo, a Rome policeman, arrived in Pittsburgh to reunite with his parents. They started home and the car crash killed both parents. Arturo survived unharmed.
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Pittsburgh
Frank Allega
Italy
United States
Josephine
Arturo
Allegas
Rome
Army air transport trainee Henderson serves in Japan
Private Henderson of D Company 32nd Infantry Regiment 7th Division trains as radio operator at Camp Haugen Hachinoha Japan and nears regimental combat tests. A former Amarillo High student who joined in August 1948 he first trained at Fort Ord and served with the First Cavalry before radio school. Perry E Smith seaman USN son of Mr and Mrs Perry Smith Hooker Okla recently visited Glasgow aboard the destroyer USS Ernest G Small with crew members visiting several sites.
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J. O. Stallings
Bill Schell
Kansas University
Lawrence
Kan
Tom Schell
Lloyd O’sheim
Sioux Falls
Howard Cawthon
Riverside
Cal
Lloyd Thompson
Amarillo
Fort Worth
S. C. Evans
Pampa
Guy C. Bateman
Cassville
Bateman
J. H. Bateman
Drumright
Ohlo
Cecil G. Bateman
Cecil David Bateman
Frances Earnest
Jackson
C. L. Murr
Bushland
Thornton
Jimmie R. Dendy
W. H. Dendy
Cleveland
Eighth Army
Japan
Mount Fuji
Dendy
27Th Infantry Regiment
27Th Infantry
25Th Infantry Division
Camp Sakai
Osaka
Amarilo
Fort Ord
William H. Lynch
USN
Howard W. Lynch
Western
Warren E. Coker
F. E. Coker
Valley Forge
Hawaiian
United States
Grady T. Henderson
Truman Henderson
Camp Haugen
Hachinoha
Henderson
D Company
32Nd Infantry Regiment
7Th Infantry Division
Amarillo High School
Army
First Cavalry Division
Perry E. Smith
Perry R. Smith
Hooker, Okla
Glasgow
Scotland
Ernest G. Small
Ship Moves and Crew Changes Mentioned in Courtesy Call
During a courtesy call the Loch Lomond and Edinburgh were noted with a prior five day Cardiff visit. The Ernest G. Small recently joined the Northern European Naval Forces after a two month Mediterranean cruise.
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Loch Lomond
Edinburgh
Scotland
Cardiff
Wales
Ernest G. Small
Mediterranean
Larger Families for Methodists Urged
Bishop A Frank Smith of Houston urged Wyoming Methodists to have more children. He said the Methodist average is below the national average of about three and a half, calling the situation a social and religious concern for the citizens’ future.
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Binghamton, NY
Houston
A. Frank Smith
Wyoming Methodist Conference
Census-Taker Fined For Talking Rough
ATLANTA April 14 An 18 fine was assessed against Sanborn Cooper after a woman testified she chased him from her home during a census row. Mrs L G Barnett said Cooper shouted at her over unanswered questions. umbrella seized. He was charged with disorderly conduct. The judge withdrew the fine after relatives said he had a nervous breakdown. District Census Supervisor W A Whitehurst said the 39-year-old man has been fired as a census taker.
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Atlanta
Sanborn Cooper
L. G. Barnett
Cooper
A. W. Callaway
W. A. Whitehurst
Baylor Defeats SMU In Golf Match At Dallas
In Dallas yesterday Baylor University golf team defeated Southern Methodist University 44 percent to 1 percent in a regional match, shaping standings and signaling solid play from Baylor's lineup.
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Dallas
Baylor University
Southern Methodist University
Also Mentioned on This Page
Marshall B. Shaw
Charles Holt
John Charles King
Harry Reimers
W. K. McCaskill
Willard Harmon Marilyn Ruth Alfred
Frank Paulie
Charles I. Galloup
Betty Joan Hinshaw
Mary Jean Hinshaw
Jack Malcolm Morrison
J. R. Bell
David Rasco
H. F. Nesbit
A. J. Caldwell, Jr
Jackie Vincent
W. A. Fisk
J. Novak
Florence Knight
Mary Thompson
Billie Phipps
Benjamin Robert Jones
Sylvia Louise Schrieber
Doris Louise Yates
R. J. Culwell
Alice Hester
Betty Ann Johnson
Patsy Lurline Ramsey
J. S. Edwards
Robert Howle
Roy Curtis McPherson
Gadding
Keith Jones
Austin
R. J. Thornton
Rusk
Jan Thornton
Pete Burnett
E SF
Walter Watts
Beama Lou
Dorothy Susan
Army Tech Village
Municipal Auditorium
New Mexico
Continental Divide
Verdie Beauchamp
Dumas
J. Sports
Erick
Okla
Walter D. Caldwell
Hayden
D. K. Grisham
Sandra
Gay
Dickie
Moore
Grishams
Plainview
Grisham
Wayland College
Dick Wiggins
John Wiggins
Parker
Loyd O’sheim
Texas
Chillicothe
Tex
Joe Pybus
Jerry Wayne
Douglas Carl
River Drive
Pleasant Valley
Zeno Holt
Cecil Holt
Robert Alexander
Grover
Albert H. Hahn
van Buren
Lubbock
Dan Shrader
A. H
Getens Preath
Mother Palooka
Atlantic
Boids
Mamie
Moon
Billy
BROS
Syed Chuun
Uncle Owl
Tim
Gut Diamond Jim — Oe
Asmriec
B. F. Goodrich Store
Fillmore
Amarillo Printing Company
General
The
Capital Stock Company of Preferred Risks
Laut Pa
Baylor
Ventaire Aluminum
M. Ci
Ree St
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