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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1946
Page
2
On April 19 in Kansas City cattle and calves sold with limited offerings and prices mostly steady. Hog demand remained active at ceiling levels with good to choice weights around 170 pounds bringing 14.55. sows 13.80. Sheep traded around 5.50 with sparse test on trucks.
Copy of deed transfers for Willie Auldridge to Carrie Burley and others across multiple blocks and streets plus numerous district court divorce filings. Marriage licenses listed for several couples including Edwin Denham and Verna Melton along with others. Parties include Bivins, Frost, Givens, Matney, and Burkhalter among the many names.
At a two day convention meeting officials discussed the Forand bill now before a House committee. The bill would provide special federal aid to low income states and federal participation in general assistance with medical care funded by federal dollars. In 1943 44 the seven states present used 61 million from state and local funds versus 114 million from federal funds under the plan. Federal per inhabitant expenditures would double and total per person spending would rise from 9.50 to over 13. Federal funds would cover about 62 percent of public assistance in those states. The session closes this afternoon at 3 45 with Mr Winters presiding. Morning and early sessions focused on inner organization.
A 55 foot flagpole bent four feet due to heavy weight and strong breeze. Delores, weighing 102 pounds, volunteered to carry out the mission and hooked on a safety belt to climb to the top. Father fitted special clamps to the pole for the ascent and removal by the steeple jack. The pole progresses from four inch base pipe to one and a half inch at the top.
District Court Judge W. E. Gee travels to Washington D C to see his son Bill a West Point cadet and patient at Walter Reed General Hospital. He will join Mrs Gee who has been with him for the past two weeks in this hospital visit.
Consumers Cooperatives Association shows member savings of 158 164 46 last year with about 50 000 members in 158 local co ops across Texas New Mexico Oklahoma and Colorado Refineries at Levelland saved 106 408 53 in patronage allocations General manager Leonard F Cowden outlined in the annual report The group held a two day session in Amarillo in the Crystal Ball room of the Herring Hotel A clinic for cooperative leaders is planned for tomorrow sponsored by the bank CCA and Producers Grain Corporation.
Portraits by John Young-Hunter of Taos New Mexico will end at 10 PM at Amarillo Center 2101 Harrison. The 18 painting collection has been shown since March 31 and was extended from two weeks to three to reach more Amarillo and Panhandle residents. Hours are 2 to 6 PM and 7 to 10 PM. The Connoisseurs Club sponsors the exhibit.
Lt. J. L. Adams Jr arrives in San Francisco from Japan and heads to Amarillo for a two week leave with his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Adams at 2107 Tyler. The 25 year old Marine officer was ordered to the Pacific for 19 months with a signal company of the Second Marine Division and joined occupation forces in Japan last September. After his leave he will go to Corpus Christi for discharge after three years of duty.
National Labor Relations Board hearings on Holmes and Holmes Oil Company will be held May 8 and 9 in the Federal courtroom here. Edwin E. Elliott, regional director, announced in Fort Worth. The nature of the case was not disclosed.
Miss Georgia Stevens, Houston student at the University of Texas, died after burns suffered during a sorority initiation at the Delta Delta Delta house. Blood transfusions failed to save her. family arrived in Austin after the accident as reports say a lace net dress caught fire from a candle during a stairway ceremony.
Water pressure in Amarillo mains will be intermittently low during the next few days. N. W. Moss, water department superintendent, said the Bonham Street pumping station will be shut down briefly for construction of new city mains. Pressure has been low for the past two days for the same reason.
Wiley H. Fuqua II presents a landscape and flower themed watercolor series featuring a modern vein. The Amarillo Public Library hosts the exhibit opened Wednesday for a week before moving May 1 to Bill Cole's Little Gallery in Dallas. Sixteen paintings are featured.
President Truman will deliver a personal report on world famine during a 6 pm radio broadcast transmitted by all major networks. Former President Hoover will address listeners from Cairo during the half hour program, touring hunger areas.
Fire at a shed attached to a two room house at 1608 Buchanan rear was reported this morning around 4 o'clock. Firemen contained the blaze with only moderate damage reported.
Burglars broke into White's Laundry at 913 Roberts Street last night and stole 11 dollars 85 cents in cash along with an electric razor. The break in was found at about 9:30 this morning when the shop opened. Police report entry through a side window.
Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Winningham of 3304 Van Buren and Mr. and Mrs Frank W. Hays of 1211 A West Tenth have returned from attending the regional track meet in Lubbock.
Funeral services for Jack Hamby 25 year old Amarillo veteran who died in a Stockton California automobile accident will be held tomorrow at 4 p.m. from the Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel with Rev. J D Horton officiating. He served in the African Sicilian and European campaigns and held the Silver Star Medal. He is survived by his parents two brothers four sisters and a step sister all of Amarillo. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery.
Local members of the Texas Society for Professional Engineers will meet at 5 o'clock this afternoon in the offices of J L Adams county engineer for an informal conference with Trigg Twichell second vice president of the state organization He will discuss fees and salaries for Texas engineers and other current field issues before returning to Austin late tomorrow.
Amarillo police chief Sid Harper says public cooperation boosts the dog population survey aimed at licensing and vaccinating dogs for rabies. Three officers average 40 licenses daily and contact about 130 houses each day. completion could take six months.
Postal inspectors and sheriff's deputies joined the investigation of a burglary at the Army Technical Village administrative offices. A medium safe was taken and later found on the Rock Island right of way near the Carson County line east of the city. Police recovered endorsed checks, 55 money order blanks, and cash totaling about $255.
Preparations to re float the boat house at Buffalo Lake were under way. The boathouse and docks have been grounded due to the low water level. Cables have been strung under the boathouse and across the lake to towing apparatus capable of pulling the structure off mudbanks into deeper water.
Bids will be opened Tuesday night for a concrete pier foundation for a new city water storage tank at North East Fifth and Osage. The 1,000,000 gallon tank is manufactured by Chicago Bridge and Iron Works and erection is slated to begin July 1.
Carl Hatfield, 31, identified as Negro, was arrested by sheriff's deputies on a charge of wife desertion. Bond had not been set as of this morning.
Sheriff Bill Adams returned today from Lawton Oklahoma where he attended a convention of North Texas and Southern Oklahoma law enforcement officers.
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