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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1946
Page
5
Amarillo aides under Hugo Loewenstern potentate of Khiva Temple announce National Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children Day on April 28 with efforts across 40 counties. Navy Day is slated for April 30 with Theodore Roosevelt birthday noted.
Shriners plan nationwide outreach across 15 North American cities with hospitals including San Francisco Minneapolis Saint Paul Honolulu Greensville Lexington Portland Philadelphia Springfield Montreal Winnipeg Salt Lake City Spokane Chicago Shreveport and St. Louis. They invite crippled children from 144 communities to mass park outings and parades with entertainment and rides. The Shrine emphasizes access and a five point expansion to end delays in treatment for all children.
New York April 23. Thomas Dunham an 18 year old merchant seaman from Houston looked for a buyer for his tame baby ocelot. He paid 508 for the animal in Venezuela but his mother won’t let him take it home. She says he has too many pets already.
The Navy unveiled a new plastic artificial hand that leaves fingerprints on touched surfaces. Displayed at the National Plastics Explosion exhibit, the life like prosthesis is flesh colored and nearly indistinguishable from a real hand at close range. Lt Cmdr R G Delany of Kansas City Missouri cautioned it remains in the developing stage.
Oratory from Silver Spring Maryland notes that up to now no items have been released either to Navy personnel or to the public. The statement highlights ongoing restrictions on dissemination and access.
Rome April 23 The liner Vulcania carries war brides to America while Julia a Caserta romance survivor kills herself after a soldier’s broken promises She bore a child who died and waited for a return that never came leaving her to a Holy Friday suicide in Rome with a sister nearby.
Paul Edward Hicks pleaded guilty in federal court to stealing a car in Grand Rapids Michigan and driving it to Jacksonville to answer charges from a prior auto theft. He received a three year penitentiary sentence.
The Amarillo Globe advertises pattern 4728 with sizes 12 to 20 for nightgown and bedjacket, needing about 2 7 8 yards and 1 7 8 yards of fabric respectively. Send twenty cents to order and include size name address and style number. Also offers Anne Adams Spring Pattern Book for fifteen cents with a free hat and gilet pattern.
Judge Louie Strum questions whether Hicks can be taken to Jacksonville for the first stealing case. Hicks nods sadly as the exchange ends.
Mrs. F. O. Bennett of Lubbock visited Amarillo on Monday and said she was traveling to Cordell Oklahoma to visit her brother L. L. Grogan and family.
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