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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1951
Page
8
Dick Contino, the 21 year old accordionist earning 4000 weekly, offers to enlist for five years if doctors deem him fit. He cites severe anxiety and claustrophobia that make him fear barracks and camps and fears jail if convicted of draft evasion after fleeing Fort Ord.
Services honoring Mrs Viola W Wilson will be held tomorrow at 430 PM at Polk Street Methodist Church with Rev Eugene Slater officiating. Burial is Claude Cemetery. pallbearers include R D Ewers Harold Grimes Clifton Oliver and others. The body lies at 1500 Harrison from 130 PM today until an hour before the service. Mrs Wilson wife of Robert Wilson Santa Fe clerk, died Sunday of a brief illness. survivors include two daughters Mrs Wendene Shoupe and Mrs Roberne Foran and a son Robert War.
Washington April 23 The Defense Department asked Selective Service to draft 1202 physicians in July August and September. Target group includes priority physicians educated at government expense or those deferred in World War II with less than 90 days service. If volunteer numbers rise the draft will be scaled back. About 700 of the inductees will join the Army with the rest entering the Air Force.
Potter County commissioners voted to advertise for bids to plow and replant the courthouse lawn and to lower the grade to clear sprinkler heads. They approved a $10 monthly indigent care increase, awarded siding contracts for Four-H Club racks and Poultry Building, approved sheriff department payroll changes, pursued two road closings, and agreed to pay a county patient’s hospital bill at St Anthony’s after Northwest Texas Hospital beds were unavailable.
Funeral services for James Law Walling 79 retired farmer will be held tomorrow at 2 pm in the First Christian Church Clovis. He died yesterday morning at his home 3008 Park after living in Amarillo a year from Farwell where he farmed before retirement. Born January 2 1872 in Mc Minnville Tennessee he was a member of the First Christian Church Farwell and the Masonic Lodge. Survivors include four sons Craig and Clark Amarillo Orion and Milton Clovis two daughters Jimmie Lindsey Houston Ruth Dorris Amarillo two brothers E T Walling Fort Worth J B Walling Los Angeles two sisters Mrs C B Hinds Arlington and Mrs Bob Scruggs Mount Calm Hill County.
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