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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1947
Page
4
Top scholastic honors go to two seniors at Amarillo High School. The valedictorian posted a four year average of 97.33 and the salutatorian 96.22.
Amarillo Rotarians George Waddill Dr. A M Meyer Densel Dean and Earl O Keefe are slated for the 127th Rotary District assembly in Fort Worth May 4 6 with about 600 Rotarians expected. Hotel Texas will host the event and speakers include Dowrey Alexander Taylor and O Brien. Mechanization of agriculture in Czechoslovakia is noted as a near term trend.
Amarillo College plans to raise its tax rate from 7 to 20 cents to fund salary increases for 32 full time teachers as part of a 1947 48 tentative budget. The board authorized a 12 percent pay rise lifting salaries from 86145 to 96391 73 while total expenditures climb to about 208 890 with a 350 000 bond issue for a new building.
Curda and Gerik Czech parachutists who betrayed comrades and aided the Gestapo were hanged at Pankrac Prison. court records show they parachuted from a British plane on March 27 1942 and shared a 10 million crown reward for exposing eight colleagues hidden in the crypt of Prague’s Russian Orthodox Church.
Credit managers from Amarillo stores meet tomorrow at noon in the Blackstone Hotel Coffee Shop for their weekly gathering.
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