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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1947
Page
9
In Dallas a resident faced police intervention for the third day over an operating street sprinkler. He was finally informed of the nuisance status and ordered to halt the device.
Ama rillo Public Library shelves burst with recently acquired best sellers, including Hawaii the 49th State by Blake Clark and The Bright Passage by Maurice Hindus. Librarian Alice Green says the titles will circulate tomorrow morning along with about 50 other juvenile and adult volumes spanning many fields and entertainment.
Brig. Gen. Lewis C. Beebe chief of staff of the Fourth Army and the man who broadcast a surrender message to the Japanese from Corregidor is slated for assignment to the European command at Frankfurt Germany. The transfer takes effect Oct 1 and marks Beebe's second occupation duty in Germany following 1918-20. Beebe became General Wainwrights chief of staff on Bataan and Corregidor in 1949 after MacArthur left for Australia. He and Wainwright were captured and held as prisoners of war. While a POW Beebe organized a choir of American officers whose a capella singing boosted morale.
In College Station on August seven the university hosted a state conference vocational agricultural teachers. Hundreds of delegates endured a topsy turvy moment as The Eyes of Texas rang through Guion Hall and Sbisa Ifall. D W Williams noted the old campus sounds would have sparked a reaction fifteen years ago.
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