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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1944
Page
2
The author praises warm dry days and cool nights with temperatures around 96 dropping to 70 at night. He notes better health when windows are open, little rain, and predicts rain later in the month and in September and October. Also mentions wheat pasture abundance for farmers and references juvenile delinquency and other varied local chatter.
In Amarillo a resident reports a long centipede trapped in a mouse trap after a bite scare at home on Front Street. The piece also notes a French poodle named Cherbourg gifted to five year old Patricia Ann Jacks and mentions Lloyd Jobe's expected radio broadcast from Japan with local listeners invited to tune in.
Potter County Grand Jury returned six indictments before recess yesterday afternoon. Five indictments allege forgery and one is for assault and battery. Returns on the indictments are not yet announced. 12 cases and new business will be on the schedule for next week.
Funeral services for Mrs Lillie Plymale will be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home chapel. Rev E B Fincher of Ellwood Park Presbyterian Church will officiate. Mrs Plymale died Tuesday in a local hospital. She was the wife of W J Plymale. The family home is 311 Buchanan Street. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery.
James Avery, a mechanic, discovers an electric time bomb labeled Zero Hour in a car and alerts police. The device contained a first aid kit from Borger and is described as an electric timer bomb used in wells. Desert sheepmen cover snow drifts to slow melt and secure drinking water.
Detroit remains wary after prior whites and blacks clashes that damaged property and lives. Economic and social pressures plus political mobilization of the black vote heighten tension as leaders seek to avert a repeat while pushing for housing, schools, and recreational gains.
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