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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1945
Page
15
Local column records brief social updates from Amarillo area residents. Families travel to San Diego and Hollywood. visitors join relatives in Las Vegas. Several births are noted at Northwest Texas Hospital with August 20 dates.
A list of residents and their medical status appears with names and addresses. Individuals include Ozella Williams, J D Grodjeski, Jean Josey, Nancy Louise Thramer, I F Barton, Ben Howard, M N Hammer, W O Shelton, A E Pointer, Alton Henry Asbury, G W Daniel, and Jerry Simmons among others.
Jim Ricketts is named to run TWA ticket offices in the Herring Hotel Amarillo with wife and two year old son Ronnie accompanying him. Glenn Hall released a midyear 1945 report noting TWA earnings reached 1 699 169 dollars and revenues rose to 17 218 608 dollars while the Gulf campaign earned 44 ships sunk 196 970 gross tonnage in the Eighth Naval District.
Manila Aug 23 General MacArthur announced the army will withdraw from Philippine civil administration on Sept 1 as it is no longer needed. He said he resisted military rule to avoid weakening democracy in the East and that all areas have been restored to the commonwealth with legislative executive and judicial branches functioning smoothly. The army will still work on major bases after independence is granted.
C. L. Thompson of 405 North Pierce is spending the week with Mrs. W. L. Jacsson near Fort Worth, according to local social notes.
Washington announces lifting of wholesale and retail motor truck delivery restrictions to November 1, easing wartime controls. The order ends most Sunday deliveries and limits to two retail deliveries per week for most goods, excluding highly perishable items.
German prisoners of war housed in Holdrege Nebraska were fed their first watermelon and one inmate reportedly ate the entire piece including the rind in a light moment at work.
Pfc. Robert R. Clark leaves his 60 day furlough with parents Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Clark at 502 Prospect and heads to Hot Springs Arkansas for reassignment.
In Austin on August 23 two teen youths were held for questioning in the slaying near Kiowa Oklahoma of 20 year old McGraw Streckenfinger in Pittsburgh Kansas. Ranger Captain Fred Olson said Texas would not file charges and Oklahoma plans extradition papers to move them to Oklahoma. A third youth is jailed in Atoka Oklahoma and an Oklahoma City girl remains seriously wounded in McAlester Hospital.
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