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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1945
Page
2
Amarillo News Globe column covers weather forecasting basics, atomic theory fears, Kiwanis youth center drive, and obituaries. It notes Frank King's visit from Dallas, the XIT move, Tex McIlroy's failing health, and reader letters about society, gender norms, and child-rearing age.
Amarillo police are seeking Billy Parker a 16 year old who escaped from the Perryton jail last night Parker is about 5 7 150 pounds with a dark complexion brown curly hair and blue eyes authorities issued a lookout and asked the public to report any sightings to police.
Seaman Jim Bob Nance on boot camp leave visits his parents Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Nance at 834 Western. The former Amarillo College student will leave Wednesday to report back to San Diego.
Dallas reports the War Production Board estimates enough lumber will be available in 30 days due to military cutbacks. Under reduced restrictions, any supplier may sell lumber without certifications or priorities if it does not interfere with certified or priority orders.
Ben Franklin Oliver alias Jack Oliver, once held as a material witness in the Donald Mann murder probe, was charged with wife and child desertion after posting bail of 750 dollars. A woman held as a material witness was released. Mann, linked to an assault on a Black elevator boy in an Amarillo hotel, was arrested in Wichita Falls and returned to Amarillo Wednesday evening after the early morning assault.
Houston health director Dr. Austin E. Hill reports the polio outbreak is easing. Peak cases reached 35 in June, with 20 in July and 20 in August thus far. Past decade records show August usually marks decline in polio cases.
Lt. C. D. Hoover Sr will be discharged Sept 3 after four years and eight months of service. He has been a Riverside California communications instructor and will visit Amarillo with his wife after leaving the Army. He spent 11 months in Alaska and 10 months in the Aleutians. A second son, Sgt Bitz Hoover, is serving in Australia.
Lt. Gen. William H. Simpson, Ninth Army commander in Europe, and Mrs. Simpson stopped in Atlanta on the way home to Weatherford, Texas. They had just returned from a War Department mission to China and planned to depart for Texas the next day.
The War Department expands the Army program to treat tropical skin diseases by adding six treatment centers. Moore General Hospital in Swannanoa North Carolina and Harmon General Hospital in Longview Texas currently provide care. Brooke General Hospital at Fort Sam Houston Texas joins the expanded network along with four more designated centers.
Industrial construction in Amarillo expands with new plants. Jeoffrey Manufacturing will build west of Butler Field on a 140 by 600 foot site, Perryton plant relocating after completion. True Trailer moves to a five acre site east of Amarillo with a 120 by 190 foot prefab building. Furr Food Stores buy 140 by 240 foot warehouse and retail site at Tenth and Travis. Potter County deeds exceed 3,000 yearly, totaling about 20 million dollars in sales. Amarillo property assessed at 62 million with about 10 deeds daily. Residence sales dip while large property trades rise.
Airlines will begin assisting the Army by redeploying 25 000 troops a month starting next Monday. Trans continental and Western Air manager Glenn Hall in Amarillo said the original date was postponed by Army request. Pilots released by the Army will join the airlines. TWA will handle 17 C 47 troop carriers and pilots to operate them as part of the air phase of the redeployment program.
Mr and Mrs W E Oneal of Amarillo observed their 52nd wedding anniversary last night in a gathering attended by Mr and Mrs Thomas Watson, Mr and Mrs W N Cretsinger of Waldorado, and Mrs C Durant Jones. Enzina Oneal Pogue and a niece of Mr Oneal also attended. Mrs Watson is a niece of Mrs Oneal. They enjoyed ice cream and cake.
Carson County district 20 miles east of Amarillo will sell the school building measuring 26 by 64 feet and equipment at public auction on Sept. 1. Items include student desks folding chairs office desks and a thirty two volt electric plant.
Mrs. W. W. Rusk will be honored by local USO volunteers with an open house in the Federation Club Rooms of the Municipal Auditorium from 4 PM. Rusk has chaired the Volunteer Association of USOs since September 1942 and will be succeeded by Mrs. R. H. Spikes.
Postponement of Lt. Gen. Jonathan M. Wainwright’s evacuation from Manchuria delayed three or four days awaits restoration of railway service under Russian military guard. Announcement from U S Army headquarters Chungking noted the new delay in his final release.
Washington reports the Victory Loan drive will run from October 29 to December 8 with a target of 11 billion dollars. Treasury Secretary Vinson says funds are needed for mustering out pay redeployment hospitalization and other war costs. A Franklin Roosevelt Memorial Bond at 200 dollars will debut at 150 dollars and join the E group.
The Housing Bureau run by the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce will not close on September 1 due to rising housing demand from returning servicemen and industrial workers. Plans to end the program were based on expected war-done slackening, but veteran and worker needs remain high. Residents are urged to list property with the bureau. contact 5238.
The Weather Bureau predicts a high near 90 and a low around 69 today and tonight with little change tomorrow. No additional showers are expected before Monday.
Virgil Johnson, 40, was arrested near Seymour after five prisoners escaped Hale County Jail in Plainview Tuesday night. Four others remain at large Eugene Ware 17 Le Roy Vaughn 18 Marvin Kisselberg 30 and Philhareo Rodriguez a Mexican national. Ware Vaughn Kisselberg face burglary charges Rodriguez under parole revoke for assault with intent to murder. The escape occurred by sawing bars from the main cell and a second story window.
London August 24 The ratification of the United Nations Charter by Britain raises the possibility that the first plenary session of the World Security League could be called by late October. Members of the executive committee of the United National Preparatory Commission are meeting in London to plan.
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