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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1947
Page
2
The piece reports on weather control rhetoric with dry ice experiments and rain-making claims across the United States. It notes plans for a dry ice airplane, mentions Connecticut women game wardens, and includes reader letters debating speeding laws in Amarillo and hunting conduct, all styled as a late 19th or early 20th century rural newspaper column.
A columnist argues hunting is a natural male instinct, compares it to livestock slaughter, and defends sport hunters as compassionate, disciplined, and healthier. contrasts with urban frustration of Mr Cannon and urges vacations in the woods to restore hunting impulse.
Borger Justice of the Peace acting as coroner yesterday returned a murder verdict for the shooting of Mrs. Norman Chivers. Her stepson Leroy Tex Chivers, 17, is jailed in Hutchinson County on murder with malice charges. no preliminary hearing held and no bond set. The shooting occurred in a Borger home bedroom just before noon. Mrs. Chivers was found by Deputy H O Loller after Mr. Chivers alerted police and sheriff's officers.
The Amarillo Country Club announces its annual tennis tournament on the new courts this weekend. Play begins Friday with events in men's singles and doubles, junior singles and doubles, and a girls division if entries warrant. Finals Monday afternoon. No entry fee. players must supply new balls.
Nitrate fed flames rose to eighty feet and leveled the A. W. Higgins fertilizer plant at Presque Isle Maine causing losses estimated at 150000. Firemen contained the blaze late last night and nine potato houses were threatened but no injuries were reported. The cause was not yet determined.
Markets note cattle with 6,700 head, hogs 1,500, and sheep 3,500. Prices show steers and heifers steady to strong, hogs mostly lower, sows down, lambs steady to firm with native and rail shipped lots priced up to 22.50 for lambs, and financial fund liquidation at 1.8638 offering 2.04.
Benjamin Roy Chapman 52 of Lubbock was killed when his car overturned four and a half miles east of Dripping Springs after apparently dozing at the wheel. Investigating patrolmen reported he died instantly in the crash.
Indictment for murder without malice returned against truck driver Robert Edwin Daniels 28 of Brownwood in a Highway 66 crash east of Amarillo that killed Mrs Geraldine McDuffee and her husband Lowell McDuffee and fatally injured their son Eldon. Ronnie McDuffee survived with minor injuries. The victims are from Flora Illinois. The truck struck the jeep and house trailer while attempting to pass. The bodies are being sent to Flora for triple funeral rites.
H C McFarland and Preston Conerly open Cecil Elrod's Tailorfine Clothes at 112 West Sixth with an open house featuring tailored apparel, fine fabrics, try-on models, and no swatches or pictures. The store will operate during regular hours, after extensive alterations. McFarland also runs Blackstone Cleaners.
Acting City Manager N V Moss said the 1947 48 city budget expenditure sections should be ready for city commission inspection by week end. Moss and city auditor J C Lilly have estimated department expenditures and will then work on the revenue section. The budget must be adopted by Sept 30. Revenue hinges on the Sept 3 charter amendment election on tax rate limits.
A 1947 Plymouth sedan was stolen last night from Cy Hess’s used car lot at 818 Fillmore. The vehicle had no license tags, police said.
Remodeling of the Merchants building at the Tri-State Fair grounds is complete with 48 exhibit spaces. The project cost over $20,000 at county expense and included rewiring a concrete floor repainting and Perma Stone exterior. Exhibitors have been notified.
City officials approve gradual Thompson Park development into a modern recreation area. Park superintendent Mark Miles outlines plans to add a parking area screen tennis courts and pool with shrubbery hedge borders picnic tables and lawn sod. Garden club to assist with the project and labor will come from park crews during slack seasons to keep costs down.
Seven year old Wayne Smith of Claude is in a North West Texas hospital with severe scalp wounds after a collie attacked him last night. The dog, a family pet, was killed and is being analyzed for rabies. The boy is the son of Wendell and Mrs. Smith and the family brought him to hospital.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce directors will meet Friday at noon in Room 203 at the Herring Hotel, announced President Virgil Patterson this morning.
Two landscape architects from Hare and Hare of Kansas City are expected in Amarillo Friday to confer with city officials on the park program. The firm designed Memorial Park plans including the shelter house and the controversial electrical fountain bounded by Jackson and Washington and Twenty fourth and Twenty-eighth.
Amarillo High announces tryouts for the A Cappella Choir led by Julia Dean Evans and for the Aeolian Choir led by Tennie Thompson. Recruits should report to the band room or Room 115 during morning 9 to 12 or afternoon 1 to 3 30. A Cappella requires at least one year of musical training. Aeolians have no prerequisites.
Nine jurors were chosen at noon for the trial of Bernard Gault Faulkner charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of his wife Edith Norrid Honeycutt Faulkner at the Rainbow Hotel. The victim was found by guests in the room after Faulkner called them. District Attorney Lloyd King and defense counsel J L Bagwell and C A Stein prepare for hearings to begin later today.
Venetian glass workers were confined to a dedicated island to safeguard their trade secrets from foreign discovery, reflecting strict guild control and secrecy surrounding the craft.
A hotrod wreck on Fillmore near 1901 to 1906 injured two youths. Buddy Reno, 19, remained in Saint Anthony’s Hospital with a deep laceration but was reported in good condition. Rita Wiley, 17, was treated and dismissed. Driver Pfc J J Murphy, 18, escaped injury. police say he lost control, clipping a curb and striking a tree before stopping at 1901 Fillmore.
Six Tohoka men were fined a total of 253 dollars for killing two doves before the season with Jim Maggard noting that game law violators will be prosecuted. One man paid 14 dollars in each of two cases, totaling 78 dollars, while the rest were fined 25 dollars each for hunting without licenses, totaling 175 dollars. Dove season opens Monday with a bag limit of 10 birds.
Bill Oney of Littlefield was fined 100 dollars and costs in county court after pleading guilty to transporting liquor in a wet area without a permit. He was arrested here several weeks ago by Texas Liquor Control Board agents.
The U S Civil Service Commission announces an examination for general staff nurse and head nurse roles with annual salaries of 2644 and 3397. Vacancies target Washington DC, nationwide, Alaska, and the Panama Canal Zone. applicants need a three year nursing program or equivalent and, for head nurse, additional experience. Age limits vary by service, with veteran preference waivers. Forms via local secretary H M Timmons, Room 21, Post Office.
Frankie Liles of 1011 North Grant reports a rash of hen disappearances from her Rhode Island and White Leghorn flock. Nine hens vanished two months ago and were returned Sunday night while she was at church, prompting a local conscience remark.
Americas conference votes unanimously on a separate resolution expressing support for action. While drafting final clauses of a treaty to unite American republics in defense against aggression from Arctic to Antarctic, the Argentine view prevailed over the American position.
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