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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1945
Page
14
Associated Press analyst P DeWitt MacKenzie argues that American forces in Japan must rely on seasoned veterans from MacArthur downward to reform Japan. He emphasizes initial contact and education over forceful policing to shape Nippon into good global citizens under occupation.
Amarillo's City Chief urged attendance at an aviation committee meeting this afternoon in the chamber of commerce offices. Mayor Joe Jenkins emphasized the need for "doing something new" to safeguard and develop the city's air fields with committee members listed including Don Valentine as chairman and Paul Allingham among others.
Three brothers aged 23, 20, and 16 are jailed in Potter County on multiple counts including check endorsement forgeries and thefts from automobiles.
Seaman Evelyn Rasmussen returns to the Olathe Naval Air Base after emergency leave to visit her mother in Amarillo. Her brother Court ney Rasmussen, home on furlough from Germany, heads to the Pacific theater. Rasmussen, a flight orderly, flies to New York City this month and to the West Coast in September, with Amarillo added en route. She trained at Hunter College and formerly worked for Braniff Airways and Amarillo Furniture Company. Her mother Evalyn Rasmussen and two other sons Fred and Luther are in military service.
Texas State Guard will not disband after the war and prepares for possible postwar emergencies. Maj. Wilkes says units from Borger and other towns will train Thursday through Sunday at the Tri-State fairgrounds with drills on patrols riot formations and weapon handling under Lt. Col. Lou Roberts Maj. Morris Higley Capt. Sam Davis and Capt. Jack Rogers directing training efforts.
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Lt. Ray Nutt reports a restrained celebration aboard a Pacific troop transport after Japan’s surrender. The crew observed V J Day with a daylong holiday, a Victory dinner, a chaplain sermon, a flag salute for Taps and rifle volleys. Nutt, commissioned at Rice Institute in 1944, wed Valera Jo McCoy in May.
Mr. Barr will operate from the office of C. B. Rittenberry, Lincoln National Life Insurance general agent in Amarillo. Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Barr, he recently moved to Eugene, Oregon. Barr served in the Army Air Forces as an enlisted pilot and bomber crew member, with duties across Central America, Hawaii, New Guinea, and Australia. He trained on the C-46 transport for India duty and went overseas a year ago.
Announcement today states Roy C. Barr a veteran of over two years in the service has been appointed special representative in the area. Barr will serve in the new post and oversee duties assigned to the position.
Mrs. Jack Rutledge Jr of 1118 Van Buren leaves for Dallas to visit her son Captain Jack Rutledge III and his family for a week.
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