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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1940
Page
12
In Zaragoza Spain on December 3 authorities believe between forty and fifty people were killed and at least eighty injured when two express trains collided at a way station between Madrid and Barcelona.
After six months of theory practice and trial twenty two freshmen at St Anthony Hospital School of Nursing received their uniforms and caps. The candlelight ceremony in Cathedral Hall featured Rev Charles Jansen as speaker and Mary Reed Whitfield R N class sponsor. The class lists Arra English Doris Baltzell Bernedine Little Virginia Towler Ada Brown Velma Renegar Alice Orbeck Dorothy Howard Polly Vann Little Josephine Abell Evelyn Emick Jeanne Bartley Bernita Hinkamp Sylvia Urbanczyk Mary Louise Kennedy Doris Statts Hazel Butler Kathleen Hawkins Marcella Olsen Ida Belle Hicks Orin Mathis Pauline Acker.
Amarillo consumed 676000 gallons less water on a daily average in November due to two brief shutdowns and restricted use. The daily average was 3413000 gallons versus 4083000 last November. Monthly total for November this year was 102400000 gallons, down from 122500000 last year. the city has 11294 meters in use.
Roanoke Virginia report notes attorney Warren Dickerson lost a $2 bet with the mother of a high school football player. His cancelled payoff check returned with the mother’s endorsement and signatures of the coaches and 17 players from the winning team.
Legionnaires of Amarillo prepare for their annual community Christmas tree party delivering gifts candy sacks and fruit to 3500 to 4000 children. A Petersen chairs the tree with support from Clay Thornton Sam Page Dave Peters Bruce Autry Dutch Kufold Bill Gilstrap and Lew Fields on the finance committee.
The Immaculate Conception sailed March 10 for cod off Newfoundland Banks and returned to St Malo unaware France had fallen. The crew, without radio, unknowingly dodged a British convoy, saluted a destroyer, and later saw German troops in control. German officers inspected the vessel at the Brittany docks.
Texas leads with sixteen cities directly served by regular air transport, with Braniff operating a Chicago through Texas route linking Dallas Fort Worth Amarillo Wichita Falls Austin Waco San Antonio Corpus Christi Brownsville Houston and Galveston. Other Texas cities served include Beaumont El Paso Tyler Big Spring and Abilene. Airlines American Delta Pan American TWA and Eastern also serve Texas. Illinois tops routes with Chicago as hub. New York has seven. Texas six. Sir Francis Drake landed in California on June 17 1579.
Four young American volunteers began an intensive Canadian pilot training program in Tulsa Oklahoma with 10 more joining next weeks. The plan caps at 30 in training at once with courses totaling 80 hours flight and 120 hours classroom. California volunteers Edner Pine Watkins Tucker and two others from Dallas and Glendale join.
Vatican report states Pope Pius XII urged warring powers to observe a Christmas truce to spare the world from bloodshed and preserve sacred joy, calling for spontaneous or mutual accords to halt arms. Britain grants extra rations for wedding receptions, including tea sugar butter and meat.
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