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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1948
Page
2
Market quotations are provided from New York after one oclock. The clipping mentions Ammfilio offices of Merrill, Pierce, Fenner and Beste in Miami, with copper, histon, and other misread items.
Officials report improved rail line efficiency as gas powered locomotives undergo reforms. The program aims to cut operating costs and reduce emissions while maintaining safety standards across routes. Local towns and industries rely on freight reliability during the rollout.
The text appears to be a fragmented OCR capture showing various company names, market quotes, livestock prices, and a brief note on VA home loan interest rate policy. It mentions Tex Pac Cad, Water Beach, Western Union, Kingstown, Lone Star Gas, and Kansas City cattle data, plus a note about VA loan rates possibly rising to 4 percent.
Governor still plans to attend the Interstate Oil Compact Commission meeting in Wichita despite a belly landing of the twin engine plane returning from a Mission to Austin. He praised Pilot Glenn Darnell of Houston for a magnificent job as the jet’s landing gear failed to lock. The Jesters, uninjured, circled to burn fuel, with Mrs. Jester slightly nervous, as the plane owned by Herman Brown was brought down safely after takeoff difficulties.
The school board backs a cost efficient earth embankment stadium for the 1949 football season. Engineer Grayson Gill notes the method involves scooping and banking edges to form seating. Gorge Waddill confirms plans aim for completion in time, referencing a Tyler stadium built earlier this year.
An 81-year-old climber, George Anderson, who has longtime Colorado ties, mutters during a wind and snow storm in Lamar. He is remembered as a pioneer of sorts, having earlier reached near 8 degrees north in 1895 1896 with Dr Fridtjof Hansen, the closest to the North Pole at that time. Anderson arrived in Colorado in the early 1900s after Norwegian government service and lost his left leg in the area.
A Denver News photographer finds a man dubbed Lord Ivor on skid row. He reforms the stranger with clothes, grooming, a hotel stay and social access. The man adopts the Boston accent and mingles with Denver society, photographed as a social success.
Frank Hoyt, tax collector, announced October receipts totaling 467134.56 and November payments of 28938.75. The overall tax roll stands at 650401.17 with 137 half-payments totaling 3044.89. A separate note recalls Tex. Governor Jester's proclamation for Dec. 15 observance of Bill of Rights. A fire at United Nations headquarters in Paris prompted security evacuations. Welsh coal for export now costs 17 dollars per ton, down from prewar levels.
L Robinson of Dover was fined 90 dollars and costs in Potter County Court after pleading guilty to driving a car without the owner's consent. The charge stemmed from a case labeled Flirtation Case involving a 17 year old girl and a chase that ended when a police car crashed into the borrowed vehicle.
A B-17 from Okinawa ditched 1200 miles southwest of Honolulu. All 33 aboard survived after cramped rafts and shark-infested water. Lt Col William R Calhoun reported the ordeal from Rendova as rescuers found the survivors after a 30 hour search.
An old report confirms a kidney condition found last summer in Secretary of State Marshall. Doctors preferred not to operate then, but today’s release states a minor operation was performed earlier. Henry Earl Fuqua underwent a minor operation yesterday at St Anthony’s Hospital. condition described as good.
The Amarillo scene recalls prewar gaiety as Christmas parties and dances filled the season. War news arrives with banner headlines about Jap treachery and General MacArthur’s rise to command in the Far East. Leaves are canceled as the nation braces for a four year conflict.
Lt Col Brown, a Pearl Harbor veteran, plans to rejoin the Air Force for keeps after a recent discharge to finish education at the University of Denver. Married to Sylvia Urbanczyk of White Deer, he has a 4 year old son and awaits another child. He earned the Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Cluster, Silver Star, and Air Medal with four Oak Leaf Clusters, credited with seven confirmed kills and two probables. A graduate of Amarillo High School and Amarillo College, Brown was Amarillo’s first World War II hero.
The Texas Technological College band clinic at Lubbock draws about 12 members of the Sandie Band directed by Clyde Rowe with D Wiley stating participants will come from Cisco and eastern New Mexico westward to Dalhart and Fort Stockton south to Odessa Amarillo. The Red Raider Band will perform contest music for spring regionals and answer student questions.
Grand jury meets in Amarillo in regular session to continue investigation of several cases. A shooting death of an Amarillo woman in a locked room remains under review alongside burglary forgery swindling by worthless checks and other offenses.
E R Ballinger 62 of 205 Austin died yesterday afternoon at home of a heart attack. Born in Union County Ohio in 1886 he was a member of the Masonic lodge and Shiva Temple. Surviving is a niece Mrs Pat Mills of Beaumont. Hatred of the Japanese in the Philippines remains intense though a Japanese appearance in Manila could mean danger.
Heldebrand, a lifelong hobby carver in Newkirk Oklahoma, has built a 250 figure wood display of the old West across 50 feet. His 90 groups include buffaloes circus parade and a threshing crew with straw churn and bundles. The piece reflects long cultivation of carved scenes.
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