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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1945
Page
5
From a 16 member list the Amarillo Junior Chamber of Commerce will elect six at a directors meeting Monday noon in the Silver Grill. Veterans of World War II are among the nominees signaling reconversion to peacetime. Prospective directors include Bob Russell J R Barnhill Jr Mike Montgomery and John W Hazlewood all veterans.
Funeral services for William Richard Watkins, jurist and former special assistant to the U S Attorney General in the anti trust division, will be held at 2 30 tomorrow at Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery.
Bruce Thomas, war correspondent, spoke to 1,700 Amarillo High School students about his European theater experiences since 1942. He described Dieppe raid involvement and a unit capture of 67 Germans, urged toughness, and recommended Hitler’s Mein Kampf as required reading for students. He has written for Harper’s Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post.
Enlisted personnel who reenlist in the regular Navy within 30 days of discharge normally lose reenlistment leave. This year sailors will receive the balance of December and the first portion of January as reenlistment leave.
Christmas brings more criminal activity says Sid Harper police chief. Burglaries shoplifting and forgeries rise as the season begins with safety emphasized for shoppers and staff. Merchants urged to require proper ID endorse checks in cashier presence and ensure traceability of cashed checks.
The American Legion committee led by A. K. Baracat postpones adult citizenship classes for foreign born residents to after Christmas due to late printing. Classes will meet weekly in a public building once they start. The remaining sentence notes a nonpoisonous indigo snake preying on rattlers.
Officers investigate the stabbing and robbery of Orval Bonds, 35, at his service station on North East Eighth. Bonds is hospitalized with a cheek wound in favorable condition. he was unable to identify his attackers and says $93 from the cash register and $20 from his billfold were missing.
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