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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1948
Page
13
Carolyn Kelly and James Garner earned schoolmate honors at Amarillo High School. A secret committee selected them from nominations by students and faculty for leadership, sportsmanship, service, initiative, and citizenship.
Amarillo Park Department reports 10 of 16 workers beginning two week holidays. Park Supt. Mark Miles explains the timing: Our work comes in the summertime.
Efforts to rescue nine US airmen stranded on a Greenland ice cap were stalled by bad weather. The team, upbeat via portable radio, reported they are okay and requested food and fuel for a small heater as two gliders planned to land and hoist them aboard. The men have been stranded since last Thursday after their C 41 was forced down and another wreck occurred during a prior attempt.
About 125 Southern California Republicans formed a committee to push an initiative to end California's crossfiling primary system. They criticize Governor Earl Warren as non-partisan and aim to retire him from office, accusing him of deviating from party lines.
A 32 year old Alabama soldier Pvt Stratman Armistead from Thomasville was hanged today for the hammer slayings of four Japanese near Yokohama on Oct 26 1947. Convicted in an Army court martial of bludgeoning a Japanese father a two year old girl to death and beating three others plus stealing a watch. Death sentence confirmed by President Truman on Nov 16.
Concordia College Norse expert Dr. J A Holvik questions the 1898 Kensington Minnesota stone. He disputes AVM as a fourteenth century abbreviation and cites no supporting records. Holvik also cites a Swedish farmer Willie J Anderson stating holes in the lake shore rock were from 1908 dynamite prep and not Viking mooring.
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