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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1947
Page
2
A front page column reflects on a possible white Christmas fading to uncertainty. It contrasts local hardship with regional prosperity and notes many children will not have a merry holiday. The piece ends with Christmas wishes and a long note about Gale Kruser receiving gifts and cards after a newspaper photo.
The State Department announced a phased withdrawal of US armed forces from Panama under the 1942 pact, aiming to end evacuations within a year after final peace treaties are signed. Army officials warned canal defenses would weaken though the waterway would still be protected by a heavy canal perimeter and surrounding air radar defenses.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold King and their sons Mike and Mark arrived in Austin to spend Christmas with Mrs Pryor and her parents at 1009 Pierce. After Christmas they will go to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl where Mr. King, a former Amarillo High School football player, is on the University of Texas Longhorns squad set to face Alabama. Mike and Mark will stay in Amarillo.
Ninety nine percent of Amarillo businesses will close all day Christmas with theaters drug stores near theaters restaurants and a few stations open certain hours. Cretney Drug Stores at Sixth Polk and Eighteenth Washington will open 8 12 morning and 6 10 night. Walgreens at Eighth Polk open 8 1. Dickson Drug manager says open all day and night. Bob Crudgington station 201 Fillmore open night and day Gulf stations also open.
The article recalls wartime and postwar Christmas scenes from Spandau to Moscow, notes New Year observances in Russia, and reports on Truman’s televised greetings from the White House, pardons for wartime wartime draft violators, a railroad fire destroying gift packages, and a San Francisco haberdashery offering a neckwear exchange. Snow and casualties sweep New England as well.
New York columnist HAL BOYLE quotes Dona Edmond a former court beautician for Queen Marie of Romania. She argues American divorce rates could fall if husbands learn to glamour themselves by mirror practice and grooming before breakfast. Edmond advises beard wearers can boost glamour by careful styling and voice, claiming a clean beard adds 10 percent glamour for suitable professionals.
Henry Lewis Salley, seventh grader at Mo beetie school, released a toy balloon filled with natural gas on December 11. A woman in Black, Missouri, found the balloon hanging on her fence about 600 miles away and wrote to Salley.
Henry A. Wallace former vice president will state his own position on the 1948 election in a coast to coast Mutual network broadcast Monday night. He will speak from Mutuals Chicago studio from 1030 to 1045 PM Amarillo time with nationwide audience anticipated.
Tokyo reports that 182 Japanese sentenced by U S Army Provost Courts have received Christmas clemency. The Army announced the reduction or suspension of prison terms applicable to those cases.
The Army transport General Freeman and the Army hospital ship Comfort docked in San Francisco today bringing home 2,176 military and civilian personnel.
Bucharest December 24 communist Emil Bodnaras was appointed minister of national defense giving the Communists control of all key posts in the Romanian government.
Amarillo reports lower fire losses through November 1947 than in 1946, with 11 month losses at 165000 versus 196800 the prior year. Nationally 1947 fire losses exceed 624 million by November, a new high, while 12 month totals reach 682 million.
The Navajo and Hopi tribes will get 186 tons of food 146 tons of clothing and 9000 dollars from the Indian office for Christmas. Supplies come from Arizona and New Mexico donors to aid about 61000 Indians until Congress allocates 500000 for relief. Navajos have withdrawn 143000 from tribal savings to survive winter.
Denton clerks report two armed men used a ruse to lure Gerald M. Welsh to the Sears Roebuck store late last night. They detained him, accessed the safe with Tuesday receipts, took cash, bound and gagged him, then escaped in his 1941 green car Texas BM 4754.
Reports from Jerusalem say three Arabs were officially killed in a Christmas Eve clash with Jewish settlers in the Negev district. In other violence, a bomb wounded several Jewish prisoners in a prison truck from Jaffa to Tel Aviv, a Jew was seriously wounded near the Jaffa Tel Aviv border, and a Jewish woman in Haifa was shot by an Arab sniper.
Weatherman Walter Watts urged Santa to use a helicopter or grease sleigh runners as a joke under a snowless forecast. At English Field weather station head Mr. Winburn backed the forecast with temperatures in the mid fifties for today and tomorrow.
Choice steers again brought $40 on the Chicago livestock market today matching yesterday's record. Two loads weighing 1,182 and 1,250 pounds each topped the price as buyers maintained strong demand.
Beeville reports Sheriff Vail Ennis, critically wounded in a November 10 gun battle with two prisoners at a Pettus filling station, has been released from the hospital and resumed official duties after a visit with his mother in Nacogdoches.
In West Palm Beach a middle aged man killed his wife and slashed his son and two attorneys with a Boy Scout knife in a lawyer's office during a suspected divorce settlement. He then jumped seven floors to his death. three victims were in critical condition.
Police across Texas and California hunted Francis Marion Hooper after he and his brother robbed the Bremond State Bank of 12000 dollars. Sheriff Reeves shot Hooper's brother, J B Hooper, dead as the duo fled in a blue two tone Chevrolet.
President Truman will not sign the ant inflation measure until after Christmas. He has until midnight December 31 to act on the bill. Agriculture Secretary Clinton P. Anderson says distilleries will stay closed through New Year and limited production in January with grain allocation to distillers through February 1, 1948.
Austin announces the appointment of W. F. Doc Neuhaus of McAllen and reappointment of Gene Howe of Amarillo to the State Game Fish and Oyster Commission. Neuhaus serves a term to Sept 1 1953 and Howe’s new six year term begins Sept 1 this year.
Houston attorney George E. B. Peddy, active since 1920, forms formal US Senate bid to be announced January 11 in Houston.
A Gallup Poll shows Silent Night Holy Night as America's top Christmas carol with White Christmas rising fast. The list includes Little Town of Bethlehem The First Noel Jingle Bells O Come All Ye Faithful Hark the Herald Angels Sing Joy to the World.
A DC-4 transport operated by Seaboard & Western Airlines landed safely at Gander Airport Newfoundland at 12 05 PM after one engine failed while over the Atlantic. The freight flight carried eight crew members and no passengers.
Four people are dead and four others missing after an 18 hour snowstorm that dumped up to a foot of snow. The blizzard hit western Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire, blocking highways with drifts. Two deaths were due to traffic accidents and two from heart attacks caused by exhaustion.
Goodland Missouri December 4 A 24 year old student pilot from East St. Louis flier V. H. Crane tried to reach Mathis Texas but crashed between two trees. He sustained a broken leg and was removed to a Fayetteville Arkansas hospital. Crane blamed poor visibility for the incident.
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