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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1949
Page
2
In Hale County during a holiday week, traffic deaths already equal the 1948 record of 14. Several crash victims remain in hospitals, including Ronald Swilling, 17, in critical condition after a skull fracture from a Dec 20 collision near Plainview.
McAllen Texas December 24 A fire of undetermined origin destroyed the M W Fruit Company vegetable shed causing damage estimated at 37000 The shed housed about 12000 worth of machinery and office supplies and was already engulfed when discovered just before daylight Five McAllen fire units stood by as the blaze raged out of control The shed was owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad
In Galveston Bay heavy winds fog and haze hindered huntsmen recovery efforts as the Civil Air Patrol and Coast Guard expanded aerial and marine searches for Elmer Dever Clifford Muehe and Albert Chimene Jr along Pelican Spit. A helicopter from Corpus Christi failed to locate W S Reed in Nueces Bay above the refinery amid resumed operations after refueling.
Louis Boy, an Italian-born former murderer, had his life sentence commuted by Gov. Dewey after volunteering in life risking medical tests at Sing Sing. He donated blood to a leukemia patient girl, a doomed 8-year-old, in a four-day 36-quart exchange, but the child died two weeks later. Boy, freed on parole for life, had previously served 18 years.
P F Smotherman 75 died Thursday in a local hospital. Funeral services were held at the Childress Church of Christ with burial in Childress Cemetery. He was born in Murfreesboro Tennessee and moved to Childress in 1907 from Ellis County. Survived by wife three sons A W Ochis Franklin all of Childress a daughter Edna Dorsey of Houston two brothers Franzy Smotherman of Christiana Tennessee Lem Smotherman of Frisco and one sister Pearl Overall of Murfreesboro.
Kenneth Neill reports sorghum yields rising 25 bushels per acre with fertilizer on 30 acres at the Carl Fry place near Palmer County. Unfertilized 10 acres yielded 88 bushels per acre. Neill used home-mixed 12-12-4 fertilizer at 280 pounds per acre and noted similar gains in wheat with fertilizer.
Constable Obie Freeman said Bobby Cantrell is charged with murder in the fatal shooting of Johnny De Vaughan, 42, at his home on the Jim Hawkins farm near Byrd Texas yesterday.
Dalhart December 24 John Foster a prominent Dallam County stockman living 25 miles northwest of Dalhart is reported to be recovering slowly from a light stroke. He was found after his brother Ernest who lives a mile away alerted neighbors.
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