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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1946
Page
3
Amarillo endured a mild year with only a few extremes. The wind record on Aug 18 reached the highest sustained speed in Panhandle history, while April February and March showed the largest positive departures from normal temperatures. A heavy October rainfall ended a drought that affected farmers, though July remained the driest month on record.
West Fifth Avenue has been opened by the city traffic division as a through street to connect downtown Amarillo with West Amarillo and San Jacinto. It links with West Third West Sixth and West Tenth to relieve congestion from Polk Street to Jefferson Street. Signs grant West Fifth priority at crossings between Harrison Street and Jefferson, police traffic captain Carlie Price announced.
Judge Henry S. Bishop approved a settlement between Margaret Howren Burlingame John C. Fubank and others and Safeway Stores Inc in a fatal auto truck crash near Raton New Mexico last June R B Burlingame and Cora May Eubank were killed in the collision Burlingame heirs received 3500 for family and unborn child Eubank received 2500 plus 600 for injuries to his child and himself
Amarillo Post Office receipts drop about 62020.54 from 1945, totaling 687095.56 in 1946 with December estimated, first drop since 1939. Postmaster W D DeGrassi cites closing of Amarillo Field and Pantex Ordnance Works and reduced overseas mailing while civilian business remains strong. He says peacetime normal is returning. December near 784217.52 in 1946 vs 778,? in 1945.
All seven pupils at Buckridge school in Ohio are blood relatives of their teacher Miss Dorothy Lewis. The log building has operated for more than a century and remains in continuous use supervised by Lewis.
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