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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1948
Page
2
A Honolulu harbor welcome unfolds with natives playing songs and dancers at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel as travelers from the Matsonia arrive. Tears of emotion mix with festive greetings from relatives and new acquaintances amid hotel hosts' warm hospitality.
Fragmentary prose describes bright gardens and street views from a hotel balcony. Vivid flora and bold color shifts at noon and sunset evoke cinematic promises. The narrator laments aging, wishing to be 80 years younger to fully witness the scene.
Finkey Vineyard general manager of the Borden Company here announces his resignation and will move to Pampa about 38 miles away. He will stay on as general manager for a week. Rumor says Charlie Young, former Borden ice cream manager here, may take over Amarillo plant. Vineyard has led plants in El Paso, Big Spring, Lubbock, Pecos and headed the Southern division.
Four men beat W. P. Rusk at 309 Buchanan early this morning in the 300 block of Pierce Buchanan alley, took his empty purse, then struck him again when he said it held nothing. Rusk reported the incident occurred about 12:30 A M.
Marian Anderson arrives in Amarillo for a second sell-out performance at Municipal Auditorium with accompanist Franz Rupp and manager I. Jose. She stays at the Foster home, meets press, and notes a birthday coming up on the 27th while recalling last year’s snow and a later San Francisco celebration. Tickets near sold out with few left in rear parquet. Panhandle Concert Bureau selling remaining seats. An unrelated note mentions a 15th century Asia trade route.
Elder Francis D. Nichol of Washington reports from Europe that recovery will be slow and uncertain amid shortages and morale decline while communism looms. Yet he cites stronger gospel work, new church buildings in Holland Slovakia Austria and Italy and a Paris hospital as signs of progress. He notes church members remain hopeful and share American goods.
Mrs. Clarence Smith of Wichita Falls formerly Amarillo died this morning in a Wichita Falls hospital. She was the niece of local residents Mrs. C. W. Rogers Mrs. Eula Draper and H. H. Horne. Funeral arrangements have not been announced. In Alaska miners extract 800 000 pounds of sand and gravels to yield one pound of gold.
John Halley Power County commissioner spoke on Your County Government at the 20 30 Club dinner in the Herring Hotel. He urged members to visit the commissioners court. Pinkey Vineyard received a $760 March of Dimes check from club drive organizers J Howard Miller served as club president.
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