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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1947
Page
3
Mildred Texas reports Mrs. Helen Louise Wilcox 23 wife of an oil field employe died in hospital from burns suffered when her clothing caught fire from a gas stove. Neighbors put out the flames at her Corsicana home. Elks Sweepstakes noted April 5 to 27.
Clyde Rowe ama rillo High School director selects four students for the Southwest Music Educators Association Convention in Tulsa from March 12 to 15. More than 100 bands from five states enter. top players may join a 90 piece concert band. Entrants include Pat Routh clarinet bassoon Bobby Robbins cornet bass Gary Garner sax flute and Dick Brooks trombone first baritone.
In Wichita Falls Texas on February 5, two young children Wiley Allen age 3 years 11 months and Lois Virginia age 1 year 4 months of Mr and Mrs Willie Ellington died in a house fire at Jolly ten miles east of the city. The blaze started after a kerosene stove explosion as the mother went to a mailbox about 100 yards away.
Stanley Bochan of New Britain Conn. was cracking a safe at the Gingras Express Co. when he called police and waited for arrest. A judge ruled no crime had been committed but Bochan should be held for the grand jury.
The pigmy shrew is described as the smallest animal in the world, weighing 2.9 grams. The report notes its tiny size and places it among the world’s smallest mammals.
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