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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1947
Page
4
The Grand Opera House in Amarillo burned on the night of November 28 1919 sending 1800 patrons into the street in orderly fashion. Ross D Rogers operator manager and future mayor guided the evacuation as flames destroyed ornate furnishings once praised as superior to Dallas or Fort Worth venues.
A major blaze gutted the Grand Opera House ending its life as a venue for Mabel Normand’s Mickey and Birth of a Nation road shows. A subsequent March dust storm toppled walls, injuring a girl in Green Brothers Furniture and burning a man who shielded a stove. The site became the Burn Black Building at Seventh and Polk. Will A Miller and others organized the theater’s creation and later memorialized its ruin.
Potter County commissioners discussed plans for a basketball court in the proposed addition to the automobile building at Tri-State Fair Park. They will reconvene to hire architects for the automobile building addition and an industrial exhibit hall. E F Rittenberry, noted architect, joined the meeting.
City county and school tax officials say owners of recently acquired property can get help rendering it for taxation now. The three tax departments will be unable to assist taxpayers who delay rendering property until the days before the April 30 deadline.
Jim Lumpkin took the oath as associate justice of the Seventh Court of Civil Appeals this morning. Chief Justice E L Pitts administered the oath with Sterling Kinney and Bob Stone guiding him to the bench. Lumpkin was appointed by Gov Beauford Jester to succeed William Q Boyce who resigned February 1. Lloyd King named 47th judicial district attorney to replace Lumpkin. Senate action due this week.
Funeral services for Linda Cheryl Wallace a 3 month old infant will be held at 2 oclock tomorrow afternoon at Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel with Rev J D Horton of Pierce Street Baptist Church officiating Burial will be in Llano Cemetery The child died yesterday at Northwest Texas Hospital She was the daughter of Mr and Mrs L A Wallace 2011 Houston Other survivors include three sisters and her grandparents
Daniel Ray Cummings, five, son of Mr and Mrs D E Cummings of Borger, died this morning at Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital. Body at Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home Borger pending burial. Surviving: parents a sister Dora Jane a brother Glen Douglas and grandparents D C Cummings of Mayfield Oklahoma and Mrs Jessie Floyd of Texola.
Tonight in the school gymnasium a pinata party will feature bags filled with nuts and candy at each end of the room. Spanish games and contests will entertain attendees under the guidance of Miss Viola Ballard and Jeanne Watkins. Committee chairs include Ben Ramsey games Jimmy Phipps pinata and Jackie Roberson refreshments. Earliest American railroads were built of wooden rails capped with a thin surface of iron.
Mrs. R A Burnett and Mrs J G Eckel travel to Lubbock for an all day meeting of board and professional staff from areas in Western Division Region IX. Miss Ruth Schroeder leads with other national staff present to coordinate regional planning.
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