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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1945
Page
3
The year of greatest employment prior to the war was 1929 with an average of 46.7 million people employed. It was 19.6 million fewer than the current labor supply, which includes the armed forces.
The Popularity Ball honored class favorites at Amarillo High School with seniors Yvonne Scott and Richard Novak selected as top picks. Juniors Pat Jackson and Bob Snook earned best lived student honors, while sophomores Darlene Keeney and Harland Collins led their class as favorites.
The War Department reports Sergeant Felix D. Pierce has been missing in action since January 18 while serving with the First Army in Europe. A Spearman schools alumnus, Pierce has three years in the Army and has been overseas since last August. his wife Della Faye Pierce lives in Borger and his sister Hen Bacus resides at 1109 Harrison.
F G Ackerman of the Amarillo BRWSTAN cay Station left yesterday for Manhattan Kansas to attend a wheat Revaameat conference. He will return Thursday. Globe News Want Ads Get Results.
Mrs. Geraldine Townsend Fitch will open the 1945 Rotary Institute of International Understanding with a lecture titled The New China in the New Pacific. She has long been linked to Chinese leaders and will speak at 8 PM in Amarillo High School auditorium.
Nine letters from eight towns in Oklahoma and New Mexico express intent to enter exhibits at the Amarillo Fat Stock Show set for March 5 to 8. Only two writers provide entry counts: Delhi and Erick. Others include Sayre Carnegie Clayton Tucumcari Clovis Endee and Dell district educators and 4 H members.
The first all Negro fighter squadron now in Italy has returned a $1,000 Detroit gift to promote interracial goodwill. Ford Local 600 of the CIO United Auto Workers will donate the money to a national fund for an annual award to those advancing racial goodwill. Major George S. Roberts noted the squadron’s flyers sought understanding and advancement of the Negro.
In Lehighton Pennsylvania on February 10 the ninth McFarland son registered for the draft on his 18th birthday. One of his eight brothers in the Army was reported missing in France. Friends telegrammed President Roosevelt to delay Marcus K Smith induction. The draft board may call him in during the first week of March to meet its quota.
An Amarillo man bought a pack at a grocery store last week and found the old pre war style wrapping with tinfoil inside a popular brand. He described the cigarettes as very fresh and best tasting, noting they did not taste like other cigarettes.
Leonard Arnold Gardner aged 63 died Wednesday morning. Funeral services were held at 2 30 PM Thursday at the First Baptist Church in Wheeler with Rev P D Fullingim in charge. Born February 10 1882 he married Edna Mae Poulston October 20 1910 at Coumble Oklo. The family moved to Wheeler in 1928. He was a Baptist Church member and survived by his wife and five children.
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