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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1950
Page
8
AUSTIN Feb 20 The Senate moved to consider the House tax increase bill to fund state hospitals and special schools. The session approved 15 minor amendments and sent the bill to the state affairs committee for a favorable report. The tax plan is set to precede a penny a pack cigarette tax proposal.
Gas heaters and cots will be supplied in the unfinished 4-H Club House at Tri-State Fair Park for 4-H boys attending the Fat Stock Show. Com missioners voted to keep the building as is, not finishing interiors before the March 6-10 event. Rest rooms will be at the fairgrounds and showers arranged with Cory Detton of the Sports Arena.
Bonnie Cartwright, 32, of San Antonio, died from asphyxiation after a lighted cigarette in bed ignited a burning mattress. A filling station attendant forced entry after detecting smoke, pulling her from bed as firefighters used an inhalator but could not revive her.
Harrison Martin, a City Cab driver, testified Bluma forced him to drive at gunpoint from Fourth and Fillmore to near Pleasant Valley. Bluma allegedly threatened him, discussed hiding the cab, and proposed robbery stop points before Martin escaped near a gravel pit. Bluma was later arrested in Stratford.
Graveside rites for Raymond Earl Lovelady 41 will be held at 3 30 p m tomorrow at Restland Memorial Park Cemetery in McKinney with Griggs & Sons in charge. Lovelady died Saturday after living in Amarillo about a year and a half. He came from McKinney and owned several dump trucks used by contractors. Survivors include his wife two children his mother two brothers and four sisters.
Retired Air Force Gen Carl A Spaatz visiting Dallas to confer with Civil Air Patrol on a foreign exchange program says power is the only deal Russia will listen to and that Moscow will not trade away the arms race. He warns the atom bomb makes the situation worse than a year ago and that the United States must win the race.
An Owens-Corning Fiberglas mobile show arrived from Tulsa to Kearney to demo insulation acoustical material and fishing rods at the Herring Hotel Crystal Ballroom this afternoon. Sam E. Bosley, branch manager, said over 80 engineers and architects were invited. The Fiberglas business has grown to a 50 million dollar enterprise in ten years.
Camden milkman Frank C. Reif testified that his wife forced him to share their bed with a cat and a dog for four years. He said he objected and she expelled him from the home after nightly encounters with the animals.
County commissioners today accept the bid of Albert Lard Electric Company to rewire the Horse Barn at Tri-State Fair Park for 397 dollars. Other bidders included Texhoma Electric Company and Star Electric Company, both of Amarillo.
A baked food sale sponsored by the McKinley PTA will be held Friday at the C. R. Anthony Store at 766 Polk. The sale starts at 9 o'clock with Mrs. William Strange, third vice president, in charge and Mrs. E. A. Wossum serving as PTA president.
A new Rhodesian agricultural item features plastic transplanting pots designed to disintegrate in the soil after use. The innovation aims to reduce root disturbance and simplify disposal for farmers.
New York advertising copy features Sander Simon, president of an adhesive company, praising Calvert Reserve for its extra smoothness and mild mellow flavor. The ad promotes Calvert Distillers Corp.’s Blended Whiskey 86.8 proof with 65 percent grain neutral spirits.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica notes that during glacial periods vast ice sheets extended into lower North American latitudes than in any other region, revealing extraordinary global reach of the ice age.
Dr. Carlos De La Torre Cuban scientist and former revolutionary leader who helped oppose the late President Gerardo Machado died today in Havana from a heart ailment at age 91.
On Tinian Island a Japanese laborer, Murato Susumu Hachi jo, 35, was found by a US Navy patrol after five years in hiding in a two story building. He said he had not seen or spoken to anyone during the entire period.
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