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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1944
Page
11
The American Automobile Association reports 147 people killed in bicycle accidents in 1943. Of the deaths, 76 were 14 years old or younger, making up 52 percent of the total.
Scottish refugee Billy Wilson, living with Amarillo hosts the Fischers, registered with the Potter County draft on his eighteenth birthday and plans to enlist. He hopes to become a U S citizen soon after joining the Army and pursue engineering after the war.
Members of the Texas Hospital Association in Dallas honored Harry Hatch administrator of Northwest Texas hospital who in 1941 served as association president. Hatch and Robert Jolly of Houston were elected delegates to the American Hospital Association house of delegates. Lawrence Payne of Baylor University was named president elect to take duties in 1945. Hatch is past president and serves on state association committees amid the war conference program at the fifteenth annual convention, the largest in the United States, ending tonight.
An easy-going kit tenish love story embroidery pattern 361 features six motifs sized about 6 by 7 inches with color schemes and materials list. Send eleven cents for pattern to Amarillo Globe Needlecraft Dept. 82 Eighth Avenue New York 11 NY. Include PATTERN NUMBER name and address. An extra fifteen cents buys a 32 page Needlecraft Catalog with 133 illustrations of designs for embroidery knitting crochet quilts home decorations toys.
In a Feb 24 wartime dispatch from an England USAAF fighter station Lieutenant Colonel Glenn E. Duncan and Captain Dewey Newhart led Thunderbolts over the Ruhr Valley protecting Flying Fortresses. Newhart scored two German aircraft then downed a Me109 while dodging fighters and braving Belgian and Belgian town hazards on the flight home.
Newhart recalls surviving naval duty with Dewey and avoiding German shore guns, lying low to scout for home. He landed at a Royal Air Force field, refueled, and returned home, describing the simple sequence as the entire ordeal.
Navy announces new officer commissions in the Naval Reserve open to men up to age 38 with two years of college work and strong professional records. Authorized applicants must be in excellent condition and apply at the Office of Naval Procurement in Oklahoma City.
Edward Stewart of Montgom ery Ward and Company unearthed a two and a quarter pound carrot in his backyard at 817 Florida Street. The half foot long root measures six to eight inches in diameter and proves carrots can stay edible after winter in the ground. Stewart credits his wife with planting the seed.
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