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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1946
Page
2
The War Labor Board grants 12 cent average hourly raises for 57 000 Western Union employees. creates 55 cent minimum. retroactive pay for most staff. CIO workers in New York receive full raise to February 1944. AFL and CIO get six holidays. vacations pensions and a union shop denied.
North Amarillo Kiwanis Club to install 1946 officers at 7 30 tonight at Horace Mann School. Howard Riggs of Wellington district lieutenant governor will install. Dr R Thomson pastor emeritus First Presbyterian Church guest speaker. Toy Johnson new president succeeding Bennie Bruckner. Bennie Bruckner becomes a director. Don Blair 1946 vice president. Pete Branson Al Reville Leon Campbell new directors. Continuing directors Ben Ratliff Ed Teasley Neal Sylvester.
Funeral services for Mrs I N Hix who died yesterday at her Canyon home are tentatively set for tomorrow morning. She was 81, a Canyon resident of 45 years and a charter member of the Canyon Presbyterian Church. Survivors include three sons J P Hix Louis Hix and N C Hix, a daughter Mrs L D Winn, and four grandchildren. She was a native of Jackson County Tennessee.
Britain and Siam signed a peace treaty in Singapore ending the war. M. E. Denning signed for Britain and said Siam retains freedom sovereignty and independence. Siam undertakes undertakings on restitution security commerce and economic collaboration and will apply for United Nations membership.
Potter County tops its bond quota as E-Bond sales reach 1 499 000 total bonds 5 255 000 with quota 4 850 000. Chairman Guy Saunders mailed an eighty thousand dollar check to state headquarters bringing progress by December 8 as the first county over 50 000 population to subscribe its E-Bond quota.
George Hankins, 58, Carson County stockman and farmer for 25 years, died this morning in an Amarillo hospital. His home was three miles east of Panhandle. Survived by widow Velma and three brothers John of Pampa Dick of Lagerton Don of Los Angeles and two sisters A L Flowers of Old Glory and B B Gray of Stamford. Body in Griggs Chapel.
Albuquerque report notes more than 500 tremors recorded since 1868 between Socorro and Albuquerque. A 1906 quake was felt from Raton to Douglas, Ariz. Dr. Stuart A. Northrop, head of New Mexico University geology, will present his paper in Pittsburgh at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America.
The text notes the textile industry as the largest allied industry in the United States followed by railroads in second place, public utilities third, and construction fourth.
Seven deaths were attributed to Britain's worst fog in 20 years. The dense blanket covered 13,000 square miles from Wales to the North Sea and halted surface traffic, with Thames shipping paralyzed and all air activity stopped. The fog stretched from the Midlands to the Channel, threatening another day of slow travel.
A fire at 1216 West Tenth and a fence fire at 1212 West Eleventh were followed by a minor collision at Seventh and Buchanan. Captains Thomas and Ivy noted 1945 Panhandle traffic deaths around seven, with 1944's toll at 75, urging safer driving as war restrictions end and travel increases.
Frank S. Peterson 52 died at 11:30 last night in a local hospital. He had been general manager of post exchanges at Amarillo Army Air Field and had lived in Amarillo 18 years. He was a Massachusetts native, World War I veteran, Episcopal Church member. family home 1602 Hillcrest. Survivors include widow, sister Mrs Ernest O Thompson, brothers Leo and John, and two sons Frankie Jr and Jerry in the Navy in Japan.
George Johnson aged 54, a Sayre Oklahoma furniture dealer, died at 8 o clock last night in an Amarillo hospital. The body was sent to Sayre today by N S Griggs and Sons. Survived by widow Beatrice Johnson and three children George Jr Raleigh and Pauline. A World War I veteran he came here for treatment.
Forty-three prisoners in Potter County jail ate black eyed peas for dinner as part of Sheriff Bill Adams plan to serve them on New Year Day for luck. The jail population rose by 15 since Christmas. Want Ads Make Hard Jobs Easy.
Tonight at 9 in the Crystal Ball room Herring Hotel honors veterans from World War I and II. Hanson Post 54 sponsor promises a good time with Phil Phillips and his orchestra, free admission, and Legion emblems on display for all veterans.
Rock Island fireman Donald Keplar aged 54 died at 7:30 this morning in an Amarillo hospital after two decades of residence there. Surviving relatives include widow Mrs. Della Jane Keplar, two sons Harold and Robert, daughter Doris Ruth Babson, and mother Mrs. Jack Ashton. He was a Christian Church and Odd Fellows member. body at Grigas Chapel.
Col Bates Thornton, formerly the youngest full colonel in the Air Forces, visited his father Tex Thornton and friends in Amarillo yesterday. He will leave the service April 1 to become assistant to the president of the Ford Motor Company after a rapid rise, and he recently received the Legion of Merit from Gen. Hap Arnold.
Amarillo Kiwanis Club closed the year with Bernie Howell KGNC music director delivering an electric organ concert at the Amarillo Hotel luncheon. Howell offered six encores including Tiger Rag and Auld Lang Syne as members sang. An installation party was announced for January 14 at Old Tascosa in the Herring Hotel.
From Fort Bliss separation center comes news seven Amarillo men received discharges. Named are Pfc. L. F. Forbes, Cpl. Lewis T. Wakefield, Pfc. Harold L. Brewer, Staff Sgt. Morris E. Giles, Cpl. Paul Cantrell Jr, Staff Sgt. Lyle K. Jones, and Pfc. Virgil L. Stuckey with their listed addresses in Amarillo.
Michael Alwan a 53 year old brewery fireman was fined 25 dollars and costs on a disorderly conduct charge filed by his wife. She charged he had hidden her upper plate and then forgotten the hiding place of the teeth.
A British intelligence officer said a man who may be Martin Bormann was arrested at a remote farm near Neumaenster about 20 miles west of here. The suspect, calling himself Marius, claimed to be a farm worker and resembled Bormann, with identification to that effect uncertain.
J L Sparks of 1504 Bowie was accidentally shot Sunday afternoon while hunting near Memphis and listed in good condition at Northwest Texas Hospital. He sustained injuries to his face and neck.
Police aided more than 50,000 stranded servicemen from Pacific theaters as New Year’s Eve parties flooded cities. Prices for champagne and dinners soared, with bars extending hours and speakeasies operating through the night. Detroit drew 150,000 revelers and Atlanta saw fireworks as Dallas served meals at nine dollars per person, while some Texas drinks were prohibited.
Berlin and other capitals greeted 1945 with hopes of a turning point toward peace. Pope Pius XII and de Gaulle urged resolve, Churchill warned of hard work ahead, Van Acker spoke of coal battles, Schermerhorn warned of difficult East Indies constraints as nations face a fragile postwar dawn.
The world welcomed the New Year with hope after six years of war while hunger and hardship lingered in many regions. In the United States celebrations were exuberant from coast to coast with crowded nights clubs and bright streets. In Moscow Paris London and Chungking revelers toasted peace as Germany and Japan observed the day with sobriety in bomb wrecked cities.
Harvey C. Gentry and wife transfer lots 5 and 6 at bik 209 San Jacinto Heights to L Edwards. Lorenzo Wirt to C L Buchanan transfers lot 15 bik 2 Seale Annex. Mrs Oliver Rea Eakle Barfield to FEF R Fowler transfers lot 4 bik 116 Eakle. H B Hester and wife to Ivan L Tucker transfers lot 4 bik 188 San Jacinto Heights. Johnnie E Wilkins and wife to Lee T Bivins transfers lot 2 bik 22 Bivins. W E Roberts and wife to John A Doughtie Jr transfers E 80 of N 200 of lot 6 Park Subd.
Miss Mary Frances Russell is recovering at Northwest Texas Hospital after being thrown from a horse near Hereford Sunday. She sustained a concussion and shock and is listed in good condition. She is daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter G Russell and a Ward Belmont student home for Christmas holidays.
French scientists report that nasturtium dandelion and sweet pea generate temperatures several degrees higher than ambient air during budding. The tests indicate plants produce measurable heat patterns as they develop.
He was named defendant in a separate maintenance suit filed by Mrs Carmen Castillo Cugat a 40 year old of Mexico. He married her in 1929.
A catfish can stay alive in solidified mud during a drought by breathing through its skin as well as its gills.
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