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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1948
Page
2
A bustling Amarillo club scene and humor column reflect on West Texas State College, Will Rogers jokes, and community culinary lore. Letters praise Christmas charity, Molasses Pie recipe dates to 1885, and plans for foster birthdays and summer Disney screenings for local children.
A collage of 1940s observations touches on penny nails as old currency in New England, settlers burning homes, a witticism about pawn shop money, and Egypts sun gold. It surveys Sixth Avenue widening, sidewalks and streets, a potential wheat crop after heavy snow, Amarillo housing since 1941, Hollywood society paging, Pinky Gooch’s return and a tan from Arizona winter.
Amarillo High School Chapter of the National Honor Society will induct 19 seniors next Wednesday night. Recipients, top ten percent scholastically, were chosen for service, scholarship, leadership and character. Oliver Barfield, Gilbert Beistle, Virginia Carter, Mantie Deiteker, Rosemary Edwards, Eddie Hill, Ann Hulett, Mary Alice King, Barbara McCullough, Carolyn Parker, Ann Rushmer, Bettye Singleton, Dick Tharp, Jim Tidwell, Joe Turkin, George Bob Vick, Joanne Whittington, Elaine Wilborn and Helen Zweig to be installed. Charles Schmidt presides as 29 former members conduct candlelight ceremonies.
A fire at the Cole-Mc Gahey Service Station in Canyon started as gasoline spilled from a unloading truck. The truck tank exploded and the station suffered nearly 1000 dollars in damage before Canyon volunteer firemen brought the blaze under control around 10 o'clock.
Funeral services for Mrs Vada Funderburg Hill died yesterday in St Anthony’s Hospital were pending. The Amarillo resident, 40, lived in Pagosa Springs Colorado with her husband Clint Hill who ran a fishing resort. Survived by husband a son Tommy Joe Gilbert Amarillo father T O Funderburg Amarillo and siblings. Griggs and Sons directing arrangements.
J R Graves of San Antonio borrowed a panel delivery truck from Ponca Wholesale Company in Amarillo, was shot at by an employee, chased, and arrested after abandoning the vehicle. He pleaded guilty to driving without the owner's consent and received a $100 fine plus costs in county court.
Texas Business Review notes Amarillo led 50 000 to 100 000 population cities in November for building and bank debits. Waco was second in building permits and postal receipts, Lubbock third in several categories. Brownsville top in air express, with November figures for Amarillo, Waco, and Galveston in express and postal data.
Claude Orville Williams of Pleasant Valley was denied a new trial in 47th District Court. He received two years for burglary and a five year suspended sentence for car theft. He injured a foot escaping from Potter County jail last summer after falling from the courthouse roof while sliding down a rope from the jail storeroom penthouse.
A flight of Army bombers passed over Amarillo heading west about 1 PM. Mrs. Della Hill counted 56 B-29s at 1100 Taylor. Donald R. Kennedy reported 71 airplanes including 12 escort fighters from 818 Maryland. T. K. Sanderson logged 76 bombers from 1905-A Buchanan.
New officers of Local 542 International Association of Fire Fighters will preside over the next union meeting January 20. The Amarillo Fire Department membership will be served by Clyde Gibbons president Troy Gatlin vice president J C Stanley secretary Wilson Frazier treasurer Jake Fletcher sergeant at arms and Ralph McAdams trustee.
The Irish potato and the peanut traveled across the Atlantic twice to reach the United States. They were introduced from Europe, though both originate in South America.
President Truman urges quick approval of 6.8 billion dollars for the European recovery program for 15 months and a broad domestic agenda. He calls for universal military training, higher minimum wage, extended rent controls, expanded social security, civil rights protections, and a national health program funded by compulsory insurance. He ties aid to Greece and Turkey to peace and urges restraint on government spending while arguing for larger corporate contributions.
Cattle receipts 4 800 head with calves 600. slaughter steers heifers and mixed yearlings steady to higher on some fed steers. Cows and bulls firm. vealers and calves steady. Stockers and feeders steady to strong. yearlings and medium weights up to 32 32.50. Hogs 4 500 with price improvement to 28.85. sheep 3 500 with lambs and native stock higher to 1.00. Beef vealers 20.00 26.00. hogs and lambs hold gains across categories.
Amarillo will collect a 2 percent gross receipts tax from taxi operators once meters are installed in about 60 days. The city approved meter rates: 30 cents for the first mile, 10 cents per additional half mile, 20 cents per extra passenger, doubling the prior cross town rate. Until meters are in place, firms pay $150 per cab annually.
Virginia Gallion, an employee of the Grand Bar at 504 Polk Street, was fined $150 and costs in Potter County court after pleading guilty to selling beer to a person showing evidence of intoxication. The charges were filed by Texas Liquor Control Board agents.
Five Amarillo youths including two juveniles face federal charges for theft from an interstate wheat shipment. Arrested by railroad officers and sheriff's deputies, the group is held on $500 bond each. Named defendants are John Jiminez Regino Rodriguez Victor Ortez Ramon Garcia and Perfecto Guano. Ortez and Garcia are juveniles. Bond set by Deputy Commissioner Mary K Harty.
Billy Quincy Parker of the Ross Hotel was released on $500 bond after being charged with selling liquor in a wet area without a permit. Parker, 32, is accused of selling liquor to Ray Reeves, agent of the Texas Liquor Control Board, and was arrested by liquor control board agents.
City nurses report a dip in chickenpox among Amarillo students with four cases at San Jacinto School while Horace Mann sees influenza absences. Chief nurse says overall incidence is not high. Halley to attend California meeting in Sacramento returning January 17.
Relatives of Richard Williams, an Amarillo powder company employee who died by self inflicted blast, remain un located. VA officials and employer J H Bishop are checking Williams' Army records for kin while a private search continues. Williams was married to Mary W Williams and had a 10 year old daughter. no other close relatives are known. His body lies at Blackburn Shaw with funeral plans pending further kin discovery.
Hogs active at Chicago with gains up to 1.00 per hundredweight and top quotes around 29.00. Cattle and calves show strength with vealers and steers trading above 34.00, and heavy beef cows up to 20.00. Sheep and lambs also firm with woolly lamb prices notably higher, while financials note a liquidation offering at 2.06.
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