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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1947
Page
8
C. L. Copeland announced Bob Melendy as a company representative after his service discharge last October. Melendy enrolled in the life insurance marketing school at TCU, has completed the first course phase, and has two parts remaining.
Workmen are remodeling the future home of Wagner's at 116 East Sixth. The jewelry firm is now located at 626 Park. An alteration permit was issued for $2500 Saturday and specifies a building space 40 by 55 feet. The front footage of the new location will more than double of the Polk Street store. Fred Wagner and his son Clark Wagner are owners of the business. Clark Wagner became part owner upon his return from the service last year. Clark Wagner and Mrs. Fred Wagner, representing Wagner's Jewelry Store, are on a buying trip including St. Louis and New York. They are scheduled to leave for New York early this week.
At least nine persons died in Texas over the weekend with four traffic fatalities. Victims include Mrs. Sandrell Lewis, 77, burned at her Trent home. W. M. Runnells, 56, Dallas, undetermined causes. Mrs. Mattie Estella Rogers, 60, Lubbock, from an auto collision near Tulsa. a Waco Friday truck car crash claimed two lives. Mandy Estelle Karzes, 31, Moody, died in a Waco hospital. Harvey L. Hatter, 19, Moody, died. James J. Glushing, 34, Corpus Christi, 60-foot fall from scaffold. the Meadows family bodies found at T. L. Meadows’ Zavia residence.
No evidence of foul play was found but a verdict awaited autopsy reports. G. L. Gatewood, 43, of Dallas, died Saturday while being taken to a Fort Worth hospital after his automobile was in a minor collision and he suffered a heart attack shortly after.
Police arrested a man sought in Lubbock for passing worthless checks. Officers took him into custody here and returned him to Lubbock after his wife allegedly passed bad checks in an Amarillo drug store.
Dr Gordon S Seagrave will speak on Modern Miracles of Medicine before the Amarillo Knife and Fork Club at 7 pm Thursday at Amarillo Country Club. He wrote Burma Surgeon about his Far East experiences as Army medical officer under General Stilwell and his mobile unit with nurses aiding wounded amid bombed towns. Amarillo Aggies plan a 7 pm meeting tonight at the Blackstone Hotel.
V C Marrs aged 62 died at 12 40 AM in St Anthony's Hospital. He had been a Randall County farmer stockman since 1927. Survived by widow Nettie Marrs two sons Farr E Marrs Floyd F Marrs two daughters Mrs Bryan Verser Tuttle Okla and Mrs Ted Major Amarillo three sisters Mrs Jim Bogart Albuquerque NM Mrs Jim Rice Drumright Okla and Mrs H A Foster Kansas Okla. Funeral arrangements by Blackburn Shaw pending.
James F. Andrews, son of Mr and Mrs T L Andrews of 1615 Fillmore, is among 100 University of Texas students selected from a Feb 3 training course. Nine light planes have been purchased for instruction and completing the course will qualify a student for a private pilot license. About 600 applicants sought the new flight training.
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