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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1947
Page
4
Funeral services were held at 2 PM at Happy Baptist Church for Thelma Faye Stubblefield 40 of Happy who died yesterday at her home. Rev W P Brian officiated. Survivors include her husband J.
A. T. Cromwell regional safety engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation visits Tucumcari New Mexico to perform a safety survey of the local irrigation project.
Edwin R. Henson, a former Department of Agriculture official and associate professor at Iowa State College, becomes director of UNRRA's agricultural rehabilitation division. He previously coordinated programs in the Southern Great Plains and South Central regions and has directed resettlement, AAA and FSA efforts. Since joining UNRRA on March 1, 1944, his program has distributed over two million tons of farm supplies valued at $206 million, with goals to cultivate 10 million acres using UNRRA tractors and livestock.
Amarillo Country Club will hold its 35th annual stockholders meeting on February 13. A dinner will be served in the clubhouse before the business session. Club President A N Olver will present a detailed yearly report, followed by committee chairmen reports. officers for the new year will be elected.
Amarillo police hold L V Jones Emma Jones and Viola Louise Hall on Lubbock felony shoplifting warrants. A fourth person was also detained following a dispute with a liquor store operator over payment. Officers recovered a fur coat a woman’s suit and a woman’s coat believed stolen in Lubbock.
R. E. Clements chairs Amarillo Chamber Public Affairs Committee meeting next Wednesday. Lawrence Hagg co chair. group splits into at least five sub committees to study state and national legislation. Members include W. T. Graham J. H. Dunn Charles M. Rogers W. N. Barrick Selden Simpson H. O. Willborn and others.
Directors of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce met at noon in the Amarillo Hotel to hear committee reports.
Miss Ethel Hicks a Bureau of Reclamation employee has been summoned to Rotan due to her father’s serious illness.
Mrs Ulysses Griffinson mother of Grady Wilson county superintendent died at 9 45 am in Northwest Texas Hospital after months of illness. A longtime Amarillo resident 19 years she taught 40 years before retiring in 1941 at McKinley Tyler and Sanborn schools. Survived by Mr Wilson and brother H H Griffin Tulsa. Funeral set for 2 pm tomorrow Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel with Dr R Thomson officiating Llano Cemetery burial.
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