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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1948
Page
6
The city shop left Monday for Red Field near Corpus Christi to retrieve a 1%-ton Army truck. The vehicle was among several obtained from the War Assets Administration and mistakenly removed from the field.
Tom Wingate 32 longtime Amarillo Coca Cola executive and civic leader died Saturday after four months of arterial inflammation. Funeral Monday at First Presbyterian Church with Pallbearers Sam Davis Paul Mullins Gordon Gill Chester Park Hollis DeGrassi Cal Farley R C Ware and Lawrence White. Burial Llano Mausoleum. Survived by widow two children mother and three sisters. Arrangements under Blackburn Shaw.
County commissioners rejected a request for a second assistant district attorney for Lloyd King citing no budget funds. Auditor John Crudgington said arrangements could be made later and the panel adopted a resolution authorizing the county judge to seek state legislation for potential funding. King urged a model like the act that allowed a second assistant for the Lubbock district two years ago.
F B Abe Martin 2214 Lipscomb led Texas in June as top salesman for Business Men's Assurance Company. He also ranked among the nation's top 25 salesmen, per the Kansas City Missouri office announcement.
Amarillo police crackdown on panhandling yields 69 prisoners Monday morning and 64 Sunday. Nine of the jailed could pay a $15 fine for vagrancy drunkenness or disturbance. Chief Sid Harper said the drive targets nightly car prowls and avoids street work gangs.
U.S. turkey production has nearly tripled over the past 15 years, reflecting expanding poultry farming scale and market demand. Growth spans multiple states and industry players as producers increase flock sizes and processing capacity.
May accounted for 647 measles cases while the full year 1947 recorded 518 cases, highlighting a sharp month-to-year spike.
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