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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1946
Page
12
City commissioners hear a delegation seeking partial city financing for a naval reserve unit installation tonight at 7 30. Proposal to supply site and installation costs for huts with navy funds for huts equipment and machinery. Amarillo Chamber military committee backed city aid estimated around 15 thousand dollars.
Rev William Eastes of Galveston will be guest speaker at 8 pm tonight at First Assembly of God Church 1900 North Pierce Galveston. Announcement by Rev E R Foster pastor notes Eastes is brother of Charles J Eastes assistant pastor and that Eastes pastors the Galveston Assembly of God. Tonight's meeting is open to the public.
Amarillo Chamber of Commerce Highway Committee meets tomorrow at noon in the Amarillo Hotel to consider endorsing a road paving link from Anton in Lamb County to Buffalo Lake in Randall County. Virgil Patterson chairs. Lamb, Castro and Randall countians drafted the proposal. Two paving projects connect Amarillo to a wider trade area, including State Highway 203 from Hedley to the Collingsworth County line.
A new mark for Panhandle anglers was set as bass up to 10 pounds were netted at Buffalo Lake during a fish census. Seining resumed after boat motor trouble, with one large bass repeatedly netted in a cove near the swimming pool and dam. Several hundred pounds of catfish were removed daily to improve game fish feeding conditions. seining began July 15 and continues through the week.
SAN ANTONIO July 23 Firemen G M Crapps and Ted Hernandez kept a 13 year old and a six month old patient alive during a ten minute power outage by operating hand pumps for iron lung machines. Hospital attendants connected hand pumps to polio patients to sustain life until power returned.
In Tulsa on July 23, barber C. B. Moore reflected after 19 years of service. His first client was Harold C. Noe, who returned for a final visit as Moore prepared to close the shop, marking a full-circle moment in the local business.
Jim Clarence Cope son of Mrs Olive C Cope of Borger has been accepted for enlistment in the U S Navy Chief M E Pierce Amarillo Navy Recruiter announced.
A vintage plea for crochet fans to order a pair of doily patterns from The Amarillo Globe Needlecraft Dept. Send fifteen cents to New York address for Pattern 718, with name, address, and zone. Add fifteen more cents for the 1946 Needlecraft Catalogue featuring crochet knitting quilts and more.
Seven transports carrying nearly 2,900 service personnel are to arrive today at New York San Francisco and San Diego. Ships: New York Hood Victory and Pittston Victory from Bremerhaven Zacapa from Leghorn. At San Francisco Homer Lea
In 1945 the tire industry produced slightly more than one civilian tire for every car on the road while military demand consumed the rest, reflecting wartime production priorities.
From Sasebo and Teaberry to Pearl Harbor and San Diego ships, the record notes Bausell and Wiltsie from Canal Zone. It recalls that men of learning long knew the earth’s antiquity well before Columbus’s birth.
About 500 million dollars worth of old gold was uncovered in England during a wartime effort to locate and recover precious metal. The find underscores extensive mobilization of resources for security needs and postwar fiscal planning.
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