Six young Marines guard Amarillo’s camouflaged pup-tent camp
A Globe war correspondent reports on a makeshift Junior US Marines camp at 800 Dallas St. where boys aged 11 to 15, led by captain Howard Heath, defend against alleged female encroachment. A mascot Tommy Gene Austin and volunteers like Raymond Blair supervise guards, fox holes, and a tree camouflage as they plan to fight until school starts.
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Elaine Folley
Amarillo
Dallas St
Marine Division
Howard Heath
Raymond Blair
Shelby Ward
Edmond Stephens
Lloyd Heath
Tommy Gene Austin
Cowboy Artist Tex Moore Dies at 84 in Wichita Falls
John Marcellus Tex Moore, 84, famous as Texas official cowboy artist, died in Wichita Falls. He was a trail driver, Indian scout, stagecoach driver, used to mine gold, ran a Colorado dude ranch, and painted hundreds of landscapes seen nationwide. He lost a fortune in the 1887 Montana blizzard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita Falls
John Marcellus
Tex” Moore
Texas
Moore
Montana
Colorado
United States
Funeral services for Quanah resident Griffin held
Mr. Griffin brother of John Griffin a retired Amarillo real estate man living at the Castel Hotel died yesterday morning in Veterans Hospital after hospitalization began Friday He was a Spanish American War veteran and a member of the Methodist Church Quanah Masonic Lodge and Shrine Survivors include a son three daughters a sister and nine grandchildren Blackburn Shaw handled arrangements
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quanah
Blackburn-Shaw
Mr. Griffin
John Griffin
Amarillo
Castel Hotel
Veterans Hospital
Methodist Church
Navy Overhauls Transport Planes
The Navy awarded yesterday a contract to Douglas Aircraft for modernizing 100 R4D transport planes. The upgrade doubles range, boosts load by 50 percent, and increases speed by 50 MPH for the Navy’s C-47 workhorse, with awards negotiated weeks before the Korea outbreak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Monica
Cal
US Navy
Douglas Aircraft Co
Korea
Douglas
Navy
Check Returns in Demo Primary Precinct Leaders to Count Tonight
Precinct chairmen will report to the county clerk's office tonight at 8 to check the returns from last Saturday's Democratic primary. Ballots will be canvassed and certified totals sent to the county clerk and the secretary of state in Austin. Charles Gibson, Democratic county chairman, requests all chairmen be present for the counting. Blind flying of airplanes first was attempted about 1918.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of State
Austin
Charles Gibson
Burden Returned to Jail Over Suspended Sentence
Billy Burden, 23, was sent back to Potter County jail from Borger to face possible revocation of a suspended sentence. He received a three and a half year suspended term for burglary of Pleasant Valley Drug Store a year ago and has since been convicted again on a burglary charge in Borger, with the district attorney seeking revocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Burden
Potter County
Borger
Burden
Pleasant Valley
Mrs J W Roush Goes To Carrizo Springs For Sister
Mrs J W Roush of 2727 Canyon Road travels to Carrizo Springs to attend funeral services for her sister, Priscilla Lancaster, who died yesterday.
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J. W. Roush
Canyon Road
Carrizo Springs
Priscilla Lancaster
Lancaster
Fall Victim Walter Brown Condition Described as Satisfactory
Walter Brown 51 year old sign painter sustained minor injuries from a fall yesterday about eight feet from an attic stairway at Tri State Advertising Company 1205 West Sixth. He resides at 107 Maryland and was reported this morning in satisfactory condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Brown
Mr. Brown
Tri-State Advertising Company
West Sixth
Maryland
Juice block would stretch mile long under 1948-49 plan
The US Agriculture Department says frozen orange juice marketed in the 1948-49 season would form a block 60 feet wide, five feet deep and a mile long, illustrating vast output projections for the period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
US Agriculture Department
Lineman Suffers Loosened Teeth in Accident
Dale Ham, an 18 year old lineman for Southwestern Public Service Company, escaped serious injury when a frame he was lifting fell on him yesterday afternoon. Several teeth were loosened. He was taken to Northwest Texas Hospital by Blackburn-Shaw ambulance and this morning listed as satisfactorily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dale Ham
Southwestern Public Service Company
Ham
Northwest Texas
Blackburn-Shaw
Potatoes advised to store in cool dry ventilated place
A note to store potatoes in a cool dry well ventilated place as part of a public advertisement.
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Globe
Blair
H. L. Griffin
Houston
Lamar Griffin, Jr
Goodlett
MR. Earl Sams
J.C. Penney Company
J. C. Penney
Globe-News
L.N. Pittman
Optometrist
Polk
Farm and Home Savings and Loan Association
Ordway-Saunders CO
Amarillo Bidg
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Sierade Fuel & Tren
Pampa
Ponca CI
Bartlesy
Tulsa
Central
U. S
Dodge
Hedgecoke Motor CO
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