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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1947
Page
28
On their 65th wedding anniversary Mr and Mrs Ezra McCormick counted their family: 7 living children from an original 10, 53 grandchildren, 49 great grandchildren, and 5 great great grandchildren. The item notes a separate fact about synthetic gems containing gas bubbles.
Richmond reports officer Dan Duling confronted a suspect in an egg theft. The man responded with 30 dozen eyes thrown at the officer. The suspect was captured and jailed for four months.
The Patriots' Transept, a proposed south arm of the unfinished Washington Cathedral, will enshrine war service records on the National Roll of Honor. The transept is to rise with funds from a nationwide five million dollar campaign now underway.
Robert Hazen Shaeffer of Amarillo becomes the first Texas veteran enrolled on a national honor roll at the unfinished Washington Cathedral. He served as master sergeant in the USAAF quartermaster division during World War II as names and records of living and dead Texans are enshrined in the planned war memorial chapel in the Patriots Transept. The transept is the cathedral’s southern arm, with over $375000 spent on its construction, and the Rev. Merritt F. Williams leads the national war memorial committee.
Funeral services for Arthur Stone 65 will be at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel Amarillo. Rev Roy B Plippo will officiate with pallbearers Charles Seiwell Virgil Bush Fred Kemp Hugh Donnell Edward Abbott and George Groves. Stone died Sunday evening from a gunshot wound according to Justice of the Peace Char lie Carder acting coroner. Survivors include widow Ella Mae Stone two sons J M and A E Stone a daughter Mrs Gordon A Frye two brothers Ernest Stone Earl Stone and four sisters. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery with war unit insignia and national honor roll display.
Rt. Rev. George H. Quarterman head of the North Texas Episcopal District has returned from New York where General Theological Seminary awarded him a doctor of sacred theology. He will travel to Sewanee Tennessee to accept a doctor of divinity from the University of the South and expect to return in about ten days.
Lt Comdr John J Vandale announces enlistment of 16 Amarillo men in the Inactive Naval Reserve V-6. Names include William Reese Gerald Laceky Walter Watson Alfred Hardin James Hall Freind Falcon Hawkins Robert Boland Marshall Pounds Arnold Medlin Rene Nelson Elijah Nelson Alton Quisenberry LeRoy Patterson William Scott Bill Byers Verlin Curtis. Most shooting stars are only the size of a bean.
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