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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1945
Page
12
Tex M. Risher of Borger who operated a charter airplane service out of Amarillo was killed in a crash. The report notes Risher's death in the fatal aviation accident and identifies his business links in the region.
A former Army Air Forces captain 26 perished when a crash in a storm near Greenup Illinois claimed his life and that of a New York doctor. He leaves a wife Lorene, son Dex of Borger, brother Rex, five sisters including D A Park Jr Amarillo, and parents M C and Mrs M C Risher of Borger. The body will be sent to Amarillo this afternoon via Backburn Shaw Funeral Home. Arrangements are pending.
Mrs Olive Dixon travels to Perryton for the funeral of her brother John Archie King a Panhandle pioneer who died Sunday at age 77. Funeral services are set for 3 PM Tuesday at First Baptist Church Perryton with interment in Ochiltree County Cemetery. King settled in the Panhandle in 1887.
All uniformed bodies of Khiva Temple will meet at 7 o'clock tonight for practice and instruction preparatory to the Shrine ceremonial June 25.
In a shift from Up Front to Sweatin It Out, Willie and Joe are shaved and cleaned after the war front ends in Europe. The gag characters remain the same grim infantrymen, now in peacetime Army routine with a focus on troops waiting to go home or to the Pacific.
Ensign James Guleke, back from overseas duty, spends 24 days with his mother Mrs. J. O. Guleke at 1607 Harrison. Commissioned January 20, 1944 at Notre Dame, he led a school battalion of 1,400. He served as aide in the Pacific, then joined a battleship and earned multiple ribbons including Southwest Pacific four stars, the Philippines Operation, and American Defense.
J L King captain of city detectives departed yesterday for Camp Mabry near Austin to attend an advanced two week school for law enforcement officers. The program is run by the Texas Department of Public Safety with cooperation from the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Texas Police Association.
The Amarillo district of the Texas Department of Public Safety adds a second two way radio car. Pampa patrol unit with P C Wynne now houses the transmitter. Olk Ivy, district captain, took the car to Austin last week for installation. The district, with eight patrolmen and no sergeant, covers 26 counties and previously had only one dual radio patrol car.
The trial of Bill Wellman on criminal assault charges began in the 47th District Court this morning before Judge Henry Bishop. Wellman, indicted by a Potter County grand jury two months ago, is free on bond.
William G. Williams says Sunday driving remains postponed and gas rationing rules change. The 650 mile per month ceiling applies only to B holders with essential driving needs above 475. Most B drivers should not apply. markings are no longer required.
The River Road 4 H girls will gather at Mrs J L Glasgow's home on Blue Bonnet Drive at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs Frend Brady of 1318 Harrison spent the weekend in Lubbock visiting Betty Cowan daughter of Mr and Mrs C K Cowan Palo Duro Apartments who is attending college there.
Mrs. C. S. Powell of 2037 Hayden departs Saturday with her son Tom and daughter Patsy for Abilene to spend a month at the home of her sister in law Miss Jean Powell.
Betty Bennett daughter of Mrs. R. M. Bennett 2106 Tyler returns from Dalton School New York where she studied the past year and was elected president of her class for the coming year. She will return to Dalton at the start of the fall semester. The word mummy means bitumen in Arabic.
Comdr. Dan Henry, officer in charge of the Dallas Navy recruiting area, will visit Amarillo Wednesday for an inspection tour. Chief H. F. Longabach, local recruiting director, announced today.
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