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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1950
Page
24
Amarillo College announced evening high school and elementary night classes for adults starting Friday at 7 PM with enrollment every four weeks. Dr. A M Meyer notes fast progress, with some students advancing from fifth to eleventh grade level in twelve weeks, and veterans using GI Bill benefits.
Pierce P. Brooks founder and Texas Safety Council director cannot attend Amarillo Rotary meeting tomorrow noon due to Dallas business. He notes safety work in Amarillo is strong and will continue. Brooks also announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor on Sunday May 28 after the Jefferson Jackson Day Dinner in Austin.
The trial of Herman Hill aged 30 at 504% Harrison in 47th District Court was postponed to 2 PM after his attorney failed to appear. The jury panel was dismissed until this afternoon. Hill faces charges tied to a knife attack on Arthur Stanton on May 14.
Dr Harold G Cooke president of McMurry College presented a plan at a district Methodist meeting in Polk Street Church to pay off remaining indebtedness on the Amity Abilene campus in preparation for September dedication. The value of the property exceeds three million dollars and quotas were accepted on a voluntary basis. The meeting also covered benevolence quotas, a nationwide church budget drive, a district training school for church workers, a young adults camp at Cota Glen and the Methodist Hour radio program on KGNC through summer. Dr Hamlett returned as district superintendent and then attended a similar meeting in Borger.
Potter County commissioners meet at 9 tomorrow morning to appoint a successor to County Treasurer L. D. Heyser who died yesterday. County Judge Gene Jordan said many have expressed desire, with 11 reportedly ready to accept. Early naming aids payment of current bills.
Paul Mann aged 31 and Jimmy Gaines aged 25, both of Amarillo, are held in the Lubbock jail on burglary charges.
Two men accused in the May 20 burglary of a Lubbock second hand store are in Amarillo and Panhandle authorities’ custody. The break in yielded four pistols and several knives stolen from the shop. Globe News Want Ads Get Results.
Final rites for Lorenzo D. Heyser a 6 year old Panhandle farm implement salesman and longtime Potter County treasurer were held at 2 PM at First Baptist Church with Rev. Carl Bates officiating. Burial followed at Llano Cemetery under N S Griggs & Sons. He died after a heart attack in Northwest Texas Hospital. He was survived by his wife a son a daughter and a sister.
William Edmund Hawley of 2006 Houston, 48, is recovering at home after a truck car collision at Tenth and Cleveland yesterday afternoon. Hawley sustained a laceration on his right hand and wrist and was treated at Northwest Texas Hospital. He faces a charge of failure to grant right of way.
Abandonment of the Luishia mine in Belgian Congo, once producing 1,000,000 tons of copper, was followed by the opening of operations at Ruwe, which is estimated to hold a 963,000-ton copper reserve.
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