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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1944
Page
11
Bobbie Covey’s first solo plane trip to Colorado Springs is recounted alongside local birth notices and shor t community notes. Entries list visitors, new births at St Anthony Hospital and town newcomers, with brief updates on families and travel.
Cpl Harold R Hamm and Pfc Victor W Hamm, sons of Mrs A E Hamm of 600 Florida St, serve in the U S Army with the 42nd Rainbow Division and military police in Egypt. Hamm is in supply school at Camp Gruber Oklahoma and has prior Amarillo school and Pantex guard work. both families remain in Oklahoma and Tulsa. Pvt Leonard Wright of 225 N W Fifteenth Ave has six months overseas duty in Northern Burma with Army Medical Corps. his brother Williard Wright serves in the South Pacific. Sgt Jack C Nimmo, with an anti aircraft division, is in England.
Robert M. Bennett son of Mrs R M Bennett of 2106 Tyler Street was commissioned a second lieutenant at Fort Knox on June 3 as part of the 63rd Armored Officer Candidate School class. He is a 1943 New Mexico Military Institute graduate and has served at Fort Riley Fort A M and Fort Knox and is now at Fort Belvoir. Seaman Hinkamp son of Mr and Mrs H F Hinkamp studied electrical engineering after enlisting in the Navy two months ago from Amarillo College. Frederick C Wagner aged 29 promoted to corporal with the Ninth Air Force Service Command in England. formerly a jeweler, he arrived overseas in summer 1943. his wife Ruth and his parents live at 2212 Washington.
Curtis Marshall Powell of the Army Air Forces Material Command Wright Field Dayton Ohio assigned to the special projects branch. He previously served at Eglin Field Florida. His home address is 1207 West Tenth Avenue. John Kennedy son of Mr and Mrs R A Kennedy 818 Maryland Street reported by War Department as prisoner of Germany missing since April 22. He had overseas service from February and flew eight missions as a B 17 flight engineer. He went to school in Allison Texas and entered service October 1942 while employed at Pantex Ordnance Plant. His wife lives in Allison.
Among the nine weeks pilot transition trainees at Maxwell Field Alabama Lt. Horace A. Martin 402 Forest Street and Milton E. Oliver husband of Monette Oliver 2706 Cleveland Street in boat training with the Navy at San Diego since May 9. Mrs A E Traeger hosts Mrs J A Traeger and Miss Cazelle Traeger of Sanger who plan a summer visit. Miss Traeger has served as a missionary in Malaysia for 20 years.
Elmer DeShazo son of Mrs. D Lindberg 1315 East Ninth Avenue attends the Coast Guard Quartermaster Training School in Brooklyn New York. The seaman has served in the Coast Guard for two years. Before
Lieutenant Byron St Clair, a former highway patrolman now with the United States infantry, returned to Seymour after 20 months in the Aleutians. He said it felt swell to be back and spoke of loneliness while visiting with state patrolmen in the courthouse before a 30 day furlough and reassignment.
Park officials announce the lighted fountain at Twenty-eighth Avenue and Street will soon be in operation after an electrician completed wiring and appliance work during the overhaul.
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