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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1946
Page
2
Miscellaneous town notes from Amarillo include weather hints of a mild spring, readers swapping memories of past fashions, a caution about car hoodlums, letters about bees in a yard, a call for police patrol on South Polk Street, and local reflections on newspaper work anniversaries and school budget increases.
The Globe reprints A A Graham Amarillo guide How To Use Your Bible first published Aug 12 1935 and valued by readers nearly eleven years later. It lists scriptures for grief worry danger loneliness and other life needs with verses from Psalms Isaiah John Hebrews Romans Matthew Luke and more.
Hanson Post No 54 plans initiation for more than two hundred new members at 7 30 p m tomorrow. The post has 1503 members after enrolling 56 new members on Saturday, announced Sol Levine the membership chairman. Initiations will be conducted by the 40 or 8 ritual team directed by Otto Landis.
The phantom Harrington car, reported stolen around 4 PM yesterday, was found abandoned at Pantex Village by 9 PM before vanishing again. Three youths, Bob Billington 18, Buddy Amos 15, and W R Underwood 20, are jailed in Potter County on theft charges for taking the car from 3006 Mack on Polk Street.
The car was seen on Fritch Road triggering a hunt. At 2 30 this morning two state patrolmen chased the vehicle and caught one youth and two girls who jumped from the car in an alley at Pantex Village. A girl was injured when a wheel passed over her legs. No charges against the girls were filed. By daylight the patrolmen rounded up the remaining youths facing charges.
In Merneb rg Germany on March 4 Scarfaced Ernst Kaltenbrunner the number two Nazi police official presented himself as a secret peace negotiator. He said he had been in contact with United States agents since 1943 and worked toward peace through the American OSS in Switzerland.
Amarillo merchants report a brisk Dollar Day with 146 women counted at a single observation point in ten minutes. Shoppers filled gray and brown sacks as vendors offer sub dollar shorts and Texas hats, while hardware gun and tool counters saw strong business and parking became tight near Polk Street. The Amarillo Exposition and Fat Stock Show appears to boost buying activity across stores and eateries.
Late this afternoon a busy Amarillo schedule includes recording out of town checks alongside events for Dollar Day and the Amarillo Fat Stock Show. Local merchants prepare for crowds as exhibitors and buyers gather for livestock judging and sales events.
A blizzard and sub-freezing cold hindered rescue operations to recover 27 bodies from an American Airlines DC-3 crash near Mt. Laguna. The flight from Dallas to San Diego bound from New York collided with a 6,000 foot peak, killing 23 passengers including two babies and four crew members as wreckage lay over a quarter-mile area.
Deputy sheriffs reached the scene 100 feet below the peak crest and counted 23 adults and two babies among the victims. Two bodies remained in fire wreckage as rescue teams clear the rugged terrain with a bulldozer. Blizzard delays push recovery into late today. The ill fated airliner passenger list includes Eugene Mills USMC L J Baker Fort Worth J H Menge San Antonio L A Criswell USMC and Mrs Margaret Greener and her three month old son Milton Harvey.
An unnamed Army or Navy officer Lt Easterday and a Navy pilot are listed with unknown addresses as missing. The airliner was last sighted over El Centro California at 7 53 am and is believed to have crashed several minutes later. Eye pupil response note appears as an unrelated medical observation.
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