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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1945
Page
5
Overseas veterans from the defense forces are noted with duties in Europe and the Pacific. Bob A Duncan, Pfc Victor F Franklin, Lt Glenn L Pratt, Seaman Honeycutt, and Sgt Don Taft are cited for overseas service, training, and honors including air medals and campaign ribbons.
Pfc Robert W Wheeler son of Mrs Lucy Wheeler 412 East Thirteenth serves with the Signal Corps in France as part of the Third Army. A Amarillo High School graduate he has served two and a half years in the Army and has been overseas since last October after earlier postings at Fort Benning. Before enlisting he worked for Foxworth Galbraith Lumber Co. His wife Mrs Pauline Wheeler resides in Dallas and his sister Mrs Bernice Vaught lives at 620 West Seventh.
Pvt. William B. Tarwater Jr. receives the Combat Infantry Badge for combat service in the Solomons. He served in New Caledonia and Guadalcanal, now with the 37th Infantry Division in the Philippines after 14 months overseas. He is the son of Mr and Mrs William B Tarwater of Amarillo, former Hall County residents.
Sergeant E Ralph Jones of Floydada has returned from England where he served with a B-17 squadron in the Eighth Air Force. He logged 35 missions totaling 273 combat hours since July 1944, including operations during the Belgian breakthrough. He holds the Air Medal with five clusters and is recommended for the Purple Heart for wounds from a V bomb fragment in London on Sept 30 1944.
The Purple Heart is awarded posthumously to Pvt Eugene M Young son of Mr and Mrs Lynn B Young of Cotton Center. Young 20 died Oct 31 in a Belgium hospital after being wounded in action in Germany with his infantry unit. He was born in Girard Tex and graduated Cotton Center High School. He attended Abilene Christian College a year before enlisting in March 1943 and going overseas in September 1943. His parents accepted the award.
Clyde McGee, McLean schools vocational agriculture instructor for 10 years, will succeed Jake Tarter as Wheeler County agent effective April 1. A West Texan by choice, married with two children, he holds a B.S. in agriculture from LSU and has done graduate work at Texas Tech and Texas A and M. He will reside in Wheeler when quarters become available.
Memphis candidates filed for the April 3 city election. For mayor the candidate is C. C. Hodges and for aldermen they are O. V. Alexander Horace Tarver Dr. O. R. Goodall Robert Cummings M. C. Allen and W. T. Hightower.
An old advertisement questions whether Adam could eat the apple if he had a stomach ulcer and urges relief from ulcer and indigestion with Ueda and Adga Tablets. It promises a double money back offer if the first dose does not convince.
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