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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1946
Page
2
March brings record calm and little dust as mild northerns disrupt expected winds. Local forecaster Mr. Tack predicts a wet spring and year, while townsfolk discuss oxygen therapy for drinkers and pay tribute to late pioneer C. J. E. Lowndes of the First National Bank and the Southwest.
Miss Noland, back from Anchorage with Alaskan Air Lines, says she is tired of travel and plans to stay home. She notes little war talk in Alaska and that residents befriended Russians during the war, finding them decent and not seen as enemies. She mentions resumed gold mining and that many Alaskans will prospect this summer in the hills.
FBI filed charges against Melvin Cox Rogers alias William Arthur Campbell in San Pedro desertion case and against John W. Campbell for theft of an Army truck tire wheel. William D. Garvin remains in Dalhart custody on probation and draft delinquency charges. Garvin previously used the alias W R Cowboy Bill Morgan linked to a Davenport rodeo rider tale.
Arthur Timmons 53 of Amarillo died this morning at a local hospital after several days illness. He lived at 400 Georgia with his family and had worked for Joe Shields Refrigeration Co. He was born November 4 1892 in Wise County later moving to the Panhandle in 1899 and Amarillo in 1901. He married Vadie Parrish in 1913 and survived by his wife five daughters a son and four grandchildren plus his parents a brother and a sister. The body is at Griggs Chapel.
Ticket sales for the annual Policemen's Benefit Ball end tomorrow. The dance runs from 9 p.m. to closing and will be held at four venues: Nat Amarillo Hotel Mayfair and Rainbow Gardens. Police deliveries and orders continue, with phone orders to the department.
Edmond Leroy Middick age near forty, of 1410 Jackson, died this morning at Amarillo Hospital. He worked for Pinkney Packing Company and came to Amarillo nine years ago. Survived by wife, parents, brother D W Middick, and three sisters. Funeral arrangements are pending with Boxwell Brothers.
County officials John Winters will appear before the Ways and Means Committee. County Auditor John Crudgington and County Engineer J L Adams departed for College Station to attend the Officials Short Course tomorrow and Thursday.
Dr Herschel Coffee of West Texas State College told Panhandle leaders that the Tri State area has only begun to tap industrial potential. He cited 1940 census figures of 450 manufacturers, 6 200 workers and 6 386 000 payroll in 70 counties of Northwest Texas Oklahoma Panhandle and Eastern New Mexico. He urged greater capital in agricultural processing, oil and chemicals, local raw materials like gypsum, and importing materials for millwork and machine assembly.
The article profiles several Texas performers connected to the University of Texas and Houston groups. Fae Johnson, Erin Kameron, Olive Lockhart, Ann Thompson, and Mildred Wooley are cited for roles in classic plays and post graduate stage work in Texas New York and California.
A Broadway style play by Interstate Players features young Texans in Kind Lady tonight at the State Theater. Virginia Lipscomb of Terrell leads the cast as a freshman from Texas State College for Women who previously acted in UT productions. Mildred Cook, from Abilene via Hardin-Simmons and Baylor, also appears in the ensemble.
Spectators from ages 4 to 60 and up tour booths at Amarillo College as Bray Industries Amarillo Manufacturing Co Jewel Food Products and Golden Light Company display toys paints food items and cafe design. The expo features free samples from the effin Ice Cream Co and demonstrations of flour varieties and cheap lunch counter furnishings.
Capt. W. F. Davidson from Austin, chief examiner for the Department of Public Safety, drivers license division, is in Amarillo today for a routine inspection.
President Herbert Hoover landed in Paris by plane at 5 P M to start a fact finding mission on European food requirements and aid prospects.
Funeral services for A. C. H. Tanner pioneer cowman who died Monday morning will be held at 4 o'clock Wednesday afternoon in St Andrews Episcopal Church with Rev. George Quarterman officiating Interment under direction of N. S. Griggs & Sons will be in Liano Cemetery Tanner was 79 and came to Texas from England in 1906.
West Palm Beach March 19 The Philadelphia Athletics are in desperate need of an outfielder says Manager Connie Mack and I would do almost anything to get one.
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