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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1947
Page
16
Amarillo reports high fire losses for January and February totaling over $40,250 with January storms driving most costs. Fire Chief Ed Wilson urges a Spring clean‑up to remove trash and fire hazards and offers to inspect homes. Fire Marshal Ed Spann cites over $35,500 in January alone as losses.
Charlie Spivak performs serenades as part of a wedding program. The Bride and Groom are highlighted along with ABC Ladies Be Seated and ABC Edwin C Hill. ABC My Serenade closes the program with a musical featured by News and Music.
Chief Wilson warned fires destroyed over 330 000 homes last year, nearly half of the 662 000 new homes completed for veterans in 1946. He called the U S a world firetrap, attributing most blazes to carelessness and lack of safety practices. He urged cigarette and match caution and installation of approved extinguishers.
Funeral services for Mardis E. H. Dollar, a World War I veteran, will be held at 4 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the N. S. Griggs & Sons Chapel. Rev. E. R. Foster will officiate. Dollar, wounded in the war, died Monday in the Veterans Administration hospital at Waco. He was raised in Potter County and served as Amarillo’s volunteer in the war. Surviving relatives include his mother Mrs. E. S. Dollar of Amarillo, a brother in Los Angeles, and two sisters in Alamogordo, N M and Amarillo.
Texas judges won pay raises after Gov. Beauford H. Jester signed the bill. The new salary scale sets Supreme Court and Court of Criminal Appeals seats at 10 000 annually, civil appeals at 8 000, and district judges at 6 000, up from 8 000, 6 500 and 5 000.
Instruction School For Rainbow Girls of the Panhandle will be held all day Saturday led by Rainbow supreme deputy Miss Martha Marie Whitfield of Dallas. Morning classes run 9 to 12 and afternoon 1 30 to 4 in Khiva Temple. A called meeting of the Rainbow Girls Lone Star Assembly is set for Friday at 7 30 in Khiva Temple announced by Mrs. D S Smith mother advisor.
Lt. John Arthur Daugherty husband of Betty C. Daugherty of 704 North Cleveland serves aboard the destroyer USS Charles R. Ware. The ship participates in large scale battle maneuvers of the Atlantic Second Task Fleet in the Central Atlantic and Caribbean during February and March. Daugherty entered naval service in October 1942 and trained at the University of New Mexico and Columbia University.
Miss Charlotte Stirratt daughter of Mr and Mrs J A Stirratt leaves Amarillo for Holland by train to Chicago and New York sailing March 26 on the S S Westerdam to Amsterdam. She will instruct applicants in Baha i teachings under the European Teaching Committee aims and may study German at the University of Amsterdam.
Fort Worth was chosen as the meeting site for the Texas department American Legion convention set for July 27 to 30. The Forty and Eight auxiliary will also meet on the same dates, announced state president Mrs. W. A. Cole of Dallas.
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