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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1948
Page
10
In Montgomery Alabama Noel J Grant was executed after clemency pleas from his first wife failed. The 40 year old former Pensacola bus driver was convicted of killing his second wife Georgia Jones Gooden Grant in March.
Rabbi Arthur Bluhm will speak at Temple B'nai Israel Friday evening Sabbath service on the subject The Story of Purim. The service at 8 o'clock is open to the public.
Overt H. McDaniel a former Bowie resident has become Amarillo branch manager of the US Railroad Retirement Board succeeding R F L Phillips who was killed in an automobile accident near Panhandle on February 24. McDaniel has eight years of service with the Railroad Retirement Commission.
He spent four years with the US Navy in the South Pacific before coming to Amarillo where he was attached to the Shreveport Louisiana office as a field representative. His duties include managing the Amarillo office and handling all retirement activities for the Panhandle and South Plains area.
February relief data show 39 Amarillo families received material aid from the Catholic Welfare Bureau with 31 more needing counseling. The bureau carries 70 relief cases, supplied food, milk, clothing, shoes, medicine, and small money amounts. 20 children were sent to a Preventorium for X rays and follow ups. Board members from various local families attended the report meeting.
W M Ansley died at 2 30 this morning in Harlingen at about seventy years old. A pioneer Moore County farmer and rancher, he moved to the Rio Grande Valley 11 years ago and lived in San Benito at the time of death. Surviving relatives include daughter Mrs W T Dixon, two brothers B T Ansley Sr Amarillo and Sam Anstey Lubbock, a sister Miss Rebecca Anstey Plainview, and two stepsons W T Jr and Winston Dixon Amarillo. Funeral services not announced.
The Panhandle poll opened this afternoon in the State and Paramount theaters with ballots in lobbies for viewers of The Presidential Year. Results will be published in Globe News after four days as part of a nationwide public opinion sampling. Ballot names include Dewey Eisenhower Marshall Saltenstall Stassen Taft Truman Vandenberg Wallace and Warren. The show runs with Sleep My Love at Paramount and Black Bart at the State.
Movie listings feature Claudette Colbert and Robert Cum in Sleep My Love with Timings. Time Presidential Year color cartoon. Capitol shows Tuxedo Junction and Miracle Rider. Victory presents Pun and Fancy Pree and Oregon Trail Scouts with Allan Lane. Liberty offers Swing in the Saddle with Jimmy Wakely.
The page promotes Friday and Saturday dancing with Adele Night OLI THE NAT and the Russ Rogers orchestra. It lists Aviatrix Carlton Scare and pie orchestra, OLD TASCOLA Dick Morton, AVALON Billy Brigesang, RAINBOW GARDENS Rip Ramsey and his Teras Wanderers, CLUB VICTORIA nightly floor shows except Sunday, Pappy Parson's band, and ROLLER skating at Palace on Sixth and Jefferson with afternoon and evening sessions.
The protest with Texas Student Publications Inc was filed by Frank H. Long Jr a sophomore business administration student from San Antonio.
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