Ex Amarillo Gap Ex- policeman gets five years for murder
David H. Benningfield, former Amarillo police officer, was sentenced in Galveston to five years in the penitentiary after a jury found him guilty of murder without malice in the stabbing death of his wife Geraldine Robinett. The case revealed a complex history including remarriage to a 16 year old girl and later legal charges dropped.
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David H. Benningfield
Amarillo
Galveston
Benningfield
10Th District
Geraldine Robinett
Cleveland, Tex
N. G. Schofield
Brownsville
Freeport
Matamoros
Port Isabel
United States
Norma Jean Benningfield
Angleton
Rockport
Aransas Pass
Liberty
Smiley
Cicero
Valley View
Young Amarillo Lawyers Plan Local Junior Bar Association
An organizational meeting of Amarillo's Junior Bar Association is set for 7:30 PM Friday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall 1401 West Eighth. Tom Morris and Cleo Clayton Jr oversee arrangements as about 40 local attorneys are expected eligible to join and form a constitution adopting group aligned with a state association.
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Amarillo Junior Bar Association
Veterans of Foreign Wars
West Eighth
Tom Morris
Cleo Clayton, Jr
Morris
Amarillo
Is Life Subject to Chance or a Divine Law?
The piece argues life often feels insecure and asks if any power or law is utterly reliable for humanity. It presents Christian Science as the answer found through studying Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy. It claims readers can test these ideas in daily life and gain health, freedom, and peace, noting the book may be bought, read, or borrowed.
Christian Science Reading Room in Amarillo Ad
A local notice invites readers to visit the Christian Science Reading Room at 121 West 9th Avenue Amarillo for free lectures church services and activities information. A coupon offers $3 to receive a blue cloth Library Edition of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy and requests further information and nearby Reading Room locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Science Reading Room
West 9Th Avenue
Amarillo
Mary Baker Eddy
Deadline Nearing For Car Licenses
Assessor-Collector Hubert Cole urged car owners to buy 1950 license tags within four days. Lines formed at the Potter County courthouse as offices open 8 30 a m to 5 p m. To obtain orange on black tags owners must show car title and 1949 license receipt.
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Hubert Cole
Potter County
Two Charged With Theft From Car in Littlefield
Two Littlefield men, Jimmy M. Rogers and J. D. Tinker, were charged in county court with theft of a set of fender skirts. They were arrested in a car early Sunday after Elmer Pirelli reported a theft from his vehicle near Tommy's Drive-In. Officers recovered the skirts in the Littlefield car.
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Littlefield
Jimmy M. Rogers
J. D. Tinker
Elmer Pirelli
North Woodland
Tommy
Civic clubs discuss election issues at district courtroom
Four civic groups hold an 8 pm joint meeting in 47th District Courtroom to debate city, school, county, and national election topics. School board candidates invited for April 1 election. three million dollar bond issue to be debated at Amarillo College Auditorium tomorrow night with R A Wilson and H S Kelly against Al Reville Jr and C O Towne on passing the bond.
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C. O. Towne
al Reville
R. C. Gray
Tony Bowles
Amarillo College
R. A. Wilson
H. Sim Kelly
al Reville, Jr
W D Thompson Taken by Death
William D Thompson age 83 of 1110 West Sixteenth died at 4 23 this morning at Washington Center Osteopathic Clinic after prolonged illness Born in Hickman County Tennessee he was a mining superintendent there for 27 years He operated a West Seventh Street grocery in Amarillo before retiring ten years ago He was a Methodist Funeral services set for 10 30 tomorrow at N S Griggs Sons Chapel with Dr E B Fincher officiating Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery Survivors include wife Cora Thompson three sons Edward Comar both of Amarillo Paul of San Juan two daughters Annie Baker and Mrs Ernest Nollamper four grandchildren and a great grandchild
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Mr. Thompson
Hickman County
Tenn
Amarillo
Tennessee
Thompson
West Seventh Street
Methodist Church
N. S. Griggs & Sons
E. B. Fincher
Southern Presbyterian Church
Memorial Park Cemetery
Cora Thompson
Edward
Comar
Paul
San Juan
Annie Baker
Ernest Nollamper
Amarilo
Slot Machine Seized From Service Station on Highway 287
Deputy sheriffs seized a slot machine from Bill's Truck Stop on Highway 287 east of the city. Bill Ennis, owner of the service station, paid a $25 fine for keeping a gambling device in justice court. Officers Tex Cotter and Henry Maggard removed the machine, valued at about $200, for destruction after removing the dimes.
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Bill
Highway 287
Bill Ennis
Justice of Peace Court
Tex Cotter
Henry Maggard
Davis and Chesser to Civil Service Meet
Clifford Davis city personnel director and Al Chesser Amarillo Civil Service Commission chairman depart tomorrow for Houston to attend the Southern regional conference of the Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada. The conference runs March 30 through April 1.
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Clifford Davis
al Chesser
Amarillo
Women Voters Plan Meeting at Herring Hotel Room 202
Members of the Provisional League of Women Voters will hold a monthly session at 10 AM Thursday in Room 202 Herring Hotel. President Mrs. R E Clements announced the open meeting with reports on Know Your Town Government survey led by Mrs S B Whittenburg.
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Provisional
League of Women Voters
Herring Hotel
R. E. Clements
Hayden
S. B. Whittenburg
Rex Reed
Rosemont
Coffman Named to City Personnel Post
Mrs. Bobbie Gene Coffman of 810 B Carolina will start Wednesday in the city personnel department succeeding Mrs. Wanda Swaim who has resigned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bobbie Gene Coffman
Carolina
Coffman
Wanda Swaim
Travel Boost Lifts Western Germany Hotels Toward Prewar Standards
The Hapag Lloyd Travel Bureau says tourists in western Germany this year may find hotel services near pre war levels thanks to stabilizing effects of the Marshall Plan. Foreign visitors are advised to expect improved accommodations and familiar comforts during their stay.
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Germany
Hapag-Lloyd Travel Bureau
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Globe
Polk
Amarillo Gap
Science and Health
Christian Science Reading
9Th Avenue
Globe-News
W. D. Thompson
William D. Thompson
West Sixteenth
Washington Center Osteopathic Clinic
Women Voters Plan Meeting
George Parr
Chester Braastadt
Avery Rush
John Oakes
David Rasco
James Rittenberry
Stanley Crowe
E. A. Rowley
Crockett
Washington
Tucker
Parplovers Casualty CO
District
Office
101H and
Harrison Sts
Owl
White
Boy “Wonsover
Amarillo, Texas
John Armstrong
Grady Stubbs
Ventaire Aluminum
N. M. Cooper
Fillmore St
Pikone
Moderne
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