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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1948
Page
23
Pfc Elfred Gene Shearer of Pleasant Valley dies. Survived by parents Mr and Mrs J G Shearer sisters Mrs Ray Burns Mrs Howard Lawson Mrs D Blaine Mrs I H Parks brothers O G and George Services 2 30 PM Thursday Memorial Chapel
Memorial Park Cemetery advertises full cane esual for all lots with care services available.
Rabey Funk son of Mrs. Marie Funk of 1115 Hayden Amarillo will enter the US Naval Academy at Annapolis Md this summer after completing a nine month training course at the US Naval Academy College Preparatory School Bainbridge Missouri. He earned the nomination through his outstanding Marine Corps record and is a former Price College student who graduated in 1946.
Raymond Dorroh three years old was bitten twice by a rattlesnake while walking with his father Dr J L Dorroh near the Texas A M College campus. Doctors report he will recover completely in a Kingsville hospital where he rests today.
Fifteen men have been recruited for the US Marine Corps Panhandle Platoon. Sgt. Harry Sigel Amarillo recruiter says enlistees will stay together through basic training then enter chosen fields. Enlistments close in three weeks. Final processing in Oklahoma City for exams and San Diego for a 10 week basic course. Contact Sgt. Sigel at the Post Office building for details.
E. V. Baker, superintendent of postal finance, left today for a five day vacation at Eagle Nest New Mexico. He is expected to return to his duties Monday morning.
Tri State Construction Company opens at 500 West Sixteenth in Amarillo led by Norris Wilkinson and Finis Payne both ex service men The firm will handle repair work home and business remodeling and small commercial building projects The item also notes a chronic gasoline shortage in Paraguay that may worsen.
At Corpus Christi on May 26 the pro Taft faction secured 30 of Texas 33 votes for the national convention. R B Creager led Brownsville in sacrificing three votes and one delegate to rival Hopkins of Dallas who backed Dewey. Hopkins earned two votes. Stassen one. Creager re elected Texas national committeeman. Lena Gay Moore named national committeewoman. Delegates at large include Nolta and McLean of San Antonio. The Texas delegation will be unit rule free.
In Snyder Texas Jackson Ellis and five sons fulfilled a lifelong dream by drilling a 1750 foot well on their farm after WWII. The cooperative effort yielded a potential 165 barrels per day. A geologist had warned of oil on the land twenty years earlier. Meanwhile in Bombay 449 feature films were censored last year with 225 being American productions.
Gettsyburg reports that a farm owned by the J. A. Stevens estate in Adams County has suffered repeated wind damage. Three years ago a barn was demolished, two years later the rebuilt roof was blown off, and now the same end collapsed again, with part of the farmhouse roof lost in the latest storm.
Larry A. Enzminger, a pilot with 10,000 hours aloft and no accidents, credits safety first equipment care weather understanding and luck for his record. He warns weather kills more people in the air than any other factor. January 7, 1948 Amarillo audit report notes City of Amarillo financial position as of September 30, 1947.
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