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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1944
Page
2
Police chief Sid Harper is credited with first apprehending and eliminating a late fall menace. He described snow and ice in Amarillo as a sign of the season, insisting it was real ice despite skepticism from other officers.
War correspondent Paul Manning, fresh from France, will lecture tonight for the Knife and Fork Club and Associated Business Clubs. He will recount hedgerow fighting in Normandy and the Paris liberation, the first broadcast from the liberated city. The event starts at 8 with a social hour and refreshments.
Bushland 4-H Girls club members learned how to make simple Christmas gifts wrap gifts and create book markers from old cards. They practiced arrangements of flowers in vases and bowls and stitched stockings cosmetic bags with Italian hem.
Seaman First Class O H Carmichael, alamat 1701 Laurel Avenue Pine Bluff Arkansas spent yesterday in Amatillo en route home on leave. He visited local Shriners and spoke of a recent trip to the San Francisco Shriner Hospital for Crippled Children.
Government officials urge prompt cashing of checks and secure storage to prevent temptations. Juveniles who found and cashed a government check provided statements to authorities. Raby C. Neely announces Vogue Cleaners will relocate to 1502 Fill More Street. Mrs Neely will continue teaching in Dumas schools until January 1.
Capt. Joseph S. Long Amarillo Air Field Chaplain to conduct Armistice Memorial Services in Dumas High School Auditorium Sunday at 3 o clock. Comdr and Mrs Dan Henry of Dallas will be in Amarillo Wednesday Nov 15. Henry is new commanding officer of Dallas Naval headquarters District and will inspect the Amarillo station.
A 45 year old widow writes to Tack seeking a churchgoing, non drinking partner with a good job and home. The note appears in a local column of personal ads.
The Amarillo Army recruiting station in the post office building has closed effective November 1 after decades of operation. All officials including WACs have been transferred to other centers and equipment shipped. No enlistment activity or procedure for WACs has been announced.
Cpl. Morton Walker son of Mr and Mrs C S Walker of Dumas and brother of Bus Walker of Amarillo has returned to the United States after 11 months in Italy He served with the 338th Infantry through Africa Sicily Cassino and Anzio Beachhead and the Northern Italian campaign He is now at Stark General Hospital in Charleston South Carolina and is a graduate of Amarillo High School.
The annual 4-H Club banquet honoring Moore County youths for the year’s achievements will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the Dumas School Cafeteria. Other items note M H Bell’s return from 28 months with the cavalry, a carlsbad Caverns holiday trip for Amarillo residents, hospital discharge for Miss Priscilla Smith, and a Knights Templar conclave vote on forty applications.
Regents of Amarillo Daughters of the American Revolution review Armistice Day parade. Mrs. F H McGregor and Mrs. Albert Bivins will stand on the reviewing platform at Fifth Avenue and Polk Street during the downtown observance.
Mrs. Vance Huff of 3108 Polk Street is reported improved by attendants at St. Anthony's Hospital where she was admitted November 4.
A V mail letter from Hawaii with Hawaiian and limited English reached Amarillo friends of Machinist Mate First Class R. R. Struve of the 52nd U S Naval Construction Battalion. Struve, from Abernathy, spent 15 months in the Aleutians before shipment to the South Pacific. Amarillo Chapter 196 Royal Arch Masons will confer degrees Saturday afternoon after a supper at 6 in the Temple Building. 12 candidates were conferred last night.
A girl named Ellen writes Santa for a doll bed and rocking chair and her Army sergeant father trusts Postmaster DeGrassi to forward the letter. Ellen’s note, stamped Free, is sent via Globe News. Another letter from Virginia Williams requests a doll house and wagon. Both letters address North Pole, America.
All members of Khiva Temple Drum Corps Patrol and Camel Herders meet at the Temple at 10 o clock Saturday to uniform for the Armistice Day parade. Khiva marching units join the parade and Camel Herders will prepare a float, with a Shrine club lunch at Capitol Hotel after.
EXPECTED HOME James O Wakley who has served 35 months in the Central Pacific area will be home within a few days to visit his wife Mrs Dorothy Wakley 1312 East Sixth Avenue United States Marshal and Mrs Bill Lampe have returned from West Virginia where the marshal delivered a federal prisoner and from Memphis Tenn where they stopped to visit their son William Lampe a Navy V 6 student Today the marshal made a business trip to Stinnett
Local hotels report heavy reservations for November 19 and 20 for the Khiva Temple annual Fall Ceremonial. Room clerks Said today.
Mr and Mrs W F Berner of Stinnett visit Amarillo at Ranch O Tel while their baby daughter is ill in Northwest Texas Hospital.
Mr and Mrs L OBrien Thompson and their children of 2900 Polk Street have returned home after visiting friends in Abernathy.
Bus Walker of Amarillo is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Walker, in Dumas during a short home trip.
Amarillo yesterday welcomed visitor Miss Wilma Dee Smith of Dumas for a one day stay as a city guest.
A 10 year old, 1400 to 1500 pound gray roping horse with stiffness in the neck was found and moved with a herd from Boxwell farm to the Wilkins Dairy pasture near Washington Street in Amarillo. The owner must contact James E. II at Johnson Building or call the listed numbers within about ten days or the horse will be posted under Texas Estray laws.
Frank Williams was found not guilty on an instructed verdict in 47th district court after being charged with passing a forged instrument. Tom Kemp faced forgery charges related to endorsing the check Williams allegedly passed. Judge Henry Bishop weighed whether to hold court tomorrow for holiday observances as the jury received instructions. A new term of 47th district court will begin Monday with the grand jury sworn in.
Mrs James R Gard of 313 North East Third Avenue is notified of her husband’s arrival in China. He trained at Amarillo Field and serves in the Air Transport Command.
Miss Ruth Brady daughter of Mr and Mrs Vernon A Brady of 1112 West Sixteenth Avenue is named War Bond secretary for the Sixth Loan campaign. Chairman Guy Saunders announced Brady recently returned from Dallas where she had been employed.
Lt. Wallace Horton, navigator for the Army Air Forces, writes his parents Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Wade of the Herring Hotel that he is now stationed in the Panama Canal Zone. The Amarillo high school graduate left the United States weeks ago and today's letter reveals his location for the first time to his parents.
James H. Ivy is due home within a few days to visit his mother Mrs. Annie B. Ivy at 412 Cleveland Street. He has served 27 months with the cavalry in the Southwest Pacific.
Elections at Amarillo College yesterday named the sophomore slate headed by Kathleen Hasty as president with Dorothy Decker as vice president and Rosemary Briscoe as secretary treasurer. The freshman class elected Jimmy Bailey to lead with Betty Jane Roberts as vice president Shirley Jackson as secretary treasurer and Doyle Mayes as sergeant at arms.
Lt Pauline Winn of the Army Nurses Corps receives a promotion to first lieutenant. She has served overseas since April 1944 after graduating from St Anthony School of Nursing and working as a nurse in Dumas before enlisting.
Lawrence Roberts of Tlinois Zinc Co and Dumas employee heads to Amarillo to join friends from Childress for a deer hunting trip near Silver City New Mexico. The party departs tonight for the hunt.
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