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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1944
Page
3
St Frank St. Jacques of the merchant Marines known as Higgins Vagabond due to his global travels before and during World War II left yesterday for Seguin.
Lieutenant St Jacques, wounded on D-Day, visits Amarillo and Higgins as he recuperates in a British hospital. He praises local hospitality, greets daughter Francine Lee on her birthday, and says he plans to return to the Panhandle to live someday after a world voyage from Higgins at age 12. He notes North Carolina’s motto Esse Quam Videri meaning to be rather than seem.
Lt. Cmdr. William G. Ivey Jr. is promoted from Ama rilloan and now serves as a flight instructor in a PBY Catalina squadron at the Jacksonville naval base. He is married to Harriet Swift and a West Texas State College BS graduate of 1939. Meanwhile Allied forces push the Rhineland drive with heavy fighting near Aachen as Cologne and the Roer region approach decisive action.
Enlisted men at Amarillo Army Air Field seek spare time work to bolster Christmas furlough funds. About 30 men want jobs, especially night shifts, with applicants including machinists, truck drivers and electricians. Firms with openings should call 2-3267.
An Amarillo Plainview store at 1026 W. 6th and 710 Broadway advertises baby grand pianos and other Mary L. Spence instruments with available players and sale details.
The article notes that commercial mint cultivation started in New York state more than 100 years ago, marking an early development in American herb farming and regional agriculture.
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