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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1947
Page
3
Police traffic captain Carlie Price warns pedestrians amid Christmas bundles that camouflage does not protect walkers. Beginning tomorrow pedestrians leaving sidewalks or crosswalks at intersections will be chased back and may receive a small fine to remove tagging.
The Toastmasters Club held a Thanksgiving party at Dr. M. E. Jacobson’s home 2010 West Tenth. Live-Wire group won the membership drive, with Hot-Shots the losers. William E. Simpson opened the meeting and five members gave short talks.
Rev H L Bolden says all faiths observe services at Jenkins Chapel Baptist Church North Heights Addition and Carter Chapel CME Church. Programs start at 7 45 tonight with Rev I Z Chance at North Heights and Rev F D Douglas directing at the Flats. Choirs from Johnson Chapel and New Hope Baptist will provide music. Open to all who wish to attend.
The city commission granted a petition to close the alley between Parker and Lipscomb in the 3800 and 3900 blocks. The school board has purchased property between Lipscomb and Parker and between Thirty-eighth and Fortieth for a new school, following earlier but unsuccessful efforts to close Twenty Fourth Avenue between Polk and Tyler.
Police hold a suitcase found on Highway 82 near Crosbyton containing $4925 in US government bonds and deeds to Wichita, Kansas real estate awaiting owner claim. no suspects named.
W. E. Magnuson of Amarillo files a $25,960 suit in the 108th District Court against Thomas Presley Duncan Jr of Wichita Falls. Merchant & Jordan represent Magnuson alleging injuries from a highway accident four miles north of Panhandle on May 7.
Mrs. Ennis T. Scoggins 43 of Rio Hondo died in an automobile wreck near Raymondville as she and her husband traveled to Kingsville to fetch their daughter Dorothy a college student and attend the Texas Texas A M game at College Station.
In Dallas on November 27, 5,000 Western Union Telegraph Company workers across seven Southwestern states will vote early next week on a strike to press for a 15 cent hourly wage increase. The vote follows failed contract talks in Washington between the company and the AFL union Gulf Division led by Simon P. Oster. If approved, walkout would affect service in Texas Oklahoma Arizona New Mexico Colorado and parts of Kansas and Arkansas.
The Texas Employment Commission projects near peak construction employment in December with less than one percent drop from the October level of 136,700 workers. October saw 1,150 fewer workers than September, but the figure remains 5,000 above October 1946 levels.
In Greenville on the Dallas Greenville highway two children, Bonnie Raburn 11 and James 9, were killed when a flat tire left the Raburn pickup on the road and an oil transport rear collided. Parents R J Raburn and E M Raburn and another son Eugene 12 were seriously or critically injured. The family resided in Royce City and Peniel Texas. The crash followed the pickup being driven on its rim after tire failure.
Early this morning in Amarillo two rural route mail boxes within city limits were damaged. Police report the boxes in the 2500 block East Third were knocked from a post and turned. Interference with post office property is a federal offense.
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