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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1945
Page
6
London reports the admiralty disclosed plans from 1935 to deploy 2000 divers to strike British and French fleets with underwater attacks. Italian tactics targeted battleships Queen Elizabeth and Valiant at Alexandria, with midget submarines and human torpedo work. neither ship was sunk.
The National Thespian Dramatic Society of Amarillo High School inducted twenty students into the organization. Ceremony leaders included Linda Lee Mock Karleene Horton Jane Holt Dorotha Bradford and Mrs N N Whitworth the faculty sponsor. Recipients included Aurice B Vernon Jim Slade Joe Bailey Delores Johnson Arletta Williams Dorotha Bradford Rosemary Clark Clifford Casey Elizabeth Rapp Billy Pat Moore Dick Robinet Louanna Beattie Elizabeth Norman Neal Lowe Gerald Shroff Margaret Cooper Frances Irvin Claudia Botts Freda Jones and Mary Armstrong
Shrine ceremonial and dance events cause the De Molays meeting to be postponed to next Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. All members are urged to attend the rescheduled important session.
Dorothy Coard and Stella Adkins wore Western costumes at the Victory Command Round-Up Dance held at the Auditorium USO, adding festive attire to the community gathering.
The State Department warns travelers a passport to Europe or Asia requires a mighty good reason. Amarillo residents file passport applications but face slow progress and uncertain returns. Applications demand full trip details, itinerary, and dates, with long waits for steamship passage and possible six months to a year to return. Returning service personnel have travel priorities.
Cited as travel advice, the note urges readers to stay home due to severe conditions faced by travelers in many countries. It emphasizes gratitude for personal shelter and resources.
Postal rules now allow Army overseas parcels up to 11 pounds but navy shipments remain capped at five pounds. Navy mail to sea personnel unaffected. Army can mail 11 pounds with limits 42 inches length and 72 inches combined length and girth. Postmaster W D DeGrassi notes rejections due to the navy limit.
Frank Hoyt county tax assessor and collector sought a retriever from his Cocker Spaniel by firing a .22 rifle near town. The dog followed the first shot then vanished, later surfacing under a nearby henhouse and nearly ruining Hoyt’s clothes trying to pull it out.
Charles M. Rogers, Amarillo school superintendent, completed his term as president of the Texas State Teachers Association at a Dallas weekend meeting. Delegates attended. he received a Hamilton wrist watch. The group reported record membership and high unity with many schools counties and colleges maintaining 100 percent participation.
A report from four standing committees on financing education teacher welfare organizational affairs and improving educational service framed the conference agenda. Miss Elizabeth Koch a San Antonio classroom teacher was elected president to succeed Mr Rogers.
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