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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1942
Page
14
David S. Fleet of Vultee Aircraft Corp says no current plan for a plant in Downey California or Amarillo. The News-Globe received a letter denying any assembly plant project and noting the firm's current operations and egg-laying period detail.
The renovated Municipal Auditorium now houses Basketball Volleyball Badminton Boxing and Tumbling under Harold Nichols U S O director. A hardwood floor covers the stage with a 65 by 45 foot basketball court. Ping pong table games and YMCA boxing gear are included. Seating for 1700 marks the Panhandle’s largest sports arena.
The U S Army recounted an air battle during the Lille raid on Oct 9 in which a B 17 Fortress flown by Capt James J Griffith Jr of High Point NC absorbed heavy AA fire. Sgt O R Billings of Hereford Texas and Tail Gunner Sgt Carl A Drake were wounded but the aircraft landed safely at home base.
Fourteen Marine recruits five navy enlistees and one army volunteer were shipped for final enlistment yesterday. Seven navy recruits left Thursday. Marines bound for the Panhandle Platoon in Oklahoma City include Guymon G. Davis Dalhart R. C. Parker Mobeetie Brooks A. Altman Amarillo Jack G. Ramsey Miami James E. Hunt Skellytown Jack G. Jones Texhoma Okla Guymon Bachanan Goodwell Okla E. E. Smith Gould Okla Floyd Allen Pampa Donald I. MacClure Baltimore Md Paul Arson Amarillo. Navy enlistees include Arthur Lee McClintock Amarillo Willis McCoy Hardesty Okla Leo Clifford Graham Miami Tommy Floyd Snell Dumas Stanley Travis Beck Dumas Bert Lovelace Castleberry Jr Skellytown Sam Allen Houston Skellytown Mitchell Ralph McMinn Amarillo William Wesley Barton Jr Amarillo Reuben Carl Conley Dexter N M James Conley Morrison Floydada and Joe C Spratlin Alanreed Morrison Spratlin were naval aviation cadets. The army recruit was Horace C Hefner of Amarillo who applied for enlistment in the air corps.
Mrs. R. A. Mitchell of 109 Florida Street spent two hours locked in a closet when her three year old daughter Shirley Jean locked the door and slipped out a window to visit a neighbor. Mitchell finally freed herself by pushing the key from the lock and found her daughter eating supper next door.
A head on crash ten miles west of Childress, Texas, between a plains motor driven passenger train and the FW and DC freight train killed two crewmen A V Shepard 56 of Childress and Bruce Hendrickson 40 of Lubbock. Over 60 injured including draftees and civilians. Fire destroyed the passenger car and baggage coach as flames fed by oil fueled the blaze.
Gwendolyn Roy Cudd infant daughter of Mr and Mrs R E Cudd of 501 Kentucky Street died yesterday afternoon in a local hospital. Survivors include parents and grandparents N M Cudd Perryton F W Eakens Wewoka Okla. Body sent to Perryton by Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home for burial in Perryton Cemetery.
Miss Judy Clarice Anderson, week-old daughter of 1st Lieut. Mrs. Jack P. Anderson, will meet her father for the first time when he arrives here November 29. Lieut. Anderson has been in Hartford Connecticut attending Pratt Whitney Aircraft School for two months. Mrs. Anderson stayed with her mother Dewey Ashcroft. The family plans a visit with Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Anderson and Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Ashcroft until December 3, after which he will return with his wife and baby to Victorville California.
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