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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1947
Page
2
Weather update notes weekend rain across the Plains with Dumas and Panhandle areas hit while Amarillo stayed dry. Forecasts suggest a break in the dry cycle within days and a definite chance of rain returning to the region.
Frank Kimbrough’s Buffs delivered a high energy, heads up offense that stunned spectators in Canyon, outmatching a strong School of Mines squad. Amarillo editorials urge civic effort, YMCA plans, and anti delinquency, highlighting local youth programs and moral duty amid national threats.
The passage recalls hand-painted guest spittoons as decor only, not for use. Some masters of the house angrily spit in the guest spittoon during misunderstandings, seen as a grave insult and capable of triggering domestic chaos and upheaval.
James G. Reese, Amarillo musician and former service station employee, is held in Potter County jail on forgery, bond forfeiture and theft by bailee charges. Officials list warrants in several states and cite the forged Tiny Fogle signature. He was arrested at Pantex Village and remanded on $1,000 bond.
Clovis New Mexico man R L Call 56 hospitalized at St Anthony s after a truck car crash last night at 745 at the North East Eighth and Mirror intersection. Call was a passenger in a 1941 Buick coupe driven by Gerald Dennis 26. Dennis stopped for a light when a truck driven by Elliot collided with the Buick. Both cars were heading east.
Darlene Whorton or her husband Fred Whorton face trial in 47th District Court on forged check charges. Darlene allegedly passed a forged Miller Implement Company check to Vineyard and Allen Jewelry in Mount Vernon Ohio. Fred Whorton is charged with passing a forged Miller Implement check to Kelly's Boot Shop and with burglary in Vega for a July 1 Miller Implement burglary.
Carl Hutton a department store clerk living at 2213 B Buchanan was found seriously wounded in his bathroom around 8 15 last night. He remains in a coma at Northwest Texas Hospital with a severe neck slash and a superficial chest wound.
Potter County commissioners authorize a salary increase for John Peterson, assistant county attorney, raising his monthly pay from 200 to 218 75 dollars. The action confirms the firm per month wage adjustment in the county payroll.
Cattle sales 37,000 head with calves 6,100. supplies light and prices mostly steady after last week. Hogs 3,100 with demand steady to down 25 cents. top $29.25. Sheep 6,000 slow. early bids lower for slaughter classes.
Hogs 7 500 head sold slowly with prices up to 25 cents higher. top at 30.00 for 220-250 lb loads. Cattle 13 000 head with calves 1 000. slaughter steers and heifers weak to 25 cents lower. bulls and feeders steady. Sheep 3 500 head with no early sales. slaughter lamb bids 21.00 to 22.65 with some shipping demand noted.
A city hunger relief effort gains momentum as Mayor Hagg plans to appoint a zens food committee after receiving a telegram from Charles Luckman, chairman of the President's food committee. A formal announcement is expected by late afternoon.
Lt George Kouglas of Stephenville Texas and Lt Charles B Jones of New Bedford Mississippi flew a perilous 3 hour mission into the hurricane eye for the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. They reported entering brilliant sun and blue sky before battling out amid 140 mph winds and structural damage near Tampa.
Funeral services for George Edward Ryan a 52 year old paint contractor of Amarillo were set for 4 o clock this afternoon at Boxwell Brothers Chapel. Interment will follow at Llano Cemetery with Rev H A Somerville officiating. He was killed in a late Sunday traffic crash on the Borger highway 40 miles east of Dumas. Surviving relatives include his mother Mrs Daisy Ryan of Amarillo a brother Emmett Ryan of Morse and a sister Mrs Easter Willingham of Boxley Ark Debris injuries were reported for Dewey Eiklon Gray Okla and Harvey Crockroft Fort Worth two in the sedan one in the truck. Eiklon suffered fractures of both legs and is at St Anthony's Hospital Crockroft had cuts and bruises.
Funeral services for Jesse J. Gear 58 will be at 4 pm Tuesday in Griggs Chapel. He died Sunday night at Northwest Texas Hospital after a heart attack on September 27. He lived at 501 Cleveland and came to the area in 1928 from Caddo Oklahoma. He worked as a car man for the Santa Fe. Surviving: widow, three sons, a daughter Mrs B F Mansfield of 202 Fountain Drive, and a grandson Danny Ray Gear. sons Joe Bailey Gear Amarillo Charles Ray Gear Clovis NM and Ered Ivan Gear in the United States Navy.
Two American fliers completed a 540 mile leg landing at Itazuke air field near Fukuoka after departing Shanghai. George Truman of Los Angeles and Clifford V. Evans of Washington DC piloted the light planes. They planned to depart tomorrow for Haneda near Tokyo, completing a world circumnavigation started August 10 from Teterboro NJ.
Claude J. Bradley a 60 year old cement salesman died at his Brooklyn home eight years after he hosted a farewell party for 200 friends when doctors gave him two months to live. He ran his business from a wheelchair with a telephone by his side facing cancer of the spine.
Dory Detton took some of his wrestlers to the Veterans Hospital Saturday night and staged a couple of bouts for the patients. Mrs. Rhea Smith, American Legion auxiliary department hospital chairman, assisted by Mrs. L. A. Pitt, made the arrangements and served the refreshments to the 65 patients attending and the others who could not attend.
Frank W. Yarde 59 a Marion Kentucky building contractor died at 11 15 last night in an Amarillo hospital en route home from Albuquerque where he had been ill His widow two sons and three daughters survive The body will be sent to Marion by NS Griggs and Sons
Amarillo Association of Childhood Education stages Alice in Wonderland tomorrow afternoon. The show is the first of three plays this school year with Tree Major Children’s Theatre of New York presenting the January follow up. Tickets are 45 cents for children and 55 cents for adults. season tickets for all three plays cost $1.25 for children. Two showings are scheduled, at 1 o clock and 3 30.
In Tokyo GHQ and the 11th Airborne Division led the American Football League of Japan after weekend wins. GHQ edged the Eighth Army 7-6 after a scoreless first half, while Kyoto saw the 11th Airborne beat the First Corps 27-7. Kobe saw the 25th Division defeat Kobe Base 15-0. Kokura’s 25th Division beat Fleet Activities 7-0 with a decisive third quarter drive.
Patients at the Amarillo Veterans Hospital will attend a tomorrow night program sponsored by the Military Order of Cooties Palo Duro Pup Tent No 10. Commander Lee Throneberry said Bill Hutchinson and his Melody Boys will perform. The 1845 national debt stood near 16 million dollars.
After influenza ends, a persistent cough may become chronic bronchitis if ignored. Creomulsion claims to reach the trouble, loosen phlegm, and heal inflamed bronchial membranes. If unsatisfied, request a refund from the druggist with Creomulsion.
Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Dean Wheatley 81 a Panhandle pioneer were held at 4 o'clock in Griggs Chapel with Dr E B Fincher officiating. She died Sunday morning at 1615 Polk where she had lived 40 years survived by three sons Terry A and Robert R of Amarillo and Jack of El Paso and a brother C T Major Dean of Amarillo pallbearers named W A Askew Mel Armstrong Clyde Love George Bumgardner Oscar G Holman and George Hayden.
Loreta Carolyn Gray daughter of Mrs Virginia Gray 1416 Van Buren has been named on the B average list at Texas State College for Women at Denton based on grades from last semester About 12 percent of the enrollment or 224 girls are on the list Having a B average grants exemption from most attendance regulations except labs exams student teaching and assemblies.
Six people died and forty were injured when a Prague to Tabor passenger train collided with a runaway freight train in the Senohraby yards last night amid a fatal collision report from Czechoslovakia dated October 13.
Maxine Miller, daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred Miller of 203 Arch Terrace, has returned from a short tour of the British Isles. News-Globe Want Ads Get Results.
Capt. Tim Healy of Dallas dies at 56 from a heart attack in St Marys Church Fort Worth while preparing to lecture for the Holy Name Society. Native of Sydney, Healy served with Australian Anzacs in World War I and the British secret service before moving to the United States in 1920 to enter the oil business. He and wife Maggie Dean Waeth presented At Home With the Healys on WFAA and married in Wichita Falls in 1921.
Private Lester McCoy, stationed in Tokyo, phoned his mother in Amarillo revealing a six minute chat. A 1946 Amarillo High School graduate, he has been in the Army about a year and hopes for an early discharge next year.
All adult volunteers of the 6tr Scout Council in south and central districts are invited to a district meeting at 7 30 tonight at Cathedral Hall 1110 Washington. Mrs H H Kelly south district chairman will preside. The north and east districts meet at Horace Mann School at 2 o clock Wednesday afternoon with Mrs Dorsey Smith north district chairman in charge.
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