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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1945
Page
2
Nutting weather aside, Amarillo readers urge the police chief to crack down on traffic violators after a child was killed. The column argues for harsher penalties, warns of recurrent deadly crashes, and calls for constructive growth rather than boom speculation.
A reader laments Amarillo traffic habits and calls for stricter enforcement and a mid street white line to curb speeding. Also: a subscriber reports lost black and aqua blue ladies belts size 24 on Taylor Street downtown and requests a call at 20864. A private personal note to Mrs. R. A. Fullwood is included and not for public reading.
A humorous note from Lt. Stanley Mauldin and readers in North Hereford recounts gift shorts from the Demonstration Club. The writer declines wearing them, citing fires and modesty, praising the givers while joking about their beauty and a daughter secretly wearing them.
Cigars imported after October 22 will be exempt from price control as Washington acts to lift the existing restriction.
Three sailors en route to Clinton Oklahoma naval base escaped serious harm when their Plymouth coach rolled six times off the Panhandle Highway 16 miles east of Amarillo. Driver Daniel Dennison suffered facial lacerations, Raymond Sherwood had a fractured collar bone, Alfred Walker was bruised with X rays planned. The car ended in a wheat field near the Lee elevator after leaving the highway at about 4 a.m.
The Potter County Red Cross reports Amarillo mail from 4,500,000 prisoner of war packages handed to the Army after Germany capitulated. They will aid released prisoners awaiting repatriation and other Germans enslaved by the Germans. H W Dunning notes the load backs up about nine million undelivered.
Postage stamps honoring U S Army achievements in World War II are available at the Amarillo Post Office. The three cent stamps show a crowd of GIs marching under the Arc de Triomphe with six bombers overhead and are printed in khaki color.
Col Riis Lassen, a Denmark underground leader during the Nazi occupation, was shot to death last night on the brightly lighted main Street of Aarhus. The assassin escaped. The shooting was believed to be instigated by the Kjop men, a Danish German terrorist group.
A forecast predicts southwesterly winds will bring fair and warmer weather for Amarillo today. The outlook calls for continued fair conditions tomorrow with a potential cooldown on Friday.
More than $10,000 in city taxes arrived in the mail today at the city tax department. This marks the largest mail collection since payments became due at the start of the month. Taxpayers have paid off more than $70,000 in city taxes to date.
Audit by AUDIT COUNTY BOOKS reviews the county tax assessor and collector records. The office of George H. Sheppard state comptroller is cited with names J K Johnson and L L Shoffitt involved in the matter.
Miss Jewell Davidson former county gas assessor and collector and her sister Miss Frances Davidson are visiting Abilene friends for a few days and plan to make their home there.
Mrs. R. S. Brust of Evansville Indiana, formerly living here, is visiting this week with Miss Bette Scott at 1502 Lipscomb.
Son of Mrs. R. L. Patton at 909 Madison, former First Sgt. Harold W. Patton, discharged Oct. 8 at Chanute Field, Ill, becomes employee of Zale Jewelry in Oklahoma City. He served 3 years 9 months in the Army Air Forces ordnance, including 2 years in the Southwest Pacific, and will live in Oklahoma City after visiting family here Friday through Monday.
City commissioners approved first reading of a Sunday liquor sales ban with a one month lead time before it becomes effective. A second reading passed zoning for allowed intoxicants areas while a taxicab permit pause was also set pending a full survey. Street light installations and a sewer tile purchase were also approved with a rezoning hearing slated for November 2.
Advertisement notes digestive discomfort from poor digestion and headaches. Claims Nature produces bile to aid digestion and promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills as a fast remedy. Encourages purchase at drugstores for 25 cents.
W C Pomerenk building superintendent of the Santa Fe Building in Amarillo died this morning about seven o clock in Topeka Kansas. The body will arrive in Amarillo shortly after noon tomorrow and Mrs Pomerenk will accompany it by train. Funeral services are set for Friday morning at 10 30 in Boxwell Brothers Chapel. He was a Mason and a Shriner and the family home in Amarillo is 424 West Fourteenth.
The community chest solicitation final financial report, scheduled for today, was delayed. Collection leaders met at noon at the Amarth Hotel to begin reporting, but complete figures were not turned in. A new date for the final report has not been set.
Dr Thomsen and Rev Clarence Wiley spoke at the Texas Synod session in Houston. Dr Thomsen, former pastor of Amario church, retires after 28 years, and R Nlomsen of Trinity University chairs the board. A new moderator will be named at tonight's opening session.
Charles Seiwell, a Navy veteran who served 16 months, returns to his former role as proprietor of Seiwell Dry Store at 500 North Fillmore. He was discharged in Corpus Christi on Oct 4. His wife ran the store during his service, and the Seiwells reside at 2811 North East Seventh.
City manager A P Han cock announces ten trash containers placed around Amarillo as an experiment to reduce street litter and curb odor. Checkers report little trash in cans and ten more units are on order for potential wider deployment.
Day old son of Mr and Mrs Page Stanley Lorger died yesterday in a local hospital. He is survived by his parents and a sister Deane three. Funeral services will be held at 4 pm tomorrow at Boxwell Brothers Chapel with Rev James G Glenn officiating. Burial will follow in Llano Cemetery.
Bill Grant arrives in New York after 29 months with the Fifth Army in Africa and Italy. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W F Grant of 904 Pierce. Grant served 32 months in the Army and was previously employed by S H Kress and Co. in Amarillo and San Antonio. He is a graduate of Amarillo High School and Amarillo College.
Grant Sharman reported to a Kentucky army station after a 45 day furlough with his parents Mr and Mrs W P Sharman of Dumas Texas. He arrived in this country from Germany following service with the Engineers.
The railroad commission plans a hearing to decide on expanding the Panhandle sour gas allowable. Ray Johnson of Shamrock Oil and Gas urged a field wide increase as wartime permits expire but carbon black demand persists.
F C Bremer died this morning from a heart attack at Northwest Texas Hospital after being ill for months. He lived in Amarillo since 1923, coming from Big Spring. Survivors include widow Funice Bremer son Lt Neville H Navy brother H J Quanah sister Mrs Minnie Havercamp Houston. Funeral arrangements are pending with N and Griggs and Sons.
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