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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1944
Page
10
High ranking Army and Navy officers and executives from Amaryl(l)o based companies gathered at the Pantex Ordnance Plant as the site received the Army Navy E for wartime production efficiency. This marks the second such honor for Amarillo plants this year after the U S Helium Plant won the emblem last year.
Lt. Comdr. Ben T. Blackwell is in Amarillo en route to the Pacific Coast with his wife Dr. Nan L. Gilkerson. He has been in South Carolina at an induction center for two months and expects to continue to the West Coast. He notes he examined more than 150000 volunteers and inductees since commissioning. The piece also mentions his prior postings and a note on diamonds.
Sam Morris sells his stake in the 8. M. Drug Store at 800 North Fillmore to Herman Smith, son of Ernest Smith. Ernest and Sam had partnered since the store’s founding. Herman and his son will run the business. Morris, a 1922 University of Oklahoma Pharmacy graduate, plans rest before seeking work. Herman Smith, UT Pharmacy graduate in 1940, is connected to the store’s operation.
Mrs. M. F. Quisenberry of 410 Lamar Street urges that the next War Bond campaign be named The MacArthur War Bond Drive to honor his return to the Philippines. She plans to lead with a $100 bond and credits her illness for the naming idea. Her six nephews serve, two in the Marines in the Pacific.
County clerk Hubert Cole reports 304 absentee ballots sent and returned. He urges voters planning to be away on election day to file ballots early to ease counting and processing.
In Texas election day 1944 officers face complex duties under federal war ballots. Secretary of State Sidney Latham issued fourteen instructions covering oath privacy and counting rules for absentee service ballots to preserve secrecy and align with federal and state law.
Officials reported at a Dallas conference held September 12 to 13 that erroneous opening of a soldier ballot by a military censor will not invalidate the ballot. The discussion centered on safeguarding ballot integrity and clarifying procedural issues for military voters.
Annual Amarillo Fire Department pall set for Friday night November 3 with three dances at Nat May fair and Rainbow. Proceeds benefit the firemen pension fund. Committee in charge includes Capt. H. H. Phariss Capt. R. B. Manning and Capt. Roy Hill.
Mrs Dora Waldrop a clerk in the post office money order dept spends two weeks in San Francisco visiting her husband who serves in the Navy. Soon after arrival she toured the San Francisco post office, per a letter from the local post master to W D DeGrassi head of the Amarillo postal dept.
Marshal Tito announced partisan forces seized the Dalmatian port of Dubrovnik and were besieging Zagreb. Artillery shelled Zagr e b as the Quisling government faced pressure. The capture would provide an Allied port and rail link on the Dalmatian coast for supplies to Tito's forces. Dubrovnik connects by rail to Sarajevo and Brod on the Munich Belgrade line.
Howard Paul of the American National Bank is in Dallas on a business trip with his wife Mrs Paul accompanying him as the Globe News advert mentions results in want ads.
Clayton Sylvester Closson died in a local hospital at 9 this morning after a long illness. An electrician by trade, he was 44 and a member of Buchanan Street Methodist Church. The family home was 2001 North Mirror Street. Survived by wife Hulda, two brothers Roy D. and Raymond W. Closson of Vandergrift, Pa., and father David A. Closson of [location].
Greenburg Pennsylvania residents learn funeral plans from Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home. The note also mentions the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea as homeland to descendants of Russians and Aleuts.
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