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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1947
Page
16
Mrs. Will Herring and others travel, visit, and host in Salt Lake City Boise City and Dallas. Birth announcements include several Northwest Texas Hospital births with October 19 dates. Family visits, travels, and guests frequent the community scenes from Austin to Bear Canyon.
Naval base says a tug found the body of a woman, the 12th recovered, with only two survivors from the Friday Air Lines crash carrying 43 aboard. Nearby British boat Success recently hauled a massive two and a half ton shark. Also listed are local deeds, court actions, and marriage licenses.
Local social column lists visitors and moves in and out of households. Mr and Mrs Marshall Duggins and Pearl Hughes of Coleman stop by with Mr and Mrs Stanley Parsons and Byron. Mrs J C Frazier, 704 Madison, has returned home after ten weeks at St Anthonys Hospital. Hospital notices list patients and medical personnel with addresses in various towns.
Linwood Hall Dunn North Carolina George Godsey Mississippi John Donnelly Tennessee recall returning from war era service with three teens who volunteered in Memphis in 1945. They trained at Great Lakes aboard USS Fall River bound for Korea stationed seven miles from the atomic test site during Operations Crossroads. The trio describe the Able and Baker explosions and the eerie sounds they heard aboard ship.
John, George, and Linwood recount experiences near the Baker test and sinking of the Prince Eugene, including a waterborne blast, floating ships, and a six month sinking time. They describe health checks, radiation visibility on the cruiser, and a return to Japan where democracy grows amid widespread black market activity surrounding Hirohito's palace.
A group of 30 Albuquerque businessmen will stop in Amarillo for lunch at the Amarillo Hotel on Thursday before joining the Highway 66 Association meeting in Oklahoma City next Friday. Texas Highway 66 Association vice-president Al Reville cites the Albuquerque visit as a model for others to bolster Highway 66. Rex B Baxter of the Amarillo Chamber will attend the Oklahoma City session.
Austin citizens offered money clothing and groceries to the parents of Curtis Taylor as doctors tentatively diagnose his illness as brain hemorrhage after convulsions on October 8. The three year old was unconscious for 14 days but showed slight improvement. Britain plans 52 ships and four whaling factories to the Antarctic for the next whaling season.
The State Department refused to publish Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer’s Korea and China report saying disclosure now would be harmful to the nations involved. The decision followed a rejection of Russia’s proposal for simultaneous withdrawal of occupation troops from Korea. Wedemeyer’s inquiry was at President Truman’s request.
London papers report violinist Yehudi Menuhin aged 31 wed actress and ballerina Diana Gould aged 34 in London yesterday morning. Menuhin had divorced his first wife Nola Nichols last month in Carson City Nevada. custody of their two sons awarded to Nichols, who married Anthony A. Williams of New York last week.
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