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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 25, 1945
Page
2
The Amarillo area reports an early frost but normal temperatures returning. Residents debate winter severity, traffic safety, and civic growth as Lubbock’s five million plan inspires local ambition. A traffic campaign figure George Ray is booked, and discussion hints at legal action against the government.
The speaker blasts the move from Pullmans to air travel as a national economic outrage. Rail unions are urged to take action to stop traffic loss, warning workers will be laid off as planes take customers away. The call targets railroad bosses and the Big Brotherhood Union to get tough.
Three men are held in Houston and one in Fort Worth connected with a Beaumont highway service station robbery. Named in the complaints are C. B. Reynolds of Houston Jack Conway alias Fred Mullins Jr of Fort Worth T A Davis of Fort Worth and Richard Leon Terry alias Buck Terry of Fort Worth. Terry was arrested in Fort Worth. Mullins faced theft charges in an interstate shipment case dated October 9. The $25 000 property belonged to Mr and Mrs Herbert Axtell of Fort Worth.
More than a hundred survivors of the sinking original cruiser Houston boarded the successor vessel in Galveston to steam toward Houston. Fresh from Japanese camps, 360 survived the 1942 Java torpedoing. the new cruiser logged 78 000 miles and 9 488 rounds, with two torpedo hits. Mayor Otis Massey urged sailors with a joke about police, as Navy Day task force vessels arrive.
Former actor Lew Ayres expressed a wish to return to Hollywood to help serve humanity through movies. The 36 year old sergeant, who spent 22 months in non combat duty in the Pacific, reaffirmed pacifist beliefs and suggested a year of military service for youths. Ayres served as assistant to a chaplain with portable hospitals in Leyte and Luzon landings.
Four Amarillo city officials A. P. Hancock city manager Joe A. Jenkins mayor Perry Burks city tax officer and O. H. Hargett commissioner will go to Austin November 5 to 7 for the League of Texas Municipalities meeting Hancock is former Texas City Managers Association president and W Morgan Works Longview city manager leads the association E E McAdams is executive director and league secretary of the city managers section.
A Finnish land study notes that more than half of Finland’s 50 million forest acres are owned by the state. The finding underscores public ownership and potential policy implications for forestry management and conservation.
Market summaries show Dow Jones mixed at midday with gains in 30 industrials and 35.52 points up in rail and other averages. Kansas City livestock report notes slow slaughter, bulls steady, cattle and veal ranges, hogs steady, and lambs selling to shippers at 14.25 with packers at 14.00.
Chicago market notes hogs at 13 000 head steady to higher with 140 lb hogs at 14.85. Cattle and calves steady to mixed. top steer price 18.00 on five loads. heifers and cows steady, young calves firmer. Sheep active with lambs steady to down, yearlings and small lots shown. financial fund liquidating at 2.35 to 2.57.
Ida M. Harned and others transfer to Charles P. Stephenson lot 4 block 10 Lakeview and numerous other deeds list transfers of lots and tracts in Old Town, Country Club Adda, River Road Gardens, Mirror Adda, Madden Adda, and S J Heights with buyers including Catherine Miller, Nina Mills, Fred T. Lamm, Noel B. Cummins, Ima Hays, and Charles Sanchez among various parcels and titles recorded.
Effective November 1 every day from 9:00 A.M. to 2:00 P.M. will be by appointment only. Price is 25 dollars per 1000 board feet with a limit of 2000 bd ft per net customer per purchase. Call 26771 Extension 181 for details. In case of rain no sale.
Amarillo and Potter County set a $61 782 quota for the National War Fund drive closing November 11. General chair man Clayton Heare renews the appeal and Leo Wilmeth says funds aid USO club rooms traveling shows and comforts for armed services overseas. Donations may be mailed to National War Fund Amarillo. Campaign headquarters are at the Downtown USO Sixth and Taylor.
Fred Wells director of the United States Employment Service for the Amarillo area will attend the seventh annual Texas personnel conference at the University of Texas in Austin tomorrow and Saturday.
Lot transfers include Roberts Place and Fairview Townsite parcels among Norrid Sears and McKinney. District Court cases show divorces for White, Black, Sessums, Winberg, and Gamblin. Marriage licenses granted to Brown and Martin, Bulson and Bibb.
Elbert Thompson accused of murder in the Lem Savage case will face trial November 12 in Childress after a venue change from Canyon. He is held at Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary on a 99 year sentence for kidnapping Betty Jim Shelton. federal officers will transport him.
Mrs. I. A. Wood 66 longtime Canadian resident died in Canadian this morning after an extended illness. She was mother of Ralph Wood of Wood-Webb Lumber Co and sister of Mrs. Carl Swires of Amarillo. Survived by husband I. A. Wood marshal in Canadian two more daughters Mrs. J. E. Baucum Taft and Mrs. Boyd Williams Canadian another sister Mrs. Emma Matticks Canadian and brother Harve Hampton Canadian Funeral services set for tomorrow at 3 PM in Canadian.
Pennsylvania Democrats press Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz to enter 1946 gubernatorial race after a $100-a-plate dinner with party leaders in Philadelphia. Spaatz commanded U S Army Air Forces in Europe and the Pacific.
Veteran of the Pacific Theater Ensign Jack Triplett returns to the United States after duty in Palau Leyte Lingayen Gulf and Okinawa. A 1939 Amarillo High School graduate, he later attended Amarillo College USC and Columbia University before receiving his commission on April 13 1944 and marrying Ruth Quinn of Los Angeles the same day. They have a seven month old son J W III.
A naval officer, new to the area, visits his father J. W. Triplett in Amarillo at 1208 Wolflin. Both father and son are former Globe-News employees. the elder spent 16 years in circulation and the son began delivering routes at age 11.
Washington Oct 25 The House refused to concur in Senate amendments to the first peacetime tax-cutting bill easing wartime burdens by about five and a half billion dollars. The measure now goes to a joint committee for action.
A Senate House committee will iron out differences on tax reform as both chambers agree the 12,000,000 low income earners will be removed from the income tax rolls in 1946.
Executive board members of the American Legion Auxiliary will hold a regular monthly session at 8 o clock tonight in the home of Mrs. Henry Cusick located at 2027 Ong.
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