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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1947
Page
2
The column recalls last week’s rainless forecast yet foggy Panhandle mornings. It critiques fighters in harsh conditions, jokes about cuspidors, and mocks oil dreams in Miami. It warns Amarillo gamblers facing raiding authorities and notes crooks outnumbering real gamblers.
Cattle receipts 22 500 calves 5 000 with slow slaughter steers and varied prices. Heifers cows largely steady bulls active. Slaughter calves slow with most stockers and feeders 60 65 percent of receipts. Hogs 3 500 largely packer market with prices 1.00 lower. top 26.60. Sheep 7 200 slow with early bids lower while natives above 23.00.
The text contrasts three types of players in gambling and fraud. It highlights greedy individuals chasing luck, frequent suckers who are exploited, and promoters who never give suckers a fair break. It notes most hijacking comes from coerced signatures, not weapon or game tricks.
Girl Scouts of Troop 25 from Patten School gave their first public program at a benefit tea hosted by the Phyllis H. Wheatley Club. More than 50 guests attended as the troop demonstrated activities across 10 Girl Scout program fields.
Final plans for a new Negro school go to the Amarillo school board tonight at 7:30 PM at Amarillo High School. George Waddill says adjusted plans set contract price at 329000 with Charlie Lambie as low bidder about two weeks ago. The bid originally would have cost 344000 and plan changes credit the district 5000. Other business in the called meeting will be routine.
Petitions to extend the city bus line will be presented at the regular meeting tomorrow night. Transit director Lefty Fowler said over 100 Industrial City residents request an extension of the South Grand and West Thirteenth routes. The current bus runs Third to Grand, to Tenth, then to town. The proposal asks a spur along Grand from Third to Rock Island tracks and back. City Manager N V Moss noted other routine business on the agenda.
Amarillo observed Navy Day with minimal fanfare as radio reminders were the only notices. Earlier observances included visits by Adm Ralph J. Riggs and ceremonies in Fort Worth and Houston highlighting Naval Reserve programs and V-5 V-12 ties to local education.
Firemen saved the life of 70 year old Mrs. Cora Warren of 4215 West Tenth this morning. The patient had been ill for about three weeks and slipped into a critical state. firefighters using an inhalator aided her until after 10 o clock. She was taken to St. Anthony's Hospital and placed under an oxygen tent after the emergency. Mrs. Warren is the mother of Mrs. Lawrence E. Van Doran of the same address.
Four Amarillo bars face injunction suits charging gambling. Citations were served Saturday. defendants have about three weeks to file answers, with hearings set after defendants’ attorneys respond in 47th District Court. Names include The Crown Recreation Club Walter Willmering The Mint Bar C P Lampkin Ben Anderson Martin Angel The Rex Bar Jack Schaefer The Sportsman Bar A B Styles J L Cook.
Wayne O. Fleming of 4246 West Fourteenth has been promoted to sergeant in the police department. He will serve as radio and desk sergeant on the second shift from 4 p.m. to midnight after leading a promotional exam in October and receiving a permanent promotion today.
Clay Thornton at Amarillo Veterans Hospital since Oct. 5 remains in serious condition. Attendants say his status has not improved today, though it had shown improvement in recent days before today.
Lawton Lawson clashes with the committee over statements in defense as filmmakers accuse the panel of censorship while attorney Kenny calls the probe unconstitutional. A star-studded attendance includes Bacall, Bogart, Kelly and Kaye as hearings enter week two. Australia raises old age pensions to seven dollars and fifty cents weekly.
Erbert O. Palmer, 37, formerly with M and L Transfer and Storage, was arrested and charged in federal court with embezzlement. He posted a $500 bond and was released after about noon. The case involves $109.06 from an interstate shipment of furniture from Tulsa to Fort Worth on July 7. Palmer was an employee at the time.
Press dispatches report about some 2,000 guerrillas in scattered clashes with government forces in the Pindus Mountain region of western Macedonia during October.
Hearing of jury cases in Federal District Court opened with Judge T. Whitfield Davidson on the bench. Judge Dooley has disqualified himself from presiding. Several cases from Dooley's former firm are set for the week, including Kelly versus Shamrock Oil and Gas Company concerning real estate title.
District Attorney Lloyd King and County Attorney Roy Snodgrass filed an injunction to bar Pete and Marie Davis and Francisco Guerra from possessing liquor. The suit cites multiple recent liquor convictions tied to the three, listing their address as 1701 Arthur. The Magnolia reference appears unrelated as a botany note about Pierre Magnol.
Report says Poland's exiled leader Mikolajczyk fled abroad with British assurances of sanctuary. Spokespersons in London claim he is out of Poland safely while his wife in Britain awaits news and his son studies at Cambridge University. Officials describe his influence as nuisance value and hint at a return trajectory.
Thousands sufferers of rheumatism sciatica lumbago neuritis cheer NORITO discovery. The fast acting formula relieves exhausting muscular pains and promises refund if the first three doses fail to relieve. See your druggist today under the ironclad guarantee.
Senator Brewster said sabotage by Communists may explain the Utah United Airlines crash that killed 52. Col. Roscoe Turner and Carl Dolan were named to probe the incident as fire started in the baggage compartment amid the broader wartime ideological clash.
H. B. McGrady and Dr. W. Good have returned from a five day trip through New Mexico and Colorado to DeBuque Colorado near Grand Junction.
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