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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1947
Page
3
Texas Liquor Control Board agents filed 457 cases statewide in September with 420 convictions and 16 jail terms. Fines and costs totaled 57 990 30 dollars. dry areas led with 41 205 25 dollars and 321 cases. Wet areas filed 145 cases with 124 convictions and 16 785 05 dollars in fines.
Roy E. Baker a 33 year old Sherman Tex lawyer won backing from Kansas Young Democrats for president of the national organization. Baker toured 20 states ahead of the November Cleveland convention and had endorsements from 17 western states. He spoke before the Kansas state convention in Wichita.
Frances Krauss of Baltimore and Mildred Hartig of Evansville died in a fall from ice on Truchas Peak after a mountain climb. The two Los Alamos project secretaries were found in a ravine. coroner ruled accidental death from injuries and freezing exposure. Guide Sam Martin, who led the hiking party, described the fatal slip and rescue efforts. Relatives prepared to claim the bodies as Army and state police searched the area.
A British geographer Edwin J. Dingle credits a Tibetan mystic with healing, wealth, and fame after twenty one years in the Far East. He offers a free 9 000 word treatise from The Institute of Mental Physics in Los Angeles for sincere readers, limited copies available.
Tar rant County's traffic death toll rose to 55 as Mrs. Cleo A. Snearly of Henrietta died in a Fort Worth hospital a half hour after a two car crash near Grapevine last night.
In 1939 about 30 percent of the lead consumed in the United States went into storage batteries, reflecting the growing role of battery production in the metal’s usage.
Four men pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated and were fined a total of 600 dollars in county court. Robert K. Dennis and Glenn Benyman Tedder each paid 250 dollars. Jim Stone and John E. Norris each paid 50 dollars. Tedder, the driver in a Saturday night collision near the Highways 60 and 66 junction east of Amarillo, collided with Wayne Bailey.
G H Saunders son of Guy C Saunders of 2200 Hayden was elected one of five freshmen cheerleaders at the Texas A M College Annex College Station from 21 candidates. He will lead the freshman class at yell practices while majoring in civil engineering.
Aerial surveys are under way to extend the 161 mile four lane toll road from Middlesex near Harrisburg to Philadelphia. After east surveys finish engineers will draft plans to extend from Irwin toward the Pittsburgh area. Gov Duff says construction likely to start next year.
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