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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1947
Page
5
Santa Fe System carloadings for week ending Saturday reached 31 696, up from 28 610 in the same week of 1946. Cars received from connections totaled 12 658 versus 13 177 a year earlier. Total cars moved were 44 354, compared with 41 787 in 1946. The system handled 43 293 cars in the preceding week of this year.
Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, a duo piano team, bring their program with the Amarillo Philharmonic Orchestra on November 4. The pair began in Porto Rico in 1936 and rose after a San Juan recital and radio work. The concert includes Bach’s Concerto in F Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra. Tickets go on sale November 3–4 at Southwestern Public Service Company.
Four Panhandle men are listed among recent graduates at the Naval Training Center in San Diego California. All hold seaman second class ratings. Charles Elton Wassum of Amarillo area Neil Edward Kilchriste and Lyle R. Smith and Jesse J. Brodie are named with home addresses. Brodie trained in fire control ordnance and serves under Western Sea Frontier command in San Francisco. Smith is a metalsmith assigned to the Naval Ordnance Test Station in Inv yoken California.
Houston resident David C. Cours was appointed manager of the State Prison Farm at Darrington succeeding John Easton. Cours, a former Houston public school instructor, assumed the post after being named by Maj. D. W Stakes, general manager of the State Prison System, and serves as the new head of the farm.
Calvert Distillers Corp announces a switch to Calvert Reserve Blended Whiskey at 86.8 proof 65 percent grain neutral spirits. Product listed with brand and address 6508 Windsor Mill Road Baltimore Maryland.
The Esquire Theater hosts a gala grand opening at 1808 Washington with the first show at 7:30 featuring Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now starring June Haver and Mark Stevens. Mayor Lawrence Hagg and the Amarillo College Band attend alongside the Interstate Theaters city manager and Stina Cain as organization president.
The Commerce Department reports the newsprint supply remains tight with little relief seen for 1948. About 100000 tons from Canadian and Newfoundland mills and 30000 to 35000 tons from Australian and New Zealand sources could reach the United States this year and next, but relief is unlikely.
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