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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1947
Page
2
The piece paints a scorching Texas summer with Fort Worth Dallas and Wichita Falls curtailing work by 2 pm amid heat prostrations. It notes 75,000 leaving Dallas, ambulance purchases for heat illness, and a skeptical forecast culture while weaving in editorial asides on July heat and social trends.
The letter column weighs in on longer skirts and a proposed Amarillo expressway. Citizens split over fashion shifts blamed on France and war era leg trends while a local wrote Mr Tack urging balanced coverage of the expressway, railroading outside interests and downtown welfare.
Final rites for Francis Earle Steele 20 Amarillo bank teller who drowned when a boat overturned on Buffalo Lake Monday will be at 11:30 tomorrow in Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel. Chaplain Morris Lively will officiate. Burial follows at Llano Cemetery. Survivors include three brothers J. B. Steele Amarillo Barney Steele Belen NM and Joe Steele Anson and a sister Mrs Nellie Duncan Ballinger. Two other party members Lola Lorene Bevers and Janie Arlene Bevers sisters also drowned.
Funeral services for Mrs Anna May Clayton mother of Mrs Frank G Milligan 4217 West Ninth were set for 5 o'clock this afternoon at Boxwell Brothers Chapel Rev Donald Norton of Southern Presbyterian Church to officiate Pallbearers were J C Lilly L A Pitt Gerald Bowling Stein Cain Carl Jenkins and Elmer Sadler Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery Mrs Clayton 60 died Monday at her daughter's home in Amarillo She came from Marietta Oklahoma to visit and became too ill to return Her husband Silas Clayton a Marietta rancher and farmer survives with son Boyd Y Clayton Washington DC and daughters Mrs Milligan and Mrs Henry J Dixon Ardmore Oklahoma
Funeral services are set for Donald Louis Drobeck 23 of St. Louis, killed in an auto crash east of Amarillo August 5. N S Griggs & Sons to conduct burial. relatives sought, with Horace Griggs noting no relatives located. Mrs Sylvia Simmons of Fort Worth injured. FBI records show a brother in Oklahoma.
Kansas City cattle and calves list steady to firm with grassers up to 25 cents higher and cows steady. Chicago hogs sell steady to higher with weights under 250 pounds up. top steers reach 35.00 and yearlings to 34.50. cows mostly steady and bulls firmer. Financial funds show liquidation at 2.06 with offerings at 187781.
Mrs. Emily Czeikowitz of Amarillo since 1928 died at 2 AM at St. Anthony's Hospital. A longtime Episcopal worker and Order of the Eastern Star member since 1886, she was past matron of Constellation Chapter CBS and charter member of Martha Washington Lodge No. 8. Funeral 7:30 PM tomorrow at Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel with Bishop George E. Quartnerman officiating. Burial in San Francisco. She is survived by her daughter, a son, R. R. Czerkowitz Green Valley California, two grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Miss Cappie Potts the Lone Star School educator between Claude and Groom in 1892 1894 died at her Dublin home. She was married to Oscar Liles of Dublin. Former students, who meet annually on the second Sunday in August, attended last month’s reunion. Funeral services for Mrs Liles were set for tomorrow in Dublin.
Warren Emmet McKinney 58 of Amarillo died at his home after years of illness. He worked in the electrical trade and as a salesman, was a First Baptist Church member, born August 26 1889 in Black Springs Arkansas. Survivors include his mother Nettie McKinney Amarillo brother G A McKinney and two sisters Mrs George E Morris and Mrs A F Keirsey. Funeral arrangements by Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home.
Funeral services for Mark Carter McCord 64 will be held at 10 30 AM Friday in Blackburn Shaw Memorial Chapel. He resided at 218 A Tyler and death occurred recently. The obituary notes his age and residence.
Justice of Peace C W Carder acting coroner reports Mr. McCord died of natural causes likely Sunday night. Survived by two sons Leslie and Ross McCord, daughter Mrs Loie Morehead and six sisters and two brothers. Residence listed with links to Amarillo and Dallas.
Elementary school students may be excused from work to attend the Monday afternoon circus performance with parental arrangements. Superintendent Chas M Rogers says the system has never closed for circus events but no attendance marks will be recorded for these elementary students. Older students generally attend the evening show.
In Dallas more than 50 marriage licenses were issued in one day, a record for a single day. County Clerk Ed Steger questioned whether GI bond cashing spree influenced the surge.
Funeral services for Lola Lorene Bevers and Janie Arlene Bevers are delayed awaiting arrival of brother J C Bevers from Anchorage Alaska. Their bodies lie at Womack Funeral Home in Amarillo. Francis Earl Steele and others survived the Buffalo Lake accident. The sisters had worked at Tex Pantex Ordnance and Coca Cola Bottling, with Janie Arlene at Stubblefield Department Store.
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