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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1948
Page
2
Enrollment at the center will begin next Monday evening with all classes starting Tuesday night September 14 except for the tax course.
A veteran actor, famed for a 1600 film career, appears at the Leon Theater. He recalls early days when aspiring stars sought their break near Hollywood Boulevard and the first Westerns before the Great Train Robbery by D W Griffith.
Rainy conditions spread across Illinois southern Wisconsin Indiana Iowa and southern Michigan as the remains of last week’s Gulf hurricane linger. A belt of thunderstorms from International Falls Minnesota to Kansas brings a cooler air mass moving eastward across the region.
George Hutchings, a piano technician, died Monday morning in St. Anthony's Hospital after a heart ailment. Funeral arrangements are pending at N. St Griggs & Sons Funeral Home. He lived in Port Worth for 20 years after coming from Fort Worth about six months ago. Survived by wife Emma Hutchings, son and daughter, Mrs Francis Dunlap of Kansas City, sister Mrs E B Graham of Amarillo, brother J P Hutchings of Amarillo, and his mother Mrs J B Hutchings of Amarillo.
The 69 year old actor known for 1600 pictures arrived in Amarillo to screen a recent film with Monte Hale. He boasts of playing the sheriff in over half his roles and recalls working with stars like Tom Mix Ken Maynard Hoot Gibson and Buck Jones. Dallas event note mentions Gene Autry Roy Rogers and the singing cowboys in relation to a bandshell ruling.
Federal outlays on aviation for fiscal 1949 total about 7 billion dollars, spanning military and civilian uses. Major allocations include 40 million for airport building, 22 million for navigation facilities, 62 million for facility maintenance, and 11 million for safety enforcement.
Funeral services for Sgt John Reining will be held Thursday at 9 AM in Sacred Heart Cathedral with Msgr. John Steinge officiating. Burial in Liano Cemetery directed by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home. Rosary will be 8 PM Wednesday at Boxwell Brothers Chapel. Reining died April 1 1945 in the Philippines after serving in the US Infantry. He was born March 27 1915 in Nebraska and lived in Pleasant Valley before moving to farming in St. Francis. He enlisted February 1942 and served in many Pacific campaigns. Survivors include his parents Mr. and Mrs Geard Reining and brothers Aloys Edward Vernon and sisters Eleanor and Viola, all of Amarillo.
Season tickets for Amarillo Little Theater winter productions sold fast after the 1948 49 plan announcement. Access to three productions costs 5 dollars and reserves seats for all plays. Reservations can be made by calling ALT board members including E D Caskey Marshall Shaw and Miriam Corneil.
Juliana, 39 and mother of four, was crowned queen in Amsterdam marking the Netherlands fifth sovereign. Wilhelmina, 68, abdicated after six decades on the throne to witness her daughter’s oath to defend the country’s independence before 3,000 European royals and dignitaries. The ceremony occurred at the royal palace near New Church with a royal procession through Amsterdam. Visiting royals included Princess Margaret of Britain and the Swedish and Norwegian royal families.
The article notes the September state Democratic convention could change the electors if desired. Present electors were named in May. Calvert reported the Hillsboro telegraph office was closed yesterday delaying replies. Saturday three electors wired they would vote for the Truman-Barkley ticket.
Reeves bought a half gallon of wine and drove around the city for about six hours while attempting to molest Miss Mills. Detectives say he had been pestering her for nearly three years since she moved from Nashville, Tennessee, where her parents live.
Eugene Woyce Joyce, 2302 North West First, will have services at 2 pm Wednesday in Boxwell Brothers Chapel. Rev. J. W. Sisemore of Line Avenue Baptist Church will officiate. Burial will follow in Llano Cemetery. Joyce died Sunday at St. Anthony's Hospital from injuries from a fall on the Fillmore underpass sidewalk Thursday.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday in Cleveland Ohio for Storm Goebel niece of Mr and Mrs Frank J Storm Sr of Amarillo. Mrs Goebel died of polio in a Cleveland hospital. Surviving are husband John B Goebel two daughters ages six and four a son eight months and sister Mrs Joe B Plaza of Houston. She was a daughter of the late Mr and Mrs John Storm.
Three Michigan men died when a private plane crashed near Cleveland shortly after takeoff. The victims were Harry Ruthig, 24, Frank Brooks, 26, and Victor Jaroch, 26, all from Ubly, Michigan, killed while returning home after visiting the national air show.
A naturalist notes mother bats transport their newborns on their fur during early days. The young cling with claws and teeth as the mother flies to find food.
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