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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1945
Page
3
The city prepares its 1945-46 budget with an expenditure plan of 863 461 from the general tax fund. The 98.84 percent tax collection rate stands, with about 160 000 in delinquent taxes projected for Oct 1, 1945, $99 000 in general fund cash and $80 000 in defense bonds.
The University of Texas reports 6974 students enrolled matching the 1944 summer fall total. Women outnumber men 3800 to 3174 with 679 naval trainees, down 508 from last fall.
Members will hold the first meeting of the year Friday at 3 p m with Mrs. G B Hamilton at 1012 West Sixteenth. Mrs Herbert Willborn will serve as co host.
Corporal Loran Lax is in Amarillo on a 30 day furlough after 18 months in the European Theater of Operations. He is the husband of Kathryn Lax of 107 Mountain Drive and son of Mr and Mrs Henry R Lax of 2008 Mirror. Lax will report to Ft Bliss El Paso on Oct 15 then proceed to Goldsboro NC.
County commissioners demand final views from a citizen committee on a 10 point plan for new and renovated fairgrounds buildings including livestock merchants agricultural poultry arts sciences and exhibit spaces. They warn a full program may not fit a 1946 fair and note rising material and labor costs could limit funding. The committee led by Bill Beechler includes over a dozen clubs and organizations.
The Amarillo Army Air Field separation center is now ready to transform GIs into civilians. Set up in two wards of the station hospital, it can handle 100 men daily with initial entrants being attached personnel living within 300 miles. After one more day to process these men, a daily discharge flow will begin under Maj William K Powell. The center is part of a network of centers to augment the Army Air Forces separation program coordinated from Washington.
At the height of wartime production the Denver ordnance plant employed 20,000 men and women in 1943, reflecting the massive labor needs of munitions manufacturing during World War II.
Robert S. Ely is discharged from the Navy after more than three and a half years of duty. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ely of 812 ...
West Sixteenth reports Ely a soundman second class who served a year aboard the USS Bighorn, credited with sinking a German submarine off Africa. He then moved to a minesweeper on Atlantic duty off Newfoundland for another year, and after returning to the United States in September he joined Navy Air Force service and was discharged at Memphis Tennessee.
Eric P. Harding of 312 Forest, stationed at Amarillo Army Air Field, becomes a new member at the society’s last meeting.
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