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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1946
Page
2
Payable in advance rates listed for mail carrier or Amarillo delivery. Outside Amarillo yearly 12 dollars, monthly 1 dollar, weekly 25 cents. In Amarillo yearly 10.20 dollars, monthly 85 cents, weekly 20 cents. News and Globe yearly 15 dollars, monthly 1.25 dollars, weekly 30 cents. Sunday only yearly 3 dollars.
A columnist riffs on Coke Stevenson speculative Senate run and weekly political talk. Observations touch on atom bombs at Bikini and public programs, coal labor tensions, Trygve Lie and Siam, and recent weather and natural events. The piece blends satire with current events and local mood.
Henry McLemore writes from the United States Canada border describing comical run ins with customs. He jokes about cross border norms and misadventures including missing papers laundry stunts and a wary officer. He exaggerates the scrutiny faced by travelers and the absurdities of border control.
A traveler recounts an ordeal with customs officers at the border, pressured to produce a car serial number. After fruitless searches of the vehicle, help from a fellow passenger finally reveals the number while noting cross-border friction between the two nations. The narrator laments impractical border checks and remarks on unlikely discoveries like a false shoe heel.
A critique of how windstorm and tornado roundups are written. The author argues reporters overstate deaths and losses, noting communities rarely count the dead and that the focus on numbers misleads readers.
Southwestern Public Service Company completed erection of 22 new overhead street lights in the northeastern section of Amarillo. Most lamps reach North East Eighth along Panhandle Highway with 150 watt 2,500 lumen bulbs slated for upgrading when stronger equipment arrives.
Movie lineup across Paramount Capitol Rialto and Rex theaters features Do You Love Me with Maureen O Hara and Dick Haymes, Wife of Monte Cristo, Call of the Wild, Throw a Saddle on a Star, Mom and Dad, Cornered, The Fighting Guardsman, Sailor Takes a Wife, Leave Her to Heaven, plus night club acts at Mayfair, Nat, Rainbow Gardens, Aviatrix, Mexican Inn. Nova Scotia population 1945 621000 up 44038 since 1941.
The forty first Panhandle Bankers Association convention begins at 10 AM in the Herring Hotel with J O Gillham Brownfield State Bank vice president and association president presiding. Warren A Barrett Commerce Trust Kansas City will discuss Consumer's Credit and DeWitt T Ray Liberty State Bank Dallas will speak as Texas Bankers Association president.
A Soviet press roundup accuses Secretary Byrnes of seeking to force U N peace treaties before the General Assembly. Commentary in Trud labels Hoover as reactionary and suggests Byrnes would allow Soviet treaty reconsideration. Izvestia and Tass coverage focus on Molotov's rebuttal and commentary on the Byrnes press conference.
Amarillo ministers and their wives meet at 10 this morning in the new two-quonset chapel at the U S Veterans Hospital. Mrs Lively Mrs Cochran and Margaret McIver host a tea. 150 attendees include American Legion Disabled American Veterans VFW Spanish American War Veterans and Red Cross auxiliaries. Panis Angelicus was sung by Mrs Lively.
Two nationally known doctors join the post graduate course at Amarillo Osteopathic Hospital led by Dr. L. V. Cradit and Dr. L. J. Vick. The clinic starts today and runs for two weeks.
Deep sea divers join the search for 22 missing U S Army personnel after a four engine transport plane crashed near Naples while returning to the United States from India. Eight bodies were recovered. 38 aboard with eight rescued.
Brazilian federal police closed and occupied the metropolitan committee headquarters of the Communist Party in Rio de Janeiro as of June 2. Police action followed the party’s activities in the city and marked a government move against the organization.
Mike Kelly was reelected faithful navigator of Father Dunne Assembly Knights of Columbus at yesterday's cathedral meeting. Other officers elected include Gus Dietz Joe Kos John Garvey Johnny Raef Bill Walsh J Walsh and Gerald Keller. Amarillo Council 1450 plans new officer elections tonight at 8 in the cathedral.
Rites for Mrs. Bertha Mae Blair aged 43 who died Saturday morning are set for 2 PM at Blackburn-Shaw Memorial Chapel. L. Colley of North Amarillo Church of Christ will officiate with burial in Llano Cemetery. Pallbearers include W. K. Frost E. Gibson Clyde Walden C. C. Joshlin Norman Allen and Mr. Pendleton. Blair had lived in Amarillo seven years, family home 409 North Taylor. Survivors are husband a son three daughters two brothers and two sisters.
Amarillo public schools and Amarillo College invite students to register for the Summer session. Registration begins at 8:30 in the high school auditorium, with classes running through August 10.
A U.S. Weather Observations note claims peas boiled eight minutes and then frozen will keep indefinitely without flavor loss when later cooked.
A 28 year old man in military style clothes driving a war exhibits truck was held in Potter County jail under a fugitive warrant. He was arraigned before Justice C W Carder with bond set at 5000 dollars. A telegram from Sheriff Whitley of Clovis NM said the department holds a felony warrant for Ted Rathbone and extradition will follow if he refuses to sign waiver.
Thirteen junior architecture students at Texas A more college completed a building modernization plan for the 7-Up bottling plant at Bryan. Walter L Norris of Amarillo was among the team members. The plan will enter a competition for a $1000 prize offered by the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages.
A labor stoppage by Rio De Janeiro Tramway Light and Power Company workers was resolved today, ending Friday night actions and restoring normal traffic in Rio de Janeiro.
Amarillo records a second car train collision in three days at a level crossing near Thirteenth and North McMasters. Jim Campsey, 708 Fairmount, was driving a 1937 Plymouth south toward work when Zepher eastbound train struck the vehicle. Campsey escaped by leaping free but sustained a knee injury. Earlier, an unoccupied car parked on the Santa Fe main line four miles southwest of the underpass was demolished by a fast passenger train.
Graveside services for Waylon Lee Speer 70 will be held at 4 p m today at Llano Cemetery with Rev Edgar T Neal of San Jacinto Methodist Church officiating Blackburn Shaw Funeral Home in charge Speer a retired Santa Fe boiler maker died Tuesday afternoon burial delayed until son Wayne Lee Speer Jr arrived from Tokyo where he has been stationed with the Navy en route home Speer died Tuesday afternoon in Texas facility
U S Attorney from Fort Worth R B Young and assistant Cavett Binion will be in Amarillo all week for federal grand jury and court sessions.
Dr. Amos E. Badertscher promotes Bee Brand Insect Powder for ants roaches silverfish and bedbugs with powder and Bee Brand insect spray with 1 percent DDT for flies and mosquitoes. The ad claims quick action safety for children and pets and invites readers to request The Truth about DDT by mail.
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