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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1946
Page
4
The notice lists subscription costs for Daily and Sunday editions with rates for mail delivery outside Amarillo and carrier delivery within Amarillo. It also lists prices for News and Globe and Sunday-only subscriptions, including annual, monthly, and weekly options.
Washington strategists note Fred Vinson as Chief Justice strides toward Senate confirmation. Democrats split over his middle position while Republicans worry the court tilts to the left with eight Democrats and one Republican Harold Burton. The era of balanced blocs has faded since Roosevelt.
The piece notes 40 Wall Street insurance covering repairs after a crash, Wright’s Paris publication of The Man Who Lived Underground, Martin’s Paris discharge and Stein quip, Cowan’s San Fernando Valley project with Hammerstein as first settler, Bankhead theater hat gag, Mauldin home stay, Menuhin Havana visit, and McEvoy’s music-lesson hopes.
Washington dispatch notes a CIO United Auto Workers drive at Chrysler over an 18 14 cent per hour raise last winter. Higher wages fed higher prices across steel and other sectors, with OPA adjustments and presidential intervention shaping the ripple effect. Critics urge extending OPA to curb blame for future increases.
Mrs Poke Bennett Bud can mock nearly anything and imitate sounds. Bud mimics machines and war scenes, clatters like a gun and cries out in a loud Duck-like voice. He learns new sounds, asks for apples, and performs a Chop Sticks routine with playful family banter about twins and double acts.
Samuel Grafton reports widespread unease across regions from North Carolina to Los Angeles. He notes fatigue, lost faith, and a sense that postwar promises lack clear direction, with workers and servicemen unsettled and unsure about future opportunities.
George Dixon recalls childhood sting by charity and frames modern aid as broader duty. He contrasts past selfishness with today’s push to feed the world, noting old excuses fade as global aid becomes a collective responsibility.
A coroner jury in Las Vegas New Mexico found Howard Rau a Texas rancher killed May 31 died from a shot fired by his wife Ruth Bibb Rau. Assistant district attorney E R Cooper said manslaughter charges would be prepared. Mrs Rau did not testify. She said she picked up a gun to scare him and he tried to take it. she did not pull the trigger.
The United Pueblo Agency announced that a British Guinea official was in Albuquerque examining the administrative structure of the U S Indian Service with a view to adopting a similar plan in South America.
A new drug Anthallan shows high relief in hay fever cases at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Walter Loewe and Dr. Alexander Ghiselin report from a year of trials with Dr. John Kernan. Capsule form, three to ten daily, for about three weeks, avoids skin tests, relief lasts up to nine months.
Roy L. Coleman grocery store owner was elected president of the Memphis Lions Club for 1946-47 succeeding Jim Vallance. Other officers include Her schel Combs secretary treasurer M O Goodpasture first vice president Tom Posey second vice president Lester Campbell third vice president O R Sage lion tamer George Hayden tail twister and new directors Dr M McNeely Edwin Gilliam. Officers to assume duties at the first July meeting.
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