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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1946
Page
4
The Amarillo and Borger areas show jobs and workers in balance in the June U. S. Employment Service report. Other Texas cities improve with stronger outlooks in construction and manufacturing, while Corpus Christi Port Arthur and Lubbock shift from surplus workers to balance.
The war effort moved a hillside from Gresford near Wrexham stripping a million tons of sand for ballast. Soil from Britain traveled to America and now forms parts of jetties and piers in ports near Birkenhead Liverpool and Manchester.
Polish hospitals test chloroform attended pajamas as treatment for insomnia, aiming to calm patients and induce sleep. Medical officials report preliminary trials in select wards, noting mixed reactions from patients and caution from experts.
The Texas Unemployment Compensation Commission reports healthier trends as manufacturing losses slow from October 1945 to March 1946 and net employment rises by 20 722 in the period. Major job gains appear in construction, publishing, lumber, textiles, and autos while aircraft and shipbuilding remain chief unemployment sources. Total first quarter payrolls reach 459 968 604 with manufacturing at 142 065 178 and wholesale retail at 130 487 510.
George A. Godfrey president of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association says the consolidation of the general land office and the grazing division will not harm use of public lands in 11 western states including New Mexico. He notes grazing rights likely stay intact though regional offices may be eliminated and NM cattlemen will discuss the merger at their June 1920 Silver City meeting.
The Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Co introduces 666, a new insecticide that kills boll weevils, cotton aphids, and cotton flea hoppers at experimental production sites in Pennsylvania. DDT failed to eradicate boll weevils.
In Canberra the Australian House of Representatives descends into metaphor fueled debate as Housing Minister H P Lazzarini calls housing a political football while Country Party Leader Arthur Fadden signals readiness to table letters and Labor MP H C Barnard likens the ice cream company to robbing kids to feed the fatted calf.
A Smithsonian scientist asserts humans have from ten to one hundred times more brain capacity than they actively use, a claim highlighting untapped mental potential and prompting questions about education and cognitive training.
George E. Smith, returning from a business trip, followed a passing fire engine to the blaze. The trail led to his Canon City ranch where he arrived in time to see the hay barn burn and two tons of hay destroyed.
In Moscow Soviet banks report deposits total eight and a half billion rubles by January, about 722.5 million dollars, a 1945 gain of 3.4 billion rubles. Six month or longer deposits earn five percent interest, others three percent, with government guarantee.
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