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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1946
Page
4
Rates show advance payment options for Daily and Sunday delivery outside Amarillo and by carrier within Amarillo. Prices include 1 year 12.00 outside, 10.20 inside Amarillo, 1 month 1.00 outside, 0.85 inside, and weekly rates 0.25 outside, 0.20 inside. Also listed are News and Globe 1 year 15.00 and Sunday only 3.00.
The piece notes officials leaving federal service for higher pay. Harold Smith, 49, budget director, earns 10 000 annually with 8 000 take home. He accepted a tax free 22 500 post as vice president of the Internal Bank of Reconstruction and Development. President Truman cites difficulty keeping skilled staff on public payroll and calls for Congress to review U.S. pay scales.
A radio sponsor would value Meredith Willson for his music direction on the Maxwell House program and his evolving comedy. He avoids reliance on gag writers and studio crowds, delivering flat yet insightful humor that presumes a live audience but often misses the point.
A pithy maxim notes that many skilled bandits trust luck beyond the present world. The quip frames shooting prowess as futile if judgment fails in the afterlife.
The piece recalls Charles Butterworth at the San Francisco Fair near Sally Rand's Nude Ranch exhibit where he watched nude badminton and asked a stranger the score. It also notes SEC investigator David Schencker questioning Harrison Williams about his holdings and Williams's remark on aiming for a billion.
Samuel Grafton discusses consumer resistance to rising prices and the risk inflation poses to American industry. He argues price control must hold to avoid mass layoffs, bankruptcies, and a shift to high priced, lower volume production, warning against inflationary policy.
Washington dispatch analyzes the hen and egg metaphor for prices and OPA, arguing Congress must extend OPA with limits or face wage demands and higher prices. It tracks how wage boosts sparked price hikes and how future policy may influence the coming congressional campaign and labor actions. It notes Bowles and the CIO criticize inaction, and concludes active, limited OPA is prudent to shield the economy and policy blame. It closes with quips about unrelated anecdotes.
In a humorous family scene Poke Bennett hunts a mouse at night and causes a ruckus as he slams doors and flings a broom while declaring victory over a half grown varmint. His spouse and children observe the antics with amused concern.
Scout Executive W. J. Hiatt outlined Camp Don Harrington expansion by Llano Estacado Council to American Business Club members. A $70,000 program would add caretaker home health lodge central buildings swimming pool and campsites to serve 200. reforestation planned. 17,000 local boys with 2,200 in program contributed 15,000 hours of civic service.
A special USO Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday at 8 PM in the City Auditorium north wing. H Grady Wilson urges all members to attend for important discussions on future USO activities. Highway accidents in 1945 rose 20 percent from the previous year with about 20,000 deaths and over 1,000,000 injuries.
Oklahoma City June 21 United Press Jonathan M Wainwright a four star general who endured Bataan surrender and four years in Japanese prison camps said the Army needs less democracy and more discipline He blamed rear area laxity during the war and warned that off duty fraternization and removing salutes would hurt effectiveness of the force.
Washington reports that Secretary Patterson approved a Doolittle Board recommendation to abolish the hand salute except on Army posts and in overseas occupied areas and on special dress occasions. The board also urged removing the terms officers and enlisted men, but Patterson rejected that proposal. Moscow meanwhile orders stricter discipline and military courtesy in the Soviet armed forces.
Bangkok reports the Siamese commission said King Ananda Mahidol’s death June 9 was accidental and the bullet pierced the forehead. Tonight the remains will be removed from a golden urn in Dusit Hall for examination to settle rumors of suicide or assassination amid royalist tensions.
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