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Newspaper
Amarillo Daily News
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1950
Page
10
The Daily News details publication leadership with Wesley Howe Grady Camp and Grady Camp as editor in chief and general manager. It lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, including 1 year 12.00, 1 month 1.00, and weekly 0.25, plus Sunday rates and post details under the 1879 act.
A stitched-together column features verse from Lewis Norprie and stray anecdotes. Tales include a boxcar lantern joke, a Golden Wedding Club entry, road sign reflections, and a Texas Highway Department note urging careful driving. Plus birthday club additions and a plea for letters to ill Miss Patsy Berry in Dumas.
Odessa dispatch reports Lucy Mac Nolen, 35, was found dead in the Odessa city jail late last night. Police secured the scene as investigators opened a death inquiry.
An editorial argues the Korean invasion signals a full scale offensive between free and Communist worlds. It cautions Western leaders face uncertain outcomes while Kremlin forces push a declared world conquest, with UN Security Council protests as a propaganda lever and risk of wider conflict across the Cold War front.
In a closed House Interstate Commerce Committee session a startling disclosure tied two anti gambling bills to Nevada Attorney General Alan Bible and North Carolina Attorney General Harry McMullen. The measures aim to bar interstate slot machine shipments and gambling data transmission, with key support from Howard McGrath and lingering delays in the Senate and House. The effort is bogged down over contentious amendments, with Nevada poised as a potential hub for slot machines if allowed.
Guest columnist recounts two encore essays and satirical takes on rainmakers, odd trades, and quirky history. He notes Harvard rainmakers in NYC, a Michigan chef turned rainmaker, and Timothy Dexter clay pipes. The piece comments on movies in New Jersey theaters and a refugee quote about European hunger.
The column notes Albert Lasker and Mary Reinhardt celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary after a surprise NY Supreme Court Justice ceremony. Multiple society items follow including Bermuda Mid Ocean News launch, Robert Merrill in Don Carlos at the Met, Jack Benny at Paley Ball, Picasso-Pallastrelli remarks, Broadway painting musings by Raoul Duty, Irving Mansfield and William Boyd TV talk, Sardi restaurant plans, and a Lostine Oregon resident joke about population. Copyright 1950 Post-Hall Syndicate.
A terse proverb-like line notes that the sole flawless circle known is not a geometric form but a roundabout path. The remark suggests circular journeys can be missteps or deliberate detours rather than ideal routes.
Mrs. Poke Bennett muses on seasonal wardrobe troubles as garter belts wear out during a time of little use. She weighs buying now against waiting for a future invention while strolling past J C Penney's with Poke, noting her frustration with enduring hose and the need for a new accessory.
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