Amarillo City Voting Sets Quiet Election Pace
Amarillo voters faced an unusually light city election with fewer than 50 ballots cast by noon across six of eight precincts and the heaviest tally only 11 at Central Fire Station. Polls stay open until 7 pm with two judges and at least two clerks per box. incumbents Jenkins Epper son and Hargett face no opposition for second terms amid low overall turnout.
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Amarillo
Sanborn
Sixteenth Avenue
Central Fire Station
San Jacinto School
Wolflin
Wilson
Horace Mann
Joe Jenkins
Bob Epperson
Oscar Hargett
Letter From Home To the Boys in Service
A reader-submitted letter reflects home front life in 1943 Amarillo. It notes Victory Gardens, local servicemen promotions, war news from Guadalcanal and Tunisia, Red Cross success, society weddings, and community happenings as civilians support troops abroad.
Potter County Rationing Board Names Tire Panel Sign
A note from the Potter County rationing office shows a tire panel sign labeled Tires and a clerk named Jeff Bartlett changing the spelling after a customer pronunciation suggestion. The exchange reflects wartime practicality in local control measures.
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Potter County
Merchant Vessel Torpedoed and Sunk in North Atlantic
The navy reported a U.S. medium sized merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk in the North Atlantic in March. Survivors were landed at Boston and identified with Neely Greenhill Lowndes Insurance.
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Washington
Navy
United States
North Atlantic
Boston
Germans Attack South of Izyum Then Fall Back
German forces assault the Soviet bridgehead south of Izyum with about 1,000 infantry and 10 tanks under heavy air cover, but retreat after taking around 100 casualties and two tanks. In other fronts, Soviet troops repel German attempts near Staraya Russa and advance in the Northwest Caucasus while inflicting heavy losses on the attackers.
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U.P
Izyum
Donets
Kharkov
Red
Semyon Timoshenko
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Lake Ilmen
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Novorossisk
Firemen's Hours Cut In Amarillo
Amarillo city adopts a new fire department schedule reducing weekly hours from 84 to 72. Night shift runs 6 p.m. to 8 a.m., day shift 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., with each firefighter one day off weekly. The two shifts rotate every two weeks on Sundays and kitchen use at stations is eliminated. Three alarm room operators will work six eight hour shifts.
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Amarillo
A. P. Hancock
Poor Fido May Get a Bone
Dallas April 6 U P I The regional Office of Price Administration announced an interpretation of rationing rules allowing rendering fats and bones such as suet rib bones from carcass disassembly or boning to be sold point free for animal food and other inedible uses Lean trimmings comingled with fats and bones may also be sold point free
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U.P
Fido
Office of Price Administration
OPA
Allied Planes Roar Over English Channel
Allied air forces roared over the English Channel with fighters seen overhead from the south coast and reports indicate heavy bombers may be in the fleet. Weather charts note warm conditions with winds, while Texas and New Mexico forecasts show varying temperatures and scattered flurries. Wind and repair ads follow at end.
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London
Channel
Amarillo
West Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
New Mexico
Alarm Clocks Sent to Britain to Replace War-Worn Timepieces
Ten thousand American made alarm clocks are en route to Britain to replace worn out devices since the war began. Hugh Dalton, president of the board of trade, announced in the House of Commons after a coal miners complained about waking for 2 AM shifts.
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London
Britain
Hugh Dalton
Board of Trade
House of Commons
Hot Soup Cools Off Itate Man in Wichita Falls
A Wichita Falls restaurant customer went berserk as plate glass and a refrigerator counter were smashed. Owner George Zotales, 75, was bruised before a bystander poured hot soup down the man’s collar to cool him. He told police his wife said she was going to leave him.
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Wichita Falls
George Zotales
City Commission To Meet On Election Night
Amarillo city commission resumes meetings tonight after a lapse with no session last week. City manager A P Hancock says resolutions on water project contracts will be discussed as unofficial election returns arrive around 8 o clock. Churchill says Eden will report soon on the US Canada mission.
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Amarillo
A. P. Hancock
Kaiser Plans Giant War Plane With 17000 Mile Range
Kaiser, America's top shipbuilder, unveiled plans for a 282 foot flying wing cargo plane able to fly 17,000 miles on fuel alone. Four engines total 8,009 horsepower, 175,000 pounds loaded weight, magnesium structure, 55 percent useful load about 45 tons. E O Koppen highlighted cargo capacity about 68,000 pounds for 4,000 miles.
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Columbia Empire Industries, Inc
E. O. Koppen
Koppen
Rommel Rejects American Canned Rations in Tunisia
In Central Tunisia on April 6 U P reports a Feriana hotel proprietress recalls Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel visiting late in February. He asked for soup and a six egg omelet, but refused canned C ration soup saying he had eaten the stuff for six months.
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Tunisia
U.P
Erwin Rommel
Feriana
Rommel
Planning Debates For Postwar Era Split In Civic Leaders
A majority of Amarillo civic leaders favor forming a Panhandle planning committee for the postwar period though a few dissent. Rex Baxter of the Amarillo Chamber sent 33 questionnaires, with replies urging action now. Judge M O Goodpasture of Memphis criticizes inflexibility in plans. One observer prefers staying home to aid the war effort.
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Rex Baxter
Amarillo
Impeachment Demanded Against Public Welfare Director
A Texas legislative committee urged immediate impeachment charges against J. C. Murchison director of the Department of Public Welfare. The report faulted payroll practices and high salaries while urging elimination of one third of department jobs and noting savings would aid old age pensions. The House action remains uncertain.
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State Department of Public Welfare
House of Representatives
J. C. Murchison
J. S. Murchison
Department of Public Welfare
Murchison
Hermit King Alex Anderson Charged With Assault In Rationing Case
CENTRAL CITY Colorado April 6 Alex Anderson a 53 year old self styled Hermit King was accused of assault with intent to kill after drawing a gun in a scuffle with two peace officers who sought to arrest him for stealing food. The Swedish speaking recluse appeared before Judge Guy E Clark at Idaho Springs. Bailiffs removed his hat and he wore shoes only after jailers pleaded.
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Colo
Alex Anderson
Anderson
Guy E. Clark
Idaho Springs
Airmen Rain Destruction Among Ships in North Africa
Allied air forces claim a massive day over Tunisia and Sicily. 18 German transports and six dive bombers were shot down, with 13 more enemy planes downed and a destroyer sunk as Thunderbolts and Lightnings battled over the Sicilian Straits and Tunisian fronts.
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U.S
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United Nations
Tunisian
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Mediterranean
Darrell G. Welch
Midland
Tex
RAF Wellington
Trapani
Sicily
Sfax
Bernard L. Montgomery
Eighth Army
Naples
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