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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1942
Page
2
A columnist lauds Amarillo’s Army Day parade praising and thanking soldiers from Oklahoma and Panhandle residents. The piece notes the crowd, horse floats, and jeeps, with calls for banners identifying bands and future horse parades across the Southwest.
A jumble of personal notices offers job seeks and missing items. Listings include a young woman seeking cafe or housework work, a family seeking a farm job, a colored woman for housework, a nurse seeking home care work, a driver seeking transport to Hot Springs New Mexico, and several requests to find homes for pets. Also a Nash hub cap found and requests for home care and companionship.
Senator Harry S. Truman, leading the Senate inquiry into wartime progress, calls the investigation a dirty job but says it must be done to cut waste and hasten the end of the war. He notes aim to fix program inefficiencies and avoid postwar “washing of dirty linen.” The effort stems from his WWI battlefield resolve to target waste and bungling in national defense.
WPB statisticians warn rising manufacturing costs may force higher budget revisions if the President’s goals of 60 000 planes 45 000 tanks and 8 000 000 tons of shipping this year are to be met. Expenditures already exceed 100 million daily, with year total near 40 billion.
Court records list numerous property transfers including Hudgins to Mehoher, Hilgers to Bruner, Crossley to Ellis ton, and others across Miller Heights Beverley Gardens and G&S, with values from 10 to 75 dollars and totals up to 4,250. District Court entries include several divorces among Martin, Decker, Nabers, Burke, and related filings, plus multiple marriage licenses amid a slate of notices and occupants.
The annual Federal Inspection of the Amarillo High School R O T C Cadet Corps is underway this afternoon on the campus. Col E A Keyes of Fort Sam Houston acts as inspecting officer guiding 248 cadets and unit facilities from 1 PM to 5 30 PM with a public luncheon to follow.
Miss Pat McClarney leaves Amarillo for New Orleans to represent Texas in the Regional American Legion Constitution Declamation contest. She advances from district and regional wins in Lubbock and Austin and is the former state extemporaneous speaker champion. She is accompanied by Mrs. N. N. Whitworth, head of Amarillo High School’s speech department.
Charles A. Shafer retained his village board seat after a tie on March 17 with George Kahn, each receiving 98 votes. Officials used a boy with a hat to draw the winner, reviving the historic tie break method used in 1938 when Shafer first won by draw.
In Missouri the highway department’s giant road magnet collected over a ton of scrap metal in 242 miles of work. The recovered metal was donated to the war salvage collection, aiding the war effort.
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