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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1948
Page
2
A jumble of letters and notes from West Yellowstone recounts visitors, weather, and humor. Musings include hunting and fishing trips, a Canadian-bound duo, poll opinions about Lyndon Johnson, and tourist curiosities about bears and car licenses.
The report shows closing averages for 30 Industrials down 20, Railroads off 32, Utilities off 6, with sales around 710,000. It lists extensive New York curb and exchange quotations for Am, Lockheed, Loews, Allegheny, Long Bell, Allied Stores, Amer Airlines, and many others, spanning oils, metals, chemicals, and consumer goods. Grain, Kansas City livestock, and Chicago markets follow with mixed declines in cattle and steady to higher hogs and wheat futures reactions.
A writer praises local beef pork fruit and watermelons while noting a surprising lack of baked potatoes in Idaho eateries. They travel within 30 miles of Idaho potato country and observe waitresses puzzled by the request for a baked potato. The piece contrasts abundant produce with scarce vegetable offerings.
The Star reports Moscow discussions could pave a four power framework for European issues. Bevin signals aim to clarify Allied positions and seek a possible peace settlement, with Truman Stalin Attlee and Andre Marie as potential participants. Officials in London and Washington offered no comment.
A close associate says President Truman will not call Congress back for a second extra session. He plans to campaign on his policy differences with Republicans over price control housing and other issues. Truman votes in Missouri tomorrow and will return to Washington after casting his ballot. Party members expect Congress to reject his program and view a second session as unhelpful for the fall campaign.
British police without pistols equipped themselves with wire paper clips and litmus paper to detect diphenylamine in gasoline sold for commercial use used in pleasure cars. By noon no violator had been caught.
The Eads Hide and Wool Company, Inc. received a charter from the state charter board. The plant at 1900 East Third lists a $100,000 capitalization with incorporators J. H. Doty, F. L. Carlson and Ernest H. Eads.
Private Theodore Perkins son of Ebb E Perkins of 4234 West Tenth jumped 1000 feet in a free fall during Airborne Training Problems at Fort Bragg NC. He has served 18 months in the 82nd Airborne Division.
Sgt. Jesse W. Bewley of Amarillo Army recruiting station completed a 30 day annual leave. He traveled through Mexico New Mexico Utah Nevada California Arizona Oklahoma and Colorado during the period.
Safety education courses for rural school teachers run this week at West Texas State College Canyon. Amarillo food sanitarian Charles Eads will join to provide instruction on rural food sanitation.
Truman Clark 22 a sergeant stationed in San Antonio was seriously injured when his motorcycle collided with a car last night. He was en route to San Antonio after visiting his mother Mrs Er nest Clark of Pioneer.
Pvt. Gerald B. Foreman son of Mr and Mrs Herman Foreman of 1504 Monroe begins training with the Second Armored Division at Camp Hood Texas under the army expansion program.
Budapest report says Elmer Kiss Secretary of the Agriculture Ministry was arrested as a Western power spy. The Communist newspaper Sza badzag disclosed the claim on August 2.
Henry Brown 23, a Harrison County Negro, was executed in the electric chair at the state prison in Huntsville for the fatal shooting of Mrs. Clara Moore of Hazleton. He was convicted on May 18.
Three polio cases, first in over a year, were reported in Pampa during the past week. The patients are a 7 year old girl, an 8 year old boy, and an 8 year old girl, all within five blocks of each other. Two were sent to the West Texas polio center at Plainview. Amarillo has no reported cases.
William Huey Anthony, 24, faced charges of assault to murder in the shooting of his stepfather Ed Mason, 50, after a late night argument at a tourist court owned by Mrs.
Anthony Mason said he did not realize he had been hit until witnesses across the street aided his stepfather. Mason, hit in the leg by a 20 gauge blast, is hospitalized in Houston. A meeting of Surface Battalion No. 819 is scheduled for 8 p.m. Monday at the US Naval Sea Training Center Ninth and Rusk.
Excelsior Springs Missouri reports a proven system for rheumatism and arthritis using mineral waters and baths. The Ball Clinic offers a free book explaining the method and how to achieve freedom from rheumatism without obligation. Write to The Ball Clinic Dept. 2301 for the new combined book Rheumatism Good Health Life's Greatest Blessing.
Ray Jackson known as the Original Stumblebum completes a three month bicycle journey from Amarillo to California and back. He wore out seven tires two pairs of shoes and two pairs of trousers during the arduous trip.
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