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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1946
Page
9
The AFL announced plans to mobilize its seven million members this fall to elect a lawmaking body responsive to the people. It will not form a political action committee but will focus on getting out the labor vote for endorsed candidates based on voting records.
In Marblehead Massachusetts students facing final exams received sticks of chewing gum to relieve tension as part of a lighthearted measure reported by United Press. The anecdote highlights stress in high school testing and a simple relief tactic.
William Heirens, 17, awaits mental examination as Chicago prosecutors and defense agree to defer murder charges. Heirens has confessed to Mrs. Josephine Ross’s death and other killings, burglaries, and assaults, with arraignments postponed to permit psychiatric evaluation by Cook County psychiatrists.
About 500 students finished summer session with report cards issued this afternoon at Amarillo Senior High School. The term began June 3 and fifty nine students completed high school work. Most seniors took part in graduation exercises last spring.
Harrison County commissioners in a special session ordered guards along the Louisiana Texas border to stop illegal cattle shipments. The move aims to stem anthrax outbreaks reported in 31 Louisiana parishes and near the Texas line within six miles.
E G Shorter comptroller of Fruit Growers Express testified at an Interstate Commerce hearing that 37 railroads lost over 2 million dollars each year 1944 and 1945 operating refrigerator cars. He noted labor costs rising from 15 to 30 cents in 1929 to 175 cents an hour in 1946. Stewart Harvey of TVA opposed the 25 percent freight rate hike affecting phosphate rock fertilizer. Southern shippers were to be heard next.
Donald Watkins, discharged from the Navy at Norman Oklahoma, will attend the University of Texas this fall. A Seaman First Class, he served a little over a year and was stationed aboard the USSS Roberts in the Pacific and European theaters for nine months. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Watkins of 3001 Hayden and a Amarillo High School graduate who previously attended the University of Texas.
Alien Property Custodian James E. Markham announced that over 100000 German patents seized during the war will be royalty free for nations signing the London patent accord. About 19000 USheld patents will be licensed to British French and Dutch businessmen, with patents held by those nations opened to American use. The agreement is open to any United Nations government or wartime neutral. Representatives of Australia Canada Czechoslovakia involved.
Mr and Mrs Frank Matchett and their daughter Dorothy of Seagraves are visiting Miss Elizabeth Farr at 800 Palo Duro. Miss Matchett and Miss Farr were school friends at T. S. C. W. last year.
An advertisement announces Texas Week as a weekly Texas focused magazine. It promises independent impartial reporting on state and local government labor business agriculture ranching science religion books art theatre and surrounding states with thoughtful analyses.
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