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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1947
Page
10
The Amarillo Globe advocates bold public works and growth programs. It details plans for a city charter revision, coliseum and new city hall, traffic control, downtown renewal, park expansion, water supply studies, hospital facilities, and support for small industries and cultural activities.
An analysis notes mass German POW repatriations from Russia, Japan style labor, and Soviet arms focus. It cites an American Magazine piece by Lisle Eaton urging hard stance against Moscow, urging UN expulsion threat and possible force to deter a third world war. The piece questions Soviet aims and the ethics of disarmament.
A syndicated profile portrays Howard Hughes as one of the nation’s richest men, with an estimated fortune of 150 to 200 million dollars. It outlines his Texas brewery, machinery, TWA stake, and film interests, notes his Houston origins, Rice Institute and Caltech education, and early inheritance. It highlights his rapid expansion, aviation records, crashes, and clashes with Senator Brewster, while describing him as headstrong and controversial.
George E. Sokolsky argues the core issue is public interest in war contracts not personal feuds between Senator Brewster and Howard Hughes. He urges an oath sworn Senate inquiry into which contracts were sound or wasteful, who insisted on them, and whether corruption occurred, while noting Hughes and Kaiser were targeted for public relations stunts.
Eleanor Roosevelt Campor Bello highlights youth programs in Rochester NY where a youth center named The Barn hosts music and dancing on Saturday nights with self governed rules. She also mentions a California youth village idea by Robert W Hanna and urges active engagement for displaced children and families.
Billy Rose drafts a whimsical will shifting film theater funds toward eccentric legacies. He mentions audiences, fruit, secretaries, and producers, then muses on Shakespearean and stage directions while naming recipients to receive specific items and roles.
The text grants bequests to colleagues and entities in theater and criticism. It names Tommy Manville a lawyer, critics, George Jean Nathan, William Saroyan, William S. Saroyan, agents, press agents, lyricists, composers, and The Drama. It evokes memories of Shakespeare and Sophocles and an audience context at a fifty-ninth Street theater in 1946.
A Polk Street professor praises keeping cool and collected as a sign of success while a shoplifter hints at improving business. The piece notes Dewey may run again, public interest in appearances over records, and nostalgia for “Normal Times” with sly wishes of others’ financial woes. The author plans to check a watch’s erratic time at leisure.
Puzzle item lists many cryptic clues with partial readable words and misread letters. The readable entries include Hebrew deity sun god and various terms across horizontal and vertical sections. many clues appear garbled or partially missing.
A one year old child, Michael Ray Bobbitt, died after playing with an electric cord and a metal toy in Houston. He was electrocuted yesterday when a tin teddy bear touched the plug on the sweeper cord.
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