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Newspaper

Amarillo Globe

Location

Amarillo, Texas, United States of America

Date

Aug 15, 1947

Page

10

Amarillo Globe News rate card listing subscriptions

The Amarillo Globe presents its pricing for daily and Sunday subscriptions including carrier mail or agent options. Rates show 1 year 1080, 6 months 540, 3 months 270, 1 month 90 cents for The Globe News. bundled Globe and News at 1980 yearly, 990 for 6 months, 495 for 3 months, 165 for 1 month, and 40 cents weekly. It lists staff and contact details.

Amarillo Texas Neva Globe News Publishing Co Fillmore Genf Howe Wesley Lizzard Pacieeemee Ees Globe and News

Amarillo Platform Promises City Growth and Reform

The Globe outlines a 1960s platform for Amarillo including revising the city charter, expanding city limits, building a coliseum and new city hall, upgrading traffic control, cleaning downtown, expanding parks and facilities, studying water supply, adding hospitals, improving English Field as an air terminal, fostering small industries, and boosting culture and libraries.

GLOBE Amarillo City Commission Fonthal Sacceo English Field

Amarillo Faces Decisive Highway Route Choice

The Expressway Grose urges Amarillo to decide now on routing high ways. State offers an eight line expressway costing six to eight million with city right of way. The paper stresses choosing a plan benefiting most people long term, despite possible protests.

Tue Grose Amarillo Glone State Highway Department Fort Worth Dallas San Antonio Lubbock

Time To Get Tough on Speeding Indicated by City Officials

Mayor Lawrence Hagg announces a strict traffic crackdown with maximum fines up to 200 dollars, more traffic police, and license suspension for repeat violators. The Grose notes this is the 34th year of traffic law coverage and urges constant, impartial enforcement to improve safety.

Lawrence Hagg

Billy Rose's Quick Rescue Over Nationalism Satire

Billy Rose recounts a humorous escapade where he impersonates a diplomat to confront an imagined Indian chief Swimming Eel seeking a UN seat. The spoof details his frantic search, mock threats to preserve American culture, and a payoff of cigars and $24.

Willie New York Times Swimming Eel United Nations Assembly Sam Aene Hunter College Gromyko Red Men Brooks Costume Co Ted Lewis New York Bowling Green Spuyten Duyvil Jersey City Supreme Court Kew Gardens Hiawatha Billy Rose

The Hughes Brewster War Contracts Controversy

George E. Sokolsky argues the Hughes Brewster clash is not central to war contracts but reflects long running airline disputes. He describes the idea of a chosen instrument in international aviation and the push toward a Pan American monopoly style cartel for American air firms and their global reach. He notes the 1944 Chicago conference and the Five Freedoms of the Air agreement.

Hughes-Brewster American Airlines Howard Hughes United States Pan American Chicago Soviet Russia Adolf A. Berl, Jr Ferguson King Features Syn., Inc

British Austerity Bill Stimulates Debate On Exports And Policy

Dorothy Thompson discusses Britain's austerity measures and 75 percent tax on American films, arguing private investment and private enterprise better promote exports. She warns socialist planning risks poverty, praising private initiative and warning against state capitalism while noting aviation policy and international trade pose continuing challenges.

Hollywood Britain Sterling United States Mr. Attlee

Visitor from Fiji Delights Amarillo Crowd With Texas Tale

A. G. McCown, a heavyset Fiji Islands pineapple plantation owner, visited Amarillo last night en route to the West Coast. He shared war memories, rodeo impressions in Lawton, and jokes about Texas heat, plus notes on wild turkeys in the Fijis.

Rudyard Kipling Amarillo A. G Jud” McCown B. L. Morgan Hughes McCown Texas Wichita Falls Southwest Lawton Islands

Polk Street Professor Remembers Lew Chance

A tribute to Lew Chance who worked for Fort Worth and Denver. Friends recall his joyful laugh and contagious optimism. He loved fishing, teased crowds, and made everyone feel valued, saying he would be missed in many places and by the waitstaff who will miss serving him coffee.

Lew Fort Worth Denver

Crossword Puzzle Biophysicist Passes On

Crossword puzzle clues cover biology physics and general knowledge with horizontal and vertical entries. Notable hints include moon goddess and Hebrew deity, various bodies of words and abbreviations, plus terms such as physician and continent.

Building Costs Are Discussed in Kiwanis Talk

Aleen Salmon of Amarillo real estate spoke to the San Jacinto Kiwanis about housing costs. She said builders earn only 5 to 7 percent net profit and that labor dominates building costs, with living costs rising faster than wages. A bond issue for Northwest Texas Hospital was shown, with Ben Fullerton directing the program.

Aleen Salmon Amarillo Fred M. Seale San Jacinto Kiwanis Club National Home Builders Organization FHA Northwest Texas Hospital Ben Fullerton

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