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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1945
Page
3
Washington August 16 officials outline reconversion from war to peace. Inflation fears drive kept price and wage controls after victory with government urging industry labor and farmers to cooperate. WPB to cut 400 controls to 40 by Monday signaling unlimited auto and home appliance production while price and rent controls stay.
Contract cancellations by the Army and Navy run into the billions forcing immediate shutdowns of war plants nationwide. Airplane engine tank shipyard and electrical facilities face temporary or permanent closings with some re conversion to peacetime work and staff reductions. Rex B Baxter Amarillo Chamber of Commerce general manager and C F Collier will attend Plainview Chamber meeting with Baxter delivering the principal speech.
George Broome of the Amarillo Chamber of Commerce calls for an urgent survey of the area served by the Amarillo VA facility. He cites population growth, bed occupancy rising from 75 in 1943 to 178 after adding 22 beds, and crowding from an unbuilt Recreation Building. He asks Col. L H Tripp to assess needs and prevent overload by proposing rapid ward expansion.
Sailor doll sewing pattern 933 marketed as a mascot for dressers or beds. Readers are invited to send fifteen cents to Amarillo Globe Needlecraft Dept New York for the pattern and directions. An extra fifteen cents buys the 1945 Needlecraft Catalogue with 95 illustrations of embroidery toys knitting and more.
Aviation Radioman D M Reed of North Dakota leaped into the Atlantic after mistaking flare light for a fire aboard a naval torpedo bomber near Vineyard Haven Massachusetts. A rescue craft retrieved him two hours later unharmed.
The National Association of Real Estate Boards reports a nationwide housing shortage with 91 percent of cities short of single houses and apartments. The shortage is described as acute and expected to persist for at least six months after the war ends.
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