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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1946
Page
5
The Texas Legislature proposes adding a new Section 1-a to Article VIII to allocate net revenues from motor fuel and license taxes to road rights of way, construction, traffic safety, debt service, and a School Fund, with protections for counties and a voter referendum in 1946. The measure includes form of ballot and publication requirements.
A proposed constitutional amendment would add Section 62 to create a Retirement Dis Fund for appointive state officers and employees, cap the state’s contributions, set investment rules with exceptions, prohibit beneficiaries from receiving other direct state aid, and authorize counties to provide and …
The measure proposes amending the Texas Constitution to allow the Legislature to appropriate up to 75000 to pay claims for a campus building at John Tarleton Agricultural College. It cites deficiency authorization by the Governor on August 31, 1937 and directs action at the next general election.
Mrs. Robert R. Hangen, first Amarilloan wife to follow a husband to Japan, sails from Seattle aboard the USS Monterrey August 29 to Yokohama. Capt. Hangen, stationed at Shawwa Air Base near Tokyo, awaits two years of occupation duty as quarters are provided in converted Quonset huts.
Public Safety Director Homer Garrison blamed careless and poorly trained drivers for most highway deaths. He cautioned that 100 mile per hour cars and 60 mile per hour roads create unsafe conditions, and urged stricter driver control alongside pedestrian accountability.
Opal Williams and her brothers Glenn and Herbert will attend West Texas State College this Fall. The Williams siblings are the children of E. G. Williams of 114 East Fifteenth. Glenn, 24, and Herbert, a blonde, are both in the Army veterans, while Opal, 4 feet 11 inches, has advanced in education and now plans college after three years in the Army. Glenn served in North Africa, Italy and Germany for two and a half years.
Thousands of sufferers of rheumatism sciatica lumbago neuralgia and neuritis praise NORITO a quick acting formula that relieves muscular aches. The product is marketed with a money back guarantee if the first three doses do not ease pain and urges readers to buy from their druggist.
The report highlights a Buffalo football player from West Texas State who served in Germany and is rehabbing a knee injury. It mentions Opal 18 pursuing education with college activities at Amarillo College including Alpha Xi Omega sorority, Ranger staff, and playing clarinet in band and orchestra.
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