20 Aug 1943
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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1943
Page
1
A collage of wartime chatter and small town life includes air raid defense efforts, civilian attitudes toward raids, and traffic death tallies. The column mentions a West Texas State honorary degree, soap drying tips, radio writer Jack Lait, future film projects, and local events for Army families in Amarillo with a 5 30 AM start for an early evening program.
Rodney Fidler reports on entertainment events and editorials with humor about Soldiers wives day breakfast plans in Amarillo. The column includes letters from Disgruntled Oklahoman and reflections on Oklahoma Texas jokes. It also notes Mary Rollins on confessions and radio height myths and local comments on war time life.
Washington report on a War Department pocket manual by Dr. E D Merrill from Harvard detailing edible Pacific island plants and poisonous varieties. It lists English and Latin plant names with 113 illustrations and warns that only certain parts of some plants are safe to eat. Some familiar foods are noted to appear in jungle varieties such as peanuts and small tomatoes.
In East St. Louis Illinois a laborer faced a choice of guilty or not guilty in a Justice of the Peace Court. After asking what sentence a guilty plea would yield he reconsidered and stuck with not guilty. The judge had suggested sixty days for a guilty plea. The narrative ends noting a biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah circa 2060 B C.
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