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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1945
Page
7
Houston housewives and students debate nylons versus silk hose as shortages and vanity shape fashion choices. A survey of five women shows mixed use from bare legs to rayons, with two-thirds favoring nylons and the rest preferring other hosiery options amid wartime rationing pressures.
Gals approve keeping an 11 pair annual quota for nylons while noting drooping nylon is cured by silk. They urge rayon stock to be allocated elsewhere, joking about wartime scarcity and Japan. They say bare legs can be worn year round in Houston, with silk preferred for underpinning and stockings lasting a year with few accidents.
Mrs J S Webb of 409 North East Sixth visits her son Pat Russell Magnuson in Denver Colorado during a family trip.
The White House has not fixed the exact V J Day date. Presidential Secretary Charles G. Ross said the day will be proclaimed after Japan’s surrender is signed in the Tokyo area and the President will announce it in a brief radio address.
Washington journalist James Marlow argues that postwar reconversion will be gradual not abrupt. He warns readers not to expect immediate lifting of all wartime controls and notes many measures will end piecemeal by the government based on necessity.
Walter Ford Walter son of Mr and Mrs Jess Walter 105 Rose Drive is home to recuperate from malaria contracted in the Southwest Pacific after four years six months and nine days with the 112th U S Cavalry He received an honorable discharge in Wakeman Convalescent Hospital Camp Atterbury Ind He entered January 18 1941 and after a motor maintenance course at Ft Ringgold was sent to the Pacific theater He participated in New Britain New Guinea and the Philippine campaigns and wears four battle stars
G C Wheeler and daughters Jean and Julia Miram of Clinton Oklahoma will be weekend guests of Mr and Mrs R J Wheeler at 817 Sunset.
Ernest Archambeau an insurance agent spoke to the Optimist Club at the weekly luncheon about postwar employment issues. He and Earl Hunter were introduced as guests by program chairman Dave Brown.
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