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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1946
Page
7
In Chicago a whispering room at the Museum of Science and Industry demonstrates radio reception and transmission principles. Exhibits built into walls let visitors test walkie talkies and three day police radio while learning how equipment works.
AP Foreign News Analyst notes that elections across Bulgaria Romania Poland Greece and the German Russian zone will test Western hopes for fair ballots. Variation in electoral meanings among powers showed at Yalta and Potsdam as Moscow ally governments push policies while Western powers demand free, secret votes.
Bill Watts of Twin Falls Idaho built a four gabled two story doghouse for Ricky the Labrador and Irish setter. Watts designed the cozy retreat during his spare time, providing a roomy shelter for his pet.
The Agriculture Department expects 1947 to begin with six to ten percent fewer laying hens than 1946 due to tight feed and reduced replacements. Thousands of productive hens were removed. however domestic egg supplies should still rise from last year because military purchases fall and large egg stocks remain. Egg prices may ease while feed costs rise, with possible relief from a bumper corn and wheat crop.
Jim Moreland told attendants at a police hospital that while parking his car his wife Mary and he walked to a grocery when the car rolled downhill and struck them, and a man grabbed a $10 bill from him as he lay injured before another passerby recovered it.
Monroe, Mich. news reports Hazen Atherton, former local high school English teacher, invented the fixtant navigation device. The device allows a flight navigator to locate two stars, turn dials, sight the stars, and read exact position after dialing. Atherton refined the instrument as a lieutenant commander at Whidbey Island navigation school.
An American army officer in Rio de Janeiro requested a Miami dairy ship him a gallon of grade A pasteurized milk twice a week, marking the newest wartime air freight.
Springfield area readers hear of a marine recruiting push led by Henry H Raines of Worcester who vows to recruit by any legal means. Hugh F E Mearkle, 17, of Springfield seeks enlistment though he lacks the required qualifications.
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